How much alcohol did the tiger-fighting hero Wu Song have? Is there any record in the novel?

In Water Margin, the first 71 chapters tell the story of the journey of 108 heroes to Liangshan. Of course, due to the large number of people and limited space, the author can only mainly talk about Song Jiang, Lin Chong, Lu Zhishen, Wu Song and others, while the rest of them are mostly mentioned in one stroke. Among these people, Wu Song alone accounted for ten times. There are also many stories, such as the tiger hunt at Jingyanggang, the blood splattered at Yuanyang Tower, the fight to kill Ximen Qing, the revenge of killing his sister-in-law, and the drunken beating of Jiang Menshen, etc.

Men like Wu Song and Lu Zhishen are both good at drinking, and Wu Song has a particularly large capacity for drinking. So, how much does he drink?

Before the tiger hunt in Jingyanggang, Wu Song drank fifteen large bowls of wine. As we all know, there was no high-concentration liquor in the true sense at that time. Even if there was, it was not something that people at the bottom could afford to drink. In the Water Margin, the wine the heroes drank had very low alcohol content, probably not as good as today's beer. So the heroes often drank from several large bowls, and Lu Zhishen even drank from a bucket.

The wine Wu Song drank in Jingyanggang was slightly better than ordinary wine, so most people would get drunk after drinking three bowls, but Wu Song drank fifteen bowls. Moreover, when they got to Jingyanggang, Wu Song was still able to kill a tiger, even though he was so frightened that he sobered up by then.

The large wine bowl of the Song Dynasty could hold about 200 ml of wine, which is four taels. In the 1990s, some rural areas still used large bowls, which rural children born in the 1980s and 1990s should have seen. That kind of large bowl was larger than today's small bowls, and its capacity was about the same as the wine bowl of the Northern Song Dynasty.

Wu Song drank fifteen bowls of wine, which was about six pounds. However, this wine has a slightly higher alcohol content.

Six pounds of alcohol capacity is not Wu Song’s strength. The most he drank was before he got drunk and beat up Jiang Menshen. At that time, he walked and drank all the way. Every time he came to a restaurant, he would drink three large bowls. This is what Wu Song said: "Nothing but hope".

Wu Song and Shi En were walking together, but when they came across a hotel, they went in to eat three bowls. He must have eaten at about ten good wine restaurants...Wu Song couldn't travel more than three or four miles and had more than ten bowls of wine. ——"Water Margin"

There are 30 bowls of wine in a dozen wine shops, plus the next 10 bowls, Wu Song drank almost 40 bowls of wine in one day. 40 bowls of wine weigh almost 16 pounds. Is it too much? A lot, but not a lot.

First of all, Wu Song set out at dawn, and it was already "noon time" when he arrived at Happy Forest; secondly, according to Shi En, it was almost fifteen miles from Ping'an Village to Happy Forest; finally , part of the wine Wu Song drank was "village mash", which is very ordinary wine. The weather at that time was in July, and the sky would light up before 6 o'clock, and it would last for 6 hours until 12 noon.

In other words, this journey that usually takes more than an hour took Wu Song almost 6 hours because of drinking.

Sixteen pounds of wine may seem like a lot, but in fact, if you think about it, it is a low-alcohol wine, and if you think about it after using it for a long time, you will find that this is not much wine.

Today, some people can drink a beer in two hours when they have a party or have a skewer. Some masters can even blow directly into the bottle, drinking four or five bottles without any effort, without taking any food.

So, this amount of wine is not a lot for Wu Song. In fact, this little bit of wine was not Wu Song's true drinking capacity.

Wu Songjiu came up and spread the shirt. Although he was half drunk, he pretended to be very drunk, staggering forward and backward. ——"Water Margin"

As you can see, he was only 50-70% drunk. Even if he was 70% drunk, it meant that Wu Song could drink another five jins. Of course, Wu Song can drink 20 pounds of wine, which is incredible, but considering the long time and the fact that in literary works, the author will exaggerate the protagonist, this is understandable.