Pronunciation of drinking

Interpretation: 1 Place sacrifices in front of the gods or pay tribute to the remains, souls and graves of the dead. 2. lay the foundation; Establish.

This word was first seen in Oracle Bone Inscriptions in Shang Dynasty, and its ancient glyph is like putting a wine bottle on an altar, which means offering sacrifices with wine. The original meaning of offering wine is to pay homage to the dead, and it is extended to placing, placing and establishing.

The origin of drinking may be related to the transformation of ancestors' thoughts from primitive religious culture to rational culture in the pre-Qin period.

Xia, Shang and Zhou dynasties paid more attention to primitive religious culture, and incantations, ballads and divination, mainly in tile words and Yi language, could be used as circumstantial evidence. With the disintegration of the enfeoffment system, Zhou Li is no longer suitable for this chaotic era.

Before the Western Zhou Dynasty, all the people who mastered cultural knowledge were aristocrats, but with the appearance of gentry, it seems less important to fear the gods and preach myths in the face of the chaos caused by the combination of heroes. People's thoughts gradually become more rational and pragmatic.

Refuting and questioning the gods and reflecting on life and history make people pay more attention to the value of sages and people, and the ceremony of offering wine is becoming more and more important. Drinking-Nourishing the land with wine symbolizes comforting ancestors or gods.