Wine culture has a long history, so how was wine born?

Today, we will introduce China's wine culture: China's wine culture has a long history, and the production of wine was not invented by human beings; Wine is a natural product. In nature, wild fruit will produce wine after fermentation. It is no exaggeration to say that human beings often tasted wine during the ape period.

The appearance of pottery created conditions for artificial brewing. Pottery products appeared six thousand years ago, and the history of artificial wine-making can be traced back to that period. It can be inferred from "Yaoshun Qianzhong" in Confucius that Qianzhong mentioned in the book is a kind of fruit wine, which shows that wine was very popular in Yaoshun period.

At the time of Dayu, China people had already started to make wine, which can be known from Historical Records, which recorded the fact that Yidi brewed purport wine for Emperor Yu. Since then, every dynasty has passed down brewing technology and gradually developed and improved it.

The raw materials for brewing are mainly fruits and grains, and its brewing needs to go through three processes, namely cooking, koji fermentation and pressing; The wine people drank before the Yuan Dynasty was brewed by this process. During the Jin and Yuan Dynasties, there was a breakthrough in wine-making technology, and distillation technology was gradually used.

The time of this technological change is inferred from ancient books and archaeological discoveries. 1975 A copper distiller was unearthed in Qinglong County, Hebei Province. This distiller can be used to make wine. After testing, it was found that its age was between 1 16 1 year and1/90.

The presumption of this time is also supported by Li Shizhen's Compendium of Materia Medica, which describes that brewing technology has changed since the Yuan Dynasty. It is pointed out that alcohol can be purified by distillation instead of the last pressing process, which is basically the case in modern wine-making technology.

In the process of its continuous development, wine-making technology has been improved, drinking culture has also changed, and people's understanding of wine is more abundant; People in power in various times have stipulated many relevant laws and regulations on wine making and drinking, and the vessels for holding wine are constantly changing with the development of wine culture and times.