Liquor tastes spicy. Why does it represent our national culture?

Many people come home from work at night, dragging their tired bodies, and usually make two cold dishes, then pour a glass of wine, wash up and eat the table. Then I fell asleep in bed, and I was radiant again the next morning. A day's work.

Modern highly distilled liquor was formally invented in the Ming Dynasty. It was also in the Ming Dynasty that this kind of distilled liquor appeared. Before the appearance of distilled liquor in Ming Dynasty, China liquor was actually a traditional fermented liquor. The wine with the highest degree should be regarded as grey wine. The method of making grey wine is to add plant ash to the wine. This wine is not for people to drink, but for injuries. Because alcohol and plant ash will not react, but the water in the fermented wine will be absorbed by plant ash, so the alcohol content of grey wine is relatively high.

From a global perspective, there are many countries and regions with liquor culture, but liquor is absolutely unique. For a simple example, we can drink foreign wine, but most foreigners can't drink white wine. Liquor is highly distilled. It was a little cold at first, and then it was hot. A warm current rushed down like a waterfall and exploded completely in the stomach. Flowing to the limbs. As the warm current dissipates, the drinker's face will have a blush.

We can often see on TV that foreigners often go to bars to drink. When you drink in a bar, you usually only drink a lot of wine, and you can hardly eat cold dishes. But we are different. Normal people choose roadside shops to drink, and most people drink with many side dishes.

From the way of brewing, liquor belongs to a kind of grain wine. There is nothing to guess. We are a farming civilization, and the output of fruit is not very high, so many people use grain as the main raw material for wine making. The main raw materials of yellow rice wine, yellow rice wine and white wine are grain crops, glutinous rice, millet and sorghum. Once we talk about liquor, we have to talk about its social application. Liquor is as important as tea as social media. When old friends meet, push a cup for a change. When the two sides talk about business, they wear suits and ties and talk very well. Of course, there are some alcoholics like me. When I come home from work, I will definitely serve dishes and taste the wine.

The aroma of liquor is hidden behind the boiling liquor slurry. I just felt hot when I first drank it. After the heat has passed, you can feel the mellow flavor of liquor. Therefore, the aroma of liquor is actually very restrained. Culturally, both Confucian culture and Taoist culture believe that being a gentleman should be very reserved and restrained. Even now, it is the same. The two are consistent at this point.