文人的酒兴及酒器

Scholars take interest to liquor and drinking vessels

酒的起源与成功酿造显然是普通民众的劳动所得，但在它的发展过程中，尤其是自魏晋开始，文人却始终在酒文化的发展过程中起到了有力的推动作用，对于他们中的大部分人而言，酒是日常宴饮中必不可少的元素，也是艺术创作时常见的情感催发媒介，而且，在审美上极具造诣的文人们对于酒器的选择通常也十分考究，他们从色、型、用等各方面严格地考量酒器，从而创造出了别具一格的酒器审美观念。

It was obvious that the origins of liquor and its successful brewing belonged to the work of the ordinary people. However, during the course of its development, especially starting from the Year 220 on, the scholars played a powerful role in promoting the development of liquor culture. Liquor was an essential element in the feasting day and a kind of catalytic promoter for most of the scholars when they were going on art creation. Moreover, they chose the drinking vessels strictly, from the color, shape and other respects, because of their aesthetic attainments and created unique concepts.