What kind of wine did you drink in ancient Chinese New Year?

The ancients drank pepper and cypress wine in the New Year.

In fact, the habit of drinking pepper and hemp wine on New Year's Day has a long history. It can be traced back to the Eastern Han Dynasty. Pepper is pepper. The ancients said that Zanthoxylum bungeanum is the essence of jade star, with a fragrant smell, light weight and not easy to get old. Cypress is a leaf, and the ancients regarded it as a fairy medicine, which can avoid all diseases. Green pepper and cypress can be soaked in wine separately, or they can be put into wine together for drinking. Eating green pepper and cypress will make you sick and prolong your life. Yu Xin in the Southern Dynasties wrote "Zheng Dan Meng Tuo Wine": "Zheng Dan drinks evil wine and makes a longevity cup in the New Year. According to the name of cypress leaves, peppers sing one after another. " Described the joy of being given pepper and cypress wine on New Year's Day. In the Tang Dynasty, Wu Pingyi's poem "Sacrifice to the Prince of Baiji on the Yuan Day", "May Baiji live a hundred years and be happy forever", expressed his wish to be a healthy and long-lived son of heaven. Drinking pepper and cypress wine has been circulating among the people, such as Licheng in Shandong Province and Jiaxing in Zhejiang Province in the Ming Dynasty.