The production process of the traditional medicinal quatrain:

Powdered Chinese herbs, rice flour, water, liquor and medicine→mixing→punching and cutting→cooking and inoculation, rolling the corner→into the plaque to keep warm and moisturize and cultivate, change the plaque and plaque→sun-drying.

The recipe for Chinese herbs varies from place to place, as few as 10 kinds of more than dozens. The following is an example of the traditional method of making fujian medicinal herbs in the Ningde region of Fujian Province:

Fujian medicinal herbs are made up of 36 Chinese medicines - Angelica sinensis, Sheng Ma, Shan Nai, Sichuan pepper, Gan Song, Cinnamon, Cortex Eucommiae, Astragali, Dendrobium, Mentha piperita, Liang Jiang, Pericarpium Citri Reticulatae, Xiaohui, Jing Kai, Ganzhu, Glycyrrhiza Glutinosa, Yizhi, Ba Zhi Tian, and so on.

Materials: 36 herbs ground into powder, early indica grains of the year ground into powder, white kwan-yin soil, spring water, Chenmuqu.

Medicine powder, grain powder, Guanyin soil, water in a large wooden barrel mixing and stirring

Knead and press firmly into shape, cut into small pieces (or with a wooden mold)

Mixed into the Chenmuqu powder rolling, so that the Chenmuqu powder uniformly stick in the block, sieve sieve powder, powder and into the next time to be used Put on the bamboo plaque, put into a closed room of the song, multi-layer heat preservation humidity cultivation of three days, to be curved blocks of the surface of the white mycelium, gradually open the window for ventilation Mycelium, gradually open the window for ventilation, in the culture of 2 days, to be mycelium gradually grow through the block, it can be out of the song

Sun-drying, a sun-drying, preservation, medicinal quartz due to strong quartz force, the newly made medicinal quartz sex is too fast, have to rest half a month before brewing, Chen 1 year better

<<Beishan wine Jing>>; in the way it is documented that a kind of artificial inoculation, that is: Dough into a cake, with the end of the old quartz one by one for the clothes. That is to say, the newly made quartet rolled on the old quartet powder, the old quartet powder will stick to the surface of the new quartet, the old quartet powder has a large number of rhizosphere mold spores, which can be rapidly reproduced in the quartet, the formation of the growth advantage. Since the better quality of the stale quill can be artificially selected as the quill seed, it is possible to select the best and eliminate the worst. Through artificial selection and natural elimination year after year, the superior quality of the quill (actually microbial strains) is retained. In the case of natural inoculation, the source of microorganisms in the brewery is mainly the water source, the raw material itself, or the brewing place and utensils. The excellent performance of the strain cannot be passed on from generation to generation, and the quality of the wine cannot be constant.

In the Ming and Qing dynasties, the addition of a great variety of Chinese herbs to the small quart of wine became a feature of this period. Ming "Tiangong Kaiwu" said: its into all kinds of juns and herbs, less several flavors, more than a hundred flavors, then each soil and each method, but also can not be exhaustive. This traditional practice has continued to modern times. Mr. Zhou Henggang in 1964 collected in Qionglai, Sichuan Province, there is an example of the recipe for medicine up to 72 flavors, a total of more than 50 kilograms of raw materials can be matched with 1460 kilograms (Sugar Qu, 1964, China Finance and Economics Publishing House). However, there are also small songs with less or even no medicine added. For example, only spicy polygonum was added to the Dongyang liquor quart in the Ming Dynasty. The same is true for Ningbo Baiyao. Therefore, since the Ming Dynasty, Xiaoqu has developed in two directions: medicine and no medicine.