There are fifty-six ethnic groups in our country. Except for the Hui people who believe in Islam, they generally do not drink alcohol. All other ethnic groups drink alcohol. Wine-related activities are mainly concentrated in etiquette, festivals, weddings and funerals, and celebrations of various customs and habits. Their expressions are banquets, receptions and wine ceremonies, such as:
1. Etiquette activities , expressing the etiquette between the host and the guests through drinking etiquette (drinking etiquette). Throughout the ages, wine officials have been appointed to preside over these official ceremonial activities. As for the literati, due to their different aesthetic tastes and cultural psychology, the objects they drink are "elegant, heroic, straightforward, forgetful, close friends, old friends, beauties, and gentlemen", and the places where they drink are "under flowers, bamboo forests, high pavilions, and painted boats" , Youguan, Qujian, Pingchou, Heting" and the seasons for drinking are "spring suburbs, flower time, clear autumn, fresh green, rain, new moon, and late cool". Here, wine is poetic and elegant.
2. Major festival activities.
1. For example, drinking New Year's wine during the Spring Festival. "When you get up early in the morning (the first day of the Lunar New Year), the elders and the younger get dressed and dressed to congratulate you. Drink Jiaobai wine first and then Tusu wine, which means good luck. , Kang Ning, Longevity", there is a poem to prove it: "In the morning, evil wine is avoided, and in the new year, the cup of longevity comes with the cypress spit and the chanting of pepper flowers." The so-called pepper and cypress wine is made by soaking Zanthoxylum bungeanum and cypress leaves. Tusu wine is a kind of wine infused with broadleaf grass (now no longer available). In the poem "New Year's Day" by Wang Anshi of the Song Dynasty, he said: "The sound of firecrackers eliminates the new year, and the spring breeze brings warmth to Tusu. Thousands of households are always replacing old talismans with new peaches." The ancients always drank in order of age. However, when drinking Tusu wine during the Spring Festival, it was the opposite. The elderly toasted to the young, starting with the youngest. Because "the younger ones get older, so they drink wine first; the older ones lose their years, so they drink wine later." This means that young people are growing older and receive the congratulations of "getting old"; old people are suffering a lot when they are old, and they will lose their old age and then drink.
2. On the Zhonghe Festival (the first day of the second lunar month), people worship the Earth God and pray for a good harvest. There is a custom of drinking Zhonghe wine and Yichun wine. It is said that it can cure ear diseases, and is also called "curing deafness". liquor".
3. Qingming Festival is a festival for worshiping ancestors (combining the ancient Cold Food Festival and Qingming Festival into one), tomb sweeping, outing, and cold food (cooking without burning fire, eating cold food, and drinking alcohol).
4. Dragon Boat Festival, also known as Duanyang Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Girl's Day, Tianzhong Festival and Dila Festival. It falls on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month, and was roughly formed during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period. Mainly to ward off evil spirits, eliminate evil, and detoxify, there is a custom of drinking calamus wine and realgar wine (realgar is poisonous, and modern people no longer drink it). At the same time, there are also people who drink toad wine for aphrodisiacs and longevity, and night albizia flower wine for calming and sleeping. custom.
5. The Mid-Autumn Festival, also known as the Reunion Festival, whether family reunion or meeting with close friends, is inseparable from admiring the moon and drinking. Moon drink). By the Qing Dynasty, it was a custom to drink osmanthus wine during the Mid-Autumn Festival.
6. During the Double Ninth Festival (also known as the Dogwood Festival and the Double Ninth Festival, which falls on the ninth day of September), there is a custom of climbing high to drink chrysanthemum wine, which began in the Han Dynasty. "Xu Qi Xie Ji" records that Huanjing of the Han Dynasty went on a study tour with Fei Changfang and said: "On September 9th, your family is expected to have a disaster, so you urgently order your family to make silk bags, hold dogwood, and cantilever them, climb high mountains, and drink chrysanthemums." Drinking wine can eliminate misfortune. Jing led his family to climb up and return home in the evening. Fang Fang said: "This can be done for others." Since then, people of all ages have climbed high, admired chrysanthemums, and drank wine, which continues to this day.
Three, folk activities.
Drinking wedding wine to celebrate the birthday of the elderly. Drinking full moon wine or fortune teller after giving birth. It is said that the child has a nemesis in his life and it is difficult to feed him, so the child should be sent to a nearby temple to be named as a monk or a Taoist priest. After paying homage to the mage, a grand naming ceremony and a banquet will be held when he returns home. Sacrifice the ancestors and invite relatives and friends to have a drink together.
In addition, when building a house in rural areas, a beam-mounting ceremony is held and a completion ceremony is held when the house is completed. When a store opens, it is necessary to have an opening ceremony. When friends come from afar, they need to hold wine to welcome the wind and promote wine...
Almost all activities of the Chinese people must be done with the help of wine.