Wine, in the long history of human culture, is not just an objective material existence, but a cultural symbol, a symbol of the Dionysian spirit.
In China, the Dionysian spirit is derived from Taoist philosophy. Zhuang Zhou advocated the unity of things and myself, the unity of heaven and man, and the unity of life and death. Zhuang Zhou sang the song of absolute freedom and advocated "traveling on the back of things", "traveling beyond the four seas", and "the land of nothing". Zhuangzi would rather be a free tortoise wagging its tail in a muddy pond than a strutting horse that is bound by others. Pursuing absolute freedom and forgetting life and death, profit, honor and disgrace are the essence of the Chinese Dionysian spirit.
There are striking similarities in the cultural phenomena of the world. The Western Dionysian spirit is symbolized by Dionysus, the god of grape growing and winemaking. In ancient Greek tragedies, the Western Dionysian spirit has risen. At a theoretical level, the philosophy of the German philosopher Nietzsche sublimated this Dionysian spirit. Nietzsche believed that the Dionysian spirit symbolized the venting of emotions and was the survival experience of abandoning the traditional shackles and returning to the original state. Human beings are disappearing and uniting with the world. Gaining great pleasure in life from the desperate and painful wails.
In the kingdom of literature and art, the Dionysian spirit is everywhere, and it has had a huge and far-reaching impact on literary artists and their masterpieces. Because freedom, art and beauty are a trinity. Art comes from freedom, and beauty comes from art.
Achieving artistic freedom through drunkenness is an important way for ancient Chinese artists to get rid of their constraints and gain artistic creativity. Liu Ling, a famous scholar in the Wei and Jin Dynasties and the first "drunkard" who "has a broad-minded ambition and regards the universe as a narrow place", said in "Ode to the Virtue of Wine": "There is a gentleman who regards the heaven and the earth as a dynasty, ten thousand periods as a moment, and the sun and the moon. "The sky is covered with the ground, and it is like a dream." "I am suddenly drunk, but I can't hear the sound of thunder, and I can't see the shape of the mountains." Cutting muscles, the emotion of lust. Looking down at all things, they are as disturbing as the duckweeds in Jianghan." This "perfect human" state is a typical embodiment of the Chinese Dionysian spirit.
"Li Bai wrote hundreds of poems about drinking wine. He went to sleep in a restaurant in Chang'an City, but the emperor called him and could not get on the boat. He claimed that he was an immortal in wine." (Du Fu's "Song of the Eight Immortals in Drinking") "I was a guest while drunk. , the poem becomes full of spirit." (Du Fu's "Drinking alone to form a poem") "Everyone has his own ambition, and the poem becomes its own after drinking" (Su Shi's "Drinking with Tao Yuanming") "The poem is completed before the cup is finished, and the poems flow to the sky. "I'm also shocked." (Yang Wanli's "Dengwan Huachuan Valley in the Second Month of Chongjiu"). Zhang Yuannian, a political poet of the Southern Song Dynasty, said: "After the rain, the flowers fly to know the bottom, and you can win your freedom when you are drunk." There are many examples of drunken poetry that has been passed down from generation to generation in the history of Chinese poetry.
Not only in poetry, but also in paintings and artistic calligraphy unique to Chinese culture, the spirit of Dionysus is even more lively. Among the painters, Zheng Banqiao's calligraphy and paintings could not be obtained easily, so the seeker treated him with dog meat and fine wine. Those who asked for calligraphy and paintings while Zheng Banqiao was drunk could get their wish. Zheng Banqiao also knew the tricks of people seeking paintings, but he couldn't resist the temptation of fine wine and dog meat, so he had to write poems to laugh at himself: "Looking at the moon might as well be done by people, but I only hate that the wine is late for the moon. I laughed at him for asking for scholars, but also asking for it. When Mr. Drunk. "Wu Daozi, the painting sage who "Wu Dai is the wind", must be drunk before painting. After he is drunk, he paints immediately. Huang Gongwang, one of the "Four Artists of the Yuan Dynasty", also "cannot paint without being drunk". The "Sage of Calligraphy" Wang Xizhi wrote "Lanting Preface" when he was drunk, which was "beautiful and vigorous, unparalleled in history", but when he sobered up, "he wrote dozens of books, but in the end he couldn't match it." Li Bai wrote about Huaisu, a drunken monk: "After my master was drunk, he leaned on the Hu bed and swept away thousands of them in a moment. The rain was falling, and the falling flowers and snow were so vast." Huaisu was drunk and splashed ink, leaving behind his poem that shocked the gods and ghosts. Self-reported post. Zhang Xu, the grass sage, "every time he was drunk, yelling and running around, he started writing", so he had his "Four Notes on Ancient Poems" in which "the paper fell like clouds of smoke".
In today's society
With the long history of Chinese culture, wine culture also has a history of thousands of years, whether it is Li Bai's toast to the moon or Wang Wei's Leaving Yangguan in the west, the amber light of Lanling wine reveals a strong cultural flavor.
The so-called wine is an ethanol-containing beverage made from fermented starch or sugar-containing substances such as grains and fruits.
