Du Kang invented wine, and his son Heita did everything in the workshop, carrying water and vats, and gradually learned the technology of brewing. Later, Black Tower felt it was a pity to lose the distiller's grains after making wine, so it was stored and soaked in the jar.
On 2 1, as soon as I opened the jar, a smell that I had never smelled before came to my nose. Under the temptation of rich fragrance, Heita tasted it, which was sweet and sour, so it was stored as a "sauce". What is the name of this sauce? Heita named this seasoning "vinegar", adding the word "one" to the number 2 1.
China is the first country in the world to brew vinegar from grains, and there were written records about vinegar as early as the 8th century BC. During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, there were workshops specializing in brewing vinegar.
In the Han dynasty, vinegar began to be produced on a large scale. During the Southern and Northern Dynasties, the output and sales of vinegar were very large. The famous book Qi Yao Min Shu at that time systematically summarized the experience and achievements of China's working people from ancient times to the Northern Wei Dynasty. There are 22 kinds of vinegar making methods recorded in the book, which is the earliest record of grain vinegar making in existing historical materials in China.
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In the Tang Dynasty, vinegar began to be widely used, and famous dishes with vinegar as the main seasoning appeared, such as chicken with onion vinegar and celery with vinegar. Song Chen Guangyun: "Vinegar is also vinegar". The word "vinegar" is widely used and has become an indispensable thing in people's diet and life.
Since the Southern Song Dynasty, the number of dishes in Lin 'an Prefecture (now Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province) with vinegar as the main seasoning has greatly increased. Today's famous dish "West Lake Vinegar Fish" in Hangzhou is also said to be a famous dish in the Song Dynasty. In Song and Wu's "Walking in a Dream", it is recorded that "those who can't afford to build a home every day, rice, oil, salt, sauce and vinegar tea", vinegar has become one of the seven things to open the door.
During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, due to the different raw materials used and the progress of brewing technology, the varieties of vinegar in the Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties increased day by day, with different flavors.
There are dozens of kinds of vinegar in Li Shizhen's Compendium of Materia Medica, such as rice vinegar, wheat vinegar, koji vinegar, persimmon vinegar, bran vinegar, bad vinegar, fruit vinegar, peach vinegar, grape vinegar, jujube vinegar, glutinous rice vinegar and millet vinegar. Only rice vinegar aged for 2-3 years can be used as medicine, and others can only be eaten, but not used as medicine.
Rice vinegar has the functions of eliminating carbuncle and swelling, softening and resolving hard mass, promoting digestion and killing fish and vegetables. Has the effects of lowering blood pressure, reducing blood fat, removing pigmentation and relieving fatigue. "
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