sealed wine: Chinese wine culture
(1), buried
sealed wine is a category of yellow rice wine, which is as famous as Zhejiang Shaoxing wine and Fujian Caigang wine, and is the "Three Outstanding Yellow Rice Wine".
yellow rice wine is known as "national wine" in China. As one of the oldest wines in the world, yellow rice wine originated in China, and it is also called the world's three largest fermented wines together with beer and wine.
Fenggang wine is a low-alcohol pure rice juice made from glutinous rice by soaking, steaming, adding koji, fermenting, squeezing, frying, storing and blending. The nutritional value of sealed wine exceeds that of beer and nutritious wine known as "liquid bread" and is known as "liquid cake".
It has been confirmed that Zhu Yuanzhang, the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty, led his troops to fight, and when he was stationed in Gulong Mountain, Jintan, he accidentally drank sealed wine, praising him as "mellow as honey, fragrant and fragrant, and really the king of wine!" After Emperor Zhu moved his troops back to the DPRK, he was also attached to the sealed cylinder wine, which was named as tribute wine. At this point, as the origin of "imperial tribute wine", Jintan sealed wine was fixed in the Ming Dynasty.
"The most beautiful scenery around you is often overlooked". No one expected that in 1995, a major discovery that shocked the whole world wine industry and archaeology was made public.
In the autumn of 1995, during the excavation of Hanwang Tomb in Shizishan, Xuzhou City, Lanling wine was unearthed after being buried for 2,148 years. According to expert appraisal, it is the oldest and best-preserved wine with the name of tribute directly printed on it in the world, ranking first among the top ten archaeological discoveries in China in 1995. In the tomb of Hanwang, the tomb of Chu Wang is made of stone, and Lanling wine is placed in the kitchen of the tomb and in a ceramic spherical altar. The three vats of wine were covered with red mud, and the mud seal was stamped with the stamps of "Lanling Tribute Wine", "Lanling Cheng Seal" and "Lanling Seal", which were completely preserved. After opening the mud, a strong bouquet overflowed, and the wine body in the tank could still flow, which amazed the archaeologists at the scene.
When the lid of the wine jar was opened, it was 2148 years since the death of the tomb owner.
This is the oldest material evidence of China wine industry so far.
This shows that Lanling fine wine became a tribute in the Han Dynasty more than 2 years BC.
In the list of national key protected cultural relics, only the "National Cellar *1573" was built during the reign of Zhu Yijun, Emperor Wanli of the Ming Dynasty. In other words, the history of Lanling fine wine can be demonstrated, which is more than 177 years earlier than "National pits *1573", and it can be described as a wordless history book of Chinese wine culture!
(2) Correcting the name
Lanling Town, Cangshan County, Shandong Province seized the evidence of "Lanling Distillery" in Hanwang Tomb and made "Lanling Wine" famous.
Twelve years have passed, and these three vats of wine have been 216 years since.
No one asked, so people thought that "Lanling Wine" was in Shandong. No one expected that recently, the academic circles had an amazing recognition: this "Lanling Wine" covered with the red seal of "Lanling Distillery" is the embryonic form of sealed wine produced in ancient "Lanling" (now Changzhou, Wujin, Jintan and Danyang)!
Check the genealogy of China famous wine. This "Lanling Fine Wine" is the only brand that Li Bai, the wine saint of Shixian, admires.
Li Bai has 1,5 poems, of which 17 are about drinking, accounting for more than 16%. Only one poem, Hakka Zuozuo, which was selected as a middle school Chinese textbook, points out the brand of "Lanling Wine".
"Lanling wine tulip, jade bowl filled with amber light. But it enables the host to be drunk, and I don't know where it is. "
when Li Bai wrote this poem, he probably didn't know it. More than 7 years before his work was born, the successors of Hanwang also knew that Lanling Wine was a wonderful thing and had to be buried with it as a treasure.
Then, how did "Lanling Wine" become a "sacred object" buried with "Hanwang"?
this should start with the evolution of place names.
the name of "Lanling" appeared in the south of the Yangtze River after Emperor Yuan of the Eastern Jin Dynasty crossed the river. At that time, the Eastern Jin and Yuan emperors set "South Lanling" and other counties. During the Southern Qi Dynasty, "Nanlanling" county was cut and merged. In the first year of Liang Tian prison (AD 52), in summer and April, "Nanlanling was restored to Wujin County". In the ninth year of Emperor Kai of Sui Dynasty, Lanling County was located in Qu 'a; In 688 and 758 AD, "Lanling County" was repeatedly classified as "Runzhou" (in the meantime, it was once Danyang County).
It can be seen that the ancient "Lanling" covers the regulatory changes in Changzhou, Wujin, Jintan and Danyang today. It should be noted that the ancient places of origin of sealed wine-Baita and Jianchang in the north of Qiantan City-are the areas repeatedly covered by Lanling, Nanlanling Wujin, Qua, Runzhou and Danyang County.
therefore, it is not bad that the name of Jiangnan "Lanling" and Jiangnan "Lanling" covered the origin of sealed wine.
Wang Wei, a great poet who was almost contemporary with Li Bai, mentioned "Lan Ling" in more than one place in his poems. Answer to my good brother with Cui Fu: "... there were soldiers from the lower reaches of the river in Yangzhou, and the flute sounded in front of Lanling Town", and "Send Zhang Wuyan back to Xuancheng": "When I miss Lanling Town, it is better for apes to cry more." Obviously, the "Lanling Town" in the above two poems is not the Lanling in Shandong, but the Lanling in the south of the Yangtze River.
during the Qin dynasty, the frost of the lunar calendar dropped to the following year in beginning of spring, Baita and Jianchang, that is, folk masters walked around the village to make wine with glutinous rice. The wine they brew is commonly known as "rice wine" among the people. People add white wine to rice wine and seal the jar again for fermentation, which is called "sealed jar wine". In the following hundreds of years, the brewing technology gradually matured.
As early as the Qin Dynasty, Lanling in the south of the Yangtze River was already a place for Gong Mi and tribute wine, so it is not surprising that Lanling tribute wine was buried in the tomb of Hanwang.
In addition, poetry experts and historians have already proved that Li Bai was less than 3 years old when he wrote the poem "Tulips in Lanling Wine and Amber Light in Jade Bowl". He had never been to Lanling in Cangshan County, Shandong Province at that time, so how could he be a drunk there? On the contrary, in the 13th year of Kaiyuan (AD 725), Li Bai went out to Shu, "fighting his sword to go to the country, leaving his relatives to travel far away". He sailed out of the gorge along the river and gradually drifted away. Crossing Jiangling, visiting Jinling, going out of Yangzhou, living in Lanling and returning to Jingmen from Gusu are all historical facts with poems as evidence.