Wine, a miraculous liquid that can arouse people's joys, sorrows, and sorrows, has been indissolubly linked to literary creation since ancient times. Countless literati and writers have borrowed its mellow fragrance and left behind masterpieces that have been praised through the ages. "A pot of wine among the flowers, drinking alone without a blind date", this intoxicating poem seems to depict the image of a poet with drunken eyes and hazy eyes. The relationship between wine and people has a long history and has been passed down to this day. However, the origins of wine are varied, interesting and complex. There is an opinion that wine was invented by Yidi. It is recorded in documents such as "Lü's Spring and Autumn" and "Shiben" that Yi Di was a figure in the Xia Yu period who invented wine. The wine made by fermenting grain became the prototype of wine in later generations. The dialogue between the Yellow Emperor and Qi Bo about the making of liquor is recorded in the Suwen Soup Mash Treatise, showing that the Yellow Emperor may also be the inventor of liquor.
In addition, Du Kang or Shao Kang is also considered to be the inventor of liquor. Although there is no clear historical record of their dynasty, their name is widely known because of Cao Cao's famous poem "How to solve worries, only Du Kang". In addition, the idea of natural fermentation is also a theory about the origin of sake. The Western Jin Dynasty writer Jiang Quan believed in the "Wine Message" that the production of wine was not the invention of the Yellow Emperor, Yi Di, Du Kang and others, but that people inadvertently threw cooked leftovers in the wild woods, "accumulated into flavor, long-term storage of aroma", and produced through natural fermentation. The starch in the grain is saccharified by certain microorganisms, and then it can be alcoholized when it encounters yeast. Therefore, it is normal and common for cereal crops to ferment naturally into wine. In addition, there is an opinion that the origin of sake began at the same time as agriculture. Liu An of the Western Han Dynasty believed in "Huainanzi Shuo Lin Xun" that wine "began with the plow", which means that after agriculture, people stored grain due to poor equipment and fermented by moisture, causing saccharification and alcohol production, becoming natural wine. When people consciously fermented the grain to obtain the pulp, winemaking technology began to appear. This is also evidenced by archaeological excavations. As far back as seven or eight thousand years ago, there was a certain level of primitive agriculture in the Yellow River and Yangtze River basins in China. With the advent of agriculture came the technology of winemaking associated with it. A large number of pottery wine vessels such as bottles, pots, cups, cups, etc., have been unearthed at the Longshan Cultural Site, indicating that sake making was relatively common during that period.
Although the origin of wine is still a mystery, it is undoubtedly a treasure of human civilization and has accompanied the development of human civilization. Search Topic Full Time Challenge December