When is the origin of the sake, thank you

The earliest liquor in China was Du Kang, a dynasty in the Xia Dynasty.

Wine of China. The origin of Chinese liquor.

China is the hometown of wine, the birthplace of wine culture, and one of the earliest countries in the world to make wine. The brewing of liquor has a long history in China. In the thousands of years of Chinese civilization development, the development of wine and culture has basically gone hand in hand.

According to relevant records, the earliest wine on the earth should be made by natural fermentation of landed wild fruits. Therefore, we can think that the emergence of wine is not an invention of human beings, but a creation of heavenly craftsmanship. Generally speaking, there can be wine vessels with wine, so the prerequisite for artificial winemaking should start with the manufacture of pottery, otherwise, there will be no way to make wine.

Archaeology has proved that in the Neolithic pottery products unearthed in modern times, there were special wine vessels. This shows that our ancestors had a relationship with wine at a very early age, and at that time, China's winemaking technology had begun to prevail. Later, after the Xia and Shang dynasties, there were more and more drinking utensils.

In the Yangshao cultural site, there are both clay pots and clay cups. Among the unearthed Shang and Yin cultural relics, bronze wine vessels occupy a considerable proportion, indicating that the atmosphere of drinking was indeed very prosperous at that time. Moreover, we can infer from the records of the "Historical Records of Yin Benji" about the king of Xu, "using wine as a pool, hanging meat as a forest", and "drinking for the long night", as well as the verses in the "Book of Songs" such as "harvesting rice in October, for this spring wine" and "for this spring wine, for Jiemei Shou", we can infer that artificial winemaking began about 6,000 years ago.

Wine is a major drink created by people of all ethnic groups in the long-term historical development process. The oldest physical wine in the world is the wine unearthed in Samaritan, Iran, which is more than 3,000 years old and is still mellow; China's oldest physical wine is the Han Dynasty imperial wine unearthed in Xi'an, according to expert research is grain wine (there are also experts certified as rice wine, as a rice wine worker heard it for the leap, fortunately to the good!) It's still delicious and drinkable, which is amazing!

The Chinese oracle bone inscriptions have long appeared in the word wine and the words li, zun, and 酉 related to wine. This is evidence of the longevity of the wine. As for the records in literature and history, there are countless records, such as China's first poetry collection "Book of Songs", there are poems "that is, drunk with wine, that is, full of virtue" ("Daya, that is, drunk"), "Zhou Yi", "Zhou Li", "Rites", "Zuo Chuan" and other classics, there are more records about ancient wine customs, such as "Drinkers can support the elderly" ("Rites"), wine to become a ceremony" ("Zuo Chuan") and so on.

This shows that there are many uses for wine. It is indispensable in the customs of life.

When people's productivity increased and the problem of food and clothing was satisfied, the surplus grain was turned into wine.

The history of wine in our country can be traced back to ancient times.

According to archaeologists, in the Neolithic pottery products unearthed in modern times, there are special wine vessels, indicating that in the primitive society, China's winemaking has been very popular.

Later, after the Xia and Shang dynasties, there were more and more drinking utensils. Among the unearthed Shang Yin cultural relics, bronze wine vessels account for a considerable proportion, indicating that the drinking atmosphere was indeed very prosperous at that time. Early wine should be fruit wine and rice wine.

Since the summer, the business Zhou, the Qin and Han dynasties, and even the Tang and Song dynasties, are all fruit grain steaming, koji fermentation, pressing and then out of wine, whether it is Wu Ji pressing wine to persuade guests to taste, or Wu Song's big bowl of drinking Jingyanggang.

With the further development of human beings, the wine-making process has been further improved, from the original cooking, koji fermentation, pressing, to cooking, koji fermentation, distillation, the biggest breakthrough is the purification of alcohol.

For thousands of years, China's liquor industry, in the course of historical changes, has branched out so that many famous liquors with more local characteristics and local customs have been brewed.

History and culture

The elegant artistic conception pursued by the ancient literati when they drank alcohol can no longer be seen with our own eyes today. Fortunately, from "Dream of Red Mansions", "Mirror Flowers" and other ** and books that record the liquor order, we can still get a glimpse of the clues.

China's wine culture shows its unique taste, style and spirit, and highlights its unique realm and scenery. The best part of it has long since become a cultural gem. The true spirit of wine culture is in line with the true spirit of Chinese culture.

Only in the context of the grand Chinese culture, to appreciate, appreciate and taste the true spirit of wine culture, can the wine culture be carried forward and expanded.

