Daughter Red is a kind of glutinous rice wine (southern yellow rice wine), which is mainly produced in Shaoxing, Zhejiang, China. As early as the Song Dynasty, Shaoxing was a famous wine producing area. Shaoxing people gave birth to daughters at home. When the children were full moon, they would choose wine jars, seal the jars with mud, bury them underground or hide them in the cellar, and take them out to entertain relatives and friends when their daughters got married, hence the name "Daughter Red"!
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The story of daughter red
Legend has it that a long time ago, there was a tailor, whose craft was excellent, but there was no successor. He always wanted a son to inherit his craft, but his wife had been going to the door for several years, but there was no ring.
Finally, this year, my wife suddenly felt uncomfortable and often felt sick. The tailor found a doctor to treat her, and found that she was pregnant. The tailor was so happy that he immediately brewed several jars of wine himself and prepared to entertain guests when the child was born.
Looking forward to it, ten months have finally passed, and my wife has successfully given birth to a baby. When the tailor went to see it with great joy, he found that it was a baby girl, and his mood suddenly fell to the bottom. In his heart, the girl was going to get married after all, and naturally he could not inherit his craft. A depressed tailor, of course, has no intention of entertaining guests. Several altars of wine carefully prepared before were also hastily buried under the osmanthus tree in his backyard.
Later, as the days passed, the girl was beautiful and generous, and she inherited the tailor's craft. Moreover, shine on you was better than blue. The peony she embroidered could attract bees to collect honey, and the embroidered mandarin ducks were lifelike. People from all over the country would ask her to do embroidery work, and the business of the tailor's shop became more prosperous.
At this time, the tailor also had his own apprentice, and he betrothed his daughter to his most proud apprentice, hoping that the two couples could run their own tailor shop together. Now, his mood is naturally completely different from that of his daughter when she was born. He specially arranged it and invited many relatives and friends to attend her wedding.
On the wedding day, the tailor remembered the wine buried in that year and felt a little guilty. To make up for it, he dug up the wine and treated it to everyone. The wine that has been shelved for many years, I don't know how it will taste, and the tailor has no bottom. Who knows, the moment the lid of the wine was opened, the room was filled with rich wine, and everyone admired it after tasting it. They had never drunk such a mellow wine.
Therefore, people in Shaoxing area will bury several jars of wine on the day when the child is born, regardless of whether it is a boy or a girl. If the child is a boy, it will be taken out to entertain guests when he has achieved academic success, and if it is a girl, it will be taken out on the day when she gets married, and it will be called "Daughter Red".
This is the origin of "Daughter Red".
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