Drinking Rites on Major Festivals
Major festivals in China are usually associated with special drinking activities. For example, people drink "calamus wine" on the Dragon Boat Festival and "chrysanthemum wine" on the Douth Ninth Festival and "New Year wine" on the New Year's Eve. In some places such as in some countrysides in Jiangxi province, after planting rice seedlings in spring, people will get together happily and drink wine for celebbration. They will have more reasons to drink wine when celebrating a good harvest. Hence, when banquets are over, there are often drunkards in every household.
The New Year's Eve is the festival Chinese people attaches the most attention to and the day for family reunion. The New-Year- Eve's dinner is the most sumptuous banquet in one year. Wine is dispensable in the gathering dinner including those families who are poor and seldom drink wine in normal times.
Drinking Rites on Major Festivals
- "New Year Wine" of the Korean Nationality
- "New Grain Wine" of the Hani Nationality
- Drinking Rites on the Wedding Ceremony
- Top - or Back to - Chinese Alcohol
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