Ancient people have what to drink

Ancient China was the birthplace of wine culture, and in the Shang and Zhou Dynasties, people already knew how to make yellow wine by the compound fermentation method of wine curd. Wine culture has become a very important part of China's thousands of years of history, coupled with the ancient state of etiquette. So the ancients listed a lot of preoccupations with drinking.

For example, the ancient "flowing goblet" was a custom of drinking wine. At that time, the popular purification ceremony, after the ceremony, people sitting on both sides of the water channel, in the upper stream placed the wine cups let it flow down, the quilt stopped in front of whoever will drink.

If you analyze the etiquette of drinking in ancient China, it is roughly divided into four parts: worship, sacrifice, spit and pawn. Worship to show respect, wine produced by grain grain, and grain grain is made of heaven and earth. Therefore, the ancients would worship before drinking, and they would sprinkle a little bit of the wine in the cup on the ground to show their respect for the virtue of nourishing heaven and earth. After the worship, the remaining wine was drunk in one go and praised for its beautiful flavor, which would make the host proprietor happy.

In modern times, people often refer to drinking as "drinking first"; in fact, it was impolite for the ancients to drink, and they would "drink later". The Book of Rites recorded on the drinking culture "serving drinks to the elders, the elders did not lift the goblet, the young dare not drink." The meaning of this sentence is that if you drink with the elders, the elders do not dry wine, the younger generation will not dare to drink.

Drinking between the guests and the hosts is very polite, they have sections and degrees. The host to guests called "pay", the guests back to the host wine called "entertainment"; and toast always have to say some blessings, so the ancient toast is also called "for the birthday", ordinary for the birthday to the degree of three cups.

Anciently, the guests interacted with each other and toasted to each other, and then poured wine into each other and toasted to each other. When making a toast, both the person making the toast and the person being toasted had to avoid the table and stand.

The drinking etiquette established by traditional Chinese culture began in the Western Zhou Dynasty, which was divided into four parts: time, order, effect and order. The time refers to the strict control of the time of drinking, such as the crown ceremony, wedding, funeral rites, sacrificial rites, etc.; order refers to the drinking of alcohol to follow: heaven, earth, ghosts, gods, after the order of the longest, youngest, honored, humble; effect refers to the drinking of alcohol can not be crazy, the right amount and stop, usually three joules; order refers to the time when there is a wine officer to supervise the drinking etiquette to be obedient to the will of the officer can not be as you wish.

However, in later years, the ancient drinking rituals became more liberal.