Next, let's look for the answer from the perspective of national culture!
Wine, which the ancients called "God-given beauty", means that wine is a beautiful thing that God has given to the world. In ancient China, wine was regarded as a sacred substance, and its use was more solemn. It was not used to worship heaven and earth, ancestral temples or guests. However, with the rise of the brewing industry, wine has gradually become the object of people's daily life, and the activities of wine have also become extensive, forming a culture. Wine can be seen everywhere in the life of Zhuang people, such as agricultural festivals, weddings, funerals, birthdays, celebrations, welcoming guests and other folk activities, and wine has become the central substance.
At one end of the bamboo pole, the landlord slowly pours pineapple wine. At the other end of the bamboo pole, as a guest of the landlord, you must let go of your hands and feet and drink as much as you like, because this symbolizes the landlord's sincere blessing for harmony, beauty and smoothness. Zhuang people are good at brewing glutinous rice wine, rice and corn sake, and drink alcohol on holidays. Guests must propose a toast, wine is the best gift.
The hospitable Zhuang people have the custom of toasting guests 12 cups. 12 and the unsolved mystery of Zhuang traditional culture. In Zhuang mythology, there were 12 suns in the early days, and 1 1 suns were shot. Later, a year is divided into 12 months, and a day is divided into 12 hours. Zodiac is12; There is 12 sun awn on the ancient bronze drum. The living have 12 souls (life); When getting married, the man needs to give the woman 12 silver, 12 Jin of wine, 12 "shop" (mother-in-law, big glutinous rice bar), and the number of people seeing her off is12; Sacrifice to the gods 12 cup of wine; Sending the souls of the dead to ancestors involves 12 rivers, 12 bridges, 12 mountains and 12 villages, so it is customary to propose a toast to the guests. There are many "12" in the life of Zhuang people, as if "12" is the highest realm, and it is proud, happy and auspicious to be full of "12". ...
Zhuang people in Longlin and other places in Guangxi want to eat "eight-character wine" in the process of marriage negotiation: after the engagement, the man invited several men together on auspicious day and brought gifts such as wine and meat to the woman's house to get "eight-character wine". The woman lit a lamp, burned incense and made a toast in front of the ancestral memorial tablet, placed several bowls of wine on the case, and hid the girl's "eight-character post" under a bowl. The man went to the bowl alone to find a post. If there is no post, he will finish the wine in the bowl before taking a bowl until he finds the "eight-character post". After getting the "eight characters", the woman gave a banquet to the matchmaker and his relatives and friends with the wine and meat brought by the man. Usually the matchmaker can't leave until he is drunk.
The eighth day of April is the yoke-breaking festival of Zhuang nationality. At noon, all families hold banquets and the whole family sits around the table. My parents walked around the table with a cow, singing hello song as they walked. After feeding the cows, send them back to the pen and the whole family will eat and drink. After the death of Zhuang people in Guangxi, they immediately "washed their bodies" with grapefruit leaf water boiled with clear water, put on a shroud and put it back in front of the hall. The son of the deceased knelt in front of the coffin bed with a glass, and his index finger dipped in wine to show the way to the deceased.