Song people are good at playing, which can be seen from their entertainment at banquets.

In cool summer, it is a charming enjoyment to have a full meal in the lotus pond where red-violet is in full bloom. The scholar-officials at the banquet even thought of making wine glasses with lotus leaves and lotus petals, which was even more unexpected and refreshing.

Ge, a poet in the Southern Song Dynasty, personally participated in such an elegant collection. He improvised two poems on the spot, one of which was entitled "Appreciating the Lotus and Persuading the Wine":

The mirror is full of red incense, and the entrance is near the smoky island. The bead curtain is light and fragrant.

BendMobi# is afraid of hardship. Call me Taiyizhou by the stream, full of fragrance.

Among them, T-bend blue cone in Tang Dynasty is afraid of suffering, which is obviously a famous saying of Su Shi's transformation. When the blue cone cup is bent, the liquor is slightly bitter, which shows that the lotus leaf is the tradition of persuading wine with the blue cone cup.

Bibei's story originated from Duan Youyang in the Tang Dynasty. As recorded in the book, as early as the Three Kingdoms period, Zheng Xun, a famous scholar, picked a large lotus leaf with a long handle at a banquet, put it in an inkstone box that was originally used to hold inkstones, poured three liters of rice wine on the lotus leaf, and then pierced the heart of the lotus leaf with a hairpin to form a hole connected with the long handle of the lotus leaf. Because the inside of the lotus stem is naturally a through cavity, pulling up the long stem and bending it into an S-shape like a lifted trunk becomes a natural straw! The drinker holds the end of the lotus stalk with his mouth and sucks hard, so the wine in the lotus leaf will flow out along the internal channel of the lotus stalk and pour into the mouth of the drinker. This kind of disposable wine glass made of fresh leaves with stems is called Bitong Cup. Its beauty lies in that it can make the wine smell like lotus leaves and give people a cool feeling of beating the ice and snow.

Judging from the clues left by documents and cultural relics, it is actually the invention of the Tang Dynasty scholar-officials to temporarily break fresh green lotus leaves at the party site to make blue cups. In the Song Dynasty, this wonderful method was still loved by scholars. For example, Li Gang's poem "Lotus Blossoms in Xixuan Pond", he and his guests drank on it, and took the lotus as a cup, which led him to get drunk. He Lin's poem is called June 10th _ Drink, and it is called Zu * * * Suction Cup. Therefore, at that time, it was very common for Ge and his friends to persuade wine with blue cone cups.

More interestingly, Ge immediately wrote a divination symbol during the dinner, comparing the curled red lotus in the pool to Lady Yingying, and then chanting: It's a wine boat, and the clouds are flowing slowly. The so-called wine boat is a boat-shaped wine glass, which is specially used for toasting Song people. It can be seen that at the banquet, petals after petals of red lotus were used as wine glasses, poured into them, and worshipped in front of the host and guest.

There was a unique form of persuasion in Song Dynasty. The host of the banquet needs to prepare a whole set of wine glasses, often nine or ten. This set of wine glasses not only has different materials, shapes and meanings, but also the capacity of jumpmh comics has changed from big to small. The largest can even hold a liter, and the smallest can only take a sip. It is often a geisha holding a glass to persuade guests to drink, from small to large or from large to small. It is important that geisha must sing to amuse themselves when trying to persuade them to drink. Lyrics are best improvised by talented people. For example, two poems by Li Fang of General Electric Company are typical words to persuade wine.

So at that time, the process was roughly like this: after Ge helped write a poem, a skilled geisha could sing it completely as long as she recited it a little. A blue cup made of freshly picked lotus leaves in the pool is placed in a big plate or a small basin, filled with good wine and given to guests. Then, the jade man sang beautifully: the mirror was full of red incense, and the Xuan family was near Yanzhu.

This blue cup has a large capacity, just like a huge cup at a party. Then, the next restored glasses will take turns to play. Finally, fold the blooming red lotus out of the pool and regard its faint petals as S.

Song people are good at playing, which can be seen from their entertainment at banquets. Because of this, it is not difficult to understand why the emotions in Song poetry are so tragic that once they are written, they have to drink alone.