"Li Bai has a hundred poems, and Chang'an City sleeps in a restaurant", when it comes to the Tang Dynasty, you will think of Li Bai.
The wine enters the bowels of Hao, seven points become moonlight, and the remaining three points become sword qi", talking about Li Bai, he can't avoid the wine.
In the past, I always felt that the amount of Li Baijiu was amazing, "I would have to drink three hundred cups", not only was I not drunk, but I thought like a spring, and the wonderful pen was full of flowers, and the embroidery was spit out, which was half of the Tang Dynasty.
Later, I learned that poets of the Tang Dynasty, such as Wang Wei and Meng Haoran, drank nothing more than low-alcohol wine.
If it is a modern high-grade liquor, even if it is Li Bai, who does not pour a thousand cups, it is estimated that he is full of nonsense and will not wake up.
So, what kind of wine did the poets of the Tang Dynasty drink?
The Tang Dynasty was the peak of Chinese civilization, and it was also an era of poets and stars.
Not only are there many poets, but they are also basically keen on drinking.
What's more interesting is that, in addition to liking love poems and wine, they often reveal some information about wine in their works.
And this information provides us with very valuable material for this question.
Let's start with the conclusion, the wine drunk by the poets of the Tang Dynasty can be roughly divided into three types: rice wine, concocted wine and wine, among which the most drunk is rice wine.
But there are high and low things, people have three, six, nine and so on, even if it is wine made from grain, its quality is also very different.
Due to the limited brewing technology in ancient times and the lack of aseptic operation, the wine will more or less carry a little microorganism, showing a faint green color, as Du Fu wrote in "Drinking Alone into Poetry": "The lantern flowers are too happy, and the wine green is on a blind date".
Yan Shu's "Qingping Le" also has a similar description: "Persuade the king to green wine and golden cups, don't be afraid of the sound of silk pipes."
However, the liquor drunk by the ancients was all fermented liquor, and distilled liquor appeared in the Yuan Dynasty, which caused the fermented koji and grain to be mixed with the liquor, producing quite a lot of impurities.
Therefore, this unfiltered wine is often called turbid wine, which does not sell very well, but it is better than the price-performance ratio, and is favored by poets who are in difficult conditions, such as Bai Juyi once wrote: "It's a pity that where the warbler cries and the flowers fall, a pot of turbid wine sends the remnant spring." ”
Modern people like to mix different liquors to make cocktails, and the ancients also liked to add all kinds of strange things to their wines.
During the Tang Dynasty, people would mix flowers, plants, fruits and trees into the wine and drink them together, and even add them during the winemaking process, such as osmanthus, green plum, bamboo leaves, etc. This kind of wine has been concocted and has a unique flavor, such as Li Shangyin's poem: "The wine urn condenses the Yu Gui, and the bookmark is cold and old", as well as Luo Bingwang's gift: "The parrot cup floats bamboo leaves, and the phoenix piano falls plum blossoms".
In addition, the people of the Tang Dynasty were also fond of wine. This kind of wine is the product of the introduction to the Central Plains after the conquest of Gaochang Kingdom in the Western Regions by Taizong of the Tang Dynasty, and Wang Han once wrote: "Grape wine luminous cup, if you want to drink pipa, urge immediately."
As a foreign product, because of its high price and unique taste, it soon became the object of pursuit of literati and high society.
According to the record of "New Words of the Tang Dynasty", Li Yuan gave 100 horses of silk and asked Chen Shuda to use it in the city. Silk was very precious at that time, and it was necessary to exchange silk for grapes, which shows its value.
Nowadays, when we read these ancient texts, we are also savoring the era of that cultural heyday.
Those popular Tang poems are like a feast, leaving an aftertaste of endless aftertaste.
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