The history of wine-making in China has a long history, which began in the Shang and Zhou periods, more than 3,000 years ago.
Zhu Yizhong's "Wine Scriptures" said that in the early years of the Xia Dynasty, an official named Yidi used mulberry leaves wrapped in rice and brewed it into wine to offer to Dayu, who felt the taste after the meal and lamented, "Future generations will have to die for the sake of drinking wine." So he ordered to prohibit the production of wine, but the method of production of wine is still secretly circulated in the palace.
Also according to "Shuo Wen Jie Zi" records: "Ancient Qing Shaokang first made a stalk, Panicum wine, Shaokang, Dukang also." Since ancient times, the literati and scholars love to drink wine, because; and give the wine a lot of elegant names, such as "golden syrup", "Wanliu", "Qiongsu" and so on, some directly into the poem.
Wine became an important part of the art of literati life.
"Li Bai's poems on wine", wine has become part of the culture of the literati here.
Wine culture is a general term for the material and spiritual culture produced in the process of production, sale and consumption of wine.
Wine culture includes wine production method, tasting method, role, history and other wine culture phenomena.
Both the material characteristics of the wine itself, but also the spiritual connotation formed by the wine tasting, is the production of wine drinking activities in the process of the formation of a specific cultural form.
Wine culture has a long history in China, and many scholars and scholars have written writings on tasting and appreciating fine wines, leaving behind good stories about wine fighting, writing poems, making paintings, health maintenance, banquets, farewell parties, and other wine gods.
As a special cultural carrier, wine occupies a unique position in human interaction.
Wine culture has penetrated into all areas of human social life, and has a great influence on humanities life, literature and art, medical and health care, industrial and agricultural production, and political and economic aspects.
The history of wine:
359-338 years ago, Shang Yang changed the law, the tax weight suppression of business, the price of wine is ten times the cost;
221-206 years ago, the Qin Law, prohibited the Sichuan residual grain brewing, selling for profit;
138 years ago, Zhang Qian brought back grapes to the Western Regions on his mission to bring in the winemaking artists, the Middle Kingdom began to wine;
98 years ago, Emperor Wu of Han adopted a financial management system, which is the first time that the Chinese government has adopted a financial management system in the world. 98 B.C. Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty adopted the financial management Sang Hongyang's proposal to set up the "Wine Questionnaire" official department, the implementation of the liquor monopoly system, which has been in force for 17 years;
81 B.C.
The first six years of the Han Dynasty, the official sale of wine, four cents per liter is the earliest record of the price of wine;
533-544 Jia Siqinuo wrote 92 articles in the "Essentials of Qimin", of which six to nine articles were written by the author. "
1842 Sichuan Chengdu Quanxing Laojiu workshop was established, producing Quanxing Daqu wine;
1860 Jiangxi Hua Lianhui in Moutai town, created Chengyu firing room, the production of Moutai wine, it is "Huamao";
1879 Renhuai County in the town of Moutai, created Rongtaihe firing room, the production of Moutai wine;
1879 Renhuai County in the town of Moutai, created Rongtaihe firing room, the production of Rongtaihu. Moutai town to create Rongtaihe burn room, the production of Maotai, is "Wangmao";
1892 Zhangyu Wine Company was created, China began to use "grenade" glass bottles of wine, Zhangyu Wine Company began to be packaged in accordance with the style of foreign wines;
1892 Zhangyu Wine Company was created, China began to use "grenade" glass bottles of wine, Zhangyu Wine Company began to packaged in accordance with the style of foreign wines.
In the Guangxu period, Yu Dunpei edited four volumes of "Wine Order Notes", which included 322 kinds of wine orders, a collection of wine orders before the end of the Qing Dynasty;
1900 Russian technicians established the first beer workshop in Harbin, Ulubrevskiy Brewery;
1903 Qingdao beer, the predecessor of Anglo-German beer brewing, was launched in China. The predecessor - Yingde Beer Brewing Company was founded, the quality of the wine is excellent, and enjoys a good reputation at home and abroad;
1904 Harbin East Three Provinces Brewery was established, which is the earliest beer production enterprise established by the national bourgeoisie of our country itself;
1914 Harbin Wujiu Brewery was established, which is the
1915 Maotai was awarded the gold medal at the Panama International Merchandise Fair;
1916 Fenjiu was awarded the gold medal for first-class excellence at the Panama International Merchandise Fair;
On October 10, 1921, Shanxi Winery was established, with the initial aim of revitalizing the national industry and producing wines instead of imported ones;
The first beer production enterprise established by the national bourgeoisie of China, the Shanxi Wine Brewery, was the first beer production enterprise established by the national bourgeoisie of China.
1929 Nanjing *** published the Provisional Regulations on Taxes on Foreign Wine, which stipulated that foreign wine sold in China would be taxed at 30% of the price;
1934 The Wuyang Brewery, which was founded by Song Ziwen, adopted the new equipment of the time, the Czech saccharine brewery;
January 1945 The Jin, Hebei, Luhu, and Yu Border Areas *** published the Regulations on the Manufacture of Wine, and the Regulations on the Unification of Wine Manufacture;
The Jin, Hebei, Luhu, and Yu Border Areas *** published the Rules on Wine Manufacture, and the Rules on Unification of Wine Manufacture. regulations", "decision on the unification of wine-making" and "the wine-making industry by the *** direct operation" and other orders;
August 1946, the National *** announced "domestic tobacco and alcohol tax regulations";
1947 Maotai wine in Hong Kong test marketing, immediately snapped up, since then Maotai wine began to go to the international market;
April 1949, the North China General Administration of Taxation, North China Liquor Monopoly Corporation held the first conference on liquor management in North China in Beijing, deciding to monopolize liquor and stop private operation, and that the general policy of liquor monopoly work was to combine "unified operation" with "decentralized management";
1950 January 1, 1950 The North China Taxation Bureau was changed to the Taxation Bureau of the Central Ministry of Finance;
December 6, 1950 The Taxation Bureau of the Ministry of Finance and the North China Liquor Monopoly Corporation, in the "Direction on Amending the Management of Taxation on Public and Temporarily Permitted Private Liquor in North China", decided to change the ad valorem taxation on public beer, yellow wine, foreign wine, imitation foreign wine, reformed wine, and fruitwood wine;
May 1951 The Central Ministry of Finance changed the general policy of the liquor monopoly to combine "unified management" and "decentralized management";
1952 The first National Wine Evaluation Conference was held in Beijing;
February 10, 1953 The General Administration of Taxation of the Ministry of Finance and the China General Corporation of Proprietary Business set the tax on alcohol and the rate of monopoly profit at 11%, while other alcohols were set at 10% 1954 Tsingtao Beer was the first Chinese beer brand to enter the international market;
1954 Tsingtao Beer began to be exported;
1955 Sugar and Wine Fair was the first to be held in Beijing;
1958 Zhangyu Brewing University was established as China's first brewing university;
1959 China's beer production volume was increased to 1.5 million tons. p> 1959 China's beer production reached 107,700 tons, which was the first time that China's beer industry produced more than 100,000 tons;
1962 Mr. Zhou Henggang, a famous liquor expert in China, praised Pingba Wine as "the elite of the wine country, the best wine in Guizhou, and the best wine in Pingba".
In November 1963, the Second National Wine Evaluation Conference was held in Beijing;
In 1964, the Sugar and Wine Fair was the earliest to set up an exhibition in Shanghai;
In 1964, the Light Industry Research Institute of Heilongjiang Province was the first to analyze the turbid substances in the end of the wine were palmitic acid ethyl ester and linoleic acid ethyl ester.