Yellow rice wine will not be favored by foreigners because even Chinese people dislike it. Rice wine is a kind of brewed wine made from rice, corn, millet, millet, wheat and other grains as the main raw materials, using cooking, adding koji, saccharification, fermentation, pressing, filtering, decoction, storage, blending and other processes. Weigh rice wine. Because rice wine contains a large amount of amino acids and vitamins, it has high nutritional value and low alcohol content, generally 8 to 20. It is called a mild health wine, which can promote blood circulation and have the effect of repelling cold and warming the body. The proteins in rice wine are mostly in the form of peptides and amino acids, which are more conducive to human body digestion and absorption.
The origin of rice wine is not Shaoxing today
When it comes to rice wine, everyone will naturally think of Shaoxing rice wine. Indeed, Shaoxing rice wine has long been famous and has become a bright business card of Shaoxing. However, many people do not know that the origin of rice wine is not Shaoxing, but Hengyang, Hunan. Judging from the bronze wine vessels unearthed in Hengyang from the Shang Dynasty and the Spring and Autumn Period, it shows that Hengyang had advanced wine-making technology for a long time, and drinking had become an important life custom at that time. In addition, according to relevant data verification, Hunan was the first area to grow grains, indicating that Hunan was the first to have the conditions for brewing wine.
Jiang Yanfeng, associate professor at Hunan Normal University and researcher at the Hunan Economic Development Research Center, conducted detailed research on many historical materials such as "Lu Shi Chun Qiu" and "Zuo Shi Chun Qiu" and found that Shaoxing wine has a history of more than 2,500 years. Hengyang's Linjiu has a history of more than 3,000 years. In fact, Linjiu is the originator of today's rice wine. Historical records record that its production process is similar to that of rice wine. From this point of view, Hengyang’s rice wine brewing technology is 500 years earlier than Shaoxing’s, but it was Shaoxing that later developed rice wine.
Foreigners don’t like to drink it, so why do Chinese people dislike it too?
Foreigners do not like to drink rice wine. The foreigners here mainly refer to Europeans and Americans. The important point is that it is closely related to their long-term drinking habits and drinking culture. For example, the French like to drink red wine, the Germans like to drink beer, and the Russians like to drink vodka. Our country's rice wine looks a bit turbid, not as clear as red wine and beer, and has a bitter taste that is naturally not what they like.
However, as Asian Japanese, they have a unique love for Chinese rice wine and have become the largest exporter of Shaoxing rice wine. Therefore, not all foreigners do not like rice wine. Japan’s famous sake is based on Chinese rice wine. Brewed on the basis of technology. Judging from my country's rice wine export data in 2018, the United States is the largest consumer of rice wine in Europe and the United States, accounting for 5.95% of the total rice wine exports. Presumably, this should be the contribution of the Chinese. Living in a foreign country, they still miss the national wine.