64.Wine History: The Past and Present of Wine Ware.
It is difficult to define the exact time of the appearance of drinking utensils, but in ancient times, it should have existed for a long time. In those earliest times, the wine was a mixture of juice and dregs, a mash, and unfiltered. Therefore, the wine at this time, whether it is fruit wine or grain wine, is in a pasty and semi-liquid state. So, to be exact, not drinking, but eating.
Eating wine means that the wine utensils are actually ordinary utensils, and the mouth will be relatively large, that is, bowls, bowls and other large-mouth utensils may be the earliest wine utensils. In ancient times, the main types of sake ware were pottery, hornware, and bamboo and wood products. Of course, this is from a manufacturing point of view.
Functionally, it is difficult to say whether the first people used to drink alcohol were stone or wood. When apes were making sake, the distant ancestors of humans probably bent down to sit in a natural stone pot like all animals, and the stone basin began to drink.
What is certain is that the advent of pottery has made eating utensils, that is, drinking utensils, extremely abundant. In the Neolithic ruins, we see that a large number of drinking utensils were found in the pottery unearthed more than 6,000 years ago, and the shape of these drinking utensils is very close to the drinking utensils of later generations, and their use is very clear, and they were born for wine.
64.Wine.