In front of the wine, their bodies became a bottomless pit. Although "and make me, 300 bowls, a long drink!" There are exaggerated elements, which show the mass of the ancients!
Compared with today's people, the ancients seem to be addicted to alcohol, drinking a lot and drinking frequently, but drinking less in the dark. Unlike today's people, after a few drinks, they will be unconscious and drunk.
The reason is the difference of brewing technology. The wine that the ancients drank was distilled and purified. Although the raw materials are similar to today (all kinds of grains, fruits, etc.). ), the ancient alcohol degree is simply not worth mentioning, generally between 2 and 3 degrees.
Now even a can of beer is 9- 10, white wine is generally 20-30, slightly stronger wine is 40-60, and most people really dare not try wine above 70 (such as stuffy donkey, super vodka, etc.). ).
In other words, in ancient times, ultra-low alcohol content was actually some drinks with rice husk flavor and a little alcohol. The biggest difference between ancient people and people who drink now is the difference in quantity. Ancient people dared to drink, but now people will get alcoholism every minute (beer drinkers will stand by).
Finally, go out, drink less, eat more vegetables, and don't drink and drive!
First of all, ancient wine was not as high as modern wine. In ancient times, all wine was brewed with grain, and most of the wine was distiller's grains, generally more than ten degrees. Until later, the degree of alcohol increased a little, but there was no high-grade liquor with little ethanol content. In ancient times, Li Bai wrote a poem "You must drink 300 cups a day", which is actually an exaggeration. You can't drink 300 cups no matter how low the degree is.
Secondly, drinking in ancient times was very long, and the pace of modern society was fast, which was different in ancient times. This can be seen from the poems of ancient literati. Tao Yuanming's vision of a paradise in the Peach Blossom Garden, the leisurely sight of Nanshan under the hedge of picking chrysanthemums, and Li Bai's drunkenness all reflect the slow rhythm of ancient times. Therefore, this is a night when three or five friends get together to drink. Of course, one night is an exaggeration, and it takes at least six or seven hours.
In addition to the time of drinking and the degree of alcohol, there are different units of measurement. One liter in ancient times is equivalent to several tenths of that in modern times, so drinking a lot in ancient times is not as much as expected.
Everyone has seen in TV series that ancient people always warm wine first, but modern people are different. Modern people drink directly. The real reason is that the ancient brewing technology is immature, and the wine brewed by grain contains methanol, which will volatilize when heated, so the ancients always scalded it first.
Ancient brewing technology is different from modern brewing technology, and the wine brewed by ancient brewing technology.
At most, the degree will not exceed 10. Nowadays, wine is always above 40 degrees, even above 50 degrees.
Also, ancient wine is grain wine, which is very nutritious and called liquid bread, while modern wine is mostly blended with alcohol and is toxic.
In fact, you can't drink alcohol above 40 degrees. The ancients could not drink that kind of wine all their lives.
Even the yellow rice wine, which is about 13 degrees now, drinks more wine than the ancients.
Now many famous wines, such as Maotai, are 52 degrees, and Fenjiu is 53 degrees.
Alcohol of this degree will soon poison people and make them drink residual wine. Ancient people could not drink this wine all their lives.
The wine of the ancients was generally rice wine after natural fermentation and filtration, with a temperature below 10.
So ancient drinking is different from modern drinking. If you really want to drink alcohol, you can't drink alcohol above 40 degrees.
As you should know, ancient wines are all homemade wines, usually at most ten degrees. It was not until the Song Dynasty that the degree of liquor was slightly improved, but don't expect any high-grade liquor. For example, Liangshan heroes get together to eat and drink in the sea, which seems to be a lot, but it is actually equivalent to drinking a little glutinous rice. Fermented glutinous rice mash can cool off the heat in summer. The main raw material is glutinous rice, which has simple brewing process, sweet and mellow taste and low ethanol content, so it is deeply loved by people. In the production of some dishes, glutinous rice wine is often used as an important condiment.
The ancient units of measurement are completely different from the modern ones. For example, in the Western Han Dynasty, 1 liter is only 0 now. 3 liters, and the Eastern Han Dynasty's 1 liter is less than the current 0. Two liters. No matter how big the units in the Tang Dynasty were, they were less than 1: 0. 6! Therefore, the conversion problem is also a key for heroes to spend thousands of cups!
The pace of life of the ancients was much slower than that of modern people, and their leisure time was not as much as that of modern people. When I was bored, I made an appointment with my relatives and friends to talk about the mountains, and chatting became "a long night" and so on. Anyway, there's plenty of time. It's hard to drink him for six hours a night without being afraid.
