libation

a drink poured out as an offering to a deity (奠)

The gift of the pour can be a libation. There is water, there is wine to drink.¹

In the water of the gift there abides the spring. 

In the spring abides the stone and all the dark slumber of the earth, which receives the rain and dew of the sky.

In the water of the spring there abides the marriage of the sky and earth.

They abide in the wine that the fruit of the vine provides, in which the nourishment of the earth and the sun of the sky are betrothed to each other. 

In the gift of water, in the gift of wine, there abides in each case the sky and earth.
The gift of the pour however is the jughood of the jug.
In the essence of the jug there abides earth and sky. 

(Bremen and Freiburg Lectures, 2012, p. 35)