绍兴是一个古老的城市,既是水乡,又是醉乡,绍兴黄酒之于绍兴,犹如角斗场之于罗马,贡多拉之于威尼斯。它的风俗具有浓郁的地方特色,而酒俗正是绍兴地方特色的重要内容。绍兴无处不酿酒,无处没酒家,真所谓“城中酒垆千万家”,不论山区和平原,不论城镇和乡村。在旧时,无论官宦之家、缙绅达士,还是市井小民、贫困百姓,都与酒结缘,与酒为友。尽管其主 Shaoxing is an ancient city. It is both a watery village and a drunken place. Shaoxing rice wine is at Shaoxing, just like the gypsophila in Rome and Gondola in Venice. Its customs have rich local characteristics, while wine customs are the important contents of local characteristics in Shaoxing. Shaoxing everywhere brewing, nowhere to drink, really the so-called “millions of wines in the city”, regardless of the mountains and plains, both urban and rural areas. In the old days, no matter the officialdom, the gentry, or the market, the poor, are bound by the wine, and wine as friends. Despite its master