As early as more than 3,000 years ago, in Shang and Zhou Dynasties, China people created the double fermentation method of distiller's yeast and began to brew a large number of yellow rice wine. By the Song Dynasty about 1000 years ago, people in China invented distillation, which made liquor the main liquor for people in China. As a result, wine culture has permeated the 5,000-year civilization history of the whole Chinese nation, and wine has occupied an important position in many aspects of people's lives in China. Tea wine has been recorded as early as ancient times, but at that time it was only rice wine that made tea, not a blend of tea culture and wine culture.

Cultural history of tea wine

More than 800 years ago, Su Shi, a scholar in the Northern Song Dynasty, recorded the idea of making wine with tea. Su Shi takes "seven qi" and "eight whiskers" as the brewing methods of tea wine, adding "wine ceremony" and "wine virtue" and enriching the spiritual connotation of tea wine culture. Su Shi's conclusion: "Tea wine is brewed by tea leaves, naturally fermented and distilled, its pulp is colorless, and the tea fragrance is overflowing."

There is a seven-character quatrain in Mi Fei's Crossing the White Crane Tower: "The white crane Curie Gong Hanlin,' Qi Qi' and' Barbie' made tea pulp. I annotated the ancient law in my dream and opened a restaurant in a whimsical way. " "Drinking at night on brewing" "Looking at the mountain, bathing in the spring buds. Looking at the mountains, the autumn wind makes tea again. Look at the mountain, when will the tea pulp be brewed? Looking at the mountains, the world of poetry is natural. Looking at the mountain, all beings are happy. Looking at the mountains, dreaming of Hanlinfang brewing ";

Feng Tong (painter of Yuan Dynasty) painted Zhang Yu, a scholar of Wuzhou in the early Yuan Dynasty, and took the marsh stream to make tea. He fantasized about fermenting secret tea wine in the marsh stream thatched cottage with the method of Su Shi's "seven unique skills" and "eight unique skills" to entertain poets, master poet Hui Jue and monk of Baoshan Temple, and wrote poems to record his events: "I left anecdotes for the Hanlin in Lushan Mountain, dreaming about this side. Yesterday, Brother Dong had a good chest, like making tea pulp. " Feng Shan was invited to write a note, leaving the anecdote of Wuzhou scribes cooking tea and making wine in the scroll.

Shen Zhou, a painter in the Ming Dynasty, once wrote poems, which recorded that Lin Wen, a Wenzhou magistrate, imitated Su Shi's wine-making, but there was no anecdote of success. From Hengshan, Wen Zi, he drew a picture of "Home Weng Cooking Tea and Brewing Wine" and passed it on to future generations. When Zheng Banqiao lived in Yangzhou in the Qing Dynasty, he seemed to want to realize Su Shi's dream of making wine with tea. The painter Jin Dongxin Calligraphy Association "resigned from Yangzhou, waved plain ink, and made tea to imitate Gong Hanlin". Yuan Mei's ode to tea and wine "Farewell to Wu Junsi"

Fresh tea, and frost the temples in southern Chu. To be clear, it's still Su Yu's bureau. In my dream, I opened a workshop to brew tea pulp. I don't know how far the river is, and the mountain wind is getting cold. Sit and watch the spring stream forget your feelings, hold the moon and write poems and love the night. "Poets Zhang Shushi and Yuan Mei also presented tea poems nearby:" It's dawn when it's raining, and half a bed of flowers and shadows sleeps with books. I dreamt of Hanlin vaguely and set up a restaurant to brew tea pulp. "Li Yu's" Qing Zhao Kuang lay man, dreaming of wine like tea pulp "tells the story of Zhao Xucheng, a Jinshi family in the Southern Song Dynasty, who cooked tea and brewed wine. From ancient legends to the arrangement and introduction of Su Shi in the Northern Song Dynasty, and then to the Qianlong period in the Qing Dynasty, anecdotes about brewing tea and wine can be widely seen among literati. This is the result of China culture and a part of its cultural heritage. Literati unconsciously completed "the wine vein of China tea wine culture" in their life, and wrote a unique cultural history of "tea wine".