Chinese Wine Culture中国酒文化英语话中国课程论文专业： 2011 级土建类 指导教师： 曹旺儒 学号： 311107000531 姓名： 仝优 日期： 2013 年 6 月 5 日 Chinese Wine CultureAbstract China is the first country to make wine in the world. Making wine in China already had thousands of years history. The wine is a carrier of culture. The Chinese wine culture has a long history, and its connotation is rich, broad and profound. Chinese wine culture is a part of Chinese civilization. For thousands of years in the Chinese civilization, the wine has become very important in political, economic, culture and education, literature and art and social life etc. In China, wine has become a comprehensive carrier of Chinese moral, ideological and cultural. Today, the traditional Chinese wine culture has become a symbol of China.Key words: wine, history, culture, ChineseI. A Poem Qing MingA drizzling rain falls like winers on the Mourning Day;The mourners heart is breaking on his way.Where can a winehouse be found to drown his sadness?A cowherd points to Xing Hua Village in the distance.-Du Mu1China is a worldwide famous country with ancient civilization. During the long history about 5000 years, wine and wine culture has been an important part of Chinese culture. Chinese wine has a long history. Since the emergence of wine, it is closely linked with our life. Wine is a combination of material culture and spiritual culture of the body. One side, wine is one of the drinks, on the other side, the Chinese wine is a carrier of Chinese culture. Chinese wine culture is rich and colorful, it contains a profound philosophy, poetry, science and technology and art. Chinese wine is an important part of Chinese culture.1.1 Chinese wine cultureWine can be seen, can be heard in most circumstances. Our elder, like father or grandpa, will drink it during the meal. When friends get together, people get used to drinking wine. In many times, we can say I am surrounding by wine, regardless of I drink wine or not. Wine, in Chinese culture, is not just a kind of drink, but a special sign that stands for Chinese hidden rules and tradition psychology. Actually, this point of view has been known by the vast majority of Chinese.Chinese wine is part of Chinese culture. Many people likes drinking wine, and a lot of kinds of wine have become famous. Wine has a long history in China. There is a variety of good wine which attracts many foreigners. So we must do more to improve Chinese wine and add up more history stories and culture to it. At the same time, we should prevent some bad wine from damaging the fame of Chinese wine. Only by doing so can Chinese wine become more and more popular and valuable.1.2 Wine history The fact that wine has become an important part of Chinese culture has a long history. In many years ago, when China was still an ancient dynasty, wine was a common thing which used to be entertained for guests. When someone called on others home, the host usually offer wine for their visiting. At that time, wine is a food that expressed hosts hospitality and generous. From then on, wine has become a tradition of Chinese Culture between the host and guests. And now, this tradition is still retained by some regions, especially the places where minorities lived. Sometimes, people are not allowed to refuse their wine, because that behavior is considered to be unfriendliness. However, in recent years, the meaning of wine has been changed a lot. Wine is not a common drink, but a food to welcome some friend and family numbers. It has become a tool, a method to ask for another one to obtain the personal interest. In order to acquire the improper benefits, some people buy expensive wine and carry them to visit some who have power, such as government official, the judge, the police and so on. They think, in this way, they can escape from punishment, get the interest successfully. Obviously, this is a way of corruption. People with ulterior motive use wine as a form of money to ingratiate himself with powerful man. Because wine is a special form of money, there are many luxury wines in the market. By adding some many others but deer things, a bottle of wine can be sold up to 10,000 or the even higher price. Wine, as an important gift, is often given with the coming of some festivals, such as Spring Festival, The Mid-Autumn Festival and so on. On these festivals eve, maybe the subordinate will carry some wine to visit the bosss home. Bringing wine as gift is not just to express the greeting of festival, but win the favor of boss. They think that it is a good way to get promotion or something else. To my disappointed, this behavior has become a commonly trend and now has become more and more popular. It was reported that, a Public Security Bureau of Chongqing Province, WenQiang, was received a large number of wine, including some famous band of wine, like Mao-tai, Laff