Why is only Lin Daiyu drinking soju in A Dream of Red Mansions?

There are many drinking scenes in a Dream of Red Mansions, but the wine is almost yellow wine (yellow soup), such as Hui Quan wine brought back from Gusu by Jia Lian, such as Shaoxing wine, which is often mentioned.

On the seventy-fifth Mid-Autumn Festival night, Jia Zheng told a joke to Jia Mu, saying that a man who was afraid of his wife felt sick and nauseous after licking his wife's feet, but said that his stomach was sour after drinking too much wine. "In that case," said Grandmother Jia with a smile, "go and get some white wine."

It shows that the general family banquet and dinner are not served with liquor. This is also in line with the eating habits of the south in the Qing Dynasty.

Throughout the book, the author clearly wrote only once that a person drinks white wine. That was the thirty-eighth time.

This time, I wrote about the Begonia Poetry Society initiated by Jia Tanchun. In autumn, we get together to enjoy chrysanthemums, eat crabs and write poems. Lin Daiyu didn't eat crabs at first, but when she saw that everyone ate a little, she felt a slight pain in her heart and wanted to drink something to warm her stomach.

There is rice wine on the table, but Lin Daiyu doesn't want it. She volunteered to drink soju hot, and Jia Baoyu poured her a glass of wine soaked in acacia flowers. Lin Daiyu took a sip.

Interestingly, the author didn't write what the old slave Jiao Da drank when he was drunk and called names-it is estimated that Jiao Da was most likely to drink white wine when he entered the customs in the Qing Dynasty-but the author didn't write it.

On the contrary, it's Lin Daiyu, a bright lamp blown weak and broken by the wind. The author writes that she drinks soju. This is unreasonable.

What's more, eating crabs with carved wine (daughter red) can be said to be standard, but how can Lin Daiyu match shochu? This is another kind of irrationality.

But these two irrationalities are all for another reason: Lin Daiyu is particularly weak, and the whole book is talking about her getting weaker and weaker, so others only need yellow wine to drive away the cold when eating crabs, but she can't. She must drink white wine. And because she is weak, she can only take a sip.

What's more, what Lin Daiyu drinks is not pure soju, but the wine soaked in acacia flowers, which is naturally more palatable and slightly milder than pure white wine.

Finally, this cup of acacia wine was poured by Jia Baoyu, which naturally has a special meaning.

A glass of wine is a small detail, but it highlights a completely different meaning in the whole article. This is why it can be immortal.