Point Enjoying the beautiful scenery of Tiantangzhai, eating Tiantangzhai Hanging Pot, drinking Tiantangzhai Small Hanging Wine, has become a Chinese and foreign guests to Tiantangzhai sightseeing must be experienced in the catering and tourism characteristics of culture. This is exactly: not on the paradise think paradise, on the paradise of the love thought Yang. There is no scenery anywhere in heaven, and the landscape and water color are all articles. Hanging pots and pans in Paradise are full of flavors, and hanging wine in Paradise is drunk in all directions. The first thing you need to do is to get your hands on some of the most popular products and services in the world.
In the hinterland of the Dabie Mountains, in the area of Tiantangzhai, Jinzhai County, Anhui Province, there is a unique brewing process, tracing its origin from the Three Kingdoms general Lu Xun, who guarded the pass in this area to begin with.
Legend has it that when General Lu Xun's troops were stationed at Urmen Pass in the Three Kingdoms, due to the rainy season, the mountains were high and the fog was heavy, the temperature was low and the humidity was high, and the soldiers were suffering from many diseases. Local townspeople offered to make wine, the soldiers drank, not a day but refreshed, sick and well. At the end of the Ming Dynasty, Xu Shouhui built a fortress in Tiantang to fight against the Yuan Dynasty; during the liberation war, Liu Deng's army jumped thousands of miles into the Dabie Mountains, and Tiantang Zhai's small wine was used to keep the soldiers warm, remove dampness and illnesses, and boost their spirits and heal their wounds.
Tiantang Zhai small hanging wine is commonly known as "small hanging", the native language called "earth libation (lèi) son", jokingly referred to as "earth Maotai".
"You still do not XX, waiting for dishes ah?" This Paradise Walled City slang, from the small hanging wine. One year in the waxing moon, Siwangling Si Chau River, a farmer's home is busy hanging wine, suddenly heard that the "long hair twist", father and son of two busy wine brewed to the back of the cave to hide, because of the busy error, the rope tied long, they have not lifted out the door, the wine jar hit the threshold of the fall broke, wine flow everywhere, the father! He was so distressed that he hastened to the ground to drink. When he drank some dizziness, looked up, his son is still standing there froze, he was angry, according to his son's face is a slap, said viciously: "you this kind of trumpet seed, do not quickly get down on the ground to drink! You wait for food ah?"
Tiantang Zhai small hanging wine production process is more complex, in different seasons, different regions, different water quality, different wine, brewed wine are obviously different. There was a popular saying in Tiantangzhai area: "Drunken Wulongyan, bloated Luojiawan, not satiated and not hungry Thousand Wulufan, hungry ghosts out of Yangjiashan." The following is a brief introduction to the traditional process of Wulongyan, the famous wine town of Paradise Walled City, as an example.
The first step of the song: Polygonum, Verbena and other Chinese herbs synthesized and dried into powder, and glutinous rice flour mixed well into a ball, about one or two a, and then dry it into a small hanging wine wine song.
The second step of fermentation: the top grain full of rice in cold water soaked in three to five days (winter, for example) after picking up, placed in a large wooden cauldron steamed, and then poured in the sun on the mat spread cold, after the cold water soak through, and then repeatedly steamed - cold water soak - steam, until the steam into a loose flower-like, and then the liquor research powder, according to the proportion of uniform mixing and spreading, into the cauldron fermentation two to three days, smell the aroma of wine can be! The package is transferred to another wine altar, and then after five to seven days on the water and then fermentation can start brewing.
The third step of brewing: put the wooden cauldron on the stove, pour the fermented lees into the closed wooden cauldron, cauldron pot full of pure mountain spring water, add firewood and fire in the stove hole, steam lees. A pot is placed on top of the retort, which is filled with cold water, and the water is changed constantly. The water vapor produced by the lees steaming is formed into water droplets when it meets the cold pot, which fall into the grooves and flow out of the wine altar outside the retort. Brewing is about using fire: the fire should be steady, urgent and big. When the temperature rises to about 90°, the wine starts to come out. The wine that starts to come out is called "head wine," and is usually 50°-65°. Touzhi can be steeped in a variety of medicines to treat injuries, and has historically been used as a surgical anesthetic. The next release is the second pot of wine, three pots of wine, in about 30 ° to 20 °, especially suitable for middle-aged and elderly people to drink, adding jujubes, wolfberries, licorice and other formulas to drink, can play a spleen, kidney, tendons and vitality, and improve the efficacy of the spirit to help.
In addition to soil-made rice wine, there are red taro wine, sorghum wine, indica rice wine, glutinous rice wine, corn wine, buckwheat wine, wheat wine and so on. Every festive season, or home to the guests, or the family has red and white celebrations, the people of Paradise Walled City will be "earth Maotai" from the red taro hole out, with mud wine pot simmering hot on the charcoal fire, poured into a cup of wine, steaming hot, fragrant, people did not drink first drunk. Many people are "the first three mouths wait no more, after three mouths hard no more", pick up and drink, a share of rice flavor from the nose into the lungs, a cup of sweet, mellow and long drink to the mouth, so that people can not swallow for a long time. That kind of taste and where is a "cool" word can be described. As the folk song says: "root and stem fire, corn bun, legs with a small pot of wine, the gods in the sky is not as good as me". Therefore, since ancient times, the people of Paradise Walled City not only brewed a good wine, like to drink, but also persuade the guests to drink, and even more guests do not get drunk without honoring the unspoken rules of the banquet. The first thing you need to do is to get your hands dirty.
Appreciate the beauty of Paradise Walled City, eat Paradise Walled City hanging pot, drink Paradise Walled City small hanging wine, has become a Chinese and foreign guests to Paradise Walled City sightseeing must be experienced catering and tourism characteristics of culture. This is exactly:
Not on the paradise think paradise, on the paradise of the mood Yang.
The scenery is everywhere in paradise, and the mountains and water are all articles.
The heavenly hanging pot hangs taste, heavenly hanging wine drunken four directions.
The world's most beautiful city is the one with the most beautiful scenery.
(Huang Shouhao)