According to Zhu Yizhong's "The Classic of Wine", in the early Xia Dynasty, an official named Yidi used mulberry leaves to make wine as a gift to Dayu. After dinner, Dayu felt sweet and said with emotion, "Some future generations will die for drinking." Therefore, it was forbidden to make wine, but this method of making wine was still secretly circulated in the palace.
According to Shuo Wen Jie Zi, "Guqing Shao Kang first made brooms and wine, and Shao Kang and Du Kang also." Since ancient times, scholars have loved drinking more, because; There are many elegant names for wine, such as "golden pulp", "wan liquid" and "Qiong Su", and some of them directly enter the poem.
Wine has become an important part of literati's life art.
"Hundred Poems of Li Bai Fighting for Wine", wine has become a part of literati culture here.
Wine culture refers to the material culture and spiritual culture produced in the process of production, sales and consumption of wine.
Wine culture includes wine culture phenomena such as wine making method, wine tasting method, wine function and wine history.
It not only has the material characteristics of wine itself, but also has the spiritual connotation formed by wine tasting, which is a specific cultural form formed in the process of wine-making and drinking activities.
Wine culture has a long history in China, and many scholars have written works about appreciating fine wine and fine wine, leaving many stories about Dionysus, such as fighting wine, writing poems, painting, keeping in good health, banquets, farewell dinner and so on.
As a special cultural carrier, wine occupies a unique position in human communication.
Wine culture has penetrated into all fields of human social life, and has great influence and function on human life, literature and art, medical and health care, industrial and agricultural production, political and economic aspects.
Wine history:
In the first 359- 338 years, Shang Yang reformed, and taxes suppressed business, and the price of wine was ten times the cost.
Before 22 1- before 206, the "Qin law" banned Sichuan surplus grain from making wine and sold it for profit;
Before 138, Zhang Qian sent a mission to the western regions to bring back grapes and introduced winemakers, and China began to have wine;
In 98 BC, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty took the advice of the wealth manager Sang Hongyang, set up a "liquor monopoly" lawsuit, and implemented the liquor monopoly system for 17 years.
In the first 8 1 year, in the sixth year of the Han dynasty, officials sold wine at four yuan per liter, which was the earliest record of wine prices;
In 533-544, Jia Sixie wrote 92 pieces of Qi Min Yao Shu, of which 6-9 were devoted to making koji and brewing, which was the earliest brewing technology in the world.
1656 A Shu surname in Luzhou opened a "Shu Juyuan" classic wine shop. It is said that the wine cellar used is still in use today, so the name of the wine is "Luzhou Laojiao Tequ";
1842 Quanxing old distillery was established in Chengdu, Sichuan Province to produce Quanxing Daqu liquor;
1860 In Maotai Town, Hualian Hui, a native of Jiangxi Province, created a burning house to produce Maotai liquor for "Huamao";
1879 In Renhuai County, people burned houses in Chuangrong Taihe, Maotai Town, and produced Moutai for "wangmao";
1892 Changyu Wine Company was founded, and China began to use "Grenade" glass bottles, and Changyu Grape Brewing Company, as the head, began to pack according to foreign wine style;
During Guangxu period, Yu Dunpei compiled four volumes of "Drinks and Banknotes", which included 322 kinds of distillers' orders, which was the master of the collection of distillers' orders before the end of Qing Dynasty.
/kloc-in 0/900, Russian technicians established the first beer workshop in Harbin-Wulubei levski Brewery;
1903 Yingde Brewing Company, the predecessor of Tsingtao Brewery, was founded, with excellent wine quality and high reputation at home and abroad;
1904 Harbin brewery was established in the three eastern provinces, which was the earliest beer production enterprise established by China's national bourgeoisie;
19 14 Harbin Wuzhou brewery was established, which is the second brewery established by China itself;
19 15 Maotai won the gold medal at Panama World Commodities Fair;
19 16 Fenjiu won the first-class gold medal at Panama World Commodities Fair;
192 1 year1October 10, Shanxi winery was established. Its original purpose was to revitalize the national industry and produce wine instead of imported products.
1929 Nanjing * * * promulgated the "Provisional Regulations on Tax on Foreign Liquor", which stipulated that foreign liquor sold in China should be taxed at an ad valorem rate of 30%;
1934 Wuyang Brewery, founded by Song Ziwen, adopted the new equipment Czech saccharification pot at that time;
1945 1 month * * in the border region of Shanxi, Hebei, Shandong and Henan announced the regulations on liquor making, the decision on unified liquor making and the direct operation of liquor making by * * * and other orders;
1August, 946, National * * * promulgated the Regulations on Domestic Tobacco and Alcohol Taxes;
1947 Moutai was tried out in Hong Kong and sold out immediately. Since then, Moutai has started to enter the international market.
1949 In April, North China State Administration of Taxation and North China Liquor Monopoly Corporation held the first meeting on liquor management in Beijing, and decided to monopolize liquor and stop private operation. The general policy of liquor monopoly work is to combine "unified management" with "decentralized management";
1950 1 month 1 day The State Administration of Taxation of North China was changed to the State Administration of Taxation of the Central Ministry of Finance;
195016 February, the State Administration of Taxation of the Ministry of Finance and North China Liquor Monopoly Corporation decided to levy ad valorem taxes on public beer, yellow wine, foreign wine, imitation foreign wine, reformed wine and fruit and wood wine in the Instructions on Amending the Taxation Management of Public and Temporary Private Liquor in North China;
195 1 in may, the central Ministry of finance issued the "provisional regulations on monopoly", which stipulated that the monopoly products were alcohol and cigarette paper;
1952 the first national wine tasting was held in Beijing;
1February, 953 10, the State Administration of Taxation of the Ministry of Finance and China Monopoly Corporation set the liquor tax and monopoly profit rate as 1 1%, and other liquors as 10% 1954, Tsingtao Brewery was the first beer brand in China to enter the international market.
1954 Tsingtao Brewery officially started exporting;
1955 The first sugar and wine party was held in Beijing;
1958 China established the first brewing university-Changyu Brewing University;
1959 China beer production reached107700 tons, which was the first time that China's beer industry exceeded100000 tons;
1962 Mr. Zhou Henggang, a famous national liquor expert, praised Pingba liquor as "the elite of the wine country, the wonder of Guizhou, and the wonderful flower of Pingba".
1963 1 1 the second national evaluation reception was held in Beijing;
1964 The Sugar and Liquor Fair was first held in Shanghai;
1964 in Heilongjiang light industry research institute, ethyl palmitate and ethyl linoleate were the first to analyze the turbid substances in the tail of wine.