Li Bai was a poet of the Tang Dynasty. From the poems, it can be seen that the poets of the Tang Dynasty drank more than one kind of wine. In terms of color, there were white wine, green wine and so on.
The word "Shojiu" often appears in Tang poetry. The "Shojiu" refers to red wine, not distilled liquor. It is rice wine, wine, and sake that is only pressed without distillation after fermentation. The alcohol content of these wines is very low. According to several Tang wine making methods recorded by Shen Kuo in "Mengxi Bi Tan", the alcohol content of the finished wine should be between 3% and 15%, similar to today's cooked beer, dry beer or added Food and wine.
Li Bai has a famous poem "Jianjinjiu" which specifically "persuades people to drink", which says, "If you are proud of life, you must have all the joy, and don't let the gold bottle empty to face the moon. I am born with talents that will be useful, and all the gold will be returned to me." Come back. It's fun to cook sheep and slaughter cattle. You have to drink three hundred cups at a time. Master Cen, Dan Qiusheng, is about to drink. "It is also said that "in the old days, King Chen had a banquet and drank ten thousand glasses of wine. Huan Jie. What does the master say about the little money? He must sell it to you. The five-flowered horse and the golden fur will be exchanged for fine wine, and the eternal sorrow will be sold with you."
It can be seen from Li Bai's drinking character that he will never return until he is drunk. The "sake" at that time had a low alcohol content, equivalent to the "sake" in Japan and South Korea or the current "beer". Moreover, at that time, it was "a big bucket to buy grain, a small bucket to sell wine." The "dou" for drinking wine is also different from the "dou" used for weighing food. One "dou" is only three or two liters. Thinking about Li Bai's drinking capacity, it must be at least several or even ten buckets.