The Wine Culture Of Song Dynasty From The Wine Poems

Culture is the process of realizing the self-worth, in the way of the social activities'acclimatization, utilization and construction. In a broad sense, the culture is called'the large culture', which consists of four parts. The first part is the substance part, that is the mechanics created by people in social production; The second part is the system part, that is the social actions'standards; the third part is the behavioral culture part, which shows in folkways and social etiquette. This part is also defined as the social habits when people are communicating with others; And the last part is the psychology part, the values, aesthetic conceptions, the mode of thinking which are expressed in social activities and the ideology. The subject of this thesis is a branch of'the large culture'. The wine poems, according to the'Song Dynasty poems'edited by TangGuizhang, illustrating from culture's four parts are the point of the thesis's penetration, that is zymotechnics of wine, the consumption of wine and the phenomenon of almes, who accompanied the guests with wine, the wine folk-custom and etiquette, and the psychology of poets when they were drinking wine. The emphasis of this thesis is to exhibit the social activities in people's brewaging and drinking, and reflect the ideology of social life. What I want to search is to understand the wine culture of Song Dynasty very deeply. Wine is a kind of special goods. The profits from wine become the main economic support, so the numbers of wine government stuff is very huge. With the ruler's assistance, a large number of entertainment places of wine come forth. The phenomenon of almes, who accompanied the guests with wine, is so common. In the wine poems, there are lots of season poems and birthday congratulations'poems. According to these poems, we can find some wine folk-custom and etiquette. The psychology of poets when they were drinking wine was changing with the times. They drank wine whenever he was happy or not, and wine became their bosom friends. Poets and wine attach with each other all the time. To some extent, wine has turned into not only the bailment of these poets, but also a mirror to show the times.