What did ancient people drink?

Nurhong

18 vintage is very popular all over the world.

Daughter red wine from historical allusions, amber in color and transparent in yellow; Taste better than nectar, mellow and sweet; The wine body is harmonious, the taste is excellent, and it has the unique fragrance of semi-dry Shaoxing wine It is made of white and excellent glutinous rice, raw wheat koji and Jianhu water as the main raw materials, using a unique brewing process and aging for many years. It drips into your mouth, leaving a fragrance on your lips and teeth! So it is true to describe her daughter's red wine. The name of daughter red wine comes from the local customs in Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces: in the year when a woman was born, the people would make several jars, symbolizing the hope that the woman would be in phoenix nirvana, and carve and draw colorful pictures of our national style outside the jars and seal them with mud. When her daughter grows up and gets married at the age of 18, she will take out wine to entertain guests to show happiness and good luck.

Shaoxing flower carving, named after the colorful sculptures outside the wine jar, is colorful, with magnificent patterns and diverse themes, with flowers in four seasons, birds and animals and historical allusions. She didn't just do it for Shao.

Xing rice wine adds attractive decoration, and also puts a unique aura on Shaoxing, an ancient city, which blends with Shaoxing's rich folk customs and shows a fascinating picture.

Shaoxing flower carving evolved from China's ancient daughter wine.

Zhuyeqing liquor

According to historical records, Zhuyeqing is a famous wine produced in China for generations. Its color is golden and greenish, pure and transparent, sweet and moderate, soft and refreshing, slightly bitter but not strongly irritating, and the other flavors have a special feeling formed by Fenjiu and medicinal materials. 45% alcohol, if properly drunk, has a good effect of regulating the internal organs, promoting qi circulation and nourishing blood.

At first, the brewing method of bamboo leaf green was only to soak tender bamboo leaves in wine to obtain light green and aromatic colors. Since the widespread production and drinking of liquor, liquor mixed with bamboo leaf green is mainly liquor. The added raw materials are even more varied. At present, bamboo leaf green is produced all over the country, and the products of Fenyang Fenyang Fenyang Liquor Factory in Xinghua Village, Shanxi Province are the best.

Luoyang Du Kang wine

According to historical records, Du Kang was the originator of using grain to make wine during the period of Zhongkang in Xia Dynasty, and the descendants of Du Kang took refuge in Zhou Xuanwang and settled in Ruyang County, south of Luoyang. Du Kang's brewing place is said to be in Ruyang.

In Du Kang Village, Caidian Township, County, the spring water brewed by Du Kang is crystal clear, sweet and pure. Because Du Kang was the ancestor of brewers, Du Kang became the embodiment of today's wine.

Dukang liquor belongs to Luzhou-flavor liquor. It is made of high-quality wheat, glutinous rice and sorghum as raw materials, supplemented with high-school warm koji, and adopts advanced technologies such as "sealing the cellar with mud, entering the pool at low temperature, fermenting for a long time and carefully blending". Du Kang's reputation has a long history, and many historians are full of praise for him. Cao Cao of the Three Kingdoms once had an eternal famous sentence, "How to solve your worries, only Du Kang".

Aged milk wine

Hunting is an important production activity of primitive people. With the improvement of hunting methods and tools, people may catch more live wild animals at a time. If they can't eat them all at once, they will be tied up with ropes or fenced up for later slaughter. It is entirely possible that there are females in the wild animals that are tied up or locked up, or they may give birth to cubs when they are tied up or locked up, so that people have the opportunity to taste the milk of the animals and of course have the conditions to milk them. Squeezed animal milk can't be eaten for a while, and it's not easy to keep. Wild fruit similar to sugar will also be used as raw wine by microorganisms in nature. People accidentally tasted this wine and thought it was delicious, so they consciously imitated it and brewed it. This is the earliest milk wine. Therefore, some scholars believe that after the development of primitive animal husbandry in Neolithic Age, there may be milk wine, which shows that this wine is ancient. The "fermented cheese" mentioned in The Book of Rites and Li Yun refers to milk wine. As for what animal's milk makes the wine, it is not clear. Judging from some ancient books, koumiss is definitely a very important milk wine. For example, in the Han dynasty, the court set up a "riding officer" to be responsible for the production of koumiss. In the history of the Song Dynasty, it was also mentioned that Gaochang (now Turpan, Xinjiang) "made wine with horse milk, and it was also wine to drink". Youren Xu, a poet in the Yuan Dynasty, wrote in his poem "Horse Wine": "The taste is like dew, and the fragrance is doubtful, making Liquan. The new raft hits white and is absolutely clear. " It seems that this wine is sweet and mellow.

