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When and how was wine invented?

According to different historical documents, there are different versions of this issue has been controversial:

There are many ways to say that the first person to make wine, the two most important are Yidi and Dukang made wine.

1, according to legend, Yi Di is China's earliest winemaker, known as China's first person to make wine. The pre-Qin historical records mentioned in many places that Yi Di made wine. For example, the "production" chapter of the World Book clearly states: "Yi Di began to make wine and mash, to change the five flavors."

Lv Buwei's "Lv's Spring and Autumn Annals" has "Yidi made wine", and Liu Xiang's "Strategies of the Warring States" further recorded: "In the past, the emperor's daughter asked Yidi to make a beautiful wine, which was brought to Yu, who drank it and sweetened it, and said, "In the future, there will be a person who will drink the wine and the country. So he alienated Yi Di and stopped aiming at wine."

2, it is rumored that as early as in the period of the Yellow Emperor has invented wine, specific information you can query the "Yellow Emperor's Classic of Internal Medicine", which has some content, is the Yellow Emperor and Qibe discussion of wine records.

3. It is rumored that Yi Di invented wine during the Xia Yu period. The second century B.C. history book Lu Shi Chun Qiu (Spring and Autumn Annals of Lu Shi) says: "Yi Di made wine." The Han Dynasty Liu Xiang edited the "Strategies of the Warring States" further explains: "In the past, the emperor's daughter made Yidi make wine and beautiful, into the Yu, Yu drink and sweet, said: the next generation will be drinking wine and the country.

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Misunderstandings of drinking:

1. Wine has analgesic and cardioprotective effects.

Wine can activate the meridians and collaterals, regulate qi and stop pain, can prevent and control wind-cold and damp paralysis and chest paralysis and heart pain, reduce arthritis, coronary heart disease attack chance. Undeniably, drinking alcohol can temporarily relieve the above symptoms, but observational data show that the mortality rate of cancer and cardiovascular disease is positively correlated with the amount of alcohol consumed, and the mortality rate is significantly higher than that of non-drinking people.

2. Wine has the ability to keep you warm and protect you from the cold.

A small amount of alcohol will make the body heat, which is caused by alcohol skin capillaries are in a state of expansion, in the late metabolism of alcohol, it is easy to cause the skin to emit more heat, the formation of "alcohol cold", so that there is a "wine cold cold cold more cold" situation. The situation.

3. Drinking alcohol improves libido.

In most people's minds, alcohol can help boost desire and improve sexual function, and now research has found that alcohol can be directly toxic to the testes and ovaries, and can have a relatively long-lasting effect on male and female sexual function through the hypothalamus and pituitary gland.

Drinking after the stomach hard to ease the way:

1, take the right amount of sugar water, can dilute the concentration of alcohol in the stomach, reduce the absorption of alcohol. Sugar absorption increases the blood sugar concentration, the concentration of wine in the blood decreases, so that the alcohol metabolism and discharge in the body to speed up, to achieve the purpose of sobering up and relieving alcohol.

2, oral saline, can achieve the dilution of alcohol in the stomach and reduce the role of blood alcohol concentration.

3, drink milk can protect the stomach, eat more vegetables, light food.

4, drink more porridge, drink some can be digested better porridge, this time to drink the porridge is not too thick, but need to pay attention to is not to drink more.

5, eat fruit, grapes is a very good choice, in the drink if the regurgitation, then eat some fresh grapes, fresh grapes are rich in tartaric acid, can interact with alcohol in the formation of esters, reduce the concentration of ethanol in the body, to achieve the purpose of alcohol.

At the same time, its sour taste can also effectively relieve the symptoms of regurgitation and nausea after drinking. If you eat grapes before drinking alcohol, you can also effectively prevent drunkenness.

Eating easy-to-digest food for 1-3 days after drinking, preventing overwork, and maximizing the repair of damaged gastric mucosa as soon as possible.

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