When I was at school, I often studied martial arts novels, ghost novels and the like, knowing that it was a close call, and the novels were full of exaggerated metaphors. Because of this, Brewmaster Li Bai "needs to pour 300 cups a day for 36,000 days in a hundred years", Chen Houzhu, the king of national subjugation "drinks a stone a day", and Song Wu can still "live in Jingyanggang" after drinking 18 bowls. Just look at it. Being serious is your own problem.
Most ancient wines were brewed with distiller's yeast and grain, which was very turbid. It was not until the Yuan Dynasty that the method of distilling wine came from the western regions, but it was also a top-grade wine, and most people drank it with koji. Therefore, there is a verb "sieve a bowl of wine" in Water Margin. If the wine is not filtered, there will be many suspended impurities, which will greatly affect the taste.
Modern liquor is transparent as water, and the alcohol content of distilled liquor is high; The ancient distiller's yeast is old and muddy, with many impurities and low alcohol content.
For example, we are all familiar with the plot of "outwit the outline of birth". Yang Zhi took the NPC along the road at noon, and everyone was sweating like a pig. At this time, when we saw Bai Sheng selling wine, everyone wanted to buy a basket to relieve the heat. According to the current understanding, no one will buy white wine at noon to relieve the heat, unless they are confused. It can be seen that in the Ming Dynasty (when writing Water Margin), the so-called drinking was a slightly alcoholic beverage with beer concentration.
Why do we think ancient people can drink especially today? I think it is mainly the mistakes in understanding and the differences in types.
We will think that the ancient people's heavy drinking capacity is often described through romance, novels and poems. The so-called barrel drinking is actually just a literary contrast, and its authenticity remains to be verified.
China's wine-making record has a history of 5,000 years, but why did it not really popularize high-alcohol until the Ming and Qing Dynasties? This involves the popularization of grain and wine-making technology. In ancient times, the productivity was relatively low, and food should first ensure the operation of the country and the army. Private people don't have much food to support wine making. In addition, ancient salt, wine and iron were monopolized by the government. The technology of high alcohol is not popular among the people, and all they drink is distiller's grains and water.
Or the degree of fruit wine is not much different from the current beer, not the tens of degrees of white wine we imagined. It was not until the Ming and Qing Dynasties that high-alcohol was really popularized due to the improvement of technology and the emergence of high-yield crops.
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Hello, everyone, the following are my personal sharing and opinions, hoping to help you:
1: In ancient times, drinking time was very long, while in modern society, the rhythm was fast, which was different in ancient times, as can be seen from the poems of ancient literati.
The paradise conceived by Tao Yuanming in the Peach Blossom Garden, as well as the leisure to see Nanshan leisurely under the hedge of picking chrysanthemums, Li Bai's drunkenness shows the slow rhythm of ancient times.
Therefore, this is a night when three or five friends get together to drink. Of course, one night is an exaggeration, and it takes at least six or seven hours.
2. In other words, the ancient ultra-low alcohol content was actually some drinks with rice husk flavor, plus a little wine. The biggest difference between ancient people and people who drink now is the difference in quantity.
Ancient people dared to drink, but now people try to drink, and they will get alcoholic poisoning in a few minutes (beer drinkers just stand by).
It was difficult for bureaucrats to have a drink at that time, but Li Bai was so famous that many people asked him to write poems, so he could often rub wine!
There are still many in his poems, so that those dignitaries should not be too stingy and have money to buy wine!
Explain that it costs a lot of money for dignitaries to enjoy a glass of wine!
Ordinary people seldom drink, so it's hard to drink once!
There are also ancient soldiers who have to drink a glass of wine before going out to enhance their military strength!
4. Most of the ancient wines were brewed with yeast and grain, which was very turbid. It was not until the Yuan Dynasty that the method of distilling wine came from the western regions, but it was also a top-class wine.
Most people still drink songs, so there is a verb "sieve a bowl of wine" in Water Margin. If the wine is not filtered, there will be many suspended impurities, which will greatly affect the taste.
China's wine-making record has a history of 5,000 years, but why did it not really popularize high-alcohol until the Ming and Qing Dynasties? This involves the popularization of grain and wine-making technology.
In ancient times, the productivity was relatively low, and food should first ensure the operation of the country and the army.
Private people don't have much food to support wine making. In addition, ancient salt, wine and iron were monopolized by the government. The technology of high alcohol is not popular among the people, and all they drink is distiller's grains water.
The above is my personal sharing and opinion, hoping to help everyone! Thank you for your reading and support!
The ancients drank, but now people drink. There are three biggest differences:
? First, the difference between wine vessels. In ancient China, wine vessels were very particular. According to their functions, they can be divided into three categories, namely, vessels for holding wine, vessels for warming wine and vessels for drinking. Among the unearthed cultural relics, vessels for holding wine are Zun, Yi, Qian, Bu, Yi, halogen, cups, pots and so on. There are not many utensils for warm wine unearthed, which are reserved for future generations to supplement. The drinking vessels include Jue, Jiao, Fu, Fu, Fu and so on. You can know the uniqueness of the ancients only through this pile of instruments that you can't even name. Of course, its materials are just different, including pottery, bronze, jade, porcelain, crystal glass, animal bones and so on.
