Drinking mood

The ancients believed that wine should not be drunk indiscriminately, but only when the body and mood were normal. Don't drink alcohol when you are unwell, too sad or angry. Otherwise it will damage your health. When talking about food hygiene, enthusiast Tsui Hark said: "When it comes to food hygiene, it is not suitable to eat when you are angry or depressed in summer. Food is indigestible and easy to get sick. This is what everyone should quit. " According to the theory of traditional Chinese medicine, when people are angry, the liver qi rushes up, the face turns red, and they have a headache and dizziness. If they drink again, the situation will add fuel to the fire, which is more suitable to get out of control and cause unimaginable consequences.

In order to achieve the best mood when drinking, the ancients also explored some methods that seem exemplary so far:

Choose the right time:

If the moon is cool and the wind is good, it will snow when it rains; Bloom full court, new wine cooked; Old friends, drinking when they meet again after a long separation, can achieve the wishes of both the host and the guest; Moxibustion is dry during the day and rainy on cloudy days; When I get home near dusk, I feel irritable and unexpected, but when I have other appointments, I should not drink alcohol.

Choose the right occasion:

Whether it's in the open air, boating and drifting, or in the restaurant in the house, as long as it makes people feel elegant and comfortable, it's the best occasion to drink.

The ancients had the habit of "mountain drinking", "water drinking", "suburban drinking" and "wild drinking", and they also loved drinking when they were sightseeing. Therefore, the place where they drink is often not in the elegant hall or downtown, but at the top of the mountain, by the stream, or in the countryside, in the green. Zhou Muwang drinks in Yaochi, Cang Kun, does nothing on Lotus Peak, Zhongshan drinks in the middle of the night, Huan Wen buys wine at the top of Longdong Mountain, guests are on the boat, Li Bai's "We Sing the Tone of the Breeze", Du Mu's "Drinking with Guests" and so on. Being in this beautiful scenery and breathing fresh air will make people feel happy and relaxed, and the interest in drinking will naturally multiply. The "windy day" in Xiangyang and the "big waves" in Shiyu Lake made Tang Dynasty poets Wang Wei and Jie Yuan imagine, and issued cheers that "enchanted my old mountain" and "sitting in Baqiu with a long ladle, I poured drinks carefully in every direction". The breeze on the river and the bright moon in the mountains made Su Shi, a scholar in the Song Dynasty, drink in the Chibi River and wrote the poem "Red Cliff Fu" handed down from generation to generation. Li Bai once said, "The road is long, and the lake is bright." The poem "Bai Ou can't fight for booze" describes the joy of drinking in the fascinating artistic conception of lakes and mountains and Bai Ou. Its taste is really hard to understand under the bright candles of Gaotang.

Drinking together:

Juck Zhang, a man in the late Ming and early Qing Dynasties, mentioned the benefits of gathering friends to drink in Little H written for his good friend Huang Jiugu: "Get together with friends and forget everything. Only by going back and forth can you feel good. " Tsui Hark also thinks: "When eating, you should eat with your family or friends, share the same case, laugh gently, and talk casually. Geeks will relax, listeners will be happy, and their digestion will be enhanced, which is most in line with the purpose of hygiene. Try to think that people should talk fast and talk dark, increase their diet, and some of them are unconscious. When you are angry or sad, you write about the present and feed yourself. The reason can be imagined. "

Eating and drinking together is still so good for ordinary people. This is especially true for the elderly. Old people are most afraid of loneliness. Our modern cultural life is rich, and the elderly can participate in various cultural and sports activities to achieve the purpose of entertainment and health preservation. In ancient times, it was different. Except for children and grandchildren, most of the ancients liked to get together with friends and drink for fun. In fact, the purpose of their party is not to eat and drink, but mainly to exercise muscles and relax.

