And China is the hometown of wine. The ancients said: "There is no feast without wine, and there is no joy without wine." This shows how important wine is in Chinese food culture. Since ancient times, literati and poets have also written many good sayings about wine, such as "The luminous cup of grape wine will prompt you to drink with the pipa", "A pot of wine among the flowers, "Drinking alone, there is no blind date", "I urge you to drink more wine, and there are no old friends when you go west to Yangguan", "The drunkard's intention is not in wine, but in the mountains and rivers", "Today there is wine, I am drunk now, and tomorrow I will be worried."
Chinese weddings and funerals are inseparable from wine. To be precise, liquor is inseparable. Liquor is made from grains as the main raw material. It is a unique kind of beverage in China. It uses Daqu, Xiaoqu or bran koji and distiller's mother as saccharification fermentation agents, and is made through cooking, saccharification, fermentation and distillation. Also known as shochu, laobaigan, shaodaozi, etc. The wine is colorless (or slightly yellow) and transparent, with a pure and fragrant aroma. It has a sweet and refreshing taste and a high alcohol content. After being stored and matured, it has a compound aroma with esters as the main component.
Banquets in China are often called banquets. Not only weddings and funerals are inseparable from wine, but also friends’ gatherings, business dealings, and worldly relationships are all indispensable. Young friends gather together, and men like it. When drinking beer, women like to drink red wine, when negotiating business, they like to use white wine when asking customers, and when asking for help, they also like to give white wine. In short, drunkards don’t care about the wine, but about the emotional communication between people. Toasting and fighting over wine have long become a very important etiquette culture.
After thousands of years of development, Chinese wine has blossomed all over the country. There are brewing workshops everywhere in the south, north, , east, and west. There are wine brewing companies, brands and types in almost every province. There are hundreds of red, white, yellow, beer and other wineries. Such a huge scale of wine production is probably unrivaled by anyone in the world. For example, the more famous ones in Shaanxi include Xifeng Wine, Taibai Wine, Liulin Wine, which are all mainly white wines, and Danfeng Wine, which is mainly engaged in red wine, etc.
Anhui's more famous ones are Gujing tribute wine , Shanxi's more famous ones are Shanxi Fenjiu , Sichuan's more famous ones are Langjiu , Qinghai's more famous ones are Tianyoude highland barley wine, and Guizhou's more famous ones are Maotai wine . Ningxia is more famous for Ningxia Red Wolfberry Wine, Inner Mongolia is more famous for Hetao Wang Wine, Beijing is more famous for Red Star Erguotou , Hebei is more famous for Hengshui Laobaigan, Jiangsu is more famous for Yanghe Daqu , Hunan is more famous for Jiugui Wine , Hubei is more famous for Baiyunbian and so on.
In China, wine, as a special carrier of material culture, occupies a unique position in human communication. Wine culture has penetrated into all areas of human social life and has a great impact on humanistic life, literature and art, medical and health, industrial and agricultural production and other fields. It can be said that wine culture is a very important part of Chinese culture. Just like Chinese tea, it has a profound impact on people all over the world.
China is a country dominated by agriculture, so all political and economic activities are based on agricultural development. The vast majority of Chinese wine is brewed from grain. Wine is closely attached to agriculture and has become a part of the agricultural economy. It is an important way to add value to agricultural production.
Among all kinds of wine, fermented rice wine is also one of the oldest wines in China. It is rich in chlorine-based acids, various sugars, organic acids, vitamins , etc., and has a high caloric value. Since ancient times, it has been regarded as the "fairy wine" and "precious syrup" for health and fitness. Shaoxing and other rice wines have been popular since the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States. They have even become the wine used in palaces and state banquets. In ancient times, rice wine was also an important dowry when marrying a daughter. Many people still follow this custom and collect a red and yellow wine for their daughter in advance, and then use it as a dowry for her daughter when she gets married.
