JiuLi is the etiquette of drinking, makes drinking a solemn activity and a rite. This etiquette also makes drinking as part of the civilization process or cultural atmosphere. Clinking glasses at the banquet is one of the rites as JiuLi.
“Wine glowing in the luminous jade glasses”, Good flavor spirits should match with beautiful containers which make the drinker unconsciously desire to drink more and motivate their praise of beauty. Like the eggshell pottery, porcelain produced from Jingde Town, golden or silvery pots, and the cups made by horn or jade, etc., all these reflect the pursuit of beauty by human beings. Gorgeous containers are the embodiment of ancestor civilization.
Casting the arrows into a pot is not only a rite but also a game. Both "The Book of Rites" and " The Book of Dadai's Rites" have special descriptions of this. When the game begins, the host and the guest cast the arrows without arrowhead into the pot by turns, each one has four rounds, the one who has the highest score of hitting will be the winner, and the loser will drink up the spirits as penalty.
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