It should be that the ape man has wine during the period, the ape man likes to store the fruit in the hole, in the summer, the time is long, the fruit is affected by the temperature of the cave is hotter, the fruit will ferment with the temperature rises, and the alcohol is produced after fermentation, at that time the ape man is curious about this, he will drink a little, that is the earliest wine, it is fruit wine, it feels very delicious, after drinking too much, it will go up, and the feeling of fluttering fairy is very beautiful, and then put some fruit in the tree hole. Passed down from generation to generation, continuous improvement, and there is wine.

The origin of wine is in nature, and it has existed since ancient times, but at that time it was not known that it was wine. Wine is a substance obtained after the fermentation of grain, biologically, plants have aerobic respiration, anaerobic fermentation, and grain is fermented in an oxygen-free environment to produce ethanol (alcohol).

There is also a legend about the origin of wine, that is, when people stored the grain after the harvest in ancient times, they put the grain in the trunk that hollowed out in the middle, and then after a long time, a liquid flowed out of the trunk, the aroma was tangy, and people were in a happy mood after drinking, and then it was transformed into wine by the wine ancestor Du Kang.

It is also said that the sake was accidentally discovered by ancient ancestors, and at that time ancient people liked to eat a big pot of rice, and when they couldn't finish eating, they would wrap the leftover cooked rice in leaves and put it in a cave, and only remembered to get it a few days later. Just open the leaves and smell the strange fragrance, he tasted very good, so he took it to the same people to taste, people were very excited after eating, jumping and screaming, after the discomfort was not felt, from then on people will make wine. This is the earliest grain wine.

From the perspective of fermentation principle, the brewing of alcohol in the world can be divided into two categories, one is single fermentation wine and the other is double fermentation wine.

Mono-fermented liquor is a natural yeast fermentation, which usually uses raw materials such as candy grains, honey, animal milk and certain plant juices to ferment into liquor. China's mono-fermented liquor resources are not abundant, so there are very few mono-fermented liquors brewed.

Double-fermented wines mainly use grains as raw materials, which are first hydrolyzed into sugars before they can be fermented into wine. In order to complete the compound fermentation, it is necessary to use the sake mother, which is commonly referred to as koji.

There has been such a thing as wine since thousands of years ago, and its origin is in ancient times, in one theory is that in the time of the Yellow Emperor, there was a man named Du Kang who invented wine.

This drink has been around for thousands of years, and its origins are when people accidentally came up with such a liquid when storing fruits and grains.

Since ancient times. In the long past, people put the fruit in the hole, and after the high temperature of time, it finally became alcohol, which is the wine of a long time.

In ancient times, there was already a wine culture in our country. Liquor from 5,000 years ago was unearthed in Henan before. This shows that it was only 5,000 years ago, or even earlier.

Wine has been around since the Neolithic period more than 9,000 years ago. Wine originated in the Neolithic period, as it was at that time that wine was already made from fruits and grains.

As for the origin of sake, according to relevant sources, it is believed that it was originally made by natural fermentation of wild fruits that fell to the ground. Therefore, many people regard the appearance of wine as a creation of heaven, rather than a human invention.

The original liquor was an organic compound naturally formed by sugary substances under the action of yeast. There are large quantities of sugary wild fruits in nature, and yeast is attached to the air, dust, and peels. Under conditions such as proper moisture and temperature, it is possible for yeast to turn the juice into a liquor pulp, which naturally forms liquor.

The history of wine can be traced back to antiquity, and there is no clear definition of where it came from. The ancients were also curious about the origin of wine, and many literati had many speculations about the origin of wine.

According to legend, during the time of the Yellow Emperor, there was a man named Du Kang, who was specifically responsible for managing grain. One day Du Kang is to store the sorghum rice in the bamboo tube, and then put the bamboo tube in the tree hole, it didn't take long for the tree hole to exude fragrance, he took out the bamboo tube and tasted the rice juice in the bamboo tube and felt very delicious, so Du Kang used fermentation technology to invent wine, wine gradually popularized among the people, Du Kang was also respected as the "God of Wine".

Liquor originated from the earliest Fuxi clan among the so-called "three emperors" of the Fuxi clan, the Suiren clan and the Shennong clan, that is, the ancient times in myths and legends。The original liquor was not intentionally made, it was discovered by accident, and was naturally fermented from grain or fruit. Specifically, when the leftovers are poured into dark and damp places such as mulberry forests, the starch will be saccharified and alcoholized, which objectively shows that the grain and fruit are accumulated, and the long-term storage will turn into wine.

