Wu SongIs it feasible to kill the tiger with a bowl of wine?
Ancient people may have surpassed modern people in terms of the amount of alcohol they drink.
Du Fu depicted Li Bai's booze scene in "Song of the Eight Immortals in Drinking", it is said that Li Bai "100 poems of fighting wine", while in the Tang Dynasty, the capacity of the large bucket was 6L, and the capacity of the small bucket was 2L.
Li Bai also claimed that "he must drink 300 cups at a time", which shows that his amount of alcohol has exceeded the imagination of ordinary people.
Explore the King of Alcohol: Jiao Sui in "Song of the Eight Immortals in Drinking", he drinks five times as much as Li Baijiu! Among the Seven Sages of the Bamboo Forest in the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, Liu Ling's amount of alcohol is even more amazing, he can drink one cup of wine in one meal, which is equivalent to 30 liters, about 60 catties.
In the name of wine, he was born Liu Ling, drinking and drinking, and five buckets of alcohol. These are all historical records, and if you dig deeper, you will find how colorful the world of wine is. "
How good were the ancients at drinking? Driven by curiosity, Brother Zhao Chongxuan counted the alcohol masters in the history books, and listed a ranking of alcohol volumes, which was recorded in his classic book "Chicken Ribs".
Yu Dingguo of the Western Han Dynasty, eating and drinking until a few stones without getting drunk, is really a strange person in wine. The Book of Han records that Yu Dingguo was able to drink a few stones of wine in one breath and remained sober. You know, one stone is about equal to 2976kg, almost 60 catties, and the number of stones is as high as 180 catties, which is equivalent to drinking the weight of a well-proportioned fat house.
This is the amount of wine in Yu Dingguo, which is amazing.
This ability has undoubtedly exceeded the limits of human beings, and even in the immortal cultivation realm, it can be regarded as the strength of refining the body above the ninth level. It would be an understatement to classify it as just a bug.
The amount of alcohol in ancient times was really powerful, and Zheng Kangcheng, Lu Zhi, Jin Zhouyi, Wei Liuzao and others could all start with one stone, but is this the truth?
The ancients drank alcohol very differently than modern times. Before the Tang and Song dynasties, wine was mainly fermented, while in the Han Dynasty, compound fermentation was mainly used. Therefore, we can say that the wine that the ancients drank was very different from the modern one.
The Book of Han records that the wine made into six buckets requires two coarse rice and one ququ. This is the earliest record of the proportion of koji in China, and it is also the earliest recipe for making wine using rice that we know so far.
The high temperature in summer tends to spoil the sake, so it is important to drink the sake as soon as possible. Otherwise, it will become rancid wine. The Yangtze Sayings reminds us not to wait until the sun goes down to think of drinking, when the wine is already sour.
The alcohol content of ancient wine was low, why did the ancients drink it heavily? Reveal the key points of the ancients' large amount of alcohol!
Shen Kuo was a scientist in the Northern Song Dynasty who delved into the question of why the Han Dynasty drank so much. Through a comparative analysis of the winemaking methods of the Han and Song dynasties, he concluded that the winemaking methods of the Han Dynasty could only produce slightly alcoholic wine, which may be the reason for the large amount of alcohol produced by the Han Dynasty.
Although it is the next best thing, if you drink all the water, it is completely unreliable to drink 180 pounds. So, what's the right way to drink water?
A new idea has been proposed: although the longer the feast lasts, the capacity of our stomachs and the rate of digestion are fixed, but drinking for a longer time is equivalent to increasing the amount of alcohol we drink.
In other words, drinking a bottle of wine in 5 minutes has the same effect as drinking a bottle in 5 hours.
In the Soochow Company during the Three Kingdoms period, the last monarch Sun Hao was very fond of drinking. Not only did he drink it himself, but he also forced his ministers to drink it together. At each banquet, he would stipulate that each person must drink seven liters (about 14 liters in modern times), otherwise he would not be allowed to leave.
Regardless of whether the person in the table can drink alcohol or not, they must drink according to the seven-liter limit. Although not everyone will finish the wine, Sun Hao will let the wine be emptied.
