What kind of wine did ancient people drink?

Kaoliang wine, we watch costume dramas and novels in Ming and Qing Dynasties. The ancients drank a dozen bowls as soon as they drank it. Modern people can drink half a catty of liquor, which is a good amount of liquor. Many people are curious: Why did the ancients drink so well? In fact, the ancient people's drinking capacity is not much better than that of modern people, but the wine they drink is different from that of modern people. The wine that the ancients drank was mainly yellow wine. Everyone is familiar with it, such as Daughter Hong, Zhuang and Jian Nanchun. These are yellow rice wine, only a dozen degrees, slightly higher than beer. The bowls used by the ancients for drinking were not the white porcelain bowls we imagined. The ancients used lamps to drink. It is smaller than a bowl, shallower than a bowl and bigger than a plate. It looks like a funnel. It is used because in ancient times, wine was packed in a jar with a big mouth, and it was not easy to spill it when pouring wine into the jar. In addition to rice wine, there was rice wine in ancient times, which is now rice wine. The taste is sweet and the alcohol content is low, about 4 degrees. Rice wine mixed with juice and residue is called turbid wine, and rice wine filtered with distiller's grains is called sake. In the sixteenth chapter of Water Margin, Yang Zhi escorted the gold and silver bear, and Wu Zhisheng was born. Yang Zhi and others were given mixed wine with juice and dregs. The original novel uses "white wine", and many people don't know that it is reasonable to drink white wine to quench their thirst on a hot day. In fact, this is to understand "white wine" as modern shochu. Modern liquor, also known as shochu, appeared in Tang and Song Dynasties and spread in Ming and Qing Dynasties. It was originally used to purify deteriorated yellow rice wine. The alcohol content of distilled liquor is higher, which was later derived from the existing liquor. In the 23rd chapter of Water Margin, "Chai Jin in Henghai County stays here, and Jingyanggang in Wu Song kills tigers", and the restaurant in Jingyanggang sells shochu, so a banner of "Three bowls without hills" is hung in front of the door. The average guest gets drunk after eating three bowls. Three bowls are about five or six times as much as white wine now, which shows that the ancient people's drinking capacity is similar to that of modern people. Wu Song was used to drinking more than ten degrees of yellow rice wine, so he didn't pay attention to "three bowls of yellow rice wine". But when I drank the first bowl, I couldn't help admiring "this wine is amazing" and "good wine". The bartender couldn't stand Wu Song's hard work, broke the "three bowls" convention, and sold Wu Song fifteen bowls of wine in one breath. I didn't expect this wine to have a great stamina, and it accidentally became a tiger hero that has been circulated for thousands of years. Thousands of years of cultural accumulation in China gave birth to splendid wine culture and numerous "drinking events". If you know a little about the basic knowledge of ancient liquor, you won't be so confused when reading ancient vernacular novels, and you can often find loopholes when watching ancient TV dramas. By the way, any alcoholic beverage is not good for your health. Drunk driving is not only illegal, but also the accident insurance company will not pay. Insurance companies will not pay for serious diseases caused by long-term alcoholism. Therefore, if you don't drink, don't drink, and try to drink less or not. It is said that a research group in the United States once did a research on "moderate drinking is good for health", but it was later stopped because the research group was actually sponsored by several wineries. Did you drink during the Spring Festival this year?