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How did this wine culture custom of drinking and clinking glasses come about?
2024-07-22
Clinking glasses is a conscious action during drinking, and it is also a subconscious expression of wine etiquette. You know, this subconscious action is not easy to develop. Now whether we watch ancient TV dramas or modern TV dramas, as long as there is a drinking scene, there will generally be the existence of this shot of clinking glasses.
The legend of drinking and clinking glasses - to avoid being poisoned
In ancient times, it was common practice to poison wine to kill enemies, especially in medieval Italy, and drinking with the host could be a very dangerous thing, and guests could at any time be regarded as a potential threat to the enemy and be poisoned. Therefore, in those days, the way to deal with poisoning was to smash one's own wine glass against the host's, causing part of the liquid in one cup to spill into the other. If the host takes the lead to drink first, then everything is fine! It's important to note that in the past, most wines were served in metal, flat mugs (tin, silver, or gold), so it didn't matter if they were hit hard. Think about it, the blessing words when drinking are not so much blessings to each other as exclamation "it is good to be alive"!
In addition, if people drank together at that time, guests would stare into the host's eyes after drinking to try to detect whether the host was hiding something, and refuse to drink in time if necessary. Although murder in the form of banquets now exists only in novels and movies, and wine glasses have been replaced with crashless glasses, the custom of clinking glasses and looking each other in the eye after clinking has survived in some wine cultures.
Worship ceremony
Although there was no word for "cheers" in ancient times, they had a set of rituals to worship while drinking. The object of worship is usually the god of wine, and people who are respected and venerated in the local area. Before drinking, the ancient Greeks and Romans had to toast Dionysus, the Greek god of wine (in Roman mythology, the name of the god of wine was Bacchus, which is actually the same god) and call out the name of the god of wine during the ceremony. In the epic poem The Odyssey, Ulysses toasts Achilles and wishes him good health.
Exorcise the ghost
People in the Middle Ages would say "cheers" very loudly when they clinked glasses, in order to drive away the demons that might have been lurking in. This practice is common among the Germanic tribes, who not only shout very loudly, but also slam each other's glasses after saying "cheers" and spill the wine on the table, in order to scare away ghosts and evil spirits.
The origin of drinking and clinking glasses
Legend has it that drinking and clinking glasses came from ancient Greece. Ancient Greece is a mysterious country, they are a focus on the enjoyment of beauty. They think that wine can bring them a lot of happiness. Just as the aroma of wine can make the nose feel happy, the eyes are bright because of the color, and the tongue is more happy because of the taste of wine, but among these five senses, only the ears do not enjoy the pleasure of wine. So the ancient Greeks in order to let their ears can also enjoy the wonderful feeling of wine, so they began to clink glasses before drinking, so that the ears can hear this crisp sound and become happy. This statement is certainly beautiful.
As for the origin of the wine culture tradition of drinking and clinking glasses, there are the above two theories, and the drinking and touching is only a polite behavior, but in the past, behind the custom of clinking glasses, there are many "theories" such as the above. And today's "clinking glasses" has long since lost its original meaning, everyone drinks in order to promote friendship, remove estrangement, improve the drinking atmosphere, frequently raise a glass to each other, so that drinking becomes a relaxed and happy.
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Service hotline: 137-6521-5459
Sales hotline: 183-8502-5333
Address: Shangping Village, Maotai Town, Renhuai City, Guizhou Province