Second, drink different wines at different times. It was stipulated in the Han Dynasty that the first day of the first month is New Year's Day, and Tu Su wine and Jiaohua wine (baijiu) should be drunk. It means auspiciousness, corning and longevity. "Besides firecrackers, the spring breeze sends warmth into Tu Su, and every family always changes new peaches into old ones," Wang Anshi wrote on New Year's Day. The first day of the second lunar month is the Zhonghe Festival. On this day, we should drink Zhonghe wine and Yichun wine, worship the land god and pray for a bumper harvest. What about the integration of ancient and modern books? The wine department wrote: "On Sino-Japanese Day, Chinese people make wine, which is called Yichun wine". Dragon Boat Festival, formed in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, is used to ward off evil spirits, dispel evil spirits and detoxify, and drink calamus wine and realgar wine. Drinking osmanthus wine in Mid-Autumn Festival; Drink chrysanthemum wine, dogwood wine and mulberry wine on the Double Ninth Festival.
Third, the most important point is that there are many forms of drinking. The preface to Lanting Collection describes that "there is a clear water flow and a turbulent water flow, which reflects left and right, thinking that the water flow is winding." It is to put a glass on the upstream of a stream, and whoever takes the water to the glass in front will pick it up and drink it. This is called flowing. Finally, it evolved into the idiom "running water", which was also an interesting fashion to get close to nature at that time. There is also a special drinking order. There are many kinds of drinking orders and different ways of playing. The drinking order officer randomly specifies the drinking order according to the atmosphere of the banquet and the age of the guests. There are orders for delivering parcels, spoons and throwing pots. Of course, the wine order of poetry is the most elegant.
There is a wonderful description of alcoholic beverages in A Dream of Red Mansions. Granny Liu entered the mansion, and Grandmother Jia gave a banquet. During the dinner, Grandmother Jia, Daiyu, Baochai, Baoyu, Aunt Xue and Wang Xifeng all ordered good wine. Granny Liu volunteered to attend in order to please Grandmother Jia, saying that we farmers also have this when drinking in their spare time. "Fire the caterpillar, a radish and a garlic, and the flower falls into a big pumpkin." Just pushed the atmosphere of the banquet to a climax.
"The cup is small but big, and the sun and the moon grow in the pot", which is also a summary and generalization of the long history of Chinese wine culture.
I'm glad to answer your question.
The biggest difference between ancient people and modern people is that modern people drink for nerve stimulation, while ancient people drink for spiritual pleasure. One is physiological needs, and the other is psychological satisfaction.
Throughout the global drinking culture, only China is in this drinking state now: toasting is like revenge, and drinking until death counts. Of course, not everyone does.
Returning to the bottom logic is actually the fault of China traditional culture. For nearly 200 years since the First Opium War, China has been in the process of war and economic and cultural revival. Our generation after 70, especially the poor and middle peasants, only heard about the hardships of life from their parents, and they have no culture.
My conclusion is that the biggest difference between modern people and ancient people is their understanding of wine culture. As a practitioner in the wine industry, I deeply feel that there is a long way to go.
Drinking in ancient times, before the Tang Dynasty and during the Tang Dynasty, drinking was fashionable and luxurious because of the underdeveloped technology and craft, just like people now go to bars to taste tens of thousands of imported good wines, which ordinary people can't afford! Therefore, literati and dignitaries are proud of being able to drink! This is what Li Bai said in his drinking poems. At that time, it was difficult for bureaucrats to have a drink, but Li Bai was so famous that many people asked him to write poems, so he could often rub wine! There are still many in his poems, so that those dignitaries should not be too stingy and have money to buy wine! Explain that it costs a lot of money for dignitaries to enjoy a glass of wine! Ordinary people seldom drink, so it's hard to drink once! There are also ancient soldiers who have to drink a glass of wine before going out to enhance their military strength!
But after the Song Dynasty, with the development of technology and craft, drinking came to the homes of ordinary people, and most people could drink! After the Yuan Dynasty, the emergence of distilled liquor also made it possible to drink high-grade liquor! There are scenes of heroes drinking in the novel! So drunkards appeared, and drinking is not a fashionable thing!
During the Ming and Qing dynasties, drinking was a common occurrence, and drinking became the favorite of street gangsters. People are beginning to hate alcoholics!
Up to now, drinking hurts the liver, stomach and kidney, and you have done unexpected things! Anyway, drinking now is not a good thing!
If you want to be healthy, stop drinking first!