What is it like to change from craving for wine to craving for tea?

Wine craving is a feeling that you always think about drinking. If you don’t drink for a day, you will feel uncomfortable all over your body. You will become mentally and psychologically dependent on wine, and you can even drink wine as water; the feeling of craving for tea is the same as the feeling of craving for tea. The greed for wine is different. Tea is a kind of thing that nourishes the mood and nourishes the heart. Drinking tea cultivates the mood, cultivates the sentiment, and has a psychological maintenance effect. Going from craving for wine to craving for tea is a process from dependence to habit, which is also good for your health. Wine will damage your liver, but tea will not.

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The culture of tea and wine:

What is wine? Jiang Tong of the Jin Dynasty said in his "Jiu Gao": "The rise of wine originated from the emperor, either Yunyi Di or Yun Dukang. There is endless food, leaving empty mulberry leaves, stagnating into the flavor, and storing the aroma for a long time." , This is the reason, and it cannot be explained by a strange method." The ancients had realized that wine was the product of natural fermentation of grains. The birth of Chinese wine culture can be traced back to ancient times. "Warring States Ce Wei Ce" records: "Yi Di made wine, and Yu drank it and tasted it, so he sparse Yi Di and eliminated the wine. It said: There will be people in future generations who will die with wine. "Shuowen Jiezi" records that the first person to make wine was Du Kang: "In ancient times, Shaokang first made broomsticks and rice wine." Du Kang was also honored as "wine" by later generations. god".

Before entering the Tang Dynasty, the wine culture during the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties was extremely prosperous and occupied a dominant position in the style of the Wei and Jin Dynasties; after entering the Tang Dynasty, tea culture began to challenge the wine culture; until the Kaiyuan period, tea had become a cultural An indispensable presence in daily drinks. From drinking for fun to drinking tea for fun, this transformation of food culture also shows that the Chinese people have shifted from being unrestrained and romantic to being elegant.

The origin of Chinese tea is unknown. Ancient books record that "tea as a drink originated from Shennong." During the Han Dynasty and even the Three Kingdoms period, tea drinking customs were mainly concentrated in the Bashu region, and tea drinking was just a regional custom; even in the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, tea drinking was still popular in the south, and northerners looked down upon tea drinking, and even Reducing tea drinkers to "cheese slaves". At that time, making tea was generally the same as making soup: "It must be cooked in a muddy manner, just like a man who eats vegetables and sips them."

After entering the Tang Dynasty, the custom of drinking tea spread even more than before. widely. During the Tang Dynasty, due to the spread of Buddhism, monks did not drink alcoholic beverages. Tea, as a new type of non-alcoholic beverage, was widely spread during the Kaiyuan period. From this time on, the custom of drinking tea flourished in all classes of the Tang Dynasty, including the court nobles. , down to the common people in urban and rural areas have the custom of drinking tea. In addition to being widely spread in the northern Central Plains, the custom of drinking tea began to spread beyond the frontiers and even outside the region. For example, tea was widely welcomed in Tubo, Nanzhao, Uighur and other places at that time.