Under Sun Hao's rule, every banquet would last all day, making people feel extremely tired.
Sun Hao held a banquet for a very long time every time, up to a whole day, in fact, it was not how much the ministers could drink, but Sun Hao deliberately extended the banquet time.
Liu Ling was driving drunk, and his friend advised him not to drive, but he replied: "I'm drunk, but I can still drive, do you say I'm drunk?" My friend said, "Do you still need to ask while driving?"
We all know you're drunk. Liu Ling said again: "Then I'll drink another drink and see if I can still drive." Friends dissuaded him from drinking, but Liu Ling insisted on drinking.
After Liu Ling finished drinking, his friend asked him if he could drive, and he replied, "I can still drive." His friend dissuaded him again, but he said, "Then I'll drink another drink and see if I can still drive." ”
After repeating this, Liu Ling finally drove away, and his friends were all frightened by his behavior.
Liu Ling is an out-and-out drunkard, and his wife worries every day that something will happen to him if he drinks too much, and even imagines the future of his widowhood. She cried and persuaded Liu Ling to quit drinking, but he could not resist the charm of alcohol.
One day, he decided to go to his ancestors' graves and take an oath to abstain from alcohol and go out with sacrifices. However, when he knelt on the grave and was about to swear, he suddenly repented.
Regained the ancestral sacrificial wine, drank it all, and lay drunk on the grave.
There was not much wine to be used as a sacrifice, and it was not convenient to carry it on the road. However, a person can still get drunk after drinking so much wine, which can't help but make people wonder if the "Hu" of "one drink and one drink" really exists.
With the improvement of wine-making technology, the amount of alcohol of the ancients seems to have encountered a "demon mirror", showing a downward trend at a glance. From the Western Han Dynasty, you can drink one stone, and in the Tang Dynasty, it has been reduced to one or several buckets.
Li Bai's "100 Poems on Wine Fighting" makes people sigh at the large amount of wine in the Tang Dynasty, of which the big bucket can hold 6 liters, and the small bucket can hold 2 liters. Converted, the big bucket of the Tang Dynasty is equivalent to 3 bottles of beer in modern times, and the small bucket is equivalent to 10 bottles of beer.
Although the winemaking technology of the Song Dynasty was very mature enough to produce highly spirited liquor, the amount of alcohol that the ancients did not necessarily decrease because of this.
Despite changes in weights and measures, there are still plenty of descriptions of drinking a bucket or a stone of wine in literature from the Song Dynasty onwards.
In costume dramas, we often see scenes that are not the key reason.
The "thin wine" of the ancients was not modest, and they have a long history of liking low-alcohol wines. Although they already have the technology to produce high-grade sake, they still prefer thin sake.
Therefore, the occasional increase in the amount of alcohol consumed by the ancients may also be due to the fact that they drank thin wine.
In "Water Margin", Wu Song tastes the signature liquor "Three Bowls of Okama" at the Jingyanggang Hotel. He drank 18 bowls in one go, and according to the basic addition, subtraction, multiplication and division, he should be quarantined in place for at least 6 days.
However, he didn't seem to have any effect after drinking it.
It's not that the owner doesn't want to make money, he just doesn't want the guests to drink too much. If a bowl of 300 ml, Wu Song drank 54 liters, equivalent to about 10 catties, who can bear it for a normal person?
Wu Song is not human", which will help us to re-examine the amount of alcohol consumed by the ancients. Overall, the ancients may not have had as much alcohol as we might have thought.
The ancients did not drink much, but they could taste the beauty of life. Modern people also need to drink in moderation in order to enjoy the pleasures of life, rather than indulging in it.
When studying the amount of alcohol of the ancients, we can refer to Yu Huaqing's "Han Dynasty Liquor Industry**" and the anonymous "The Origin and Development of Wine".
It also provided us with a lot of valuable information. In addition, Gu Jingyi's "Li Bai's Alcohol Consumption is a Little "Water"" also gives us a deeper understanding of this issue.