This article was published in Wen Wei Po, March 26, 2003
From ancient times to the present, women have been drinking wine, no matter in the style and amount of alcohol, not inferior to men. Some time ago, the author saw such a strange story in a "digest" newspaper: A peasant woman in Guangxi, who is nearly 100 years old, drinks nearly a pound of alcohol every day, not only is she not drunk, but her body is as strong as an ox, whether she goes to the field to farm or rush to the market, she is no less than a young man. Later, in order to confirm its authenticity, the newspaper also published the old woman's drinking ** in the newspaper's eye, and at the same time issued the following statement: If you know its falsity, please bring wine to the old man for a while. This is a wine anecdote today, the author has known this as true from the beginning, and the reason why this is the case is that the author is half a wine person, and has also experienced the majesty of women's drinking.
At the end of the eighties of the last century, several writers were invited to visit Kweichow Moutai Distillery, and when they were drinking in the wine country, first Lu Wenfu, the wine saint of the literary world, lost the elegance of Jiangnan Xiushi incoherently, followed by Ye Nan, a playwright who never let go of the cup when he saw wine, became an incoherent naughty boy, and finally fell down is a local writer, He Shiguang, a local wine master in Guizhou - although I am not visible in the land of fine wine, I can't find the north on the wine table. At this time, only the female writer Chen Rong, but she still did not change her face in the drink, and said a few cool words from time to time, and made a battle table to several male writers, fully showing her prestige as a female male in wine. This was the first time I realized that women drink with great energy. The second time was when several writers visited the Inner Mongolian grassland and "cooked wine on heroes" with a local female singer who specializes in persuading wine in the yurt, leaving a memory of "losing the yurt". In fact, I had no intention of drinking with her that day, but I was moved by her enthusiasm for constantly singing songs of persuasion - as a result, I finally kowtowed and conceded defeat, for which I was punished for singing a Russian folk song "Three Sets of Cars", and the drinking scene was settled. The second ** that makes me confirm that the drunkard drinking elegance of women is higher than that of men, which is a record of China's long-standing wine culture. For thousands of years, despite the fact that the proportion of men in drinkers is many times higher than that of women, the bright color of women's drinking often overshadows men. First of all, Yi Di, the originator of liquor, is a woman, which is a true work written into the history of Chinese liquor, which is already a masterpiece in Chinese liquor culture. According to historical records, although Yi Di was the first person to taste the taste of wine, but not a woman who loves alcohol, because his father Dayu because of his wine, and alienated her, this very filial daughter of Dayu, he consciously distanced himself from wine, so the god of wine Yi Di is only the god of wine and not a drunkard. However, many emperors' favorite concubines in history and some famous talented women in history (including some Qinglou red fans) have rebelled against the self-restraint of Yidi, the goddess of wine, and rebelled to become the carrier of wine and the embodiment of wine, and wine has become a stunner for them to chase joy and relieve sorrow.
Among them, the first to recommend the demon concubine Da Ji next to the king of Shang, she is better at drinking than men. According to the record in "Wine Yi", when the king was drunk and lying in the harem, she was not drunk with it because of binge drinking, but "thousands of people were drunk and she woke up alone", when the king was drunk, she could still play the piano and sing, so it can be said that Chinese women drink strangely. This demon concubine who was in chaos in the Shang Dynasty, when the king of Shang died, also left a wine allusion: when King Wu of Zhou raised an army to attack the Zhou, the king of Zhou and King Wu of Zhou fought Muye (the south of today's Qi County, Henan), after the king of Zhou was defeated by the army, I don't know if she was out of her feelings for the king of Zhou, or if she used wine to increase her courage to commit suicide - recorded in the book "Ancient Wine Examination", until this moment, she had the first drunkenness in her life - in the stumbling drunkenness, drilled into the three-foot white silk hanging on the beam, In intoxication, he went to heaven.
Of course, these old wine events recorded in the ancient book "Wine Yi" will inevitably have folk rumors, but this concubine's addiction to alcohol and chaos seems to be an undoubted fact.
In the history of the Tang Dynasty, there was a "once entered the king's side, and the king did not go to the early dynasty" Yang Yuhuan, she was greedy for a cup, in the Peking Opera "Guifei drunk", just showed her drunkenness like a corner, historical records recorded that she was better at drinking than Tang Minghuang, because of the hot wine syrup, from morning to night to dye her cheeks red. It is no wonder that Su Dongpo, a literati of the Song Dynasty, used the following pen and ink to shape it: "I am afraid that I will fall asleep in the middle of the night, and I will burn silver candles to shine red makeup"! According to the record of "Kaiyuan Legacy", as a king, Emperor Tang Minghuang woke up earlier than her every morning; The reason for this is that she often drinks too much at night. There is the following description of her in "The Remains of Kaiyuan": "After the concubine wakes up every night, she pends the flowers and branches in the morning, and sucks the flower dew in her mouth to moisten her lungs and sober up. (Its flower is a wood peony), the Tang Ming Emperor beside him, always personally broke the branches and picked the flowers, and persuaded it to suck it: "This flower is fragrant, especially can sober up." According to the description in "Cold Fasting Night Talk", Yang Yuhuan at this time, his face was red and his temples were messy, and he begged Emperor Tang Ming not to chase his rude mistake of waking up late, Tang Xingxing replied with a smile: "Is the concubine drunk, it is Begonia who has not slept enough!" At this point, Yang Guifei's drunken and charming posture has jumped on the paper.
Yang Yuhuan left such a drinking song, if it is not enough to be strange, his sister Mrs. Qiuguo's drinking habits can be described as another eternal wine affair after Bao Xi. According to the "Unzen Miscellaneous Records", the wine vessel she used to drink wine was called "Dongtian Bottle", that is, the dried deer intestines were suspended in the air as a bottle, so that people could pour the wine into the intestines, and when drinking, they would untie the knots at the end of the intestines and let the wine flow in the mouth. It can be inferred from this that she not only has the habit of lying on her back in bed and drinking with her back to the sky, but also has the unrestrained ability to drink at night. For this reason, in the Tang Dynasty she received the nickname "General of Dongtian Holy Wine". Not only did it create the most coveted drinking since the Shang Dynasty, but it also made the dignified seven-foot man feel ashamed before his drinking.
Reading history and thinking about the present, I have explored the internal causes: is it that women have a special ability to adapt to wine syrup in their biological genes? Otherwise, why are many masculine men often defeated by the glass of pink beauties? In this regard, although the author has not been able to find a physiological research, it is a true fact that I have confirmed that female alcoholics are more happy than men from my later research on the origins of ancient alcoholics. If you don't believe it, you can find a real female drunkard to have a glass, and then you will know the depth of it!
Author: Cong Weixi.
Text: Cong Weixi Editor: Qian Yutong Responsible Editor: Shu Ming.
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