The History and Culture of Jiujiang Town

First, it was named after nine rivers in Jiujiang flowed into Xijiang in the early days.

Second, there are many rivers in Jiujiang. The ancients used "nine" to mean "many" and took their hometown as Jiujiang.

Zhenjiang Water, Huangchuan, Wuxi and Lingwai Ganquan are all famous rivers, and the bells will flow into the sea. In the words of the nine schools in Xunyang, the Vietnamese name is Jiujiang.

4. According to the Records of Jiujiang Township in the South China Sea and the Records of Jiujiang Rulin Township, the name of Jiujiang was taken from the Jiujiang Dayang reach in the lower reaches of the Xijiang River, and the ancient "Jiujiang Dayang Bay" was the reach near the upper and lower reaches of the Dieshan Mountain (commonly known as "Dandansha").

Note: Jiujiang doesn't have the abbreviation of "Confucianism", but it is circulated by individuals or orally on Jiujiang Forum, which is not officially recognized! Jiujiang dialect (Jiujiang town dialect) is a unique language in Jiujiang town. It has its own unique vocabulary, grammar and pronunciation, and it is also different from Cantonese. It is an indispensable culture of Jiujiang.

Jiujiang dialect is a precious and unique Cantonese dialect left by our predecessors. Different from pure Cantonese, it has a unique style. As the saying goes, the local accent remains unchanged, and the nostalgia remains unchanged. The pronunciation of Jiujiang dialect has been forgotten by many Jiujiang people. As Jiujiang people's culture, we need to take action to protect Jiujiang dialect culture. Jiujiang Dragon Boat usually sinks to the bottom of the water and is buried in mud to prevent wood from rotting. Every year on the eve of dragon boat activities, the dragon boat will be "lifted", dug out of the underwater soil, and then the dragon tail will be cleaned, painted and renovated, and tools and ornaments will be prepared. When an activity is held, it is necessary to install a dragon's tail before dawn every day, and then carry out "green picking". After dawn, the dragon boat is dressed up and cruising back and forth in the Weichong section of Jiujiang, which is called "Youlong". The next day, the contracted dragon boats got together, competed for the high bid, gave each other colorful flags, and visited each other in the village, and invited them to eat dragon boat rice. After dinner, the agreed dragon boat paddled in the river to bid farewell, commonly known as "seeing off the appointment", and didn't stop until late at night. Activities usually last for 2-3 days, and some last for several days. After that, the dragon boat will sink into the water.

Jiujiang rowing dragon boat is not on the Dragon Boat Festival, but on the National Day. (Dragon Boat Race was held in Shatou on May 1 ST Labor Day) In Jiujiang and Shatou, it was very popular to row dragon boats on the Dragon Boat Festival in the Ming and Qing Dynasties. During the Republic of China, dragon boat races were held in August and September when autumn was cool and agriculture was short. After War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression's victory, he decided to row the dragon boat on June 10. After the founding of New China, Youlong and Dragon Boat Race celebrated the National Day on June 10, and the Dragon Boat Festival stopped. Jiujiang double steamed wine-advertisements from Hong Kong are all over the street, and Marlboro is in the wine.

Jiujiang double steamed wine was founded in the early years of Daoguang in Qing Dynasty, and has a history of nearly 200 years. Over the past two centuries, through the hard work and wisdom of several generations of Jiujiang ancestors, Jiujiang double steamed wine has gradually formed a unique brewing technology. It mainly uses rice as raw material, and uses rice and soybeans to make koji. Adding steamed rice, fermenting again, cooling distilled liquor, storing, soaking aged meat, carefully blending, filtering and packaging. It has a unique style of "Jade Qing Bing Shuang, pure soy sauce, mellow and smooth, and sweet aftertaste".

The traditional brewing technology of Jiujiang double-steamed wine was bred and formed under the unique ecological environment and humanistic conditions in Jiujiang, South China Sea, with distinctive regional cultural characteristics. With the help of the suitable local climate, clear water quality and unique brewing technology along the Xijiang River, Jiujiang people brew high-quality rice wine suitable for drinking in Lingnan climate. The development history of Jiujiang traditional double steamed wine brewing technology is not only the professional development history of Jiujiang wine industry in the South China Sea since Ming and Qing Dynasties, but also the development history of handicrafts and commerce in the South China Sea, and it is also a part of the development history of Lingnan culture, which witnessed the difficult course of overseas survival of Chinese.

The traditional brewing technology of Jiujiang double steamed wine, like other traditional technologies in China, embodies the primitive spirit of the Chinese nation. With the continuous sales and export of Jiujiang double-steamed wine in China, this spirit has formed a cultural influence across time and space, laying the foundation for Jiujiang double-steamed wine traditional brewing technology to have precious historical, scientific, humanistic, folk-custom, economic and social values.

1952, Jiujiang Town 12 Winery formed a joint venture, which became the predecessor of Jiujiang Winery and the only inheritance unit of Jiujiang double steaming brewing technology. Up to now, Jiujiang double steamed wine has an annual output of more than 40,000 tons, and it sells well in Guangdong, Hong Kong, Macao, Guangxi, Hainan and even Chinatown in Europe and America.