Therefore, it is not human beings who invented wine, but human ancestors who discovered and consumed the "wild wine" in nature, and then gradually consciously took the initiative to make alcohol.

Introduction to ancient Chinese winemaking techniques. China was one of the first countries to master the technology of winemaking. An important invention in ancient China in winemaking technology was to make wine from koji.

Koji contains filamentous bacteria (molds) that saccharify starch and yeasts that promote alcoholization. The use of koji to make sake combines the two steps of saccharification and sake brewing of starchy raw materials, which is a great advancement in sake brewing technology.

The Chinese ancestors went through a long period of time from spontaneously using microorganisms to artificially controlling microorganisms, using natural conditions to select the best and limit the inferior. Nowadays, the development of wine is not white wine, but also red wine, beer, rice wine, etc.

Wine was first discovered and invented by Du Kang. In ancient times, Du Kang was used to refer to wine, which can be regarded as a kind of respect and remembrance for the inventor.

It is said that Du Kang is just a very ordinary person, and his life is also poor, and he does not have any natural abilities. He invented wine purely by chance. In ancient times, Du Kang was just a 'merchant' who did small business, and his social status at that time was very low.

One day he happened to find that the grain in his grain jar was all bad, and he was helpless to see this scene.

But it's a pity to throw it away, after all, it's hard-earned food! While he was hesitating, a fresh fragrance suddenly hit. Du Kang took a closer look around, and finally found that the fragrance came from the open grain jar.

It turned out that the grain in the jar fermented on its own due to environmental reasons, and some alcohol was fermented, mixed with grains, and it gave off a burst of fragrance.

Hello, glad for your question. In the long history of the Chinese nation, many things are at the forefront of the world, and wine is the same, with its own glorious chapter. There have been many opinions about the origin of wine.

However, people generally agree that there are three types of sake, Yidi sake, and Du Kang sake.

1.Ape sake brewing apes make a living by collecting wild fruits, and they are good at hiding fruits. In nature, the growth of fruit is strictly seasonal, so it is often necessary to store it.

In the era of the flood and famine, the ancient apes hid the fruits that could not be eaten for a while in caves and stone depressions, and over time, the fruits rotted, and the wild fruits containing sugar were naturally fermented by wild yeasts in nature to produce alcohol and wine syrup, so there were legends such as "apes are good at picking a hundred flowers to make wine" and "tasting ape wine in the depths of the rocks".

2.Yidi wine-making Yidi wine-making is the most popular saying, and it is generally believed that it was first published in Liu Xiang's "Warring States Policy" in the Western Han Dynasty. He said:

The princes of Liang Wang Wei Yingjin are in Yuantai, drunk, and ask Lu Jun to raise his muscles. Lu Junxing, avoiding the banquet and choosing the day: "In the past, the emperor made Yi Di make wine and beauty, enter Yu, drink and be willing."

Then Shu Yi Di, the absolute wine. Day: 'There will be those who will perish their kingdom with wine' in the Hereafter.

Qi Huan Gong was not humble in the middle of the night, Yi Ya was fried Ao Pan, and the five flavors were mixed in, and Huan Gong was full of food, and he didn't realize it. He said, 'There will be those who will perish their country in the Hereafter.'"

Jin Wengong gained the prestige of the south, and did not listen to the court for three days, so he pushed the prestige of the south and stayed away. He said, 'There will be those who perish their kingdom in the Hereafter.'"

The king of Chu ascended the strong platform and looked at the collapsed mountain, the left river and the right lake, in order to imitate the wandering, his joy forgot to die, and then the alliance was strong and the Buddha Deng. He said: "In the future, there will be those who will perish their country with high platforms and limbs."

The Lord's Furry. The wine of Yidi also; The taste of the lord and the tone of the easy teeth; The left white platform and the right whisker, the beauty of Nanwei also; The front is sandwiched in the forest and then the Lantai, and the joy of the strong Taiwan is also. One of these is enough to perish the country.

Now the lord has these four, can he have no precepts? "King Liang called the good belong to each other.

3.Another way of saying Du Kang makes wine is that Du Kang makes wine, which is particularly popular among the people except for some literati who say so, because most of the books of Xunmeng in the old era, such as readings, songs, treasure scrolls, and books of persuasion, are said like this. The saying that Du Kang makes wine is mainly due to Cao Cao's Yuefu poem "Short Song Xing", which mentions that "how to solve the best, only Du Kang".

Here, Du Kang is synonymous with wine, so people regard this person with the surname Du Mingkang as the ancestor of winemaking. In modern times, many commentators of this poem have interpreted Du Kang as the earliest winemaker.