Idiomatic Stories You Have to Say in Langya Mountain (5)

"Jiu Chi staggered" comes from "Zui Weng Ting Ji", "Jiu Chi staggered, sitting and noisy, guests are also happy." An ancient wine vessel; chips, chips for drinking orders; chips interlaced means that wine cups and chips are placed in disorder to allow a lively scene when many people gather to drink. Ouyang Xiu, a great scholar in the Northern Song Dynasty, only used the four words of "cross-cutting" to embody the scene of noisy banquet and the author's profound skill in refining words. But some readers don't know the two words "pi" and "chi" in idioms very well, which affects their understanding of idioms. Here is a brief introduction.

Gouzao is an ancient wine vessel in China. From the archaeological excavation, the earliest appeared in the middle and late Shang Dynasty, "Drunken Weng Ting Ji" refers to the wine cup. Historically, the most striking feature of the carbuncle as a wine container is its shape, some of which are made of horned animal heads or elephant heads with long noses rolled up; others are made into animal shapes, the whole head and back are covered with abdomen and four legs are feet, which is a model of perfect integration of shape design and practicability.

Chip, here refers to wine chips, one of the so-called round of drinking tours at ancient Chinese banquets, using wine chips to record the number of tours. With the evolution of wine culture, wine chips have gradually evolved into a tool for drinking orders. Various orders and contracts have been engraved on the wine chips. During the banquet, the orders and orders on the wine chips are shaken in order. Drinking according to the orders and orders on the wine chips, not only enlivens the atmosphere of the banquet, but also adds aesthetic interest.

The traditional liquor culture of China has been integrated into the two kinds of liquor culture. Understanding the words "Jiu" and "Qian", when we face the scene of a lively banquet, the idiom "Jiu Qiao staggered" which has been circulated to this day along with "Jiu Weng Ting Ji" will naturally come to mind.