15 descriptions of wine glasses in ancient poems

Gong: In Ouyang Xiu's "The Drunkard's Pavilion": "Among those who shoot, the one who shoots, Yi wins, ~~ cross each other, those who sit up and make a noise, all the guests are happy." Gong, is a A large-mouthed wine vessel with a flat bottom, a handle and a concave figure engraved on the mouth. An old note said: "The cup is seven liters in size and is made of concave corners." However, it is not necessarily made of corners. Archaeologists found copper indentations, and the capacity is indeed larger than that of ordinary wine glasses, so later generations often refer to large wine glasses as "gong cups".

Zun: In Li Bai's poem "Traveling is Difficult": "A fight of ten thousand gold bottles and clear wine." The ancients said that "the decisive victory is between a bottle (Zun) and a pig", which means negotiating with the other party at a banquet of drinking and eating meat. win. It is a meat container. Because of its widespread use, later generations simply used "Zun" as a synonym for wine glass. It generally has a wide mouth, a high neck, a bulging belly or a tube belly, and circle feet. Its status among ritual vessels is second only to the tripod.

Shang (shang): Tao Yuanming's "The Biography of Mr. Wuliu": "The shang is held in the title of the shang to compose poems." Initially, it was generally called "jue", and later it was often called "shang". It is a three-legged, large shang. A wine vessel with a belly, a handle, and a grain pattern, or an open wine vessel decorated with bird patterns.

Zhuo (zhuo): In Liu Zongyuan's "Shide Xishan Banquet Travel Notes": "If you fill your wine glass with wine, you will become drunk."

Pot: an ancient container for holding grain or wine. utensils. Li Bai's "Drinking Alone Under the Moon": "A pot of wine among the flowers, drinking alone without any blind date.

The cup (shang) in the poem titled "Shang" is also called "jue", which is the kind of three-legged cup often seen in the TV series "Romance of the Three Kingdoms"