Shanlan Wine
Guest-Greeting Drinking
Drinking with One Heart
Wine |
The Li ethnic people in Hainan and other areas are good-natured and hospitable. When there are guests coming to visit, the Li people will greet them with home-brewed Shanlan rice wine. Drinking the wine is in three stages: the first is called "Qiang Fu Ang", meaning having a chat over a drink; the second is called "Bi Ao", meaning getting drunk. This is a custom observed by the Li people—you can't stop drinking till you are drunk; and the third and final stage is called "Tun Zhuo Qiu", which means the hosts and the guests singing local ballads in antiphonal style. |
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- Shanlan Wine
- From Li people, made of glutinous rice. Put boiled rice mixed with distiller's yeast in a basket and cover with banana leaves, after three to five days, put them into a jar and seal for half month....
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