Berry Sauce Wine:

Two thousand years ago, Sima Qian told us a story about the discovery of Yelang in his "Records of the Grand Historian". The main character of this story is called Tang Meng. Around 135 B.C., when Tang Meng was on a mission to the state of Nan Yue, which was a state that ruled over the two provinces at the end of the Qin Dynasty, he had the opportunity to eat a food called berry sauce at a banquet. While eating it, Tang Meng casually asked his host: This is very delicious, is it produced locally? The host also casually answered him: this stuff comes from the country of Yelang, Yelang is in the west of South Vietnam, there is a place name river flowing down from Yelang, in the capital city of South Vietnam Panyu, that is, today's Guangzhou city into the sea. Tang Meng paid attention and brought the berry paste back to Chang'an. A merchant in Shu knew where the berry paste came from and told him that it was produced in Shu, and the people of Shu sold it to Yelang, who then resold it to South Vietnam. When Tang Meng heard this, he was immediately energized. At that time, the Han court did not know that the side of Shu, there is a Yelang country exists. A detailed question, Shu businessman told him that the Yelang country, "Sheep River, the river is wide enough to travel more than a hundred paces ......" Tang Meng understood these circumstances, the berry sauce offered to Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty to taste. Emperor Wu said, "It's sweet and beautiful". Tang Meng took advantage of Han Wu Di happy, and then further advice Han Wu Di said, if from Hunan, Jiangxi this side of the attack on South Vietnam, high mountains and dangerous roads, it is difficult to work. He suggested that the court use the power of Ba Shu to conquer Yelang, which would give him more than 100,000 soldiers, and then pontoon down from the Shekou River, so that he could collect the success of the surprise attack and take South Vietnam into the territory. Emperor Wu of Han appreciated Tang Meng's suggestion, and as a great master of his generation, he was keenly aware of the great strategic opportunity contained in the suggestion itself. Therefore, in 135 B.C., Emperor Wu appointed Tang Meng as the general of Langzhong, and led 1,000 Han troops with 10,000 people and a large number of gifts to enter Yelang along the Chishui River. Under Tang Meng's persuasion and the temptation of various gifts, the king of Yelang, Duoqiu, and some small states around Yelang submitted to the Han Dynasty together. This event was called "Tang Meng Tong Yelang" by later generations. According to later generations, this kind of berry sauce, which was praised by Emperor Wu of Han Dynasty, is a kind of wine brewed by the Gelao ancestors living in the Chishui River Basin - the Pu people, who constitute the main ethnic group of the southwestern country of Yelang and other countries.

Maotai Wine:

The town of Maotai is nestled in the mountains of the Dalou Mountains, geographically on the northern edge of the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau, with the meandering Chishui River, which originates in Yunnan, flowing by her side. The earliest name of this place was Mashangwan, later called Sifangjing. After the Song Dynasty, the name Maotai began to appear. According to local history experts, the origin of the name, originated in the riverbank of an ancient left, Pu people worship ancestors of the high platform. This was later abandoned high platform, in the long years was year after year luxuriant growth of thatched grass obliterated, so in a long period of time, the people of this place simply called "thatched grass platform". And today's Maotai title, in fact, is the past "Maotai" short. In the past, the old people used to say that this place was the feng shui where the thirsty dragon came out of the mountain and all the horses returned to the trough, and that it hid the king's energy. But the king's breath in the people said for hundreds of years, but never revealed the head.

From the Berry Sauce onward, for more than a thousand years after the Han Dynasty, Moutai was an important gateway between Guizhou and Sichuan. Whether it is called Mashanwan, or four-square wells, Maotai, or any other name, the brewing industry in this region, not only has never been cut off from a lineage of incense, and into the Qing Dynasty, this wisp of warmth is gradually flourished. To the Qing Jiaqing, Daoguang years, according to "Zunyi Province" records, "Moutai (brewing) no less than 20 burning room, the cost of the mountain grain no less than 20,000 stone. And the wine brewed was called "Moutai burnt", and at that time it was "the first in Guizhou Province". However, no one expected, Maotai wine industry development, in this thriving time, suffered a disaster.

