【文章內(nèi)容簡介】 y 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 neck, ring foot and animal motifs. In addition, there are various drinking vessels such as “pot”, “jue”, “jiao”, “xian” and “cup”, “l(fā)ight”, “zhong” and “wei”, “yi”, “ru”, “qing” and “ji”. Each vessel has its own function and shape. According to some people’s research, drinking vessel’s shape and wine’s flavor have great relevance. Because different shapes would make wine and the contact area of dynamic tongue is different, and the capacity in the mouth would be affected, the flavor of wine also has something to do with the drinking vessel’s shape. This is why westerners choose vessels with different shapes and making material to fill different wine.There is no doubt that the westerners pay attention to the drinking vessels no less than Chinese. There is something different with China: Chinese drinking vessels’ types are various not just because of the development of the social productivity, but also because of the feudal hierarchical need, which is through different vessels to represent the different status. Drinking vessels are divided into different levels just as the ancient robes. Different people use different drinking vessels, the existence of drinking vessels is plete to distinguish and stand out the drinker’s identity.. . . . .5 Drinking EtiquetteChina and western countries have a big difference on the drinking etiquette. Maybe the biggest difference in drinking etiquette is to urge people to drink at a banquet. A group of Chinese drink together is a bigger scene definitely than a group of westerners get together. Because the Chinese are good at urge others to drink, they would do their best to force others to drink. This not only symbolizes the hospitality of Chinese people, but also has the very big relations with Chinese groupthink. Urging others to drink as a special way to toast is a kind of Chinese custom that formed in the thousands of years. The custom is one kind of Chinese traditional culture which cannot see in the western countries and cannot be understood in the west. Western people stress democracy and freedom, and they never interfere and force others to do things. They drink and meal all by free and independent, if they want to drink and then drink, they want how much to drink and then drink how much, they need not to be polite and formal. The differences between Chinese and western are here. When Chinese drink, they would say that they cannot drink, but the host still urges them to drink to show respect and sincerity. When westerners drink, they would not appear this kind of circumstance, if they say that they cannot drink, the host would not urge them to drink anyway