The Origin of Shuanggou Daqu

The unique geographical environment has created a long history of brewing in Shuanggou. According to He Zhi of Sihong, Shuanggou Brewing was founded in 1732 (the tenth year of Yongzheng in Qing Dynasty) and has a history of nearly 300 years. In a long history, Shuanggou wine industry has accumulated a profound cultural heritage. There are many beautiful legends about Shuanggou wine, among which the most widely circulated are the legends of Jiumei, a Quge, and Jiumu, a Divine Melody. Ancient and modern literati, generals, scholars, etc. It also left touching poems for Shuanggou Liquor, such as Su Dongpo, Ouyang Xiu, Yang Wanli and Fan Chengda. In the Song Dynasty, there were Huang Jiuyan, and in the Ming Dynasty, there were contemporary Chen Yi and his son, Ye Shengtao, Lu, Ru Zhijuan, Lv Yuan and Zou Difan. In many beautiful poems, Shuanggou wine has been fragrant every day for thousands of years.

After Su Dongpo, a great writer in the Song Dynasty, was demoted, his best friend Zhang Zhijun sent Shuanggou wine and Shuanggou fruit "Big Head Crisp" for the poet to taste. Su Dongpo said impromptu after tasting. One of them is good: "A cold inkstone wants a book to freeze first, and a lonely lamp makes a flower alone, so that you can share crisp wine in the middle of the night and make your wife laugh." During the reign of Song Renzong, Tang Jie was demoted. When he crossed the Huaihe River by Shuanggou, he also left "Saint Fei Song fanatics, and the Huaihe River is different from Miluo. A lifetime of advice, today's wind and rain. Ships are dangerous, and there are many fish and dragons. Fortunately, there is nothing to do in the sunset, and I drink and listen to fishing songs. " According to local records, in the early years of Qing Qianlong, there were more than a dozen wineries in Shuanggou Town, and the wine they produced depended on the flood and drought docks near the lake and Huaihe River. When transported to various places, people have the reputation of "seeing the scenery and Yangzhou, drinking and drinking double ditch". Shuanggou Daqu was rated as the first famous wine and won the gold medal at the Nanyang wine persuasion meeting in the late Qing Dynasty. This heyday lasted all the way to War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression. During the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression period, Liu Shaoqi, Chen Yi, Deng Zihui and Peng Xuefeng, the proletarian revolutionaries of the older generation of our Party, often took Shuanggou Quande Winery, the predecessor of Shuanggou Liquor Industry, as a secret battle point to plan and direct War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression. At that time, the winery owner He Zimo was also invited to be a county senator. Marshal Chen Yi's famous poem "A Spring Tour in Daliuxiang" was written in Shuanggou. 1979, Chen, the eldest son of Marshal Chen Yi and then secretary of the Secretariat of the Central Committee of the Communist Youth League, wrote a poem "Sauvignon Blanc" when he went to Jiangsu Shuanggou Winery to search for the remains of his ancestors, and presented it to Jiangsu Shuanggou Winery, the predecessor of Shuanggou Winery. The poem said: "Ancient Sizhou, drunken ape state, special wine is used as the head of Huai River, and the aroma is high. Strive for the upper reaches, and then upstream, it is worthy of China's first-class, and the world is famous for its double ditch. "