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The Jue — The Bronze Wine Cup Whose Posts Supposedly Poke You in the Eye

A Chinese bronze wine vessel with two posts rising above its spout. The famous story says that if you tilt your head back to drain it, the posts catch your face and stop you drinking too much. But where does that story come from? Soot on the base, a name given by Song-dynasty scholars, and how a wine cup became a word for noble rank.