It was the middle of the nineteenth century, the Qing Dynasty, Xian and Tong years, disaster, internal and external problems of China is the revolutionary fire and full of blood in the struggle groaning. Although the area of Maotai is located in the southwest corner, but also can not be like a paradise in a moment of peace. 1862, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom famous generals, the wing king Shi Dakai due to internal strife caused by the split in the "Tianjing Incident" after the rate of more than 100,000 troops all the way to Guizhou, hoping to open up in the Sichuan, Guizhou, Yunnan, a new situation. In the winter of this year, Shi Dakai attacked Zunyi city. Unexpectedly, although Zunyi is small, the Qing army and the resistance of the militia is very tenacious. Shi Dakai long attack Zunyi not, and get the news of reinforcements from all over the night, had to withdraw the siege of Zunyi north into Sichuan. In the siege of Zunyi during the Shi Dakai order Chancellor Li Fuyu rate of partial division attack from Zunyi more than 100 miles away from Maotai. The Moutai garrison and militia resisted to the death. The Taiping army fought for it house by house, and the battle was very fierce. After this battle, the ancient town of Moutai, which had already developed to a certain scale in the Qing Dynasty and established a considerable reputation and influence, was reduced to a piece of rubble, with the people displaced and dispersed, and all the houses and breweries wiped out in the flames.

Perhaps, under one of the mountains near Moutai, by one of the small rivers, His Majesty the Winged King, who was a poet and a wine-lover, received the spoils of war - a few jars of good wine - that had been rushed from Moutai. The wine was packed in earthen jars, sealed with dried pig urine, and when it was uncovered, the aroma was overwhelming. According to the local custom of the natives, the soldiers put a few wheat stalks in the mouth of the earthen jar, and then invited the King of wings and the generals around to drink together. This rare wine in the world gradually nourished His Highness the Winged King's sensitive, lonely and noble heart, and inspired him to fight for the world's heroism. Just listen to him a light drink: "pen and ink waiting", in a moment to write a shocking ancient and modern drinking poem.

Ten thousand dendrobiums of pearls in one urn,

The king also bowed his head.

Holding the pillar of the sky gently,

It draws the water of the Yangtze River backward.

Shi Dakai's Taiping army left Moutai and drifted across the border between Sichuan and Guizhou, entering and leaving Renhuai seven times before moving step by step towards his destiny - the Dadu River. After the defeat of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, the Qing court sent Ding Baozhen, a famous minister who started in the suppression of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, to be the governor of Sichuan. Ding Baozhen is a native of Guizhou, knows that Guizhou does not produce salt, Guizhou people eat salt are transported from Sichuan. Due to the system does not exist, transportation and marketing chaos, the price is very expensive, resulting in a lack of salt or even no salt in Guizhou, the general public is mostly light food, or "eat salt when the New Year" pain. At the beginning of his term of office, he sent his friend, and later did the Yunnan governor of Zunyi Tang Jiong supervise the salt, responsible for rectifying the salt regime in Sichuan. Tang Jiong recommended another Zunyi Hua Lianhui to assist, after meeting, Ding Baozhen also appreciate Hua Lianhui's talent, the three hit it off.

It should be said that this time the salt government is very successful. First of all, the Sichuan salt tax revenue from the consolidation of more than seven thousand taels per year, surged to more than a million taels. Then because of the smooth transportation and marketing channels, a more stable system and price, but also to a considerable extent to alleviate the difficulties of the Qian people to eat salt. And at first resolutely out of the mountain, to assist Tang Jiong to rectify the salt Hua Lianhui, because firmly grasped the opportunity, not only to do a good job, and also got the Sichuan salt distribution in Guizhou, Renhuai, codification of the river, Xuyong, Fuling, four major ports of entry, two ports of entry of Renhuai and Xuyong part of the monopoly, in more than a decade, by the countryside of Zunyi, although the study of a successful candidate, but the landlord of the small but unofficial and no office, and jumped to become the richest man in Guizhou. The richest man in Guizhou. So much so that for many years afterward, the proverb "Tang family's tops, Hua family's silvers" was still circulating among the common people in Guizhou to describe its abundance. The Tang family in this proverb is the aforementioned Tang Jiong and his grandchildren who have been officials for generations. The so-called Hua family is the Hua industrial and commercial family started by Hua Lianhui.