According to historical records, in the forty-nine years before Emperor Xuandi of the Western Han Dynasty (73 BC), after the resignation of Dawning, a teacher, and Shu Wei, a young teacher, they lost money on gold and silver and often "sold gold to buy wine and make old friends". Bai Juyi, a great poet in the Tang Dynasty, named himself "Xiangshan Jushi" and was very happy to have friends at dinner. At the age of 70, he also invited eight old people, including, Lao Qin, Zheng Zhu, Chu Zhen (former imperial adviser), Zhang Hun, Chan Mu and Lu (former Henan Yin), to get together for drinking. Later people called it "Nine Old Clubs" and gave it "Nine Old Bones". In the Northern Song Dynasty, Li was supplemented. After retirement, he also learned from Bai Juyi and organized a new "Nine Old Societies". When Qiuwen Yanbo was in Luoyang, he also called the thirteen miners with medium and high looks in Luoyang as the "Association for the Aged". Shi Hao of Nanwei, when he was eighty, was careless, and once he was "good at buying wine". He got together with his 84-year-old sister and his brothers in their sixties and seventies. It was a great moment. This kind of gathering and drinking for the elderly continued until the Qing Dynasty. In the thirty-third year of Kangxi (A.D. 1694), twelve old people, including Qian Liu, Sun Xu, Sheng, Xu, Xu, You Ge, He Jie, Huang, Wang Rizao, Gou, Zhou Jinde and Qin Songling, got together for drinking in Suiyuan. The total age of twelve people is 842. In order to commemorate this grand occasion, the famous court painter Yu specially drew a picture of drinking in the garden.

Drink warm wine

The ancients drank more enthusiastically. The warm wine vessels in Shang and Zhou Dynasties are a strong proof. Why do you want to drink wine warm? Jia Ming, a native of Yuan Dynasty, said: "All drinking should be warm, not hot", but drinking cold wine is not good, and he thinks that "drinking cold wine becomes a hand war (that is, trembling)." Lu Rong, an Amin, recorded his personal feelings and experiences in Miscellanies of the Tang Dynasty: "When I heard a doctor say' wine is not suitable for cold drinks', I was quite careless and said that this was unknown to Danxi theory. A few years later, I got dysentery in autumn, which led to this treatment. Yun said, "Do you drink more cold wine?" Zi claimed that in order to obey Danxi's words, he often used cold drinks and alcohol in summer. Medical cloud:' Danxi knows the harm of hot wine, but I don't know that cold wine is especially harmful! Hot wine can hurt the lungs because of its good nature, but it is mostly for promoting qi and blood circulation; Cold wine is harmless to the lungs, and the stomach hates cold. Drinking too much will lead to qi stagnation. For the pavilion to drink, the cover is neither cold nor hot, which is suitable for it and harmless. "

Both of them have a point. Because in addition to ethanol, wine also contains harmful substances such as methanol, fusel oil, furfural, butyraldehyde, valeraldehyde, acetaldehyde and lead. Methanol is harmful to eyesight. Ten milliliters of methanol will lead to blindness, and more people will be in danger. The boiling point of methanol is 64.7℃, which is lower than that of ethanol (78.3℃). Heating with boiling water or alcohol fire will turn into gas evaporation. Acetaldehyde is the main component of the pungent smell of wine. Excessive inhalation will lead to dizziness and other drunkenness, and its boiling point is only 265438 0℃, which can be volatilized by slightly hot water. At the same time, in the process of wine heating, alcohol will also volatilize, so that the harmful components in wine will be much less and the harm to human body will be less. Of course, the temperature of the wine should not be too high. If the wine is overheated, it will damage your health. Second, too much ethanol will volatilize, and even the best wine will be tasteless.

Drink it and swallow it.

Many of us in modern times often pay attention to drinking toasts. It seems that a glass of dry talent is painful and generous. In fact, it is unscientific to drink like this. The correct way to drink should be to drink lightly and slowly. "Lu's Spring and Autumn Annals" said: "Anyone who keeps in good health, ... must swallow it lightly and be straight." Long Ming Zunchai said in "Gentleman's Words on Diet": "Drinking alcohol should not be rushed, otherwise it will damage the stomach and lungs. The lung is the most important part of the heart, liver, spleen, kidney and lung, just like the hood of the emperor's car, which can't be particularly damaged. " Zhu Yizun, my lover, also said in "The Secret of Eating Fairy Red": "Drinking should not be rough and fast, and rough and fast will hurt the lungs. The lung is covered by five internal organs, so it must not be hurt. And the speed is rough and there is no product. " Tsui Hark also thinks that "it is not appropriate to wash in a hurry", so we should chew slowly, so as to taste and help digestion, and not to cause an excessive burden on the spleen and stomach. In "Tiaoding Collection", it is more clear that wine is "not suitable for quick drinking".