Lan Ling Mei ·JIU

Produced in Lanling Town, southwest of Cangshan County. The history of brewing can be traced back to the Spring and Autumn Period more than two thousand years ago. At that time, Lanling was named Dongyang, so this wine was called Dongyang wine in ancient times. It is made by a re-brewing process. Taking millet as raw material, it was made into paste with pure and sweet ancient deep well water, saccharified with wheat koji, added with high-quality Daqu wine, sealed in porcelain jar, brewed for half a year and then opened the jar. The color of wine is amber luster, crystal clear; Keeps the natural mixed fragrance of raw materials, and is rich and attractive; The wine is pure and sweet; The taste is mellow and soft. Generally, it contains about 25% alcohol, 14- 15% sugar and 17 kinds of amino acids such as aspartic acid, glutamic acid and alanine, which are rich in nutrition.

Regular drinking has the function of nourishing blood and tonifying kidney. It is a high-quality nourishing wine of yellow rice wine. Singapore's Nanyang Business Daily once wrote: "lanling wine is mellow and suitable for men and women from all walks of life." This wine has enjoyed a good reputation since the Tang Dynasty, and it sells well in famous cities such as Xijing (now Xi 'an), Jiangning (now Nanjing) and Qiantang (now Hangzhou). Li Bai, a great poet in the Tang Dynasty, once praised: "lanling wine tulips and jade bowls are full of amber light." But it can make the owner drunk and don't know where he is. "

Zhuang Yuanhong [Shaoxing rice wine]

Daughter wine is a family that gives birth to daughters. When her daughter was born, she brewed several jars of wine and hid them in the kiln or in the wall until her daughter got married, or as a dowry, or to entertain guests at a wedding banquet. Because the brewing of daughter's wine has placed parents' hopes, not only the materials and skills are carefully selected, but also the jars are deliberately dressed up. Ask the painter to draw various auspicious patterns and write auspicious words on the topic, such as "a bright moon, everything is like a dream, and grow old together" to express parents' wishes. This kind of jar was later called "flower carving".

People who have daughters are not willing to lag behind, so Shaoxing makes wine when he has a son, and paints the jars in Zhu Yue color. This wine is named Zhuangyuanhong, which means that the child is the champion.

Whether it is daughter wine or Zhuangyuanhong, from brewing to drinking, even in ancient times when late marriage was not advocated, it had to wait until 17 to 18. If a jar of wine is stored for more than 17 to 18, it will often be concentrated into a half jar or even less, and the quality will definitely be better. On the day when a daughter or son gets married, parents should be parents.

Zhuangyuanhong uses high-quality sorghum as raw material, barley as starter, Qinghe spring water as brewing water, and more than 30 kinds of precious Chinese herbal medicines such as ginseng, Amomum villosum, Amomum cardamom and Cyathula. And the finished product is obtained by soaking and refining.

The wine is ruddy and crystal clear in color, natural in color, sweet and delicious. Moderate drinking has the effects of harmonizing qi and blood, invigorating the middle energizer, strengthening the body and prolonging life.

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Wei Wendi Cao Pi likes drinking, especially wine. He not only likes wine himself, but also writes his love and views on grapes and wine in letters and tells ministers. Wei Wendi wrote in Zhao Qunyi: "Three generations of elders know clothes, and five generations know food. This statement was taken by the old man. China has many rare fruits, and he talked about Pu Tao. When Zhu Xia was involved in autumn, there was still heat. When he woke up, he was drunk and ate under the quilt. Sweet but not sour but not crisp, cold but not cold, long taste and strong juice, which can quench thirst. To brew ideological wine, you are willing to bow your head and be a willing ox. The firmness of Tao has been swallowed, which is the evil of pro-food. The fruit of the other side is better than that of the horse. "

Lu Ji wrote in "Drinking Music":

Pu Tao is full of alcohol at four o'clock, and the glass clock is an old customer.

Drinking and dancing at night will delay the sale of candles and make people wake up.

Spring breeze and autumn moon are good, and the sun and moon are new.

"Pu Tao" in Drinking Music refers to wine. The poem depicts the luxurious life of the upper class at that time: drinking grapes and wine all year round, and living in a drunken dream every day. At this time, the wine was enjoyed by princes and nobles, but it was relatively easy to get, and it was by no means the price used by Emperor Han Ling to bribe officials. Otherwise no one can drink it all year round.