Hua Lianhui's monopoly of Ren, Syu two major ports, the most important is the Ren Bank, that is, Maotai port. Because of the Chishui River navigation, Moutai port then became the most important pier of the Sichuan salt sales of Guizhou, and the people mixed together, merchants gathered, and gradually awakened from the disaster of the military fire. And Hua Lianhui due to the responsibility of reorganization of salt, and in Moutai has a salt number, often in the Chishui River area to run around. He was a person who was y nourished by Confucian culture and believed in benevolence, righteousness, propriety and filial piety. Even after he was very rich and honorable, every time he returned to his hometown, he would get off the sedan chair and change his clothes ten miles away from his home, so that his followers could return to the city. Self green hat, and then let the servant pick a load of gifts, a hat in the summer, an umbrella in the rain, walking home. This is of vital significance to the development of Maotai wine and even the Maotai region's brewing industry.

Once he returned home from Maotai, his family hosted a banquet to wash away the dust. During the banquet, Hua Lianhui's mother suddenly mentioned something, saying that before the "Long Hair" Rebellion (i.e., the Taiping Army entered Guizhou), she had drank a very tasty wine in Moutai. I don't know if this kind of wine is still available after the rebellion. If not, it would be a pity. Mrs. Hua didn't know that her nagging words had inadvertently put her son's heart on the line. When Hua Lianhui went to Maotai again, he ordered his men to look for this "very good wine" to fulfill his mother's wish. Who knew that this pile of things he originally thought was very simple, but encountered unexpected difficulties. The reason is that after the war, the wine room fell down, the wine cellar was filled up, the wine worker died, the wine industry in Maotai except for a piece of brick and mortar, no longer exists.

While Hua Lianhui was unable to find the kind of wine his mother drank back then, he decided to rebuild a brewery in order to fulfill his mother's wish. With his wealth and ability, this matter was not a big deal. A few months later, the new workshop was built on a piece of rubble. The concept of a factory did not exist at that time, so Hua Lianhui pondered for a while and gave the new Hua family business a name, "Chengyi Brewery". This happened in 1867, only 5 years after the Taiping Army attacked Moutai, 138 years ago. This "Chengyi Burning House" was the earliest prototype of the world-famous Moutai distillery. Later, the king of the world's Guizhou Maotai wine, was born out of a mother's idle and a son's filial piety.

When Hua Lianhui first built the "Chengyi Burning House", his salt business was booming, and the silver was pouring in like running water. Therefore, his intention, the roast room baked wine in addition to their own use at home, is to be used to gift friends and relatives, to meet the officialdom and shopping malls in some of the social needs, not to sell money. Production is also very low, there is no price. But contrary to expectations, the wine was introduced, it was welcomed by everyone, the Hua family has a good wine news spread, come to ask for this wine friends and relatives and colleagues, peers in an endless stream, stepped through the threshold. At first, Hua Lianhui was very happy and generous. Gradually, more and more people want to wine, it becomes a burden, not win. But he was a businessman after all, and his nature allowed him to quickly see the business opportunities that lay within. After some thinking, he decided to expand the production, set the price and officially put the wine on the market. This decision for Hua Lianhui, not only to solve the pain of favor, but also an additional income, can be said to kill two birds with one stone. However, Hua Lianhui could not have thought, he and his children and grandchildren painstakingly operate, and make them a generation of rich salt, with the progress of the times has long since ceased to exist, and inadvertently cultivated this small tree, but in the careful cultivation of descendants, grew into a giant tree. This is really planted flowers do not grow, unintentional willow into a shade. A flea was sown back then, but a huge dragon is harvested today. Moutai's old folks did not expect, that the legend of hundreds of years of "Wang Qi", finally in this altar of cleanliness in the agar jelly rises ......

