Prose: the Jianghu of wine

People have been walking between heaven and earth all their lives. This process is called Jianghu. Since ancient times, rivers and lakes have been related to wine.

Where there are people, there are rivers and lakes, and rivers and lakes with wine have always been magnificent and colorful.

Time goes by, people come and go, or where will you go, or hold a wedding banquet, or have a drink with friends, or revel in life, or be depressed and lonely, and it's hard to know for a long night ... all of them can't do without wine-nothing is needed, but wine is indispensable!

Wine is the soul of grains, but it is as fierce as grains. Its shape is clear as water, its taste is spicy and its breath is sweet, like the original flavor of life. Hard liquor lingers on the teeth, cheeks and tongue, and then reaches the abdomen through the throat. A wisp of hot air emitted by the soul of wine reverberates between the chest and abdomen, which makes people intoxicated immediately.

Although drinking regardless of gender, women and wine always remind people of the charm and Leng Yan when red wine meets crimson lips, and the spicy taste of wine is closer to that of men, which may be the reason why men love wine more.

Most men love wine, because men have a lot on their minds, but they dare not shed tears easily. They have a lot to say in their hearts, and they are afraid that they don't understand, so they have to say to the wine that wine can make people forget all kinds of troubles in their hearts for a while.

When a man is holding a wine alone, the glass of wine is quietly placed on the table, silently emitting a delicate fragrance, as if it were a bosom friend. When he drank slowly, there was a tacit understanding between them. When he gulped down the wine in the cup, he must have swallowed the worries in his heart and the bitterness of the wine.

Two men sat opposite each other, raised their glasses to each other, and said something shallow and deep, while wine can best know each other's mood, and their knowledge must be roughly the same.

And that kind of drunkard who just pours white, red and yellow water into his stomach like white water without asking for money will certainly not feel the joy of blending with the soul of wine, and will not cause any trouble.

People of different classes have different rivers and lakes.

The rivers and lakes on the wine table can best reflect human nature. At the beginning, they were polite and reserved to each other. In the end, they cried and laughed, some dragged people on endlessly, some were unfamiliar with wine but intimate, and what's more, they vomited filth and got drunk.

There is a kind of person who tries hard to persuade wine on the wine table. No matter whether you can drink or not, he stares at red eyes and vows to get you drunk with Lickitung. If you refuse to submit, you will use provocative means such as "look down on me" and "strike first". As for your heart, spleen, lungs and kidneys, it has nothing to do with him if you can't stand it. Such people often don't know their weight, and they often do.

Anyone who often hangs out in the wine field knows that there is a kind of drinking called "drunkenness is not about wine", but about doing things. The ultimate goal is to make the other person happy by pushing a cup for a change, and "stop drinking" and do your own thing. But the other party is not stupid. He knows your thoughts very well, so he probably won't agree with you, even if he is drunk. When he wakes up, he will regret it, and there will be a lump in his stomach. The rivers and lakes of the upper class are magnificent banquet halls, exquisite tablecloths and tableware, faint music, straight tuxedos, noble smiles, deep scheming, holding a glass of red wine and touching everyone's lips. What you drink on this occasion is not wine, but atmosphere and reserve;

Scholars in Jianghu mostly use poetry as ink.

Preface to Lanting Collection, the first running script in the world, was written by Wang Xizhi of the Eastern Jin Dynasty when he was gathering with friends in Lanting, Shaoxing, Zhejiang. Its brushwork is flying, elegant and magnificent, and people around it are amazed. When Wang Xi woke up, he could never write his original charm. The reason why Preface to Lanting has become an insurmountable monument in calligraphy for thousands of years must be.

Because of wine, the poet Li Bai has achieved the reputation of "100 poems about fighting wine", which is bold and uninhibited, calling himself Brewmaster, and also has the elegant freehand brushwork of "Until, raise a glass, I ask the moon, take my shadow and be the three of us". Su Shi's "When will there be a bright moon, ask heaven for wine" is elegant and affectionate; In the Southern Song Dynasty, Li Qingzhao's ci was unique. When she was a girl, she was shocked by four beautiful lyrics. Li Qingzhao loves to drink, and often drinks "I always remember the sunset in Xiting, and I don't know where to go."

Not only do you drink, but you also have a hangover: it rained suddenly last night and the wind blew suddenly, so you don't have to drink after a deep sleep.

Kong Yiji, written by Lu Xun, knows that there are four ways to write fennel, and he is "the only poor scholar who wears a long gown and stands drinking". "How wonderful? Not much! " After drinking fennel beans, they were broken because they were too poor to steal, and they also chanted "a gentleman is poor in money". Although I am down and out, I can be unique in my own ideological field, which makes people feel respected!

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Historically, politicians' rivers and lakes have always been choppy and treacherous, and many political struggles and power struggles are mostly related to alcohol.

In ancient times, when people wanted to design a plan that would harm people's lives, it was often "with the cup as the number, the knives and axes lurking behind the account flocked out and chopped into paste; When an official commits a crime, most people will give him a "He Ding Hong" to commit suicide. Such officials are often at a higher level, and ordinary people directly use prison cars to pull them to the food market and cut them down; During the Three Kingdoms period, Cao Cao cooked a banquet in his childhood and invited Liu Bei. The phrase "The heroes in the world are only you and my ears" makes Liu Huangshu's back cold. The Jianghu of a chivalrous man is different from that of a scholar. They disdain to use small wine glasses, eat meat directly in large pieces and drink in large bowls. Only in this way can they show their heroism.

Song Wu was the best among the Jianghu tycoons who drank in big bowls in previous dynasties. Song Wu drank 18 bowls of wine and killed the tiger in Jingyanggang. Without that 18 bowl of wine, it's hard to say who lives or dies between Tiger and Song Wu. From this point of view, this wine can be regarded as a fulfillment of Song Wu.

Rural people have their own freedom in the Jianghu, such as how to guess boxing to decide whether to win or lose, how to be a wine supervisor, how to drink a glass of wine several times and so on. Every place has different rules, and losing is bound to make people laugh. When eating a banquet, a table of people and dishes, just a hip flask and a small handleless wine cup are still busy, yelling, punching and kicking.

People who really know wine may not hang around the wine table all day, but it may be the quiet alley where an old man leans on a bamboo couch, a small table, a cattail leaf fan, a dish of peanuts and a pot of loose wine, sipping slowly, drinking until it is fragrant, and then waking up is another leisurely day. For the elderly, drinking is drinking, and it has nothing to do with rivers and lakes.

Li Junyu, male, member of yongji city Writers Association, likes literature, especially local prose creation. He has published works on several literary platforms, and is a certified writer in China rural talent pool.