Pu Tao in the poem is wine. Throughout the year, grapes and wine are mellow, and the guests holding glass glasses at the banquet are old friends. This poem depicts the life of those dignitaries who enjoy grapes and wine all the year round. Lu Ji, the author of this poem, was a famous writer and calligrapher in the Western Jin Dynasty, and the grandson of Lu Xun, a famous minister of Soochow in the Three Kingdoms period.
Bamboo leaves are even green, and Pu Tao is red. -Don Wang Ji's Five Poems "Eating Out"
Hu Jia Hotel, the bamboo leaf green wine is as green as bamboo, and the red wine is attractive. Mr. Wudou passed by Hu Jia Restaurant, and the wine was full of fragrance, which was greatly appreciated. Wang Ji is also known as "Bachelor of Fighting Wine" and "Director of Restaurant South". He not only likes drinking, but also is good at wine tasting, and he has written the Classic of Wine and the Book of Wine.
Pu Tao wine, Jingelo, and 15 horses from Wuji. -Tang Li Bai's "On Wine"
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"Golden Melon" is a precious wine container. Here, wine, like melons, is a dowry for girls when they get married. It can be seen that wine is as precious as melon. When Li Bai wrote this poem, it was in the era of Emperor Taizong and Li Shimin. Open culture and communication introduced wine and brewing technology, which made wine popular for some time, even as a dowry for married women.
Looking at the duck head green in Hanshui from a distance is like the beginning of grapes. -Tang Li Bai's Xiangyang Song
Fermented grains refer to unfiltered spirits. After the poet drank his wine to his heart's content, he looked at the Hanshui River outside Xiangyang in the distance. The river is green, just like fresh unfiltered wine. Taibai loves wine, which is known all over the world, especially this mellow and delicious wine.
Wine luminous glass, want to drink pipa right away. -Don William Wang's "Liangzhou Ci"
Among many poems related to wine, the frontier poem "Liangzhou Ci" is perhaps the most widely circulated among the people. At the banquet before going to the battlefield, the delicate moonlight cup was filled with mellow wine. Just before enjoying it, the pipa sounded, adding fun and urging drinking.
"If you pour Pu Tao wine, you seem to have a lot of mink." Song Luyou's Burning Dry Wood to Keep Warm at Night.
Burning dry wood to keep warm is like drinking wine and holding a heavy mink coat. This poem says that wine is beautiful and warm, and drinking is more valuable than mink coats. Although Lin 'an was prosperous in the Southern Song Dynasty, the world was in turmoil and wine was scarce and precious.
In China's ancient poems, there are countless poems about wine, which shows that wine, whether precious or not, as a part of Chinese wine culture, has long been integrated into people's life and culture.