Culture doesn't just stay on paper, but is more frequently and generally hidden in daily life habits, and so is wine culture. Drinkers and people attending banquets do not appear as followers of wine culture, but the traditional banquet etiquette and customs, the established way of gathering drinks, and even all kinds of behavior mentality related to wine all show the unique color of China language implicitly or explicitly. Some have traces of origin, and some have become the spiritual accumulation of the collective unconscious. Only those who know Chinese wine culture can be conscious. These contents of wine culture, which are expressed in daily life habits, are intertwined with the major systems of China's big culture, which leads to the inside story of China's national spirit with Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism as its pillar. In this sense, wine culture is not only a branch of China culture, but also an important angle to understand the whole China culture.
In political and military activities, no matter shaking hands and making peace, it is inseparable from wine; Wine is also essential in the daily life of officials, agriculture, industry and commerce; As for poets and artists, they need alcohol to show their talents!
"Li Bai has hundreds of poems about fighting wine. Chang' an went to sleep in a restaurant, but the son of heaven didn't get on the boat and claimed to be Brewmaster. " (Du Fu's Song of Drinking Eight Immortals) "Being drunk is a guest, and poetry becomes a god." (Du Fu's "Poem of Self-management") "Give yourself what you want, and make a poem of wine." (Su Shi and Tao Yuanming) "A cup of unfinished poetry has been finished, and the poem is shocking." (Yang Wanli's Biography of Going to Wanhua Valley in February after the Ninth Festival). Zhang Yuannian, a political poet in the Southern Song Dynasty, said: "Flowers fly after the rain, and the meaning of drunkenness is not in wine." Examples of poems handed down from generation to generation because of drunkenness abound.
Not only poetry, but also painters in painting and artistic calligraphy. Wu Daozi, the painter of The Wind in Five Dynasties, must get drunk before painting, and then start painting when he is drunk. Huang in Yuan Sijia is also "too drunk to draw". Wang Xizhi, a "book saint", wrote the Preface to the Lanting Pavilion when he was drunk, saying that "its way is charming and healthy, unparalleled", but when he woke up, "there were dozens more books, but he couldn't reach it". Li Bai wrote Huai Su's Drunken Monk: "When my teacher was drunk, he took photos of Hu Qing and swept thousands of copies in an instant. Flying flowers and showers are shocking, falling flowers and flying snow. " Huai Su was drunk and splashed ink, just to keep his "self-narrative post" that ghosts and gods admired. Zhang Xu, the sage of the grass, wrote "every drunk calls for madness", so he has his "four ancient poems".