The origin and legend of Zhejiang Shaoxing yellow wine culture

Zhejiang is a province with a very rich wine culture, especially Zhejiang Shaoxing yellow wine. Zhejiang Shaoxing yellow wine is a famous specialty of Zhejiang, and is an intoxicating flavor of wheat in the culture of Zhejiang. On the origin of Zhejiang Shaoxing yellow wine has a long history of legend, let us go together to see the unique Zhejiang Shaoxing yellow wine.

Yellow wine is one of the world's three major ancient wines, originating in China, and only China has, can be said to be unique. Yellow wine origin is wide, there are many varieties, the famous shaoxing rice wine, fujian old wine, jiangxi jiujiang seal cylinder wine, jiangsu danyang seal cylinder wine, wuxi huizuan wine, guangdong pearl red wine, shandong imo old wine, langleng wine, qin yang black rice wine, shanghai old wine, dalian yellow wine, beizong yellow wine, and so on. However, it is recognized by the Chinese winemaking industry that the most popular one in the international and domestic markets, which can represent the total characteristics of Chinese yellow wine, is Shaoxing wine.

Shaoxing wine has a long history, from the Spring and Autumn period, when it was recorded in the Lüshi Chunqiu (Spring and Autumn Annals), the name of Shaoxing wine has appeared repeatedly in historical documents. Especially in the Qing Dynasty, the famous dietary book "Tuning Dingji" gave a more comprehensive description of the historical evolution of Shaoxing wine, its varieties and fine qualities, and at that time, Shaoxing wine was already popular throughout the country, and was unique in the category of wine. Shaoxing wine is famous at home and abroad, mainly because of its excellent quality.

Yuan Mei in the Qing Dynasty, "with the garden food list" in praise: "Shaoxing wine such as the clean officials, do not participate in a false, and the flavor of the real and such as the celebrities Jieying, stay in the world, read all the world and the quality of the thicker". Tune Ding set" in the Shaoxing wine compared with other local wine that: "like the world of wine, there are a lot of gray, drinking is thirsty, and Shaoxing wine alone; the world of wine is mostly sweet, drinking is full of people in the body boredom, and the Shaoxing wine of the nature of the aromatic mellow and strong, go and do not keep, so those who are addicted to it for the top grade, not a private assessment. And the quality of shaoxing wine made "taste sweet, color clear, gas aroma, power mellow top quality only Chen Shaoxing wine for the first" generalization. This shows that Shaoxing wine's four aspects of color, aroma and flavor have been unique in the wine category.

Legend of Shaoxing Yellow Wine

The famous Shaoxing "flower carving wine" is also known as "daughter wine". According to the Chinese Jin Dynasty Shangyu Jihan's "Southern Tree and Grass", "Daughter Wine was a must-have for rich families to give birth to and marry their daughters in the olden days", and there is a story about this name!

Once upon a time, there was a master tailor in Shaoxing, took his wife wanted a son. One day, found his wife pregnant. He was very happy, rushed home, brewed a few wine, ready to get a son to entertain friends and relatives. Unexpectedly, his wife gave birth to a daughter. At that time, people in the community are patriarchal, the tailor is no exception, he was furious, will be a few altars of wine buried in the backyard under the laurel tree.

Light is like an arrow, the daughter grew into adulthood, born smart and clever, actually the tailor's craft are very proficient, but also learned a handful of good embroidery, the tailor's business is also therefore more and more prosperous. The tailor saw that it was not bad to have a daughter! So he decided to marry her to his favorite apprentice, and happily arranged the wedding for his daughter. On the wedding day, wine and treats, the master tailor drink drink very happy, suddenly remembered more than ten years ago buried under the osmanthus tree a few altars of wine, they dug out the treats, as a result, once the altar was opened, the aroma of the nose, the color of the mellow taste, extremely good. So, we called this wine "daughter red" wine, also known as "daughter wine".

Since then, the next door neighbors, near and far, when the family gave birth to a daughter, the brewing of wine buried, when the marriage of the daughter will be dug wine treats, formed a custom. Later, even the birth of a male child, also in accordance with the brewing, buried wine, looking forward to the son in the scholar to celebrate drinking, so the wine is also called "scholar red". "Daughter's Red" and "Scholar's Red" are both aged wines that have been stored for a long time. The wine is so fragrant and delicious that people give it as a valuable gift.