Why did people in the past call drinking wine to eat wine?

Eating and drinking, now the folk are not much talked, and most of these two words appear in writing, forming a written language. Maybe what everyone hears the most now is from film and television dramas, especially the food and wine in "Water Margin".

It is worth mentioning that although the folk don't say much about eating wine now, they will still say "go to the banquet"."Eat and drink". In Jiangnan, especially the aborigines of Shanghai, they still say: eat cigarettes, eat old wine.

And now the most widely spread is actually "eating cigarettes", in many places in addition to smoking, they will also say that they eat cigarettes, which is a more popular name for smoking cigarettes.

So why did people in the past call drinking wine eating? There are the following points:

First, eating and drinking are both verbs, and in the context of ancient Chinese vernacular, they can be used universally! Just like the current Sulu-Henan-Anhui junction, for noodle soup, I like to call "eating noodles" "drinking noodles".

Second, there must be appetizers to eat wine, generally speaking, wine cannot be drunk alone in a pot, that is too barbaric. Wine and food, wine and food, wine and food, all food! Because there is wine, it is said in the old saying that it is not impossible to eat wine.

In particular, the title of dialect slang is intricate and incomprehensible.

3. As we all know, it was only during the Yuan Dynasty that distilled liquor was developed, and only then did it have high-grade liquor. Prior to this, the liquor was basically rice wine and other types of liquor. Bai Juyi's "Green Ant New Brew Wine, Red Clay Small Stove" is rice wine, and it is green and has not been filtered.

The ancients said to eat wine, and that wine may be similar to the current wine, wine-brewed small ball soup, everyone may have eaten it, especially the southerners. Now the bottled mash in the supermarket is liquor, and it can be made into a slightly sweet and slightly sour soup with small balls, orange petals, and dragon fruit pieces, which is thick and very stylish.

The liquor eaten by the ancients, before the distillation technology came out, may have been the wine that resembled mash, and before the brewing method was advanced, there would be residual grain, just like the current liquor. It's called eating and drinking, and it also fits the atmosphere and context.

In fact, eating wine and eating tea are actually the same, they are both things that go into the stomach, and drinking wine is also said in the Shandong dialect"Ha wine", it is also possible to "drink wine and drink tea" of "drink", this word was invented later than the word "eat", eating, is preconceived and not impossible. In fact, you don't need to dig deeper, maybe it's just a language habit.

Because they think that this is more arrogant, many times our ancient people used bowls to drink, and they drank very big mouthfuls, so drinking wine is called eating wine, just like eating meat.

This is because the ancient brewing techniques were not as perfect as they are today. Therefore, the sake produced is not particularly pure. There may also be some grain scraps in there.

I think that when it comes to eating wine, it should be that the brewing of ancient wine is different, and perhaps it is the traditional craft ...... that we still retain in our rural areasGlutinous rice wine. Because glutinous rice wine is like porridge and is not completely watery, it cannot be drunk directly, but can only be eaten. I don't know, right?