In the history of Luzhou liquor, the Song Dynasty was a very important period, and Luzhou people mastered the method of brewing soju. At that time, Dajiu was very close to Luzhou-flavor liquor brewed today in terms of raw material selection, process operation, fermentation mode and liquor quality, which can be said to be the predecessor of Daqu of LU ZHOU LAO JIAO CO.,LTD Co., Ltd. today.
The appearance of liquor in Song Dynasty opened a new chapter for the process of Luzhou liquor industry. However, the ruins of Luzhou wine culture in the Song Dynasty were destroyed in the long-term Mongolian Shu-Ding War. Until the establishment of the Ming Dynasty, Luzhou, a wine city, began a new development. One of the achievements of this new development is that contemporary Luzhou people have the most complete and longest-lasting utilization of LU ZHOU LAO JIAO CO.,LTD pits with a long history of more than 400 years.
In the exhibition hall of LU ZHOU LAO JIAO CO.,LTD Co., Ltd., there is an ivory cylindrical coarse porcelain jar with the words "300-year-old cellar" written on the back and "Yuji Wenyongsheng Winery". According to Mr. Wen Xiaoquan, a descendant of Wen's 1 1 generation, in the eighth year of Tongzhi (A.D. 1869), Wen, the ninth ancestor of Wen's family, bought ten old pits from Luzhou Shujuyuan Distillery to brew 300-year-old Daqu. This package proves that the name of 300-year-old cellar Daqu appeared in the 1970s. Arguably, LU ZHOU LAO JIAO CO.,LTD Co., Ltd. Daqu has a history of more than 400 years.
Zhang Wentao, a famous poet in the Qing Dynasty, came to Luzhou for one day, leaving a swan song of "People are at the door, but they love Luzhou". The old archways in the city are: the first state in southern Sichuan. Its richness can be seen. 19 15 Daqu Liquor of LU ZHOU LAO JIAO CO.,LTD Co., Ltd. won the gold medal of Panama Pacific World Expo, which is world-renowned. 19 16, Zhu De joined Cai E to beg Yuan, stationed in Luzhou, became a military force, and formed Zhenhua Poetry Society with Wen Xiaoquan and others, leaving a patriotic poem of "The wine city is lucky to be safe and sound, and keep its place for one year". Here Zhu De named Luzhou "Wine City".
Today, LU ZHOU LAO JIAO CO.,LTD Co., Ltd. is famous at home and abroad for its "mellow, crisp and sweet, long aftertaste, and especially fragrant after drinking" style, which has become our precious national heritage and is known as the master of brewing. 1952, at the first national wine tasting, LU ZHOU LAO JIAO CO.,LTD Daqu Liquor, Maotai Liquor, Fenjiu Liquor and xifeng liquor were listed as the four famous wines in China. Later, at previous national wine tasting, they all won the title of national famous wine and were designated as the typical representatives of Luzhou-flavor liquor in China. 1996165438+10. In October, LU ZHOU LAO JIAO CO.,LTD Co., Ltd. Chiqun was named by the State Council as the only national key cultural relics protection unit in the national liquor industry, and became a national treasure cellar that will go down in history forever, a veritable "China's first cellar".
Guests from afar will be intoxicated by the fragrance of LU ZHOU LAO JIAO CO.,LTD Co., Ltd. when they come to Luzhou. They can't help smelling the wine, watching the color of the wine, listening to the story of the wine with curiosity and longing, and appreciating the ancient cultural connotation. Luzhou is famous for its old cellar, and its fine wine is passed down to later generations.
History of Luzhou Daqu Liquor: According to the cultural relics unearthed in Luzhou, the history of Luzhou Daqu Liquor can be traced back to the Qin and Han Dynasties, as evidenced by pottery cups unearthed in Luzhou, pottery drinking servants in Han Dynasty and witchcraft prayer pictures on stone reliefs in Han Dynasty. Luzhou in Song Dynasty is famous for its rich glutinous rice, sorghum and corn, and its brewing materials are very rich. According to the food records in History of Song Dynasty, there were also "big wine" and "small wine" in Song Dynasty. The so-called "small wine" refers to "rice wine from spring to autumn", that is, instant drinking. This kind of wine, brewed that year, does not need (or is inconvenient) to store. Because of the differences in the quality of grain raw materials, the quality of koji and the technical level, brewing time and temperature of brewers, there are dozens of grades in price. The so-called "big wine" is a kind of distilled wine. According to the records in the History of Wine, it can be known that Dajiu was baked from laked sorghum distiller's grains after the twelfth lunar month and the distillation process. Moreover, the liquor after "brewing" and "steaming" will be stored for half a year, and it can only be sold after natural aging, which is also commonly known as "summer outing". This kind of "Daqu" brewed and stored by steaming koji is very close to Luzhou Luzhou Luzhou-flavor Daqu liquor in terms of raw material selection, technological operation, fermentation mode and liquor quality, which can be said to be the predecessor of Daqu liquor of LU ZHOU LAO JIAO CO.,LTD Co., Ltd. today.
In Song Dynasty, Luzhou set up six "commercial" organs to collect taxes, one of which was the "wine service" to collect wine tax. The annual liquor tax levied by Luzhou Liquor Service accounts for 65,438+00% of the local total business tax, and ordinary people are not strictly restricted by the prohibition of alcohol, so they can make wine and sell it freely. It can be seen that the scale of Luzhou wine industry in Song Dynasty greatly exceeded the records in the literature.
Luzhou Daqu liquor was formally formed in Yuan and Ming Dynasties. According to the records in Yueweitang Miscellaneous Notes in Qing Dynasty, the first generation of Luzhou Daqu liquor was also brewed in the first year of Taiding in Yuan Dynasty (A.D. 1324). It is said that a brewer named Guo Huaiyu made dry pure koji, which changed the dry, spicy and bitter ingredients in koji medicine from a ditty to a Daqu. Shi, in the first year of Hongxi in Ming Dynasty (AD 1425), studied cellar brewing. At present, only Shujuyuan workshop pits in Wanli period of Ming Dynasty can be studied, which has a history of 430 years. It makes use of the complementary relationship of cultivating pit mud with wine in the early stage and raising wine with pit mud in the later stage, so that microorganisms can penetrate into the wine body layer by layer through the distiller's grains and brew clean, sweet and mellow LU ZHOU LAO JIAO CO.,LTD Co., Ltd. wine. The cellars handed down from this rotten house are the old cellars of LU ZHOU LAO JIAO CO.,LTD Co., Ltd. in the Ming Dynasty, 1, No.2, No.3 and No.4, and they are still in use.