Three

October 10, 1911, the outbreak of the Xinhai Revolution. On November 4 of the same year, Guizhou under the leadership of the revolutionaries in one fell swoop anyway, the establishment of the Dahan Guizhou military government. one day in 1913, then the Guizhou military government to protect the financial director of the Hua Lianhui son of Hua Zhihong, in his antique office, received from the Yuan Shikai Beiyang government, Ministry of Agriculture, Industry and Commerce, an official document.

This official letter from the Beiyang government was prompted by a major world event at the time. Originally, the U.S. government to celebrate the opening of the Panama Canal connecting the Pacific Ocean and the Atlantic Ocean, specially organized a "Panama World's Fair" in San Francisco. The canal was 68 kilometers long, and it took about 8 hours for a ship to cross it. Before the opening of the Grand Canal, it took 60 days for ships to travel from New York on the east coast of the United States to San Francisco on the west coast. Therefore, the Grand Canal was called the "Lifeline of the Isthmus" by the Americans at that time. After the opening of this "Isthmus Lifeline", it will generate more than $100 million in tax revenue and save more than $100 million in expenses for the United States Government every year. This really makes Americans happy, and organizing an unprecedented exposition is a manifestation of this good mood.

Early in 1912, the U.S. Congress passed a proposal to hold an international exposition to celebrate the completion of the Panama Canal, and the purpose of the exposition was defined as: exchange of human knowledge, and promote the progress of civilization.

In March 1912, the Chinese government, which had just gone through the Xinhai Revolution, received a letter of invitation to participate in the exposition from the U.S. president, Mr. Tufts. Subsequently, the U.S. government sent a commissioner to China to "persuade Chinese officials and businessmen to go to the race". Beiyang government also set up a "Preparation for the Panama Games Affairs Bureau", and sent a letter to the provinces, requesting the provinces to pay attention to this matter, and send cadres to carefully select the local production of exquisite special artifacts, and then organized a delegation to participate in the exhibition. Hua Zhihong received the official letter, decided to personally Cheng Yi's Maotai wine and Maotai wine produced by another Maotai "Rong Taihe" burning room, in the name of "Maotai Wine Company", unified packaging, together sent to the exhibition, but also a glimpse of the scenery and people on the other side of the ocean.

The China to participate in the San Francisco Panama Universal Exposition of goods, there are about one thousand kinds. After some collection, selection, organization of work, all the exhibits of the Chinese delegation and exhibition officials boarded the ocean liner, embarked on a long journey to the other side of the ocean. At that time, the voyage from Tianjin Port to San Francisco took about two months. On the rolling waves of the Pacific Ocean, it was sometimes stormy, sometimes windy and sunny. The ports along the way were also characterized by beautiful scenery and different flavors. Such a journey full of temptation, let a person's ears and eyes often new, surely let with the exhibition group traveled HuaZhiHong thoughts turn over. After all, at that time, there were too few people in Guizhou who could see the sea.

The exposition, which was called the Universal Exhibition, actually featured fewer than 50 participating countries, but sent more than 200,000 kinds of goods to the exhibition. Chinese delegation in this exposition of events slightly: February 20, 1915, the official opening of the exposition; March 9, 1915, the Chinese Government Pavilion officially opened; March 25, U.S. Vice President Marsha on behalf of U.S. President Woodrow Wilson to the museum to congratulate; in May, all the exhibits into the review of the selection; September 23, the former U.S. President Roosevelt old visit to the Chinese Government Pavilion; on December 4, the Panama Universal Exposition closed. The exposition to the final stage, is for the exhibitors of various countries tasting out of the award level. After the tasting of wine experts from various countries, Moutai wine, with its excellent and unique quality and style, was unanimously selected as the world's famous wine among the many wines sent to the exhibition and won the gold medal. And together with French Cognac brandy and British Scotch whisky, *** enjoys the reputation of the world's top three distilled spirits.

