How much do you know about your hometown's "wine culture"?

As a Hunanese, you should feel quite proud of Hunan's wine culture, especially Jugui, wine Xiangquan series. The current wine culture contains a strong political consciousness, in which the spirit of patriotism is most prominent. But before that, Hunan's history and culture, wine culture is also a very important part. With Autumn Sugar landing in Changsha, it's time to learn more about Hunan's wine culture! Hunan people like to drink wine, and they are even better at making wine. Hunan is a part of Jingzhou, the land of Chuxiang civilization, with beautiful landscape and abundant grains. The unique geographical environment and mild and humid climate provide a rich material and environmental foundation for Hunan wine brewing. Hunan is also a major grain-producing province, with high-quality rice, wheat, sorghum, grains and rich fruits providing high-quality raw materials for the brewing of wine, so the variety of Hunan wines and the quality of wines are outstanding. Hunan - Ten Mile GalleryFrom the historical documents, we can see the fragrance of wine in Dongting, Nanyue and Xiangshui, Yuelu. Ling wine (also known as Ling wine) from Hengyang, Hunan Province is one of the most famous wines in ancient China, and its brewing process has the same origin as Shaoxing yellow wine and Japanese sake, and Ling wine became famous much earlier than Shaoxing yellow wine. Some experts claim that the birthplace of Chinese yellow wine was in Xidu, Hengyang, Hunan Province. Qu Yuan mentioned the ancient wine of Hengyang "骿酒" in his "Chu Rhetoric" and called it "楚源骿". He also gave a detailed and vivid description of the food and wine at the feasts in Chu (Hunan) in "Invocation of the Soul". The ancient Wuling cultural circle of the "Youshui" and "Lishui", also has a fairly close connection with the wine culture. Dictionary of Words" wrote: "ancient wine and You with". According to Hunan folklore, the Youshui River used to be called the Wine River. Today's Youshui River ancient You, wine, sweet, rituals are used in common, alcohol wine is also called sweet wine, oracle bone in this word is like a pottery bean sheng alcohol wine sacrifice to the gods of the situation, the later plus You side for sweet, "Shu Zhi": "the beginning of the Zongtian Temple, to wine is said to be sweet." In ancient times, good at brewing the water of the tribal residence for the river. In addition, "the Analects of Confucius", "Chushu", "Lv's Spring and Autumn - this flavor", "Qimin Yaojutsu", "Arts and Letters Classical Collection", "Beishan Wine Jing" and other literature on Hunan drink, food are rich in records. There are also many legends about Yandi's wine-making in Hunan folklore, and Yandi has left rich footprints in Hunan, which is the place where Shennong Yandi and Huangdi lived and where Yandi slept (Yandi's Mausoleum is located in Zhuzhou). Yandi is the originator of farming civilization and the founder of wine culture. In the era of Yandi, he already had the raw materials for brewing and the equipment for storing wine, and summed up the technology of brewing wine from the apes and monkeys making wine. From this point of view, the person who made wine at that time must be the ancestor of Hunan. Yandi: Lei 耜, teaching people to plow the 1970s, in Changsha, Mawangdui Han tombs not only wine and a large number of residual food remains unearthed, as well as food Jane, chopsticks, and drinking utensils, eating utensils, and so on, the amount of its more, the quality of the fine, which contains the application of the scope of the wide, enough to open a food museum of the Han Dynasty. Mawangdui unearthed "Jun Xing wine" lacquer ear cups in the Western Han Dynasty tombs unearthed cultural relics on the wine records have white wine, rice wine, warm (brew) wine and rib wine and other categories, especially in the unearthed Palau "health formula" and "miscellaneous therapeutic formula", two works of medicine, there are China's earliest brewing process so far found records. The oldest atlas of the brewing process Hunan also unearthed the southern China