Commonly seen on the market are white wine, red wine, rice wine, old wine and beer. Especially this liquor, due to different manufacturing processes, it is divided into Daqu, Laojiao and Jiajiang; due to different formulas, it is divided into reduced aroma type; according to different concentrations, it is divided into high and low alcohol. When it comes to brands, it is even more There are many kinds, such as Maotai, Wuliangye, Jiugui, Erguotou, etc., each name is louder than the other. Stores are filled with dazzling displays, and televisions are popping up. This wine not only participated in the advertising war, but was also the first to raise the banner of the economy, setting a sky-high advertising price in history, and setting a precedent for my country's advertising to reach 100 million yuan.
I don’t know what Mr. Du Kang’s intention was to brew this spicy holy water with a stimulating and provocative taste instead of steaming cakes and making dumplings with the good food. He never thought that this drop of holy water would have such a long and turbulent origin. From the Yellow River to the Yangtze River, from southern Xinjiang to the East China Sea, people all regard it as a treasure. It relaxes the muscles, activates blood, nourishes yin and strengthens yang. It is also indispensable for happy events and celebrations. It can be used by one person to drink alone. It can be used to drink when friends are together. It can add to the fun when you are happy. It can relieve worries when you are troubled. It is necessary to see you off when you go out, to welcome you when you return, to marry a wife and daughter, to be named on the gold list, and to be promoted. Supervisor's salary, etc., all kinds of items make people complain endlessly. From the emperors and generals down to the common people, everyone was interested in wine, whether it was the Hongmen Banquet, the Founding Ceremony or the Xianfeng Restaurant.
In ancient times, there were three bowls that failed to pass the post, and I don’t know what kind of bowl they were. Later, there was a man on Weihu Mountain who drank eight large bowls in a row, but he didn’t know what kind of wine he drank. From state banquets to family gatherings, wine is always used as a vehicle for communication. Nowadays, it has become an unwritten custom. Everyone sits down together for big or small things, and this time is served as water and wine. Everyone knows the charm of this wine. It can only be used as a stepping stone, not a passport to do things.
I don’t know whether the water in the restaurant has increased, or whether people have steeled their intestines and stomachs through long battles. Nowadays, Chinese people are good at drinking. The ancient small drink-ox eye cup has evolved into a big drink. Two ounces of the booze just hit my lips, and I still haven’t felt the half pound yet. When I finished one bottle, I patted my head and said, “Oh, I’m so drunk!” Even elementary school students drink some beer to celebrate their birthdays.
It seems to have become a pattern when you are in a hotel, sit down in the host's seat and enjoy it. Open your mouth to serve food, close your mouth to bring wine, and swing your hands to get tens of thousands. This is called prestige. Sit in the guest seat and send it. Apologies come and go, eating food and drinking wine, this is called having a good background. However, some people are thin-skinned and cash-strapped, but they want to act like tough guys, puff out their chests, puff out their cheeks, treat guests like they are shrinking, and are called stingy, stingy, and unworthy of everyone. As everyone knows, how can the money used to buy rice be used freely and generously?
As the saying goes, wine makes you bolder, and all your inspirations are soaked in alcohol. At this time, your mouth is wide open, and principles become delicacies, and everything flows smoothly in your mouth; with a wave of your hand, I said so. It revitalized the restaurant and made the hotel industry popular. At the same time, it also ruined the party style, ruined the stomach, and made the wife go back to back. Speaking of which, wine makers are not guilty, but it is not worth mentioning that the fine delicacies contain so much people's fat and oil, they all flow down the sewer. No matter how delicious it is, once people chew it repeatedly and undergo secondary fermentation in the human body, it is then swallowed without reservation in a luxurious hotel and sprayed on the flat avenue, turning it into a pile of disgusting garbage. I don’t know how many people have distorted their souls pickled by alcohol and have gone down a wrong path that is hostile to society; how many people have lost their temper after drinking and sold their souls and bodies; and how many families have become victims of alcohol. Ruined a beautiful life.
When it comes to this wine, I really don’t want to talk about the word "culture" anymore. First, some people feel disgusted when they hear talking about culture, and secondly, there is really no culture to talk about in this wine. If If we don't refer to it as a cultural thing, it would be a bit too tarnishing the word culture. Nowadays, people do put more alcohol into their bodies, but the culture they get from it is probably very little compared to the wine culture itself; because the wine has more water, it gives people less taste.
As people practice and struggle in the wine shop, their addiction to alcohol increases, and there are more people who talk nonsense. The more people drink, the more people can enter the wine shop, and there is less interest. There is a lot of drinking, and there is less to consider. Whether it is Baigan or Maotai, good wine or bad wine has a spicy feeling; everyone gets together more, but the true feelings are less; as the number of drinkers increases, as the number of drinkers increases, so does the wine. With the expansion of its uses, the business of this wine is unprecedentedly good. There are genuine products at a reasonable price. However, due to the trend of profit, there are counterfeiters, underground factories, and more people who kill people for money.
According to current statistics from the medical department, the incidence of high blood pressure, hyperlipidemia and other geriatric diseases in our country has become increasingly younger and is showing a linear upward trend. The key one is drinking. Excessive drinking will cause great harm to the body and mind, and will greatly affect the party's style and work. If we continue to eat and drink like this, it will not only affect the overall quality of the people, but also affect the country and the family. , children will cause irreparable losses. More than a billion people and even the entire world will be forced to fall into the trap that Du Kang set for mankind many years ago. Not only will it cause waste to the entire society, but it will also lead people astray. Alcoholism and fighting will become the social trap. The main theme, what else to talk about culture. How sad! The wine culture has a long history.