However, there is another exciting version of this San Francisco award-winning story in the lore of Maotai. The story goes that the fair was coming to an end, and the evaluation of the awards for the commodities sent by various countries to the exhibition had come to an end, especially the evaluation of the famous wines of various countries had basically been completed. However, there was no news about the Guizhou Moutai wine sent by China. This situation is anxious with the delegation to the United States Hua Zhihong. He asked around, and finally learned that the reason for this is that there are hundreds of famous wines from various countries, all of which are beautifully packaged, colorful, and attracted the judges' attention as soon as they came up. And we sent the exhibition of Maotai wine is a black pottery bottle, wooden cork, pig urine bubble seal, trademark or soil paper stone printing, is too inconspicuous. The judges think Maotai wine packaging is too rustic, too simple, simply did not open the bottle to taste. Hua Zhihong figure out the situation, the heart that gas ah. In the heat of the moment, he took advantage of a group of Western wine judges flocked to the China Pavilion to visit the opportunity to pick up a bottle of Maotai wine to the ground a drop ......

Hua Zhihong's intention is nothing more than the Western judges to express their anger at the injustice. But he never expected that the fall would be a stone's throw, and the rich and fragrant aroma of the wine instantly attracted many visitors to watch and marvel. The scent certainly did not go unnoticed, and it also penetrated into the experienced noses of the western judges. The judges immediately stopped in their tracks, they looked at each other, coincidentally to send the fragrance of the place to look over ...... This later story of course, needless to say, Hua Zhihong to the judges introduced Maotai wine is extremely unique and complex brewing process, his account must have made the judges fell over their heads, very regretful of their own appearance of people's At the same time, they admired the short Chinese man in front of them for his boldness and courage. In the end, they agreed to bring the Moutai wine back to the jury for review. The result of the re-review was that all the judges agreed that Moutai was the top liquor in the world and deserved to win the gold medal in the liquor competition.

Four

After winning the award, Moutai's reputation grew to the point where it was copied by many imitators. At that time, there were the so-called "Jinmao", "Dingmao", "Langmao" and so on. Even in Taiwan, there were many kinds of liquor with the name of Moutai. After the liberation, Mao Zedong, Zhou Enlai, Deng Xiaoping and other national leaders favored and supported Moutai liquor, so that Moutai liquor was covered with a political halo, thus witnessing almost all the **** and national events since the founding of the country. Such a Maotai, has gradually become a national business card, a symbol of the nation. As in the past, Westerners recognize China through porcelain, now a mention of Maotai, they all know, this is China.

In the 1970s, in order to implement Mao Zedong Maotai wine to engage in 10,000 tons of instructions, the State Ministry of Light Industry also directly and indirectly presided over a number of Maotai distillery large-scale off-site trials. Strangely enough, however, all these imitations of Moutai wine, even if the process and raw materials are exactly the same, and even the winemaker is the winemaker of the Moutai Winery, could not produce Moutai wine with the same quality and taste as Moutai wine. According to scientific analysis, this may and Maotai town of water and soil, altitude, atmospheric environment are closely linked. Therefore, in addition to the Maotai factory in Maotai town Maotai wine, other places produced by the "Maotai wine" are not Maotai wine. And this Maotai wine can not be separated from the origin of the special phenomenon, has become a national **** knowledge. In recent years, a "national wine Maotai, drink out of health to" advertisement, and gradually be familiar with the country. Indeed, drinking Maotai wine does not scrape the throat, does not head, does not hurt the liver and kidneys of the characteristics, but also for more and more drinkers to recognize, and become a kind of experience.

