【正文】 f entree, strong dry white wine(12176。s because the western way of thinking pay attention to science and rationality, develop and respect the nature of things, it is a kind of material oriented rational thinking. They think highly of different characteristic of different wines, fully respect the nature and taste of wine, strive to demonstrate various flavor of different wines. Appreciation beautiful things is the aesthetic spirit flowing in their blood. Drinking makes people fall into a sort of besotted, trance, and mentally deranged condition, in such condition, the repressed instinct is released. While they are drunk, all the troubles are forgotten and people came back to themselves, that39。).”[7] Yet the dessert needs dessert wine or champagne. In this case, it needs five or six different kinds of wines in a formal dinner. Western etiquette of drinking focus on the wine itself, which contains admire the color, scent the spiciness, and taste the flavor. Westerners also devote particular care to the order of drinking. They would taste white wine at first and then red wine, first lighter wine then Fullbodied wine, first short dated wine then cellaring wine. In accordance with the change of gustatory sense, you will gradually go deep into the changing flavor of wine and enjoy it. Moreover, western people speak highly of personal egalitarian, so it is impolite for someone to urge other people to drink. Guest will get angry if the host keeps on toasting to him. So there’s no chance to see people toast to others in a booze, and no fingerguessing games which will liven things up and extremely popular in eastern countries. Only in some particular occasions, present guests will rise up glasses together, and toast to something worth celebration. Chapter 2 Relationship between Wine and Western Culture 6 Chapter 3 Wine Cultures and Western People 7 Chapter 3 Wine Cultures and Western People Wine has an irreplaceable status to western people. It appears in every aspect of westerners39。neBoudin representation the Bordeaux wine barrels in traffic sceneries. “In Europe, there are specialized schools and professional study of the art of wine tasting. “Plump, roundness, thick, fragrant” “Sending out fragrance melted tannins and exquisite scent of cocoa tree” “Like a pine tree bouncing fluent in the forest” “Warm and transparent like fisherman39。葡萄酒是一種擁有數(shù)千年歷史的美學(xué)符號(hào)，在其醞釀的過程中，它對(duì)人類文明的發(fā)展有著積極的不可磨滅的作用。因此，在當(dāng)今社會(huì)中，學(xué)習(xí)了解葡萄酒文化是很有用的。因此，學(xué)習(xí)葡萄酒文化是很重要以及必須的。~14176。s the highest praise and pursuit to human nature in their mind. But after hangover they will suffer vomit and headache. There is a famous taster once said, “In French, drinking vintage wine is a kind of enjoyment, and also the power of struggling. If you can understand life and art, then you will understand how to taste and appreciate wine. “It is not the goal we perused, but the present god gift us, it is used to decorate the beauty of life and serve as a foil to the world.”[8] Wine is an elegant drink which itself includes high value of culture and artist. In western society, no matter aristocracy or civilian, whitecollar worker or bluecollar, their ardently love to wine are all the same persistent. Its unique emotional appeal is not only able to release melancholy but also leave some leeway. Keeping people half awake and half tipsy exemplify the best state in modern munication leisure life. In the western social intercourse occasions, a Chapter 3 Wine Cultures and Western People 8 gentleman will use wine as a medium to show their personal cultivation or social status, and show their culture deposits in the match of wine and dishes. The Influence of Wine on People’s Behavior Their mind about drinking is direct and always bined with love, rose, passion and romance. Wine and rose, songs and dance, these ordinary pieces of mon life build up an extraordinary poetic imagery of romantic. In the western way of drinking, we can see the joy of life, the sweetness of love, and the glorious of ideal. For instance, the Scotch whiskey is the symbol of Scottish. In Scotland, men wearing short skirt, blow the bagpipes, play tap dancing, binge drinking whiskey, such demeanor is closely tied to “national pulse”. They will drain to drunk as soon as possible, hope to meet with Bacchus in inebriety. So this kind of fuddles hand down to generations as a habit. No matter a bottle of beer or a glass of liquor, just raise your head, and drink them all. In Charles Dickens’ famous novel A Tale of Two Cities, there describes a significant scene: a barrel fells down from a speeding carriage and breaks on the ground, bloodred wine gush out. A crowd of people swarm there, some people use hands holding the wine mixed with mud and drink, some people kneeling down the ground and sip the liquid by tongue greedily. The bloodred wine juice flows from the corner of mouth, and makes them look like bloodsucking demons. The vivid image of western bibber is well expressed in this chapter. Wine gives western people a unique character of romance and enriches their soul and behavior. Drinking makes them good talker, and their words have no more taboos or rules or polite formula. Instead, the topic will be more intimate and relaxed. Drinking makes them bold and brave, they will try things they’ve never touched in their lives. For example, in the movies Hangover, the four friends break into Tyson’s villa and steal his dog, then running naked in Las Vegas and even one of them getting married with a striper. Drinking also makes them cute, people used to be cold will swear to fulfill everything you asked him, and people who has always been afraid of wife will shout his unpleasant to his wife and let her fill the glass. That’s the magic power of wine, allows people do whatever they want. The Different Drinking Habits of Different People