On talking of drinkin wine,we often think of that a lot of people sit around a table using cups or glasses to cheers.But there a lot of other peculiar ways to drink ,esp in some minority.
It is a peculiar way of drinking the alcoholic handing down from the ancient times, which is popular in many places of the Southwest and Northwest. In merry days or festivals, a jar of alcoholic drink is taken out to entertain guests, people are sitting around the jar, each holding a pipe and placing it into the jar to suck the alcoholic drink through the pipe, the number of suckers reaching up to five to six or even seven to eight. The air is rather cheerful while people suck the alcoholic . This peculiar way of drinking the alcoholic plays a role of exchanging people's feelings.
It is also a peculiar way of drinking the alcoholic among the Yi nationality. People can have a drink in any places, hosts and guests all sitting on the ground in rings, a cup of alcohol passed by turns in a ring, each having one sip. This custom is said to stem out of a very moving legend: In a big mountain lived three men -- a Han, a Tibetan and a Yi who pledged to be faithful to brotherly relationship. One year, the youngest Yi invited the other two brothers to have a dinner, the left rice in the pot turned to be a tasteful and fragrant rice alcoholic drink. The three brothers offered the drink from one to another, all wishing to leave the fragrant drink to others to enjoy, the drink being passed down from one to other, from morning till night, still remained in the drinking vessel. Later the god informed them that hard working could produce more tasteful drink after it was taken in. Then the three brothers started drinking it by turns in a ring, all getting drunk.
