Founding-emperor stories are marked as legends; jiu does not map neatly to English wine or beer. Normative bans are not direct measurements of actual consumption.
A Short History of Drunkenness (2017), Ancient China
Drinking legends associate dynastic failure with excess, while ritual drinking and etiquette organize hierarchy and ancestral relations.
chap. 6, “Ancient Chinese Drinking”
chap. 6, “Ancient Chinese Drinking”
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Evidence
Drinking legends associate dynastic failure with excess, while ritual drinking and etiquette organize hierarchy and ancestral relations.
Location and context
Forsyth, A Short History of Drunkenness (2017), chap. 6, “Ancient Chinese Drinking”. Original paraphrase, not quotation. The private PDF retrieval range is retained in Verification Notes.
Annotation
Founding-emperor stories are marked as legends; jiu does not map neatly to English wine or beer. Normative bans are not direct measurements of actual consumption.
Verification
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