No wine is better than wine

Liquid fire, making you feel like you're in a dream, floating on air! It turns heaven and earth upside down, makes the world spin, irrigates the ups and downs of human history, and imbues the arts with vibrant colors. It intoxicated Liu Ling, drove the poet Li Bai mad, embodied Cao Cao, and wrote the story of the Feast at Hongmen. It dampened the apricot blossoms in the Qingming rain and withered the crabapple blossoms.

On Jingyang Ridge, it helped Wu Song kill the tiger with three punches; at Xunyang Tower, it allowed Song Jiang to compose a poem in rebellion. How many heroes and valiant men have you made possible? How many peasants and roughnecks have you brought down? Song and dance accompany you, beauty is your companion, it inspires boundless poetic inspiration and emboldens scholars. Some use you to go mad, some use you to seize power. Sometimes you are just a prop to enhance the atmosphere at the negotiating table, sometimes you are more like a hidden weapon to paralyze a drunken opponent.

You enter both the grand mansions of the wealthy and the humble dwellings of the villagers; you overflow the golden goblets of the imperial court and fill the coarse bowls of the peasants. Sorrow and joy alike depend on you; on wedding nights, when old friends meet in foreign lands. When one's name is on the honor roll, exiled prisoners and down-on-their-luck scholars are all your confidants. Successful court officials are your friends, and even death row inmates awaiting their departure are bid farewell by you.

Because of you, how many important matters have been delayed? Because of you, how many wrongful convictions have been fabricated? Because of you, how many anecdotes and interesting stories have been enlivened? Because

of you, how many masterpieces have been born? And because of you, how many people have died of liver cancer? Truly, you are the elixir of life and death, the elixir that only deepens sorrow! Poverty and wealth both depend on you; countless families cannot do without you.