Top Ten Court Tribute Wines
1. Spring wine
During the Jian'an period of the Eastern Han Dynasty (196 A.D.), Cao Cao dedicated his hometown "Jiujiuchun wine" (i.e. Gujing tribute wine) and brewing method to Emperor Liu Xie of the Han Dynasty. Since then, "Jiujiuchun wine" (Gujing tribute wine) has become a tribute of all dynasties.
The trademark registration of Gujing Gongjiu is quite difficult: On February 26, 1960, when Gujing Winery applied for the registration of Gujing Gongjiu trademark according to the level, on March 18, the Administration for Industry and Commerce of China sent a reply: the Gujing brand trademark applied for registration by Gujing Winery can be used, but "Gujing Gongjiu" is best changed. For "Gujing wine", that is, the word "gong" cannot be used. Later, with the consent of the Central Administration for Industry and Commerce, the registered trademark and product profile of Gujing Gongjiu of Gujing brand were used. Gujing Gongjiu was rated as a famous wine in Anhui Province in May 1960, and in November 1963, it was rated as the second place in China's eight famous liquors at the second national wine evaluation meeting. Since then, Gujing Gongjiu has entered the ranks of famous Chinese wines, and its name has become louder and louder.
During the ten-year catastrophe, the cultural world and traditional Chinese culture suffered the most severely. The "Gujing tribute wine" with the strongest color of traditional Chinese culture is also difficult to escape the disaster. In 1967, the word "Gong" of Gujing Gongjiu was put on the "four old" hat and was killed in the war. Hundreds of thousands of sets of "Gujing Gongjiu" trademarks were burned in one fell swoop. The simple new trademark "Gujingjiu" entered the hands of "revolutionary" as a "revolutionary". However, the power of culture cannot fade. At the strong request of consumers, Gujing Winery reported to Anhui Light Industry Bureau in 1973 to resume the use of the Gujing tribute wine trademark. On September 1, 1973, the Light Industry Bureau of the Anhui Provincial Revolutionary Committee issued a document agreeing to restore the approval of the name of Gujing Gongjiu.
Since then, Gujing Gongjiu, a brand that has gone through political, economic and cultural vicissitudes, has been fixed and loved by people.
2. Year of the Crane Tribute Wine
Founded in the third year of Yongle in the Ming Dynasty, Beijing He Nian Hall was famous at home and abroad for the control of health wine and health tea for the palace in the Ming and Qing dynasties. It is known as "the first time-honored health care brand in the capital"! The "1405 • He Nian Gong" series of health wine series, which is specially provided for the central state organs, is refined by using the 600-year-old royal health wine brewing process. It has a magnificent color, mellow taste, mild wine, rich nutrition, and good health care for middle-aged and elderly people.
He Niantang melts the art of Qihuang into the way of wine and tea. He is good at using Buddha's hands, osmanthus, golden oranges, Yin Chen, roses, etc. with a variety of traditional Chinese medicine to make good wine. After being made, the color of the wine is magnificent, red, green, yellow and purple are crystal clear. The fragrance of flowers and fruits is rich, and the mellow and sweet aftertaste is long, which is very suitable for the wave pursued by literati. The artistic conception is diffuse; and it has the effect of relieving depression and regulating qi, maintaining courage and liver, nourishing qi and nourishing blood. Drink less and nourishing sex, drink more and slightly fragrant and pleasant, with wine without drunkenness, and there is no harm of alcohol attack on the spleen, stomach and liver. People do not have the image of less morality after drinking. Since the Emperor Yongle, this wine has been listed as a royal drink in the imperial palace. Empress Xu of Yongle, Ci'an in the Qing Dynasty, Cixi, etc. Take "Golden Wine" as a common drink for health and beauty. This party was once listed as the secret recipe of the palace. In 1927, it was re-made of golden Buddha wine, golden orange wine, golden wine and golden wine according to the inheritance. It was very popular with celebrities in the capital, and even foreign guests competed to drink it.
He Niantang is developed and produced according to ancient prescriptions and technology. The "1405 • He Nian Gong" series of health wine, once launched, is immediately loved by people who pursue health and perfection. It has become a top-class Jiapin gifted by celebrities and gifts from relatives and friends. Dora Jiachang, South Korea, Southeast Asia and other places have also heard about it. It has never been listed. The order is empty.
Functional health wines such as He Nian Tang's most famous "He Nian Shou Jiu" are even more legendary. In the fourth year of Jiajing in the Ming Dynasty (1525), Yan Song, who was only 25 years old at that time, was appointed as a waiter of Nanjing Hanlin Academy. He was famous for his writing and calligraphy. When he came to Beijing to work, he lived in the Jiangsu Hall in the south of Caishikou, which was very close to the He Nian Hall. At this time, He Niantang has been transferred from the Ding family to the hands of Cao Pu Sa, a Zhejiang pharmaceutical merchant. At that time, people called him "Cao Bodhisattva" and had an excellent reputation. One day, Yan Song occasionally came to the Henian Hall. "Cao Bodhisattva" personally prescribed medicine for him and talked happily. "Cao Bodhisattva" knew that Yan Song's calligraphy was excellent, so he asked him to write a plaque for the medicine shop. It is said that Yan Song happily wrote the three words "He Nian Hall" at that time. From then on, he interpreted many legends around this plaque. It is said that as soon as the plaque was hung up, it attracted passers-by. People were amazed by these three powerful characters and thought that the capital was the best.
There was an old man from Shanxi, standing under the plaque and looking at it a lot. He nodded and shook his head, saying: The words are good words, have skills and charm. Unfortunately, at the turning point of the pen, there is always a sense of adultery. Later, Yan Song really became a powerful minister. Of course, this is just an attachment of the descendants.