Shaoxing yellow wine (Huadiao wine):

And about the origin of Huadiao wine, the Qing Dynasty's "Wanderlust" recounts a folk legend. According to the legend, a rich man gave birth to a daughter, and when the full moon came, this rich man brewed a few jars of wine and hid them in the cellar. Eighteen years later, his daughter was going to get married, so the rich man took out the stored wine and painted on the outside of the wine altar, such as "dragon and phoenix auspiciousness", "flowers and moonlight", "send son to Goddess of Mercy" and other festive designs, as the daughter's companion. and other festive designs on the outside of the wine altar as daughters' dowry gifts. Because of the beautiful colorful patterns on the outside of the wine jar, people figuratively called this wine "Huadiao". Since then, "Huadiao" has become synonymous with the birth of children in Shaoxing, and to this day, if someone has a daughter, people will jokingly say "Congratulations Huadiao into the door.

As for the quality of Huadiao wine, in the beginning, the altar of Huadiao wine was filled with general Shaoxing Jiayi wine, and after years of storage in the cellar or wine warehouse, it became aged wine. When the altar is opened, the fragrance is exotic and the room is full of fragrance, becoming the treasures of Shaoxing wine, and Hua Diao wine has become synonymous with aged wine and the elegant title of Shaoxing Garnish Wine.

Zaoji Wine

Zaoji Township is a famous traditional wine township in China and the birthplace of Laozi, the originator of Taoism. Its brewing history is long, on can be traced back to the Spring and Autumn, flourished in the Sui and Tang dynasties, the output of the wine was Song Zhenzong Zhao Heng designated as "Palace Tribute Wine", there is a "heavenly famous wine, the ground gives the famous spring" "Zaoji wine, the name is not false! The beautiful sentence of "Zaoji wine, the name is not false" has been passed down. In 518 BC, the famous thinker and educator in the history of China. Confucianism ancestor Confucius asked to pay a visit to the Taoist ancestor - Laozi (Li Er), Laozi served jujube set brewed wine to entertain Confucius, Confucius drank and then left "but the wine is not as good as the chaos" of the ancient famous saying. Song Zhenzong Zhao Heng in in Xiangfu seven years to come to Luyi worship Laozi, night stay in front of the Laojun Terrace "Ming Dao Palace" drinking jujube set of wine after a great idea, ordered to write down the "Queen of the first heavenly praises monument" stood in front of the Palace of the Qing Dynasty, and the local annual tribute of 20,000 pounds of jujube set of wine as a palace use.

, the first time in the world.

Hongmao wine

Hongmao wine was created in the Qing Dynasty Kangxi thirty-two years (A.D. 1693), so far there have been more than three hundred years of production history. It is produced in the ancient town of Hongmao in Liangcheng County, Inner Mongolia.

Qing Dynasty Qianlong four years, Shanxi Yuji County, Wang Ji Fort famous Chinese medicine Wang Jitian medical to Hongmao ancient town, see these fine wine, they resolutely bought Hongmao base wine (then called Hongmao liquor or called Hongmao wine) brewing tank workshop, will be their own generations of secret herbal medicine recipe with the wine immersion, made of outstanding efficacy Hongmao medicinal wine. Since then, Wang Jitian stopped the sale of this wine, specializing in the use of Hongmao medicinal wine as the base wine, which makes this wine even more mysterious, and the outside world is rarely seen. During the Daoguang period, it was selected as a tribute wine for the court together with Hongmao Medicine Wine. During the war, Marshal He Long often drank this wine during his work in Liangcheng to protect himself from the cold outside the city.

Wu Jia Pei Wine

Wu Jia Pei Wine is the oldest tribute wine. Wugapi Wine is prepared from a variety of Chinese herbs, and there is a beautiful legend about its preparation.

