How to drink these four kinds of "wine" in Huangdi Neijing

"Today, people are different. They take wine as their pulp, are unscrupulous, get drunk, and want to exhaust their essence and dissipate their truth."

-"Ancient naivety" in Huangdi Neijing

The above sentence is actually a "negative textbook" quoted by Qi Baishi, the teacher of the Yellow Emperor, when he told the Yellow Emperor about the way of keeping in good health: it is wrong for modern people to drink as usual. If we can drink according to people, places and times, it is not only harmful to our health, but also beneficial to our body and mind. Let's try to understand from the perspective of Huangdi Neijing, what is the most suitable wine for China people to drink? How to drink is good for your health?

There is a saying of "water wine" in Water Margin, and some predecessors think that we should consider what this wine is brewed from when we look at wine from Chinese wine culture. For example, the wine we often drink is brewed from grapes, which are fruits and "fruits" of plants; Then use "real" plants to brew rice wine.

Huangdi Neijing said: "Five grains are for nourishment, five vegetables are for supplement, five animals are for benefit, and five fruits are for help". It is suggested that people eat whole grains most often, and fruits are put last.

There is a saying in Yang Shen's Linjiang Xianzi: The Yangtze River is rolling eastward: "A pot of turbid wine is happy to meet", and "turbid wine" should refer to the "rice soup" left over from the "mash" we brewed. Therefore, ancient wine is likely to be very different from modern "white wine", and the alcohol concentration should be very low. Therefore, it also coincides with the word "wine", which can quench thirst and be drunk as water.

At present, we often drink beer, white wine, red wine, yellow wine, etc ... According to the theory of health preservation in Neijing, it is suggested to choose the wine that suits our body.

We all know that beer is a drink from the west. How to drink beer well? Iced tastes the best. Beer itself is called "liquid bread" because of its high calorie. Nutrition-rich food is called "yin" in Chinese medicine, and it is added if it is chilled. Therefore, people who often drink beer will have a heavier "yin" in their stomachs, and their bodies will instinctively keep their stomachs "hot" and "yang". What are we doing? When we gain weight, a beer belly comes out. Therefore, beer doesn't seem to suit us.

"Wine luminous cup", red wine also comes from the west. One of the characteristics of western red wine brewing is that it is fermented by grape pulp and the enzymes of grape itself. Fruit pulp is generally cold, so it is not suitable for China people to drink red wine.

Liquor has a high alcohol concentration, which is called "yin fire in water" by Chinese medicine. Its "toxic fire" is big, and drinking it will cause many people's gastric mucosa damage and ulcers. The answer is obvious. This kind of wine is also something we shouldn't touch.

Our yellow rice wine in China, first of all, is brewed with grain and plant seeds, which has strong vitality and must be brewed with yeast. Therefore, drinking a small amount of rice wine will be good for your health and have a nourishing effect. In addition, sometimes the decoction effect of our traditional Chinese medicine is not good, and it will be stronger if we use yellow wine as solvent.

"Green plum is a hero when cooking wine" tells us that the drinking method of yellow rice wine needs to "scald" the wine to increase its warmth. Some people even like to add some ginger to increase the effect of driving away the cold. If you want to drink more and add some acid, the plum will converge the characteristics of spicy wine, which has been a drinking habit in China for thousands of years. Yellow rice wine that conforms to the taste of China people, such as Nverhong, Shaoxing wine, Zhuangyuanhong, yellow rice wine, etc.

However, even drinking yellow rice wine can't be like drinking water as Qi Bo said. It will also dissipate the energy of human metabolism. Just drink some wine. As the essence of food, wine can warm the liver, gallbladder and meridians and make people feel timid. As the saying goes, "wine makes people tremble with fear." If you drink it again, you will be extremely unhappy. People will be in a state of "inhibition" in coma and sleep, that is, "drunkenness". It will ignite the energy stored in the body and accelerate the dissipation of essence.

"Drunk to enter the room, exhausted its essence, dissipated its truth" can only be "put it to death and then quickly". Therefore, drinking depends on time, place and person, in order to drink happily and healthily.

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