Maotai liquor is maotai-flavor liquor, which is produced in renhuai city. Sima Qian's Biography of Shi Ji Southwest Yi records that Liu Che, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, drank Goujian, a famous wine produced by Yelang (now northern Guizhou), for more than 0/30 years BC, and could not help praising its sweetness.
Then there was the history that Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty sent general Tang Meng to Guizhou to open up foreign roads and bypass Renhuai, where Maotai was located. There was a saying, "What is the gouache of China government? Earn Tang laughed and called Maotai an ancient one. Goujiang was proved to be a wine fermented from fruits and food in Chishui River area of Renhuai.
As we all know, the origin of Moutai is on the Chishui River in Renhuai, Guizhou. Therefore, Hulu Maotai-flavor wine can be traced back to the "predecessor" of Moutai, and Hulu Maotai-flavor wine has a history of more than 2,000 years.
Fenjiu is the oldest "four famous wines" in China.
Fenyang Fenyang Fenyang City, Shanxi Province is produced in Xinghua Village, a fragrant liquor. It is said that Fenjiu has a history of more than 4000 years. As for when the name originated, further research is needed, but as early as 65,438+0,400 years ago, the name of Fenqing was produced.
According to the Book of the Northern Qi Dynasty, Wu Chengdi Gao Zhan of the Northern Qi Dynasty wrote in a letter from Jinyang to Wang Xiaomo in Kang Shu, Henan Province: "I will drink two cups of Fenqing. Advise you to drink two cups at Ye "; In the Song Dynasty, Beishan Jiujing recorded: "Fenzhou produced dry wine in the Tang Dynasty"; "Wine Name" has "the most famous Ganlu Hall in Fenzhou in Song Dynasty", all of which are about Fenjiu.
Fenjiu, as the royal wine of the court, was highly praised by Wu Chengdi in the Northern Qi Dynasty and was recorded in the twenty-four histories, which made Fenjiu famous in one fell swoop. At the end of the Tang Dynasty, the great poet Du Mu wrote a poem "Tomb-Sweeping Day", which is the swan song of the ages: "Excuse me, where is the restaurant? The shepherd boy pointed to Xinghua Village. "
Of course, 1400 years ago, there was no distilled liquor in China, and the "Fenjiu" and "Dry Brewing" recorded in historical materials were all yellow rice wine.
The oldest "four famous wines" in China, the third is LU ZHOU LAO JIAO CO.,LTD Co., Ltd.
LU ZHOU LAO JIAO CO.,LTD is a Luzhou-flavor liquor produced in Sichuan. Judging from the cultural relics unearthed in Luzhou, the history of Luzhou liquor can be traced back to the Qin and Han Dynasties, which can be proved by the pottery horn wine glasses unearthed in Luzhou, the pottery drinking servants in Han Dynasty and the witchcraft prayer pictures on the sarcophagus in Han Dynasty. That is to say, LU ZHOU LAO JIAO CO.,LTD Co., Ltd. has a history of more than two thousand years.
But a more accurate record began in the Song Dynasty, when the raw materials for brewing were very rich. According to the Records of the History of the Song Dynasty, there were also "big wines" and "small wines" in the Song Dynasty. The so-called "big wine" is a kind of distilled wine. According to the records in the history of liquor, Dajiu is a kind of liquor baked from gelatinized sorghum lees after the twelfth lunar month. Moreover, after liquor has been "brewed" and "steamed", it has to be stored for half a year, and it can only be sold after natural aging, which is the so-called "summer harvest". This kind of "Dajiu" steamed from distiller's yeast is very close to Luzhou Luzhou-flavor liquor in terms of raw material selection, technological operation, fermentation method and liquor quality, and it can be said that it is the predecessor of Daqu liquor of LU ZHOU LAO JIAO CO.,LTD Co., Ltd. today.
In Song Dynasty, Luzhou set up six "commercial" organs to collect taxes, one of which was the "wine service" to collect wine tax.
Luzhou Daqu liquor was formally formed in Yuan and Ming Dynasties. According to the records in Yueweitang Miscellaneous Notes in the Qing Dynasty, the first generation of LU ZHOU LAO JIAO CO.,LTD Co., Ltd. Daqu liquor was also brewed in the first year of Taiding in the Yuan Dynasty (A.D. 1324). Shi, in the first year of Hongxi in Ming Dynasty (AD 1425), studied cellar brewing.
At present, the cellar pool of Shujuyuan workshop in Wanli period of Ming Dynasty has a history of more than 400 years. It makes use of the complementary relationship of cultivating pit mud with wine in the early stage and raising wine with pit mud in the later stage, so that microorganisms can penetrate into the wine body through distiller's grains layer by layer, and brew clean, sweet, mellow and plump LU ZHOU LAO JIAO CO.,LTD stock wine.
The cellar pool handed down from this rotten house is the Ming Dynasty cellar pool of LU ZHOU LAO JIAO CO.,LTD Co., Ltd., which is still in use. The wine produced by Laojiaochi is the high-end wine of LU ZHOU LAO JIAO CO.,LTD Co., Ltd.-Guojiao 1573.
China's oldest "four famous wines", the fourth is xifeng liquor.
Xifeng liquor is a Fengxiang wine produced in Fengxiang County, Shaanxi Province. It is said that xifeng liquor began in Shang Dynasty and flourished in Tang and Song Dynasties. It has a history of more than 2600 years. As early as the Tang Dynasty, it was famous for being listed as a treasure.
Fengxiang is the birthplace of the phoenix in folklore, and there are stories about Feng Ming Qishan and playing flute to attract the phoenix. After the Tang Dynasty, it was also the location of Xifu terraced fields, which was called Xifu Fengxiang. Hence the name wine. When Su Shi worked in Fengxiang, he also loved to drink this wine. He once praised xifeng liquor with the beautiful words "Let's have a look at the deserted and delicate Nanshan".
Chinese wine culture is extensive and profound. Whether it is Maotai or LU ZHOU LAO JIAO CO.,LTD, with the change of dynasties, the change of history and the continuous improvement of wine-making technology, it gradually formed today's appearance, appeared in front of our eyes, and let us taste the flavor of famous China wines across ancient and modern times. It is not easy.