What are the ancient types of wine in China?

1. yellow wine: in the Ming Dynasty may be specifically referring to the brewing time is longer, darker color of the rice wine.2.

2. white wine: the Ming Dynasty "white wine" is not the current distilled liquor, such as the Ming Dynasty, there is a "Three White Wine

3. Bamboo Leaf Green Wine

4. Dukang Wine

5. Milk Wine

6. Lanling Wine

7. Scholar's Red

8. Daughter's Red

In addition to this, there are also the top ten court tributes:

Top Ten Ancient Chinese Court Tributes:

1, Nine Brewery Spring Wine

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During the Jian'an period of the Eastern Han Dynasty (196 AD), Cao Cao dedicated his hometown's "Nine Brews Spring Wine" (i.e., Gujing Tribute Wine) and its brewing method to Emperor Xian of the Han Dynasty, Liu Xie, and since then, "Nine Brews Spring Wine" (Gujing Tribute Wine) has become a tribute to successive generations.

Gujing Tribute Liquor's trademark registration but quite a lot of trouble: February 26, 1960, the Gujing Distillery according to the level of application for registration of the Gujing brand Gujing Tribute Liquor trademark, March 18, the China Administration for Industry and Commerce, but the letter replied: Gujing Distillery applied for the registration of the Gujing brand trademark can be used, but "Gujing Tribute Liquor," it would be best to change to "Gujing Wine," that is, the "Gujing Tribute Liquor," which is the most popular brand in China. Gujing wine", that is, the word "Gong" can not be used. The Central Administration for Industry and Commerce (CAIC) agreed to use the registered trademark and product profile of Gujing Tribute Wine under the Gujing brand. In May 1960, Gujing Tribute Wine was honored as the famous wine of Anhui Province, and in November 1963, it was awarded the second place of the eight famous wines of China at the Second National Wine Evaluation Conference. From then on, Gujing Gongjiu entered the ranks of China's famous wines, and its name became more and more famous.

During the Ten-Year Catastrophe, the cultural sector and traditional Chinese culture were the most severely ravaged. The most colorful "Gujing Gongjiu" with Chinese traditional culture could not escape the disaster. 1967 Gujing Gongjiu's "Gong" word was put on the hat of "Four Olds" and suffered from war, hundreds of thousands of sets of "Gujing Gongjiu" were destroyed. sets of "Gujing Gongju" trademarks were burned in one fell swoop, and the simple new trademark "Gujing Wine" was put into the hands of "revolutionaries" with the identity of "revolution". "However, the power of culture is not the same as that of the revolutionaries. However, the power of culture cannot be faded. Consumers should be strongly requested, Gujing Distillery in 1973 reported to the Anhui Provincial Bureau of Light Industry to request the resumption of the use of Gujing Gongju trademark. 1973 September 1, Anhui Provincial Revolutionary Committee Bureau of Light Industry issued a document agreeing to restore the name of Gujing Gongju approval.

From then on, Gujing Tribute Wine, a brand that has survived political, economic and cultural vicissitudes, was fixed and loved by the people.

2, He Nian Gongjiu

Founded in the Ming Dynasty Yongle three years of Beijing He Niantang in the Ming and Qing dynasties, specializing in the preparation of the Imperial Palace health wine, health tea, etc. and famous at home and abroad, known as the "capital of the long history of health old first"! Now exclusively for the central state organs of the "1405 - He Nian Gong" series of health wine system using the He Nian Tang six hundred years of imperial health wine brewing technology refined from the color and lustre, taste mellow and fragrant, mild, nutritious, nutritious, nourishing people health care, is the old and middle-aged health care of a good product.

He Niantang to manifold the art of tea in the way of wine, he is good at using the Buddha's hand, osmanthus, kumquat, chennai, rose and so on with a variety of traditional Chinese medicine made of good wine, made of wine, color and lustre is magnificent, red, green, yellow, purple, all crystal clear, flowers and fruits, mellow and sweet aftertaste is long, very suitable for the scholarly and elegant pursuit of romantic mood; and with the relief of depression and gas, preservation of the gallbladder and liver, replenishment of the efficacy of blood, the blood. Drink less to nourish the sex, drink more slightly lavender Yee love, alcohol and no alcohol drunkenness, and the body without wine attack the spleen, stomach and liver of the harm, people do not have alcohol less virtuous behavior of the elephant, from the Yongle Emperor, the wine is listed as the Imperial Palace Imperial Drinks, Yongle Xu Empress, Ci'an in the Qing Dynasty, Cixi, etc., but also to the "Golden CURL Wine" as a common drink for the health of the face. This formula was listed as the palace secret formula, in 1927, according to the inheritance of the formula re-formulation of Jinfo wine, kumquat wine, Jin Yin wine, Jin Cui wine, popular with the capital celebrities and elegant people, and even foreign guests are also eager to drink.