Don't mix drinks.

Yuan said in the book "Dietary Instructions": "Diet is the way to keep in good health, but I don't know that the physical properties are contrary and mixed, from the disharmony of the five internal organs to the disaster, even the people who keep in good health don't reward or harm it. So is wine. Besides ethanol, different wines have other different ingredients, some of which are not suitable for mixing. Drinking a variety of wines will produce some new harmful ingredients, which will make people feel uncomfortable and have a headache. " "Qing Sheng Lu" once said to people: "Wine should not be mixed. After drinking it, although the drinker is drunk, he is deeply loved by his drinkers. Well, for example, "Hu Shi, a scholar in Ye Wan, visited Japan in winter and used the wine left by various families as a tool. Halfway through the banquet, the guests were scared, and they warned each other privately. When in doubt, when asked, one person said,' A certain gentleman's family has Bai's milk.' "

In addition, medicinal liquor is not suitable for banquets. Medicinal liquor generally contains a variety of Chinese herbal medicine ingredients. For example, some medicinal ingredients may conflict with some ingredients in food, which makes people uncomfortable.

Don't drink on an empty stomach

There is an old saying in China called "Never drink when you are angry on an empty stomach", which holds that drinking must be accompanied by delicacies. Don Sun Simiao's Dry Gold for Grain also reminds people not to drink on an empty stomach. Because alcohol will be decomposed by the liver after entering the human body. In the process of liver decomposition, various vitamins are needed to maintain and assist. If there is no food in the gastrointestinal tract at this time, ethanol is most easily absorbed quickly, leading to muscle disorder and liver damage. Therefore, drinking should be accompanied by dishes and fruits with high nutritional value, which is also a trick to drink for health. Of course, it is not advisable to drink alcohol after meals.

Don't drink hard liquor.

When drinking, you can't force others to persuade you, you can't win in anger, and you can't drink. Juck Zhang said in the introduction of Huang Jiu's "A Brief Introduction to the Reception": "There are three kinds of people who drink. Good drinkers need not be persuaded, and those who refuse to drink cannot be persuaded. Only one person who can drink so he doesn't drink should be persuaded, but if he can drink so he doesn't drink, he has deceived himself first, so what can I do to persuade him? So, it means that you don't ask to be a guest, but when you like to weigh and drink, neither people nor I need to be persuaded. " My lover Ruan Kuisheng quoted Chen Jiting in Tea Guest Talk: "Drinking and drinking will persuade people to get drunk. If you don't, you will change your mind. A gentleman drinks alcohol and honestly measures his feelings. There is always a reason why literati are timid and elegant. The husband is just a servant of the government, polite, generous and happy. " Although there is contempt for the spring of the labor union in his speech, it is extremely desirable for him not to persuade people to get drunk.

Drink less tea after drinking.

Since ancient times, many drinkers often like to drink tea after drinking, thinking that drinking tea can relieve alcohol. Actually, it is not. Drinking tea after drinking is very harmful to your health. Li Shizhen said: "Drinking tea after drinking will hurt the kidneys, make the waist and feet fall heavily, make the bladder cold and painful, and edema due to phlegm." Wei Yizun also said: "If you are thirsty after drinking wine, don't drink water or drink more tea. Tea is cold and enters the kidney with wine, which stops poison for water. Today, my waist and feet are falling heavily, and my bladder is cold and painful. It is edema, thirst quenching and twins. Modern science has confirmed what they call the damage of drinking tea to the kidneys. According to the ancient way of keeping in good health, it is advisable to use fruit to sober up after drinking, or use sugar cane and white radish to sober up.