In fact, anyone who has seen the history of ancient wine culture in China will understand that yellow rice wine has always been the mainstream of drinking in China. Until the Qing Dynasty, rice wine was still a popular drink, and the popularity of liquor was far from that of rice wine. It stands to reason that yellow rice wine should be a model of China liquor. What is even more regrettable is that in contemporary society, as long as China liquor is mentioned, the first thing people think of is basically pure grain wine.
In fact, the prosperity of liquor is mainly due to the decline of yellow rice wine, and then it stands on the advantage of Chinese wine. Therefore, from the alcohol content, people's acceptance, history, humanities and other aspects, yellow wine is far better than pure grain wine.
First of all, rice wine is effective. In ancient China, people listed hot rice wine as a health food, and drank it in winter, which had the function of strengthening the body. Secondly, the alcohol content of yellow rice wine is relatively low, which can be drunk by men, women and children, and will not lead to drunkenness due to excessive drinking. But why can pure grain wine surpass yellow rice wine and become a model of China liquor, and even there is an auction market for pure grain wine in China?
1, pure grain and pure wine can also warm people up.
The relative height of pure grain liquor is good or bad. The disadvantage is that there are few people who can accept drinking, and many people who can't accept the pungent and rich taste refuse to drink pure grain wine because they don't drink enough. The advantage is that high alcohol content can make people warm up quickly in cold weather. This makes people in the northern areas who are often frozen in winter use it, so you will find that in the three northeastern provinces of China, in winter, the northeast man who enters the mountains always brings a bottle of burning knife to keep warm.
2. It doesn't take long for liquor to mature.
Maturity is a technical term in liquor culture. Whether it is red wine, yellow wine or pure grain wine, aging will improve the price, quality and taste of liquor. The aging of yellow rice wine takes a long time and the taste changes greatly. The brewed rice wine has a pungent taste and the channel feels spicy. However, after aging, the taste of yellow rice wine will become more and more mellow and the aroma will overflow, so the price of aged yellow rice wine is generally higher. The most popular daughter wine in Jiangnan is to make rice wine mature when you want your daughter to grow up.
Pure grain wine, though aged, has no difference in taste after aging. It can be said that there is not much difference in taste and fragrance between pure grain wine aged for ten years and pure grain wine aged for fifteen years, but the price is different at most. The aging of liquor naturally does not take too long, and the cost is reduced. Pure grain wine is very suitable for people's life in today's society.
3. Pure grain wine has a set of "national standards"
At present, there is often a "quality" gap between rice wine and liquor, because pure grain wine has a perfect whole industrial chain and a set of "national standards". What is good liquor, what is ordinary pure grain wine, and where is the key to the price level are also listed in detail. However, rice wine still belongs to the category of crossing the river by feeling the stones. It is hard to say that rice wine in the past was good rice wine, nor that rice wine in the south was good rice wine. Without standards, of course, it cannot be developed.
Having said that, I think everyone can understand why the development of yellow rice wine has not been carried forward, but has gradually become lonely. However, the pure grain wine that happened later is still thriving, which replaced the brilliant influence of rice wine and became the representative wine of China. It's a pity for sake of sake.