He Niantang again according to the ancient formula and process of research and development production, "1405 - He Nian Gong" series of health wine, once launched, immediately by the pursuit of health and perfection of the people's favorite, become the celebrities get together to drink, friends and family gifts of the top quality, Japan, South Korea, Southeast Asia, and so on, some people have heard of it, before the market, ordered a full.

He Niantang's most prestigious "He Nian Shou Liquor" and other functional health alcohol is even more legendary. Ming Jiajing four years (1525), when only 25-year-old Yan Song served as Nanjing Hanlin Academy readers, calligraphy has been renowned, came to Beijing on official business to live in the south of Caishikou, Jiangsu Guild Hall, from the Herniandang is very close. At this time, the Herniandang has been transferred from the Ding family to the hands of Zhejiang drug dealer Cao Puza. At that time, people called him "Cao Bodhisattva", excellent reputation. One day Yan Song accidentally contracted a minor illness to the Hernian Hall, "Cao Bodhisattva" for him to personally prescribe medicines, talk about it, "Cao Bodhisattva" know Yan Song calligraphy is very good, he asked him to write a plaque to the pharmacy, it is said that Yan Song was glad to pen down the following "Hengniantang" three words, from then on, around this piece of plaque plaque, interpretation of many legends. It is said that this plaque was hung up, it attracted passers-by, people marveled at these three majestic characters, that the capital is no two.

An old scholar from Shanxi, stood under the plaque to scrutinize many, nodding and shaking his head, said: the word is good word, there is a merit, there is a rhyme, but unfortunately, the stroke of the turn, when a treacherous gas. Later, Yan Song really became a powerful minister, of course, this is only the later appendix.

Yan Song inscription plaque, from now on, and Hengnian Hall come and go I up. Later Yan Song Jiajing 15 years (1536) into the capital for the Ministry of Rites Secretary, exhaustion, climb the career, and finally the position of the first minister, due to too much work in the scheme of things, the complexity of the official struggle, such as walking on thin ice, too much effort, just over the age of armor, has been old. He went to the crane year hall to teach the formula, the crane year hall young master Cao Yong use the combination of ancestral law, to cultivate the gas, regulating the principle of qi and blood operation to him formulated "crane year longevity wine", with more than a year, surprisingly white hair becomes black, rosy cheeks. Yan Song and his family have always been in the use of Crane Hall formulated herbal medicine, "crane life wine" is a daily must drink, the body slowly recuperated very healthy, Yan Song life in the whirlwind of political struggles actually lived eighty-nine years (1408-1569) age. Yan Song drank crane years of immortality wine and God refreshing health things, and then passed to the ears of the Jiaqing Emperor, he was happy and angry, happy that the world actually have such a wonderful recipe, angry that "Yan Song has this recipe, not tasted the record, visible hearts are unpredictable ah! So pass the decree to order the hospital to the crane year hall according to the prescription with wine, hand over will be renamed "crane life wine", listed as the palace secret recipe, strictly prohibited outward. This recipe has been passed down to this day, Herni Tang Fuk, Luk, Shou, Jubilee Tribute Sprinkles, is prepared with this series of formulas, the efficacy of the strong, effective, and always very popular.

3, Zaoji wine

Zaoji town is China's famous traditional wine town, is the birthplace of Taoism ancestor Laozi. Its long history of brewing, on can be traced back to the Spring and Autumn, flourished in the Sui and Tang dynasties, the output of the wine was Song Zhenzong Zhao Heng designated as "Palace Tribute Wine", there is a "heavenly famous wine, the earth's famous spring" "Zaojiao set of wine, the name is not false! The beautiful sentence of "Zaoji wine, the name is not false" has been passed down. In 518 BC, the famous thinker and educator in the history of China. Confucianism ancestor Confucius asked to pay a visit to the Taoist ancestor - Laozi (Li Er), Laozi served jujube set brewed wine to entertain Confucius, Confucius drank and then left "but the wine is not as good as the chaos" of the ancient famous saying. Song Zhenzong Zhao Heng in in Xiangfu seven years to come to Luyi worship Laozi, night stay in front of the Laojun Terrace "Ming Dao Palace" drinking jujube set of wine after a great idea, ordered to write down the "Queen of the first heavenly praises monument" stood in front of the Palace of the Qing Dynasty, and the local annual tribute of 20,000 pounds of jujube set of wine as a palace use.

