What are the activities of wine?

Among the 56 ethnic groups in China, except the Hui people who believe in Islam, all other ethnic groups drink alcohol. Activities related to wine mainly focus on etiquette, festivals, weddings, funerals, celebrations and other customs, which are manifested in banquets, receptions and wine ceremonies, such as:

First, etiquette activities, through the wine ceremony (the etiquette behavior in the wine ceremony) to express the etiquette between the host and the guest. Throughout the ages, wine officials have presided over these official etiquette activities. As for the literati, due to their different aesthetic tastes and cultural psychology, their drinking objects are "elegance, boldness, frankness, selflessness, bosom friends, old friends, jade people and keer", and their drinking places are "Huaxia, Bamboo Forest, Singing, Painting Boat, Youguan, Qujian, Pingqu, Tanghe", and their drinking seasons are "Spring Suburb, Flower Time and Qing Pavilion". Here, wine is poetic and elegant.

Second, major festivals.

1 For example, drinking New Year's wine during the Spring Festival, "From the morning of New Year's Day, people of all ages will dress up to congratulate. Drink pepper and cypress wine first, then Tu Su wine, which means auspiciousness, corning and longevity. " There is a poem to prove it: "It is just the right time to brew evil wine, and you will live a long life in the new year." White clay comes with the theme word, and a pepper flower comes. " The so-called pepper cypress wine is made by soaking pepper cypress leaves. Tu Su wine is a kind of wine soaked in broad-leaved trees (now it is gone). In Wang Anshi's poem "New Year's Day" in the Song Dynasty, "firecrackers are one year old, and the spring breeze sends warmth into Tu Su. Thousands of households always exchange new peaches for old ones. " The ancients always drank in order of age, except for Tu Su during the Spring Festival. Instead, the old man toasted the young people, starting with the youngest. Because "the youngest is old, so drink first; When the old man lost his age, he drank with wine. " It means that young people are old and congratulate them on getting old; The old man went to Japan and suffered a lot. When he was old, he drank.

On the Zhonghe Festival (the first day of the second lunar month), people worship the land god and pray for a bumper harvest. It is said that drinking Zhonghe wine and Yichun wine can cure ear diseases, which is also called "treating deafness wine".

3. Tomb-Sweeping Day is a festival for ancestor worship (combining the ancient Cold Food Festival with Tomb-Sweeping Day), grave sweeping, mountain climbing and cold food (cooking without fire, eating cold food and drinking).

4. Dragon Boat Festival, also known as Duanyang Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Daughter's Day, Mid-Day Festival and Dila Festival. It was on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month and was formed in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period. Mainly to ward off evil spirits, dispel evil spirits and detoxify, there are customs of drinking calamus wine and realgar wine (realgar wine is poisonous, but modern people don't drink it), and there are also customs of drinking toad wine to strengthen yang and prolong life, and drinking locust flower wine to calm down and sleep.

5, Mid-Autumn Festival, also known as the Reunion Festival, no matter whether family reunion or close friends get together, it is inseparable from enjoying the moon and drinking. "Raise a glass and sing a song to invite the bright moon, and have a reunion with wine" (called drinking month). In Qing dynasty, drinking osmanthus wine was the custom of Mid-Autumn Festival.

6. The Double Ninth Festival (also known as the Cornus Festival and the Double Ninth Festival, on the ninth day of September) has the custom of drinking chrysanthemum wine from the mountains, which began in the Han Dynasty. It is recorded in "Continued Harmony of Qi" that the scenery of Han Huan traveled with Fei Changfang, saying, "On September 9, there will be disaster in your family. It is urgent for your family to make silk bags, hold dogwood, hang beams, climb mountains and drink chrysanthemum wine, but the disaster can be eliminated. On the scene, he led his family to board the ship and returned at dusk, killing both chickens and dogs. Fang said, "This can be substituted. Since then, people of all ages have to climb mountains, enjoy chrysanthemums and drink alcohol on the ninth day, which has continued to this day.

Third, folk activities.

Marriage is called a wedding reception. Birthday for the elderly, called Shoujiu. After giving birth, drink full moon wine or hundred days wine. If the fortune teller says that the child has enemies and it is difficult to support him, he will send the child to a nearby temple to become a monk or a Taoist. After meeting the master, he will hold a grand naming ceremony, hold a grand banquet, offer sacrifices to his ancestors, and invite relatives and friends to drink together when he returns home.

In addition, when building a house in the countryside, Shangliang will make Shangliang wine on this day; When you finish, take the finished wine. When you move into a new house, you must have a mobile wine. When you open a shop, you should hold the opening wine. Some friends come from afar. They want to have a party and drink a glass of hard liquor. ...

In many activities of China people, almost all activities are completed by drinking.