The pronunciation of fermented grains is pēi.
酅, a Chinese second-level character, pronounced as 酅 (pēi), has a pictophonetic tone. Congyou, pǒu sound. It means unfiltered sake. The characters from You are mostly related to wine or food made from fermentation. The original meaning is to be drunk and full.
Zhuojiu is a Chinese word, which means thick. Turbid wine is a thick wine. As the old saying goes, empty mulberry rice and filthy rice are brewed with filthy wheat to make a mash, which is the beginning of wine. It means that the leftovers that people can't finish eating are dumped into the pockets of the dry mulberry trees beside the house. When the temperature is suitable, they ferment naturally and become wine. This is the origin of wine.
But Zhuojiu is different. Sun Shaokang, the seventh generation of the Shennong family, accidentally became enlightened when he was treating people's back sores. One day in early autumn in ancient times, the head of a wealthy family had a malignant sore on his back. He sent someone to ask the famous doctor Shaokang to come into the court to treat the sore. Shaokang came to the court and saw the sores. According to the ancestral medical skills, he prepared 3 powders of herbal medicine to treat sores, and called his family to prepare meals and apply the medicine to the sores.
The family provides a bowl of rice, which is made of three grains: glutinous rice, oatmeal, and white peas. Shaokang took out 70% of the cooked rice and put it in another empty bowl, added a little sore medicine powder, mixed it with the cooked rice, and applied half of it on the patient's back sore. Wrap the sore with cloth and tie it tightly around the chest. Shaokang finished applying the medicine and left. Leave two and a half bowls with leftover rice, and one and a half bowls with leftover rice and powdered medicine for poisonous sores.
The verse from which fermented grains comes:
1. Why do you call me affection? The wine is muddy and self-potted. ——Tao Yuanming of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, "Jiyou Year, September 9th"
2. Although there is no money to spend money on, the wine can be relied on. ——"Drinking" by Tao Yuanming of the Eastern Jin Dynasty
3. Hardship and bitterness hate the frost on the temples, and the wine glass becomes muddy when the new one is depressed. ——Du Fu's "Ascend the High"
4. A cup of wine can lead to a home thousands of miles away, but there is no way to return home. ——Fan Zhongyan of the Song Dynasty, "The Fisherman's Proud Autumn Thoughts"
5. Feeling sad but hurting ambition, pouring a bottle of turbid wine to wash away the remaining sorrow. ——Lu You, Song Dynasty, "Drinking at night after hunting to show Dugu Sheng. Only you know the anger of the lonely traveler"
6. Thousands of miles away from the Central Plains, the beacon fire is in the north, and a statue of turbid wine is garrisoning the building in the east.
——"Huanxisha" by Zhang Xiaoxiang of the Song Dynasty