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4, Ling wine

Also known as Ling You record wine. In the Northern Wei Dynasty became the court tribute wine, but also by successive emperors and kings sacrificed to their ancestors as the best sacrificial wine. Lake wine was initially made by farmers in the vicinity of Lake Ling, "home wine", and then gradually entered the market, the Republic of China in 24 years Shanghai edition of the "China Industrial Magazine": the end of the Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the Civil War, Hengyang City, there are 179 breweries, the annual production of wine up to 32,600 quintals. The old city of Hengyang hotel all over the streets and alleys, there are "grass bridge wine hundred" praise. In the four townships of Hengyang nowadays, every family brews wine. During festivals and celebrations, the wine is used to treat guests. Lake wine has a wide range of uses, in addition to beverage wine, but also used as a culinary accompaniment, to remove corrosion and deodorization, add color and aroma. Its lees plus starch eggs, sweet lees boiled in soup, etc. delicious.

5, Hongmao wine

Hongmao wine was created in the Qing Dynasty Kangxi thirty-two years (A.D. 1693), so far there have been more than three hundred years of production history. It is produced in the ancient town of Hongmao in Liangcheng County, Inner Mongolia.

Unique geographical features, unique climate, unique raw material treasure, unique quality of water, unique brewing technology, resulting in the Hongmao base wine is smooth, crisp and refreshing, mellow and pleasant.

In the fourth year of the Qianlong reign in the Qing dynasty, Wang Jitian, a famous Chinese medicine practitioner in Yuji County, Shanxi Province, traveled to the ancient town of Hongmao to see the excellent wine, and then resolutely bought Hongmao base wine (then called Hongmao liquor or Hongmao wine) brewing tank workshop, the family's secret herbal medicine recipe passed down through the generations with the wine immersion, made of Hongmao medicinal wine with outstanding efficacy. Since then, Wang Jitian stopped the sale of this wine, specializing in the use of Hongmao medicinal wine as the base wine, which makes this wine even more mysterious, and the outside world is rarely seen. During the Daoguang period, it was selected as a tribute wine for the court together with Hongmao Medicine Wine. During the war, Marshal He Long often drank this wine during his work in Liangcheng to protect himself from the cold outside the city.

6, lamb wine

Lamb wine formula is unique, with sophisticated materials, the use of high-quality corn, tender lamb, fresh fruit and precious Chinese herbs aged and made of wine industry amber, alcohol degree of 17 degrees, the integration of ester, milk, fruit, medicinal scent, sweet and sour in one, the style is unique, with nourishing yin moistening the lungs, replenish the vital energy, strengthen the waist and kidneys, appetizer, spleen, nourishing the liver and eyesight and beauty of hair. The effect.

During the Three Kingdoms period, Zhuge Liang rewarded his three armies with lamb wine. In "The Empty City Plan", when Sima Yi's troops were approaching the city, Zhuge Liang sang from the city tower: "Open the city gate to welcome you, I reward your three armies with lamb wine." Tang Dynasty lamb wine as a tribute to the court, for the emperor to enjoy, Tang Xuanzong Li Longji to Yang Guifei twenty birthday, from the "Shenxiang Pavilion" Tribute Wine for Yang Guifei specially selected "lamb wine" to congratulate, Guifei drunkenness, dancing, jumping up the "Nishang Yuyi Dance", Xuanzong wine Xing row hit playing music. Song dynasty great writer Su Dongpo in the guests drink lamb wine, pen wrote "try to open the cloud dream lamb wine, quick diarrhea Qian Tang medicine king ship" of the beautiful poem, Ming dynasty medicine Li Shizhen in the famous book "Compendium of Materia Medica" recorded: "lamb wine healthy spleen and stomach, benefit waist and body, replenish vital energy "The nourishing health care products; Qing Dynasty scholar Li Ruzhen in the "Mirror Flower" recorded that the lamb's wine is produced in Luancheng, and will be listed as the amount of 55 kinds of famous wine at that time.

7, Xinghuacun Fenjiu

According to the Book of Northern Qi, Xinghuacun Fenjiu has become the court tribute wine in the period of North and South Dynasties 1500 years ago. Du Mu, a great poet of Tang Dynasty, sang "Where is the wine shop, the shepherd boy is pointing to the Apricot Blossom Village" to make the Apricot Blossom Village and Fen Wine famous in the world, known to women and children. Tang State History Supplement, Northern Song Dynasty Zhu Yizhong's Beishan Wine Classic, Dou Ge's Wine Spectrum, Zhang Nengchen's Wine Name Record, Yuan Dynasty Song Boren's Wine History, Ming Dynasty Wang Shizhen's Wine Product, and Qing Dynasty Yuan Mei's Food List in the Garden have all recorded that Xinghuacun wine has been a famous wine in the past generations. At the beginning of the last century in 1915, Fenjiu was honored with the Class A Gold Medal at the Panama Universal Exposition, becoming an excellent representative of China's national industry.

