The Spring Festival is coming, and drinking is inevitable. As the saying goes, there is wine on the table, and the more you drink, the more you drink. The wine you drink on the first day of the first month is also called Fenjiu.
What kind of wine did ancient people drink during the Spring Festival?
In the Han Dynasty, people drank pepper and cypress wine during the Spring Festival. According to the "Four-person Moon Order" written by Cui Ai, a native of the Eastern Han Dynasty, it is a kind of health wine, which is made by soaking Zanthoxylum bungeanum flowers and cypress leaves. It is said that pepper is jade star essence, and it feels very light to walk after eating; Cypress is a kind of fairy medicine, which can drive away all diseases if eaten. You will naturally feel better after drinking this wine. The custom of drinking pepper and cypress wine was still popular until the Southern and Northern Dynasties. Yu Xin, a poet of the Northern Zhou Dynasty, said: "The weather is right and the people are harmonious, and the New Year is long." Cypress leaves to write the inscription, pepper flowers to praise. Described the scene of ancient people drinking during the Spring Festival.
Compared with pre-Qin. The customs and dates of the Spring Festival in Han Dynasty are basically stable, and there are many rules. It depends on the time of drinking Nianjiu. Usually on the morning of New Year's Day, the sun shines from the east, firecrackers start ringing, and people start to get drunk. But the order of toasting is obviously different from modern times. Instead of respecting the elderly first, let the youngest child in the family drink first, that is, in the chronicle of Jingchu's new year, the youngest one drinks in the first month, and the youngest one drinks first when he reaches the age of 20. The old man lost his age, so he drank. It means that children are one year older after the Chinese New Year, which is worth celebrating. Old people celebrate the New Year, which means they will be old if they lose one year, because they are getting older every year, so this kind of thing is not suitable for celebration.
Places to pay attention to when drinking during the Spring Festival.
Be temperate. When you get a little excited after drinking, it's just the right time to start talking more. Remember, at this time, if you know how to retire after success, then drinking is a very enjoyable thing. While enjoying the pleasure brought by wine, you are waiting to appreciate the wonders of others when they are drunk.
Drink plenty of boiled water when drinking, which can dilute alcohol and replenish body fluids. The disintegration of wine needs body fluid, and supplementing body fluid can accelerate the disintegration of wine. If you urinate a lot and sweat slightly on your body and palms when you drink, this is a good phenomenon, indicating that alcohol is accelerating from sweat and urine.