Legend, the East China Sea Dragon King's five princesses Jia Maiden descended to earth, and mortals to the center and in love with each other. Because of the difficulties of life five Gongwen proposed to brew a kind of both fitness and cure the disease of the wine, to the center and feel difficult. The fifth official asked Zhi Zhong He to brew the wine according to her method and put in a certain proportion of traditional Chinese medicine. When putting in the herbs, Princess Wu sang a song: "A flavor of angelica tonifies the heart and blood, and concubine yellow is used to remove blood stasis and dissolve dampness. Gan Song awakens the spleen and removes evil, disperses stagnation and harmonizes the stomach with Guang Mu Xiang. Menthol is cool and clears the head and eyes, and papaya soothes and refreshes the spirit. Hawthorn can suppress dampness, and wind-cold paralysis can open up. The bark of Wuga has a strange fragrance, nourishes the liver and kidney, strengthens the muscles and bones, harmonizes all medicines and adds licorice, Gui Zhi Yu Zhu can not be forgotten. The twelve branches of the earth's branches, increase or decrease all the wonderful formula." It turns out that this song contains twelve kinds of Chinese medicines, which is the recipe for the Five Princesses' Wugapi Wine. In order to avoid suspicion, Princess Wu named the wine "Zhi Zhong He Wu Jia Pei Wine". According to the Qin-Han period of the (Shennong Materia Medica), "Lu Ding Gongmu single service five plus skin wine, so that do not die".

There are many other legends about cocktails, but whichever legend, to varying degrees, illustrates the American love of cocktails.

The origin of cocktails (one of the claims): one day, after a banquet, the seat left a variety of different kinds of wine, some of the arms left 1/4, some of the cups left 1/2. There is a clean up the table cook, will be a variety of the remaining wine three, five cups of wine together, a taste taste than the original variety of a single wine tastes like good, and tasted a few mixed wine, are so, and then Several times intentionally repeat the mixture, the mixture of wine, indeed, better than the taste of each single wine, after he was so with the wine for everyone to drink, we are very high evaluation of this kind of wine, so this mixture of wine will be famous, and spread, according to the reason that this kind of wine should be called "cooks wine," but but it is called a "Cocktails". Cocktails of the origin of the term, there is another saying is during the American Revolution, there is a young girl of Irish nationality, she not only roast chicken to welcome the revolutionary army, but also for them to drink wine, because the girl love beautiful, like to dress up, even with the wine in the wine glass should be inserted into a beautiful chicken feather to decorate, and so on after the success of the American Revolution, with the mounting of the chicken feathers of the mixture of wine on the popularity of, because of the wine on the mounting of the chicken feathers of the reason, the name of the cocktail Because of the chicken feather on the glass, then the name of the cocktail in the American folk first spread.

The story of wine added:

Legend of love about wine

Legend I:

The origin of wine is still circulating such an interesting legend: a love of grapes of the ancient Persian king and a disgraced consort. The king hid the grapes he couldn't finish in a sealed bottle and wrote the word "poison" to prevent others from stealing them. The king was so busy that he soon forgot about it. Lost favor with the consort is worse than death, want to seek death, coincidentally saw the "poison", open, inside the color of the liquid is also very strange like poison, the fermented grape juice as poison to drink, the results did not die, but instead there is a kind of intoxicated feeling of immortality. She reported the matter to the king, the king was amazed, a try was true, the consort again favored, all happy. Wine was also created and widely spread, loved by the people. Not to mention the truth of the story, red wine from the beginning of the beauty, identity, status has a close relationship, today's red wine naturally inherited this noble identity.

Legend II

The ancient Greek god of wine

The ancient Greek god of wine, Dionysus, was the god of wine and revelry, and also the god of art in ancient Greece. According to the most popular legend, he was the son of Zeus (Zeus) and Princess Semele (Semele). Zeus's wife Hera (Hera) is only vinegar, where Zeus and others in love, she must make a trap revenge. Hera persuade pregnant Simle princess asked Zeus to show his face, to prove the sanctity of love. It turned out that Zeus appeared in disguise when he fell in love with women on earth. At the request of Himmler, Zeus agreed. Zeus was the main god in Greek religion and mythology, and his power was too great for Simlei, a mortal woman, to withstand, and she was killed by a thunderbolt as a result. Zeus removed the under-utilized fetus from Simle's womb and sewed it into his own thigh. Zeus became crippled during this time. When his son was born at full term, he was named Dionysus, which means "Zeus is lame." Thus, Dionysus was born.