Rewarding fertility with alcohol has two functions. First, Enshi, as a monarch, made the people grateful and obedient to the monarch; Second, as a maternal health care product, it helps to promote lactation, restore maternal physique, and is conducive to good parenting.
Raw materials:
In terms of raw materials, white glutinous rice is used. As early as the Western Han Dynasty, people divided wine into three grades according to different raw materials, and glutinous rice was the best. Shaoxing yellow rice wine has been made of glutinous rice since ancient times, and should be made of high-quality glutinous rice with white rice grains, full grains, good smell and no impurities. At the same time, it is required to be produced in the same year. Therefore, the glutinous rice raw materials of Shaoxing wine are summarized in three words: fine, new and glutinous. After carefully selecting refined glutinous rice, feed it in strict proportion and strictly control each process. Unqualified rice must not be used.
Use of water:
In terms of water use, it has good water for building lakes. This is the unique condition of Shaoxing wine.
As the saying goes, "water is the blood of wine." You can't make good wine without good water, so the source of good wine must be a famous spring. The reason why Shaoxing wine is crystal clear and fragrant is that it has become a treasure in wine, not only because of exquisite materials and a set of traditional techniques accumulated from a long brewing history, but also because it is brewed from the unique Jianhu water. The excellent water quality of Jianhu Lake has formed the unique quality of Shaoxing wine, so Shaoxing wine cannot be separated from Jianhu Lake.
Jianhu Lake is an artificial lake built in the Eastern Han Dynasty. In ancient times, Shaoxing today is a swamp, with floods in Huiji Mountain in the south and tides in Hangzhou Bay in the north. According to the Neijing of Yue Jue Ji Shu Ni, when Gou Jian was the King of Yue, he was still in a state of "connecting rivers and seas in the west, dredging the sea in the east, and returning water to the sky, endless life". Gou Jian was defeated by the State of Wu. He practiced the lesson of making money and accumulating wealth, and then began to build ponds around the levee sporadically for farming. In the 5th year of Yonghe, Shun Di in the Eastern Han Dynasty (AD 140), Ma Zhen, the magistrate of Huiji County, built dikes and lakes in various places to maintain and develop agricultural production and mobilize the people. Jianhu water comes from streams and streams in Huiji Mountain. Through the study and analysis of the geological structure of the water source area, it can be known that the content of heavy metals harmful to human body is low in bedrock, weathering crust and sediments, which is in a convergent state, so the content of heavy metal elements in the water body is less. At the same time, it contains appropriate minerals and beneficial trace elements such as molybdenum, and the hardness of water is moderate. Most of these areas have good vegetation, the water flows through layers of sand and stones, and the water source is clean and sweet without pollution.