Because liquor and poetry run closly together since ancient times,liquor becomes culture. Liquor antithetical couplet is variant and sentences of poetry.Since the Tang Dynasty,thee are many people picked out poems or sentences for couplet.In the Tang Dynasty,Ms Li firstly take the poems, “putting the chess game desk after clearing up the leaves in the forest,dividing sprinag and passing over the wine glass under the eaves”as couplet,and hanged it in study room.In the Qing Dynasty,The poem “ flat beach,far water and handsome person,green wine,red light and blue water” is picked out as couplet and hanged in Chuan Shan building.
The poem “daytime is short in wine glass,high pillow on green hill”by Yan Ji describle person drinking wine.
The Poem “big or small is one of the cloth seam.green or purple will be there in ten room”by Song Douxiang describle wine waiter
The poem “opening state wine for celebration of happy and peace,living in sun and mooth and sky”by Hu Siyu describles the jar.
The poem “A drunk rides donkey to calculate wine payment,boatman scull and ask for boat cost bowly”is anthropomorphic couplet.
The poem “Jiao Dao in drunk is not fake down,that Liu Ling drink out is not left zero”is homophonic couplet.
The Poem “red combined with white,how to know south or north after drink.a new crop has not yet come,only one way to sell things”is describle couplet.
Liquor Curtain is called as wine flag,wine wang,wang zi and so on,which is the logo of wine restaurant with strong advertising color.The original place of liquor curtain or liquor flag is traced back to the era,when the liquor as product enters into market.Liquor has entered into market at the latest time.The earliest records of liquor curtain by wine restaurant in the literature was seen in the poem “one person sell liquor with fair calculation,hospitable,good wine and high wine flag”in “Han Fei Zi”.So From it,It is very important method to attract customers by hanging wine flag before wine restaurant,in the Warring Sate Dynasty.
Liquor antithetical couplet is hanged or pasted in front of hotel,wine restaurant and wine shop,it also can be known as wine pairs,wine couplets,and so on.Generally speaking,the original place of couplets arts is from the five generation of Shu.Due to the special performance of chinese to make sentences,rhetorical,and combination with calligraphy,it describes views and matters,as well as expresses of thoughts and feelings with concise language.Not only deep meaning and implicit with
poetic flavor,but also antithesis neat,alternation between level and oblique tones and easy to pronounce.so it is one form of national literature loved by our people.Therefore,once it appeared ,soon is the method for attracting customers and advertising by wine businessman,and combined with liquor curtain smartly.such as, there are ten big word: “wild flower from the land,good smell from one bottle of excellent liquor”in the high hanging liquor curtain in the front of wine restaurant on the drawing in Jin Dynasty.That is the antithesis neat and very poetic wine couplet.