8. Wugapi Wine

Wugapi wine is the oldest tribute wine. Wugapi wine is formulated from a variety of Chinese herbs, about which there is a beautiful legend.

Legend, the East China Sea Dragon King's five princesses Jia Maiden descended to earth, and mortals to the center and in love with each other. Because of the difficulties of life five Gongwen proposed to brew a kind of both fitness and cure the disease of the wine, to the center and feel difficult. The fifth official asked Zhi Zhong He to brew the wine according to her method and put in a certain proportion of traditional Chinese medicine. When putting in the herbs, Princess Wu sang a song: "A flavor of angelica tonifies the heart and blood, and concubine yellow is used to remove blood stasis and dissolve dampness. Gan Song awakens the spleen and removes evil, disperses stagnation and harmonizes the stomach with Guang Mu Xiang. Menthol is cool and clears the head and eyes, and papaya soothes and refreshes the spirit. Hawthorn can suppress dampness, and wind-cold paralysis can open up. The bark of Wuga has a strange fragrance, nourishes the liver and kidney, strengthens the muscles and bones, harmonizes all medicines and adds licorice, Gui Zhi Yu Zhu can not be forgotten. The twelve branches of the earth's branches, increase or decrease all the wonderful formula." It turns out that this song contains twelve kinds of Chinese medicines, which is the recipe for the Five Princesses' Wugapi Wine. In order to avoid suspicion, Princess Wu named the wine "Zhi Zhong He Wu Jia Pei Wine". According to the Shennong Materia Medica of the Qin and Han Dynasties, "the mother of the Duke of Lu Ding took Wuga Pi Wine alone, so that she did not die".

9, chrysanthemum wine

According to the Eastern Jin Dynasty Ge Hong's "Xijing Miscellany Yi Yi," when Han Gaozu, the palace "September 9, wear cornelian cherry blossom, eat lotus bait, drink chrysanthemum wine. The cloud makes people live longer". According to the Southern Liang Guan Jun compiled "continued Qi Harmony Records" records, "September 9 ......, drink chrysanthemum wine, woe can be eliminated". This is the beginning of the old custom of the ninth for the Chongyang Festival, need to drink chrysanthemum wine.

Mr. Pu Jie once wrote a poem for chrysanthemum white wine: "comparable to lotus white, stirrups neighboring bamboo leaf green. The chrysanthemum boasts of its longevity, and the medicine evaluates its longevity. The new flavor of alcohol, the old forbidden court. The long march is a companion, and the leap forward must not be stopped." The poem for Lotus White Wine reads, "Brewing beautiful alcohol condensation dew, the fragrance is far away from the essence, the secret formula is passed on to the forbidden court, the longevity of the world to the famous."

10, "with Shengjin" shochu

June 9, 1996, an amazing archaeological discovery in Jinzhou, Liaoning Province. People relocated the old Jinzhou Lingchuan Brewery General Factory, by chance in the underground 80 centimeters found four wooden wine sea (ancient wine containers), wine sea is well-preserved within the pleasant aroma of liquor. The wine sea was constructed of red birch, 2.62 meters long, 1.31 meters wide, and 1.64 meters deep, and the box was lined with about 1,500 layers of rice paper dipped in deer blood. These rice paper in Chinese characters, waterlogged instruments written in "Qing dynasty Daoguang B already year", "with Sheng Jin", "Qing dynasty" and other words. Through these records and other relics, cultural relics and archaeologists confirmed that this is "with Shengjin" wine shop in the Qing dynasty Daoguang twenty-five years sealed, these wines not only long life, but also very good to drink.

"Shochu" is aged, yellowish color, alcohol 53%, physical, chemical and health indicators in line with national food hygiene standards. As it is a tribute wine, it is sealed with deer blood dipped in rice paper, and more than 150 years of soaking makes the deer blood seep into the wine, which is effective.

According to the Liaoning Provincial Archaeological Research Institute and the China Food Craft Association of liquor professional association after repeated verification that: this batch of the Qing Dynasty tribute wine is the world's longest caves Tibetan liquor, it and wine vessels "wood wine sea" found on the study of Chinese wine culture has an extremely important value.