千日醉酒 — “A potent wine that can cause intoxication for a thousand days”

Q: What is the Chinese definition of 千日醉酒?

喝了能醉一千天的酒。比喻好酒

千日醉酒 is a Chinese idiom (chengyu) meaning “a potent wine that can cause intoxication for a thousand days”. Metaphorically, excellent and powerful liquor. Literally, “thousand-day drunk wine”.

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千日醉酒 Pronunciation and Pinyin

千日醉酒 Character Breakdown

Stroke Order

Character	Pinyin	Strokes	Meaning
千	qiān	3	thousand, many
日	rì	4	sun, day, Japan
醉	zuì	15	intoxicated or deeply absorbed
酒	jiǔ	10	alcoholic beverage

Example Sentence with 千日醉酒

他品尝了一口珍藏多年的老酒，果然是千日醉酒，令人回味无穷

He took a sip of the vintage wine that had been stored for many years; it was truly a thousand-day drunk, leaving an endless aftertaste.

Origin and Story of 千日醉酒

Legend has it that in ancient Zhongshan, there was a man named Di Xi who was capable of brewing a special wine called 'Thousand-Day Drunk'. While he was in the process of brewing it, a man named Liu Xuanshi took a small sip.

Liu Xuanshi returned home and immediately fell into a deep, unconscious sleep from which he couldn't wake up. His family, believing him to be dead, buried him.

Three years later, Di Xi went to Liu's house to check if Liu Xuanshi had sobered up. Together, they opened the coffin, and Liu Xuanshi was just then waking from his drunken stupor.