In international and domestic social events, people often welcome guests with cocktails. There are different stories about the origin of cocktails. A legend is: the American Revolutionary War, New York State, a small hotel hostess called Betsy. Flanagan, received many officers drinking, found that all kinds of wine are not much. In her haste, she poured the remaining wine together and plucked a cocktail feather to stir. The officers drank it and shouted, and asked what kind of wine it was, to which she replied: "Cocktail". From then on, this kind of wine has become popular in the world. Another legend is: in the 18th century, a rural American innkeeper's daughter, because of the loss of a beloved rooster and got sick. The owner was so anxious that he announced to the villagers that if someone found the rooster, he could marry his daughter. Later, a young man found it. On their wedding day, the boss's daughter mixed all kinds of good wines in her collection and invited everyone to drink. Since then people have called several kinds of mixed drinks cocktails.

A cocktail is a drink made from two or more liquors or from liquors infused with fruit juices. Specifically, a cocktail is a mixed drink made with basic ingredients (spirits), added ingredients (liqueurs and other ingredients), spices, color additives, and special flavorings in certain quantities. The U.S. Wechsler's Dictionary explains it this way: a cocktail is a small, chilled drink. It is made by mixing or shaking Rum, Whisky, or other spirits, or wine, with other ingredients such as fruit juice, egg white, bitters, sugar, etc., and then garnished with lemon slices or mint leaves. Finally, we quote the American authority on cocktails, Earlsbury, to give a comprehensive and in-depth introduction to the term cocktail: Cocktail (cocktail) should be a nourishing agent to enhance the appetite, and must not be contrary to the road again. By definition, a cocktail should not be far from the realm of the cocktail if it is sweetened or mixed with a large amount of juice; a cocktail stimulates the appetite as well as excitement and creates a lively atmosphere, otherwise it would be meaningless, and a skillfully prepared cocktail is the most beautiful of all beverages; a cocktail must have an excellent flavor, and for this reason the taste buds of the tongue should be fully open so that the exciting flavors can be tasted and enjoyed. Cocktails must have a great flavor. If too sweet, too bitter, too fragrant will cover the ability to taste the flavor of the wine, reducing the quality of the wine; Cocktail (cocktail) needs enough cooling, so the application of high-footed glass, scalding the wine is most inappropriate, the modulation of the need to add ice, the amount of ice should be strictly in accordance with the recipe control. Ice should be melted to the required degree.