Baimahu celebrities, such as Xia Gaizun, Liu Dongyu, Zhu Ziqing , Zhu Guangqian , etc., have the habit of "wine gathering" when they were in Chunhui Middle School. They don’t like white wine, they only drink Shaoxing old wine. Later, these famous scholars went to Shanghai one after another to set up the "Lida College" and still inherited the "wine gathering" habit on the banks of Baima Lake. After the Kaiming Bookstore was opened, it simply established a "Kaiming Drinking Party" with justification and clearly set up the conditions for joining the club: you must have the ability to drink five kilograms of Shaoxing rice at a time to absorb income. At that time, Xia Gaizun, Feng Zikai , Ye Shengtao , Zheng Zhenyi and Zhang Xichen's boss from Kaiming Bookstore all met the conditions for joining the club and were selected. This cocktail party is held once a week, and many other matters such as manuscripts, editing, publishing, and exhibitions are reached at this cocktail party.
Once, Qian Jun, a student of Feng Zikai, also wanted to join the club, but he was struggling to drink three and a half pounds of Shaoxing old wine. Boss Zhang refused to agree, but the older Xia Gaizun was kind and persuaded: "You are actively asking for joining the club, which is worth encouraging. The standard can be slightly relaxed, so you can get a 30% discount!" Amid the people's calls for striving to meet the standards, Qian Jun finally entered the club with an extraordinary standard, and lived up to expectations. He could drink five pounds of Shaoxing plus rice wine soon.
