Anecdotes About Drinking Events in Ancient and Modern Times, Both at Home and Abroad

Drink, listen to stories, and savor life! Open this book and you will find that wine is never just what is in the glass. Let's take a look at Liu Ling, a famous scholar in the Wei and Jin Dynasties. When he was drunk, he was naked in his room. When asked by his friends, he laughed and said, "I use the heaven and the earth as a building, and the house as a robe." There is also Li Bai, the "wine master" of the Tang Dynasty, who dared to ask Gao Lishi to take off his boots after being drunk, and wrote that "a meeting must drink three hundred cups at a time" is still reverberating in the aroma of wine. In these stories, there are confrontations between intrigues and wine in the court, chivalry in the world of rivers and lakes expressed through wine, and even the smoke of fireworks in the market evaporates with the wine. Wine is the introduction, bringing together the temperament, wisdom and character of the ancients. When you open the page of the book, it's like pushing open a wooden door of a carved wine shop. You can hear the crisp sound of cups clinking against each other, and before your eyes you can see the true temperament of ancient people after they were drunk. I hope these anecdotes soaked in the fragrance of wine will allow you to have a moment of leisure and drink with the drinkers thousands of years ago, and share the joy of being drunk and enjoying the world.