China's wine culture is also profound, but why is there no Dionysian image?

There are many gods mentioned in China, such as Kitchen God, God of Wealth and Door God. The wine culture in China is different, but there is no abstraction of Dionysus. In ancient Greek mythology, there was Dionysus, the son of Zeus, the god of the universe. As the hometown of wine, there is no god to serve in liquor brewing so far. Why?

Xia Yu banned alcohol

When China entered the Xia Dynasty, agriculture began to develop, and there was a surplus of food, which promoted the brewing and consumption of wine, especially when the habit of drinking by nobles was growing, and the brewing of wine entered a new stage. For the sake of the national economy and people's livelihood, in order to waste food, prepare for famine, and prevent the royal family from indulging in wine and wasting time on state affairs, resulting in national subjugation, Xia Yu put forward the prohibition of alcohol in the history books of China. In order to ban alcohol, Xia Yu even couldn't tolerate Yidi, the best winemaker beside him. "The ancients used Yidi to make wine mash, and Yu tasted it beautifully, so he neglected Yidi." During this period, even wine was banned from production, sale and drinking. Who dared to establish Dionysus and worship Dionysus there?

Tianzi forbade alcohol

From the present summer to the Ming and Qing Dynasties, alcohol was forbidden. Jie, the first king of Xia Dynasty, was exiled by Shang Tang because he was "a bad dike for the wine pool, and enjoyed it, and drank three thousand people in one drum" ("Zi Zhi Tong Jian"). Xia Jie was dissolute and shameless, and ignored the state affairs, until he died. At present, in 6 years, Shang Zhouwang is even worse than Xia Jie. The wine pool is meaty and the dynasty is not complete, and the Shang Dynasty was replaced by Zhou.

In view of the experience of historical books, the rulers of Zhou tried their best to carry out the prohibition policy as soon as they stepped down from the stage, and published a 672-word prohibition letter (see Shangshu Wine Patent), which is a prohibition order in China's historical books. In the article, I exhorted the vassal officials and the public: wine can only be used for memorial service? If you don't listen, you will be arrested, and those who are guilty will be killed. The Qin law also stipulates that "those who live in a farmer's house, don't take alcohol (selling), and Tian Qiang and Bu Zuo are forbidden to obey it. Those who don't obey the order are guilty." The prohibition of alcohol in Wen Chengdi in the Northern Wei Dynasty was even more severe: "Brewing, selling and drinking are all cut."

In order to ban alcohol, the rulers of past dynasties either "arrested" or "killed" or "guilty" or "beheaded". Under such historical conditions, it is lucky to secretly brew and drink some wine. Who cares what Dionysus looks like?

Buddhism and prohibition of alcohol

Buddhism is a secondary religion worshipped by China people, and there is also a certain relationship between China people's worship of God, respect for God, worship of God and Buddhism. Buddhism supports drinking, and it is forbidden to drink at home, at home, and in the discipline.

Duo Lun thinks that abstinence from alcohol is extremely important. Alcohol can make people commit four felonies, and it can also make people break all the sins and create all the evils, which is really the foundation of delirium. Therefore, in Buddhist scriptures, wine is repeatedly compared to poison, which leads to the teaching that drinking poison is better than drinking. Buddhism not only hands-on and strictly adheres to alcohol abstinence, but also guides people to leave alcoholics. Especially in modern China, where productivity is low, when the masses defeated natural disasters forcefully, they placed all their wonderful hopes on the Buddha.

Since the Buddha thinks that wine is the evil source of destroying the saints and morals by the disabled, people should listen to the teachings of the Buddha and try their best to restrain drinking. People should even be careful when drinking, and there is basically no Dionysian view in people's minds.

The reason is that in western culture, which values order, the implied destructive elements in wine culture are strictly suppressed. However, despite such a time, it can be seen from the literature records that China has the abstraction of Dionysus such as Yidi and Du Kang, but the worship of Dionysus in China has never flourished from beginning to end.

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