"Literary forms, social forms, and drinking forms all came from the same roots, and when one link was broken, the whole chain collapsed," concludes Nanfang Shuo. Once the poetry was gone, drinking culture lost its refinement.
「文學形式、社會形式、飲酒的形式彼此同源，一環打破，全盤皆碎，」南方朔一語道破，沒有了詩詞後，也就失去了雅致的詩酒文化。