It is said that the wine is not afraid of the deep alley, daughter red as a famous wine, what is the origin?
The famous Shaoxing "flower carving wine" is also known as "daughter wine". China's Jin Dynasty Shangyu Jihan "southern grasses and trees" recorded: "daughter wine for the old rich families to give birth to a daughter, marrying a daughter of the must-have things", talking about the name, there is a story it! Legend has it that a long time ago, Shaoxing Dongguan has a member of the outside looking forward to the heir eager, but his wife long infertile, member of the outside looking around and finally got a prescription, his wife is pregnant, member of the outside when he was very happy, specially brewed more than 20 altars of yellow wine to celebrate. The winter and spring to October, the member of the outside wife gave birth to a thousand gold, will welcome the full moon in a few days, according to local custom, the member of the outside set shaved his head wine feast guests. After the banquet was over, he saw that several altars of good wine had not yet been opened, and it was a pity to abandon them, so he buried the wine under the osmanthus tree in the garden. Time flies like an arrow, the years go by like a shuttle, 18 years will pass in a flash, the staff outside the gold has grown up, its appearance is gorgeous, can be described as a fish and geese, the country is beautiful. The fair lady, the gentleman is good, matchmaking people then a steady stream of marriage, his father thought carefully, and was allowed to marry the son of the benefactor. Soon, the big day is coming, the wedding banquet, the old man and guests to celebrate and drink, the wine gradually exhausted still not happy, the old man suddenly remembered the old man worried about the time under the osmanthus tree and that has been buried for 18 years of good wine, that is, ordering people to dig the old wine to feast guests, to be placed in the wine altar out of the ground in the banquet hall, go to the head of the mud, and then the aroma of the pummeling, moistening the heart and spleen, people competing to taste, all of them are the color of the crystalline beauty of the taste of sweetness and freshness, the table of the sultan! Can not help but praise: "buried daughter red, the cabinet out of the immortal child", the guests said good! Since then, next-door neighbors, near and far the family gave birth to a daughter, brewing and burying, marrying a daughter to dig wine treats, forming a custom. Since then, thousands of years, the ancient Shaoxing area gradually formed "the birth of a daughter must be brewed daughter wine, marrying a daughter must drink daughter red" custom. Later, even the birth of a boy, also in accordance with the brewing, buried wine, hoping that the son in the Scholar to celebrate the drinking, so the wine is also called "Scholar red". "Daughter's Red" and "Scholar's Red" are both aged wines that have been stored for a long time. The wine is so fragrant and delicious that people give it as a valuable gift.