Apart from the spring breeze, what does one-year-old Tu Su mean in Tu Su?

Tu Su is Tu Su wine, which was drunk during the Spring Festival in ancient China, so it is also called Nian wine. Tu Su is an ancient house. Because it is brewed in this house, it is called Tu Su wine. According to legend, Tu Su wine was created by Hua Tuo, a famous doctor at the end of Han Dynasty, and its formula was made by soaking rhubarb, Atractylodes macrocephala, Cinnamomum cassia twig, Saposhnikovia divaricata, Zanthoxylum bungeanum, Radix Aconiti Lateralis and Radix Aconiti Lateralis in the wine.

This medicine has the effects of warming yang, expelling wind and cold, and avoiding epidemic diseases. Later, it was spread by Sun Simiao, a famous doctor in Tang Dynasty. Every year in the twelfth lunar month, Sun Simiao always sends a pack of medicine to his neighbors, telling them to take medicine to soak wine and drink it on New Year's Eve, which can prevent the plague.

Sun Simiao also named his house "Tu Su House". Since then, after several generations, drinking Tu Su wine has become the custom of China New Year. In ancient times, Tu Su wine was drunk in a unique way.

Most people drink alcohol, always starting from the elderly; But drinking Tu Su wine is just the opposite, starting with the smallest. That is to say, when a family gets together to drink Tu Su wine, they should start with the younger children and the older children should drink a little one by one. Su Zhe, a writer in the Song Dynasty, wrote in the poem "Except for Japan": "Drinking Tu Su at the end of each year is not over 70 years old." It's a custom.

Some people don't understand the meaning of this habit. Dong Xun explained: "Young people are old, so congratulations; The old man lost his age and was punished. " This custom was still very popular in the Song Dynasty. For example, Su Shi's poem "Sleeping outside Changzhou" said: "Only learn to be poor and worried, and eventually drink Tu Su."

Although Su Shi was poor in his later years, he was optimistic. He thinks that as long as he is healthy and doesn't care about his old age, he naturally doesn't have to refuse to drink Tu Su wine in the end.

In ancient times, this unique drinking order often caused people to have various emotions, so it left a deep impression on people. This custom remained unchanged until the Qing Dynasty. Although this custom is no longer popular on a large scale today, the custom of drinking these medicinal liquor still exists on festivals or at ordinary times.