The wine stored in the carved wine jar has a long time and good texture, so carved wine has become synonymous with Shaoxing old wine. Yellow rice wine is the best variety of Shao wine, so the wine in the carved wine jar is generally yellow rice wine.
Carving wine has a long history and was originally called female wine. There is a passage in "Southern Vegetation" written by Han Ji in Jin Dynasty: "Southerners are several years old, that is, when they brew big wine, the water in the winter pool will be exhausted, and they will not recur. They will be placed in a hip flask and firmly fixed on it until the water is full in spring. When a female general gets married, she sends a vicious wine to her guests, called female wine, which is absolutely delicious. "
This is the origin of Huadiao wine. Its meaning is: first, it is a festive wine for marrying women; Second, aged wine is generally about 20 years old. Because Shaoxing wine is more fragrant with age, 10 and 20 years later, it is very fragrant and tastes beautiful.
Liang Zhangju in the Qing Dynasty said in "Journey to the Future" Volume IV: "Shaoxing Wine": The best person named his daughter wine. It is said that a rich family adopted a daughter and brewed several altars on the first day of the first month until the woman went out. This is wine? It's been nearly ten years since I married him, and his altar rate is colorful, called flower carving ... "It can be seen that carving wine is also a wine custom in Shaoxing. Carving wine is for girls, also called daughter wine. Zhuang Yuanhong was later used for boys, which means that his son has the talent of being the top scholar to hold high the meaning of science.
Carving is actually a painting technique of jars. It is a decorative art of the jar, which combines sculpture and calligraphy by painting various colorful carving patterns on the outside of the jar and adding words.
There are generally two ways to carve flowers. First, when making pottery pots, the geometrically coherent patterns of flowers and plants are fired on the pots, which has a three-dimensional relief effect. Rice wine is packed in jars, buried underground or stored in warehouses. After many years, the jars are taken out and reused by writing or painting flowers. Second, ordinary jars should be taken out of the ground after being filled with wine, and painted with colors and patterns, which are vivid and colorful, although there is no three-dimensional sense formed by plastic stacking.
Sculpture is a kind of packaging art, and the wine in the jar is rice wine. Because of its special use, this name has evolved into a particularly high-quality wine, a festive wine, and a good name for Shaoxing yellow rice wine.