Jiudao Liquor Industry Historical Wine Story 100 Wine Fights .

Mondo Gastronomy Updated on 2024-01-31

Li Bai, the word is too white, and the number is Qinglian layman. The great romantic poet of the Tang Dynasty, known as the "poet immortal", was born in Chengji County, Longxi (now Pingliang, Gansu). Li Bai was addicted to alcohol in his life and called himself "the fairy in wine".

Tang Xuanzong appreciated Li Bai's talent very much, so he was summoned to Chang'an as an official. Li Bai entered Beijing as an official and still did not change his habit of drinking, and often got drunk. In 742 AD, Li Bai was summoned to Beijing to worship Hanlin. One day, Tang Xuanzong and Yang Guifei enjoyed the flowers and listened to music, but they felt that the lyrics were old and had no new ideas, so they summoned Li Bai to come and compose a few new songs to help the fun. The musician went to Hanlin to summon Li Bai, and learned that Li Bai had gone out to drink early in the morning and was not there at this time. So the musician wandered around the market to find Li Bai, and finally found Li Bai in a restaurant, but Li Bai was already drunk at this time. After Li Bai learned of the musician's intention, not only did he not get up and enter the palace, but chanted loudly, "I am drunk and sleeping, and I will go", and leaned over to rest after speaking. The musician couldn't, so he had to call everyone to put Li Bai in the carriage and return to the palace to resume his life.

Tang Xuanzong was very unhappy when he saw Li Bai, who was drunk and out of shape. Summoned people to splash Li Bai up with water and poured decanting soup on it. After Li Bai woke up, not only did he not ask Tang Xuanzong for his guilt, but asked for a drunken drink. Tang Xuanzong couldn't bear to be angry because of Li Bai's talent: "If you get drunk again, how can you compose poetry." Li Bai replied: "The minister is a hundred poems about fighting wine, and the stronger the wine, the better the poem." So Tang Xuanzong gave wine to Li Bai, and Li Bai lived up to expectations, composing poems while drinking. In this way, more than a dozen songs were written one after another, each of which was a good work, and Tang Xuanzong praised Li Bai again and again when he saw that he was so talented.

Later, the hundred articles of the wine fight were accused of quick thinking and talent.

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