Huanggui thick wine, also known as Xi 'an thick wine, Shaanxi thick wine, Guifei thick wine and genuine thick wine. In ancient times, it was called "Lao Li" (reading labor ceremony) and "jade paste". As an ancient traditional wine in China, it is one of the eight precious specialties in Shaanxi, and has long been famous all over the world. Huanggui thick wine, which was called "Jade Slurry" in ancient times, began in the pre-Qin period and is a famous specialty in Guanzhong, Shaanxi Province. It has been a good drink for festive banquets for a long time, especially for literati and celebrities.
thick wine, like wine, is better than wine. Its juice is thick, mellow, sweet and palatable, and its alcohol content is about 1%. Later, people added Huanggui, a traditional Chinese medicine, to the liquor, which made the liquor taste fragrant with Huanggui, so it was named "Huanggui Thick Wine".
Guo Moruo was very happy after drinking hot Huanggui thick wine in Xi 'an restaurant, and repeatedly said that it was "like wine rather than wine".
Huanggui thick wine has the functions of invigorating stomach, promoting blood circulation, quenching thirst and moistening lung. Drinking this wine is good for your health.
thick wine, which is recorded in history, began in Shang and Zhou dynasties and has been more than 3, years. At that time, it was just not called Huanggui thick wine. In Neijing, the earliest medical collection in China, "mash" was mentioned many times, which was the predecessor of thick wine. Raw juice without adding pulp is called "skimming".
It is also recorded in The Book of Songs, Zhou Song: "In a good year, there are plenty of millet and plenty of rice, as well as high crops, trillions and billions. For the sake of wine, steam the ancestors to make a hundred gifts. "
In Xiaoya, there is a poem "With its wine, or with its pulp". The millet refers to yellow rice, and the shuttle refers to glutinous rice. Yi is a kind of sweet wine, which can be contributed to ancestors and used for various sacrifices. It can be seen that in the Shang and Zhou dynasties, Guanzhong area was already rich in crops such as millet rice, and the rich millet rice was used as the raw material for brewing thick wine.
there is a record in the biography of the king of Chu Yuan in Han Dynasty: "At the beginning, the king of Yuan saluted Shen Gong, but Mu Sheng was not addicted to alcohol. Every time Yuan Wang bought wine, he often set a cup for Mu Sheng. And Wang Shu acceded to the throne, standing, and then forgot to set it up. Mu Sheng retired and said,' You can die! If there is no wine, Wang will be lazy and not go, and the Chu people will clamp me in the market. " It can be seen from this story that thick wine was already a famous wine in Han Dynasty. Jia Sixie, the satrap of Levin County in the Northern Wei Dynasty, called it "white mash" in Qi Min Yao Shu.
In the prosperous Tang Dynasty, fine wine was produced in Changle Square in ancient Chang 'an, which was reflected in Duan Chengshi's Youyang Miscellany. Moreover, the brewing technology has been further improved, and everyone in the government and the public is addicted to drinking. Song Luyou once said: "Tang people love to drink sweet wine." Poets in the Tang Dynasty also chanted, such as "A statue of spring wine is as sweet as a pulp" by Han Yu, "No spring mash is as sweet as honey" by Du Fu, and "There are hundreds of poems about Li Bai's fighting for wine in the Eight Immortals Song of Drinking" by him. When Chang 'an went to a restaurant to sleep, the emperor called him to the boat, claiming that he was a wine fairy, and the wine of "drunken imperial concubine" was not added with syrup.
It is said that Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty and Yang Guifei came to Changle Square to drink. The delicious and mellow thick wine made the Guifei fall, and then the osmanthus in his hand was given to the shopkeeper. The shopkeeper planted osmanthus in the wine storage garden, but cassia twig took root and blossomed, and it multiplied into a forest in Chang 'an Square. In the flowering season, osmanthus fragrance, thick wine fragrance and fragrance overflowed Changle Square. The shopkeeper then marinated osmanthus with honey and mixed it into the wine, making the wine more distinctive and fragrant. "Huanggui thick wine" spread from this, and it has been passed down as a much-told story so far.
"Li Taibai loves drinking jade and floating beams" in Qing Yi Lu refers to ancient thick wine.