Alcohol had great impact on Chinese artists than any other ones, since many of them produced their peak-of-perfection masterpieces drunken, right after drinking. Being drunk and into the state of free production was and is the important tip Chinese artists resort to free their artistic creativity.
Many famous poets, such as Li Bai and Du Fu, had excellent performance and left us surprisingly marvelous poems after drinking the mysterious liquid. Not only poem but also painting and calligraphy were raised to higher level by the aid of alcohol. Wang Xizhi, Chinese famous calligrapher respectfully called Calligraphy Saint, retried dozens of times to overwhelm his most outstanding work, Lantingxu (Orchid Pavilion Prologue) which was finished when he was drunken, and he failed. The original one was the best.Take one of the greatest painter——Zheng Banqiao for example, he lived in Qing dynastyand he is good at drawing bamboos. It’s said that Zheng liked drinking very much. To people’s surprise, after him being drunk, he could draw, too. What’s more, the paintings he painted after being drunk were terrific, one of which become representative works. That’s wine effect. Surely, drinking but no addicting.
