Reflections on Li Jie's 400 words "Going to dinner in ancient times is a technical activity"

Reading more ancient books, we can find that the ancients paid attention to elegance, fun and joy in eating, full of cultural taste and technical content. Unlike people now, on the wine table, they only know how to toast and pick up food at sixes and sevens. After a while, they left a table full of rude words.

In ancient times, to eat, the entry technology was of course "drinking a lot". Liu Ling and Dan Tao, among the Seven Sages of Bamboo Forest, are famous for drinking. It is said that Dan Tao can drink 30 Jin of wine a day. Jiao Sui, Li Bai and others in the Tang Dynasty were also "banquet tyrants" for some time. Du Fu's description of Li Bai's Hundred Poems of Fighting for Wine is somewhat exaggerated, but it should not be a problem for a poet to drink 10 kg at a time. On one occasion, at a big banquet in Tang Wenzong, Wang Yuanzhong drank two altars (equivalent to 20 Jin now) in one breath without saying anything, without changing his face, and his capacity for liquor was amazing. In ancient times, if you met these masters at a dinner party and couldn't drink more than 10 kg, I'm afraid you would "live" and immediately be unconscious.

If it's just a fight for wine, what's the difference with today's banquet? That's boring. In ancient times, you had to practice killing skills-"brain spirit". For five thousand years in China, it has always been "no wine, no table, no poetry, no music", and poetry and wine are not distinguished at banquets. If you can't sing a decent poem couplet after a full meal, you will be ridiculed as "gluttony", which will be embarrassing. Wang Xizhi and his forty-one friends are Qu Shui written by Lanxi. Whoever stops the cup in the stream has to improvise a poem, or he will be fined. It is in this joyful, harmonious and tense atmosphere that the book sage wrote Preface to Lanting Collection. On land, "winding water" becomes "through the package" Jia Fu played this game in A Dream of Red Mansions. The maids wanted to listen to Xifeng's jokes, so they deliberately stopped the blind girl who played drums so that "flowers would fall on Xifeng." Fortunately, the quick-witted Feng Chili told jokes to amuse everyone, otherwise they would be fined. Li Bai let the imperial concubine grind the ink, Lux took off his boots, and waved the "Three Clear Tones" with wine; Wang Bo, the wizard, went to the Wang Teng Pavilion for dinner, and an article "Preface to the Wang Teng Pavilion" was a great success ... There were too many ancient literati and poets, and there were countless examples of this improvisation. It can be seen that if you don't have a good brain and a doctorate in literature, even if you drink a lot of wine, you are likely to be punished unconscious.

There is also an advanced technology-"elegant taste". "Zhou Li" records: "Happy food, sacrifice food, taste food, Wang Nai eats. I will be happy if I eat it. " Ancient banquets not only paid attention to the quality of dishes, but also liked to play music to help people get drunk. Zhou Yu of the Three Kingdoms once left an allusion of "the song is wrong and cares", and he can still taste the sound of palace merchants when he is half drunk and half awake. That's the spring breeze. This technique is profound and profound, which is beyond the grasp of ordinary literati. If you don't have a master's degree or above in music now, you will go to a banquet to enjoy music. I'm afraid you'll be fidgeting.

In ancient times, when you went to eat, you sometimes had to practice the technique of "good eyesight". Because the "pot throwing" game is popular at the banquet, the host and guest take turns throwing featherless arrows into the pot, and the winner of the game is probably not a top athlete.

Sometimes you have to practice the pure technique of "high martial arts". For example, the Qin and Zhao Mianchi parties and the Hongmen banquet, Lin Xiangru, Fan Kuai and Xiang Zhuang all took knives, but they still went to some banquets without martial arts. Master, the blood would have spilled out on the spot. Liu bang is going to die. How can there be Han nationality in history?