【正文】 by the confucianism, so it shows its unique characteristics of connotation, constraint and nostalgia, and it reflects that is a highlevel material needs or spiritual needs. By the text from this thesis, we can easily find that there still exist various differences between Chinese and western wine culture. But with the development of cultural munication between China and the west, along with the strengthening of munication between China and the west, China has imported various kinds of western wine. These mark a new western wine culture exchanges and infiltration. Most of nations have its own characteristic wine and custom of drinking wine. The culture of drinking wine has endurable vitality and character. The research of drinking custom will promote the unity of nations and progress of civilization. By paring the differences between Chinese and western culture of wine, we found that although Chinese and western have their own distinguishing feature in the wine culture, people’s love to wine are the same. From the substance point of view, wine plays an important role in human munication。re not made in vain.A thousand gold coins spent, more will turn up again.Kill a cow, cook a sheep and let us merry be,And drink three hundred cupfuls of wine in high glee!Dear friends of mine,Cheer up, cheer up!I invite you to wine.Do not put down your cup!I will sing you a song, please hear,O hear! Lend me a willing ear!What difference will rare and costly dishes make?I want only to get drunk and ne39。s blood circulation, make the person more impulsive, and emotions are more likely to erupt. Literatus drink makes this function expressed to acme. They can make the mon depressive in the heart into flows of ideas after drinking. As we all know, Li Bai, Du Fu, Xin Qiji and Li Qingzhao are all good at expressing emotions with wine. The great ancient poet Li Bai of the Tang Dynasty (AD 618907), who was crowned as “the God of Poems” and “Immortal of Wine” in China. Many of his great masterpieces were created when he was drunk and 17 percent of his poems were about drinking. “Invitation to Wine” (Qiang Jin Jiu) is a very famous poem on wine of him: Invitation to WineLi BaiDo you not see the Yellow River e from the sky?Rushing into the sea and ne39。 while the toast wine used by the new couple is always white wine that also called liquor. In the west, there is no doubt that the grape wine and brandy are really popular. Whatever adjusting the atmosphere or driving away the cold, whatever in the formal or informal parties, they would happen to coincide to choose grape wine. Wine has bee an indispensable spice in their daily life. In the beginning, people have no tendency for wine selection. People could take any things to make wine. Grape wine, just as its name implies, made by grapes. Chinese liquor (white wine) or yellow wine is made by rice or other crops. Because there is something to do with the natural and cultural environment, wine and liquor appear and gradually bee the indispensable part of human life. In ancient times, Chinese people live in Yellow River basin which is the temperate continental climate, and this climate suits the growth of grain crops such as sorghum and wheat. It is granted that Chinese choose crops as winemaking raw materials. On the contrary, in Europe, especially on the coast of western Mediterranean and in the Mediterranean climate zone, the climate and topography are very suitable for grape growing. After a long time, people formed a preference for wine selection. Natural geographical environment and cultural inheritance, namely natural and cultural environment and social cultural environment contributed to the different preferences between Chinese and western people.. . . . .4 Differences of Drinking VesselsWhatever in China or the west, people take drinking vessels seriously. The elegant and suitable extant of drinking vessels are related to people’s degree of attention and love. The drinking vessels’ culture as an important part of wine culture also has a long history, beautiful and is worth for us to study carefully.With the economic and social development, the materials, manufactural technology, shape and function of drinking vessels are in continuous change. According to an article’s introduction, in ancient China, drinking vessels generally called “zun”. Using as a proper noun, “zun” is a kind of containers with high