China is one of the earliest wine-making countries in the world. I wonder how long you think China has a history of brewing? To tell you the truth, as early as 8, years ago, wine-making appeared in the Neolithic Age, and the method of making distiller's yeast appeared in the Shang and Zhou Dynasties. By the Southern and Northern Dynasties, dozens of brewing methods of wine and medicinal liquor had appeared. It can be said that wine is one of the oldest man-made drinks.
There are many kinds of wine, which can be divided into distilled wine, fermented wine and mixed wine according to brewing methods. According to the content of alcohol, it can be divided into high-alcohol (above 4 degrees), medium-alcohol (between 2 and 4 degrees) and low-alcohol (below 2 degrees); According to the usual business habits, it can be divided into white wine, yellow wine, fruit wine, beer and mixed wine. As we all know, Moutai, Wuliangye, LU ZHOU LAO JIAO CO.,LTD, Shanxi Fenjiu, etc. belong to white wine, while Shaoxing Daughter Red and Huadiao Wine in Zhejiang belong to yellow wine. We divide all kinds of wines into fruit wine, and so on.
you can't make wine without water. In the history of thousands of years, water has always been an indispensable condition for brewing top-quality wine, and there must be good water in famous wine producing areas, especially water rich in minerals. A broken bottle of Moutai at the Panama World Expo in 1915 made Chinese people feel proud and enjoy it for nearly a hundred years. Moutai was produced in Renhuai County, Guizhou Province, where there was a Chishui River with excellent water quality. After leaving Maotai Town, in any other place, you can't brew such a delicious wine by the same method. Gujing tribute wine is famous all over the world, and it is completely benefited from that ancient well; Without Laoshan spring water, the taste of Tsingtao beer is no longer the same.
There are many kinds of wine, and the taste, characteristics and efficacy of each wine will be slightly different. Generally speaking, wine has such characteristics, that is, the wine is warm and spicy, the warm one can dispel cold and dredge, and the pungent one can disperse and dredge. Therefore, wine has the effects of dredging meridians, activating qi and regulating blood, warming yang and dispelling cold. Once drunk, you will feel that your depressed feelings can be released, and your excitement and frustration can be vented. Moreover, wine is the essence of grain brewing, so it also has the effect of invigorating the stomach. In addition, wine can kill insects and drive away evil spirits, and drive evil away. And if wine and medicine are combined, the efficacy will increase by more than ten times.
to know how to drink, it is essential to choose a good wine set. People who like drinking should always pay attention to the choice of wine utensils. Wine utensils are used to store, hold and drink wine. In China, according to the texture materials, wine utensils can be divided into pottery wine utensils, porcelain wine utensils, bronze wine utensils, jade wine utensils, glass wine utensils and other wine utensils. Different drinking utensils reflect the level and situation of social, economic and cultural development at different stages in history. People of different status use different kinds of wine. In ancient times, pottery wine utensils were the most used by the working masses at the lower level, while jade wine utensils and gold and silver wine utensils became the special wine utensils of the upper rulers. Of course, these have already become history, as long as everyone likes them, no matter what kind of wine they use, they are not limited.
with a long history of wine, there is a splendid and long wine culture. For thousands of years, many literati have been drinking and chanting, expressing their aspirations through wine, leaving countless famous sayings. Li Bai's "Hundred Poems on Fighting Wine" has been envied for many years. "Grape wine luminous cup", how beautiful the scenery is, who won't be greatly aroused? "There are thousands of cups of wine for every bosom friend", and when friends get together, wine is essential. Of course, there is also the helplessness of "wine is drunk today" and the melancholy of "wine does not make people drunk". However, we don't want to pursue the small abacus of "the meaning of drunkenness is not wine". Between friends and relatives, we should always be more frank and more straightforward. Although there is no need to "get drunk", we still have to learn to "give wine to our bosom friends and roses to our beautiful women".
wine has interpreted many human grievances, and left countless classic stories and thousands of swan songs. Guan Yunchang's "warm wine and Hua Xiong" made Wu Shengwei famous; Zhuo Wenjun is a wine seller for the sake of a song "Phoenix seeking to burn"; Song Taizu Zhao Kuangyin's "relieving the soldiers with a glass of wine" not only saved his own throne, but also gave his ministers sufficient dignity; The "Hongmen Banquet", which no one dared to go, finally led to the Chu-Han War, which lasted for eight years. When the wedding party is a happy occasion, the atmosphere is even more festive. When you are sad and depressed, "Du Kang is the only one who can solve your worries". It can be said that no matter in various activities such as weddings, funerals, banquets for relatives and friends, "no banquet is possible without wine" and "no etiquette without wine".
when drinking, there will always be drunkenness. It can be said that drunkenness is the essence of wine. For ordinary people, there is a "drunken curse", while for those historical celebrities, drunkenness leads to many stories. Emperor gaozu Liu bang got drunk and beheaded the white snake and won the world; "The imperial concubine is drunk", which makes all peony in Luoyang wither; Li Qingzhao, a generation of poets, was even more "intoxicated and did not know the way back". It is also because of drunkenness that China Wushu has a set of drunken fists, and the brilliant Song Ci also has epigrams such as "Drunken Flower Yin" and "Jiuquan Zi". Drunk, let China wine culture to the extreme. In a word, "wine is more dry than wine, but the sun and the moon are longer in the middle". No matter in the past, now and in the future, our life is always inseparable from wine. We can drink wine, and even more, "in a word, a lifetime, a cup of wine". In the long history, the history and culture of wine will continue to interpret beautiful myths and will surely create a better tomorrow.