Why do most women tread songs in the process of soy sauce?

The tradition of using women to step on sauce koji has been popular for a long time. In the traditional song-making process, unmarried women are needed to step on the song. The ancients thought that women were yin, and they were yin and yin. Men are yang, sorghum is yang, yang. Women step on songs, men step on sand. Yin and Yang are harmonious, thus conforming to the so-called "Yin and Yang" and "Five Elements" philosophy. Make the maotai-flavor wine reach higher quality.

In ancient times, due to the influence of feudal backward thoughts, trampling on the identity of women was very particular. The daughter of a small family can't step on Qu. When stepping on Qu, she usually chooses a good family, thinking that the wine can be holy and clean.

The starter needs to be tight outside and loose inside, which is convenient for crushing and fermentation. Young girls are light and strong enough to achieve this goal. If you are a big and fat girl, the effect will be greatly reduced if you step on the starter three times and two times. And because it is high-temperature koji-making, women are physiologically more heat-resistant than men. Therefore, in ancient times when science and technology were underdeveloped, this was undoubtedly the most "scientific" choice.

At the same time, the biggest advantage of women stepping on koji is that there are less secretions and molds on women's feet, and even sweating will not affect the pH of koji, thus ensuring the purity of koji. In the process of brewing, a variety of microorganisms in wine grow in balance. Therefore, the tradition of using women to step on the wine has slowly continued to the present. But now it's not for the sake of the so-called sacredness of wine, but because women can't do super-strong and excessive work, and the workload and labor intensity of stepping on Qu are just suitable for women themselves, so there are still many female workers in the stepping workshops of many wineries.