Drunk eyes look at the sword, dream back to the company camp flute. The scorching battlefield under his command is exciting. The autumn wind points the troops, and the battlefield is fiercely fought. The luma was as swift as the wind, and the bowstring was thunderous. Complete the mission for the king and earn the name before and after his death.
White happens, regret stays long. Look, Xin Qiji is drunk alone again. Speaking of which, wine is not only the favorite of the Tang people, but also many drunkards in the Song people. Tang Youshi immortal Li Bai raised his glass to invite Mingyue, and Song Youdongpo asked Qingtian for wine.
So, have you ever wondered what kind of wine the literati and writers of the Song Dynasty drank every day?
Both "The Riverside Scene of the Qingming Festival" and "Water Margin" depict the wine culture of the Song Dynasty, but most of them are ordinary people's drinks, such as rice wine brewed by farmers. So what is the alcohol that the literati doctor drinks?
There were four main types of liquor that were popular in the market during the Song Dynasty: rice wine, medicinal wine, white wine, and fruit wine. Among them, rice wine can be divided into cloudy sake and sake according to the turbidity, cloudy sake is a type of rice wine, and sake is sake that has been fermented for a long time.
Medicinal liquor is similar to today's medicinal liquor, mainly used for health preservation. Baijiu was less common in the Song Dynasty, and literati and doctors preferred to drink fruit wine, such as Su Shi and Lu You.
In ancient times, there were many kinds of fruit wines, such as wine, pear wine, and jujube wine in the north, and lychee wine, coconut wine, yellow mandarin wine, and plum wine in the south. As early as the period of Zhang Qian's mission to the Western Regions, grapes were introduced to the Central Plains, and it was recorded in the "Historical Records of Dawan Biography" that "grape wine luminous cup, if you want to drink pipa immediately", it can be seen that the wine of the Tang Dynasty is extremely precious, such as today's Moutai and Wuliangye, which can be called a luxury.
Although the Tang and Song dynasties are far apart, wine is still very high in the Song Dynasty, and it can even be compared with the mink fur. Lu You, a great poet, is a lover of wine, and in his work "Cold Night and Home Burning Dry Firewood for Warmth", he wrote: "The manuscript bamboo is asking for a salary every other year, and it is becoming a guest at night."
Like a slight wine, it seems to have a heavy mink fur. It can be seen from the poem that Lu You did not hesitate to burn dry wood to keep warm in order to drink wine, which shows his love for wine.
Despite the high price of wine, Lu You is still satisfied, because he believes that wine can forget the troubles of the world. However, Lu You's satisfaction did not last long, and he later wrote in "Sending Fan Sheren to Return to the Dynasty": "The wine is not tasteful in life, and everything is left behind in the drunkenness."
The wine wakes up and the guests are scattered and sad, and the pillow repeatedly waves the country. This shows that although Lu You loves wine, wine does not really make him forget everything, but makes him more worried about the country and the people.
This may also be an interesting story of Song people and wine.
Lu You is obsessed with wine, while Su Shi is fond of yellow mandarin wine. Yellow mandarin wine is made from village oranges, which is an original wine of the Song Dynasty. This wine has a bright color and aroma, and it is a high-end drink that can only be tasted by dignitaries.
The imperial court once held a yellow orange banquet for this wine, and Su Shi also wrote in the poem: "The tile is drunk, and the golden lotus is full." I'm afraid that at this time of the year, urge the forbidden festival and serve the yellow orange feast". It seems that not only is Su Shi's wine not large, but the strength of the yellow mandarin wine is not small, which makes him a little unbearable at the banquet.
However, Su Shi was still too cautious, and he spent most of his life wandering, which also gave him the opportunity to taste fine wines from all over the world. In addition to wine and yellow mandarin wine, the people of the Song Dynasty also liked coconut wine very much, it is a specialty of the south, and Li Gang of the Song Dynasty once wrote "Coconut Wine Fu".
Coconut liquor does not require koji, but is naturally fermented with coconut milk.
Song Dynasty Fruit Wine: The Sentimental Works of Literati and Writers Lychee wine and pear wine are original wines of the Song Dynasty, and their brewing process is similar to that of wine. Su Dongpo's friend Huang Tingjian was once relegated to Bashu, where he praised the local lychee green wine, which was comparable to the popular wine of the time.
It can be seen that the literati and writers of the Song Dynasty had a special love for fruit wine. Perhaps on the night of the Mid-Autumn Festival, Su Dongpo raised his head and asked the sky, the wine in his cup could be a glass of lychee wine; Or maybe on the willow bank, at the moment of the dawn wind and waning moon, by the small river where Liu Yong is intoxicated, there may be two taels of yellow plum wine; Or maybe in the twilight of Changji Xiting, Li Qingzhao, who was drunk and didn't know the way back, drank the grape-flavored wine.