The main components of Erguotou are wheat, sorghum and corn. And the main component of sorghum liquor is sorghum.

2. Different origins

Erguotou: In the middle of Qing Dynasty, Shi Jing shochu workshop was technically reformed to improve the quality of shochu. When used as a cooler when steaming wine, it is called a tin pot, also known as a pot. When steaming wine, the distilled wine vapor should be put into the "wine head" cooled by cold water in the tin pot for the first time and put into the "wine tail" cooled by cold water in the tin pot for other treatment for the third time. Because the wine cooled in the first and third cans contains a variety of low-boiling substances and tastes mixed, the winery only picks the mellow wine cooled by cold water put into the tin can for the second time.

The brewing of Jilin sorghum liquor originated in the Jin Dynasty and flourished in the Qing Dynasty. According to legend, Jilin kaoliang spirit was originally used by the family of Hong Yan Yin Xi, the prime minister of Jin State. At that time, it was called Xiangfu wine. In the first year of Jintiande (1 149), Wan Yanliang, King of Jin Hailing, proclaimed himself emperor, with the title of the first year of Tiande. In order to show the virtue of the son of heaven and the sum of prosperous times, Wan Yan, the grandson of Yin Xi, expanded the scale of domestic brewing, and established a "Tiandesheng Shaoguo" to burn Tiandesheng kaoliang liquor, drink it with the people and sell it to other places.

Extended data:

The history and culture of sorghum liquor;

Jilin kaoliang spirit is a unique product of natural and human factors in Jilin. There are three conditions for its formation: weather, geography, people and so on. The brewing process follows the material view of the five elements in China traditional culture. Gold (distilled liquor in copper pot), wood (aged in the sea of wood wine), water (brewed by underground gravity high-quality spring water), fire (retort fire) and earth (high-quality black land turned into a global golden sorghum production area) are indispensable and go hand in hand.

Jilin is a famous ancient city in the northeast of China, with a history of more than 300 years and rich cultural heritage. According to historical records, during the Sui and Tang Dynasties, jurchen ancestors lived in Jilin, fished and hunted in Baishan and Heishui, and planted miscellaneous grains (sorghum). Due to the cold winter in the north, in order to drive away the cold and warm up, promote blood circulation and relax muscles, _ _ people mastered the technology of brewing wine with grain earlier, and drinking gradually became a hobby in society at that time, and then evolved into a folk custom. Every time there is a festival to worship the gods and ancestors, they will drink and sing and get drunk.

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