Wine culture in chinese fine arts
In the works of Chinese painters and calligraphers the image of wine is one of invariable characteristics of two gradually developing directions of the Chinese art: positivism of official, academic school and intuitionalism of the independent artists who experienced the influence of Taoist ideas. For the latter the image of wine served as a way of decomposition, simplification, removal of culturally motivated barriers between people and space, unification of human spirit with the nature. Therefore it is logical that Confucian artists represented process of wine drinking whereas the followers of " fan lü" and "wenren hua" styles glorified the state of intoxication where the person reaches individual freedom and harmony with space.