屠苏

屠蘇
túsū
noun

Meanings

  1. 1 tusu wine, a medicinal wine drunk at the lunar New Year

Examples

HSK 6
Guònián shí hē túsū shì gǔdài de xísú.
Drinking tusu wine at New Year was a custom of ancient times.
HSK 6
Àn gǔshí de xísú, hē túsū yào cóng niánjì zuì xiǎo de rén hēqǐ.
By old custom, the tusu was drunk starting with the youngest person present.

Tips

culture
Best known from Wang Anshi's New Year poem 《元日》, where the spring wind carries warmth into the tusu. The young drank first because they were gaining a year, the old last because they were losing one.

Stroke Order

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