One of the characteristics of China traditional wine culture is the indissoluble bond between poetry and wine. Ancient literati, if there is wine, there will be poetry, if there is wine, there will be no poetry, and if there is wine, there will be no poetry. Wine can stimulate the creative inspiration of poets, and poetry can add elegance to drinking. Wine and poetry are like a pair of sister flowers, which depend on each other and set off each other.
China is a country of brewing and drinking, and also a country of writing and reciting poems. A long time ago, poetry and wine formed an indissoluble bond.
China's wine originated from the ancient agricultural society; China's original poems were also produced in this period. China's first collection of poems, The Book of Songs, contains 44 poems related to wine, such as: "For this spring wine, I will prolong my life, restrain my guests, offer wine according to my discretion, and I will drink with a purpose and entertain my guests with a happy heart". It can be seen that wine is an "angel" in entertainment, and it can be called a good medium to convey one's mind when flowers are blooming and congratulations are exchanged.
Before Tao Yuanming, a poet in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, wine had accumulated a number of emotional factors, and it was only sung into poetry as one of the creative materials. Jing Ke stabbed the king of Qin, drank heavily and sang "Xiao Shui". Liu Bangfu decided the world and gave a banquet to sing "Gale"; Cao Cao fought against Chibi and gave wine songs. During the Qin and Han Dynasties, alcohol only stimulated emotions. Until Ruan Ji and Ji Kang in Wei and Jin Dynasties, "wine is still wine, and poetry is self-poetry", there was no inevitable internal relationship between them.
Tao Yuanming is the first poet who consciously clings to wine, and gives wine a unique symbolic meaning in his poems. The accusation of forgetting things is his invention. Tao Yuanming is a noble and self-purified great poet. Among its existing 174 poems, 56 are about drinking, accounting for about 40%! Poetry and wine are linked together, which is a thousand-year-old story in the history of literature and an unchanging tradition of wine culture. This tradition began with Tao Yuanming's "Send Wine as a Trace", which had a far-reaching potential impact on the spiritual feelings of later literati in pursuit of human freedom, as well as their social life and drinking poems.