Why drink the cup touch?

During the banquet, banquet meeting we all like to touch wineglass to increase air happy, solemn, but we know the etiquette of this practice come from?


Some said that custom touch wineglass starting from ancient Roman times. When it attaches importance to power, it is common organization of the fighting. Prior to the gladiator often drink to show our respect and encourage each other. But to prevent those who have hearts illegal to poison the wine of the enemy, who thought that way before the fight, the two gladiators were down at his glass of wine in the cup of the enemy, to found in drinking without fraud. In executing this movement, two cups of wine of course have to touch each other. Later, this ritual gradually became a celebration of the feast.
There is a view that the practice of touching the drinking cup from the ancient Greek era. Ancient Greeks loves to drink. It is thought that the drink will have lots of parts in the human body can join to enjoy this fun activity. The nose is smelling the aroma of wine, watch the eyes are the color of the wine, the tongue can enjoy the taste of wine. But the ears are not enjoying anything.
So therefore we have added the missing by: before drinking it to the cup touch each other, so the ear will be heard on the glass of wine when touched and also enjoy the touch interesting drink. Then touch the cup when drinking has become customary.