Drunken Song Dynasty, a Jar of Wine That Has Traveled Through Thousands of Years

"Drunk in the Song Dynasty: A Jar of Wine Traveling Through Thousand Years" is a historical and cultural novel based on the wine culture of the Song Dynasty. The story begins with the year-end friendship between Su Niang and Su Shi, the female shopkeeper of the "Buxiaotian" wine shop in Bianjing in the Northern Song Dynasty. Using "wine" as a guide, it connects the elegance, joys and sorrows of the literati of the Song Dynasty. The novel is based on the life of Su Niang and the wine stories of Su Shi, Qin Guan, Huang Tingjian, Xin Qiji, Lu You and other literati. It depicts the prosperous wine shop culture of the Northern Song Dynasty - the elegance of Feihua passing on wine, the romance of Feiyinghui, the obsession with winemaking in Dongpo, and the boom of the private wine industry under the loose wine policy during the reign of Emperor Renzong of the Song Dynasty. After the Jingkang Incident, "Bu Xiaotian" traveled south to Lin'an with the Song Dynasty. Su Niang compiled "Jiu Zhi of the Song Dynasty" in the troubled times, guarding the soul of the country with the spirit of wine, and passing on the style and skills of the Song Dynasty. From Bianjing to Lin'an, from the rhyme of the Song Dynasty to today's style, the novel spans a thousand years and tells how the descendants of the Su family reconstructed the "unknown sky" in modern times, so that the Song people's life philosophy of "hurry will make the wine sour, slowness will make the wine mellow" regain its luster in the contemporary era. There are poems in the wine, history in the poems, and people in the history - this is not only a novel about wine, but also a cultural epic about how the elegant line of Chinese civilization has survived war and time.