The Maonan are addicted to smoke, wine and tea. About two-thirds of adult men smoke locally produced dry tobacco leaves and rarely use foreign cigarettes. Older people often use bamboo whips to make dry tobacco poles and smoke while burning the fire to save matches. Drinking tea is only for celebrations, funerals and entertaining guests, but usually they drink boiled water or spring water. Wine is a big hobby of Maonan people. Whenever there is a wedding, a funeral or a guest arrives at home, they have to drink. To the ancestors, visiting friends and relatives, festivals, mutual aid for work and other meals should have wine. Usually daytime labor, dinner should also drink wine to invigorate the blood, said easy to recover fatigue. Guests to the home without wine hospitality is considered rude, there is a verbal phrase: "good friends and friends, soybean send wine." Therefore, a jar of wine is always kept at home for guests. Almost every housewife or hostess will make wine. They brew white wine, the alcohol content is not high, the average 20 to 35 degrees.
The raw materials for brewing liquor include glutinous rice, sticky rice, corn, sorghum, sweet potato and pumpkin. The name of each type of wine is crowned by the name of the raw material. Such as glutinous rice brewing called glutinous rice wine, sweet potato brewing called sweet potato wine. All types of wine are fermented with locally produced wine cakes. The raw materials are first boiled, spread on bamboo mats, cooled and then sprinkled with wine cake (powdered), and put into a tank or altar for fermentation. On cold days, put it in a warm place or cover it with rotten quilts, corn leaves and brown skins to keep warm, and then steam it when it smells like wine. When steaming, the bottom layer is filled with raw materials in a seven-fisted pot, the middle is made into a steaming pot with a leaky pot, and the top is a "heavenly pot" filled with cold water and steamed over a slight fire. There are small holes on the side of the steaming pot for the sake to flow into the altar. If you want to steam a small amount of sake, you can use a rice cooker or a wok. The best water for steaming wine is spring water, which produces a high rate of wine and a mellow flavor. The Maonan people not only love to drink and make wine, but also use the flavor of wine as a metaphor for love! For example, when men and women sing songs to each other, the woman sings: "This sticky rice wine was just brewed last night, the flavor is light and not mellow, brother is lazy to stretch his hand." The man replied: "This is glutinous rice wine, rice paddies at the door, the flavor of wine strong and fragrant, intoxicated brother's heart."
The Maonan people love to drink and sing. Each village, Tundong have a few pairs of mouth into song singers, festivals, pike sitting night, men and women gatherings, building, wedding banquets, etc. are to sing, song. The wedding is a great occasion for this.
In the vast sea of folk songs, as a ceremonial song toasting song is unique, it is a set of religious, wedding customs in a furnace, both intellectual, but also interesting.