After Yan Song's plaque, I started to get in contact with He Nian Tang from then on. Later, in the fifteenth year of Yan Song Jiajing (1536), he entered Beijing as a minister of the Ministry of Ceremonies. He tried his best to climb his official career and finally became the first assistant. Because he was too much in his mind, the officialdom was full of complicated, such as walking on thin ice, too laborious. Just after the year of Huajia, he was already old. He went to He Niantang to ask for education and recuperation. Cao Yong, the young master of He Nian Hall, used the method of combining his ancestors to cultivate the middle qi and adjust the operation of qi and blood to make him "He Nian Changsheng Changsheng Wine". After more than a year, his white hair turned black and his face was ruddy. Yan Song and his family have always been using Chinese herbal medicine prepared by He Nian Tang. "He Nian Changsheng Jiu" is a must drink every day, and his body is slowly recuperating very healthy. Yan Song has lived to be eighty-nine years old (1408-1569) in the vortex of political struggle. Yan Song's drinking He Nian's immortal wine and refreshing health later spread to the ears of Emperor Jiaqing. He was happy and angry. He was happy that there was such a wonderful recipe in the world. He was angry, "Yan Song has this secret recipe, and he has not recorded it. It can be seen that people's hearts are unpredictable!" Therefore, it was ordered to the Tai Hospital to go to the Henian Hall to match the wine, and to change the name of the party to "He Nian Shoujiu", which was listed as the secret recipe of the court, and strictly forbidden to spread it. This recipe has also been secretly handed down to this day. He Niantang Fu, Lu, Shou and Xi Gong sprinkler is prepared with this series of formulas, which has strong effect and good effect, and has always been very popular.
3, dates and wine
Zaoji Town is a famous traditional wine town in China and the birthplace of Laozi, the ancestor of Taoism. Its wine-making history can be traced back to the Spring and Autumn Period. It was produced in the Sui and Tang Dynasties. The wine produced was designated as "court tribute wine" by Zhao Hengqin, Emperor Zhenzong of the Song Dynasty. There are beautiful sentences of "famous wine given by heaven, famous spring by the land" and "zaodate collection of wine, which is worthy of its reputation". In 518 BC, he was a famous thinker and educator in Chinese history. Confucius, the ancestor of Confucianism, asked Laozi (Li Er), the ancestor of Taoism, to worship. Laozi served Confucius with a wine brewed in a jujube collection. After drinking it, Confucius left a famous saying that "only wine is not as good as chaos". Zhao Heng, Emperor Zhenzong of the Song Dynasty, worshipped Laozi in Luyi for seven years in Zhongxiangfu. After drinking dates and drinking wine in the "Mingdao Palace" in front of the Laojuntai at night, he wrote down the "Connate Empress Dowager's Praise Monument" in front of the door of the Taiqing Palace, and issued an edict to pay 20,000 catties of jujube wine every year for the palace.
4, wine
Also known as Youyou Record Wine. In the Northern Wei Dynasty, it became the tribute wine of the palace, and it was also sacrificed to ancestors by successive emperors as the best sacrifice wine. Lake wine was originally a "home-made wine" made by farmers near Youhu, and then gradually entered the market. In the 24th year of the Republic of China, the Shanghai edition of China Industrial Magazine reported that at the end of the Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the People's Republic of China, there were 179 brewing workshops in Hengyang City, producing 32,600 ballasts of wine per year. The old city of Hengyang Hotel is all over the streets and alleys, with the praise of "Qingcao Qiaotou Jiujia". Today, in the four townships of Hengyang, every family will brew it. During the Spring Festival, red and white happy events, guests are treated with the wine of the lake. Lake wine is widely used. In addition to drinking wine, it is also used as a cooking seasoning, removing rot and fishy, adding color and fragrance. The wine lees, starched eggs, sweet wine lees, boiled soup yuan, etc. are delicious.
5. Hongmao Liquor
Hongmao Liquor was founded in the 32nd year of Kangxi in the Qing Dynasty (1693 A.D.) and has a production history of more than 300 years. It is produced in Hongmao Ancient Town, Liangcheng County, Inner Mongolia.
Unique regional style, unique climate environment, unique raw material treasure, unique superior water quality, and unique brewing technology make Hongmaoji wine refreshing, refreshing, mellow and pleasant.
In the fourth year of Qianlong in the Qing Dynasty, Wang Jitian, a well-known traditional Chinese medicine doctor in Wangjiabao, Yuci County, Shanxi Province, went to the ancient town of Hongmao. Seeing this excellent wine, he resolutely bought Hongmaoji Liquor (then called Hongmao Liquor or Hongmao Liquor) to make a jar workshop, and soaked his secret recipe of Chinese herbal medicine passed down from all generations to make it into an outstanding Hongmao medicinal wine. . Since then, Wang Jitian has stopped selling this wine, which is specially used as the base wine of Hongmao medicinal wine, which makes the wine more mysterious and rarely seen in the outside world. Later in the Daoguang period, it was selected as the palace tribute wine together with Hongmao medicinal wine. During the Anti-Japanese War, Marshal He Long often drank this wine while working in Liangcheng to keep out the cold.
6. Lamb wine
Lamb wine has a unique formula and exquisite materials. It is made of high-quality rice, tender mutton, fresh fruits and precious Chinese medicinal materials. The wine industry is amber, with a wine degree of 17 degrees. It integrates ester, milk, fruit and medicinal fragrance. It is moderately sweet and sour, and has a unique style. It has the ability to nourish yin and moisten the lungs, enhance vitality, strengthen the waist and kidney, and appetizing. The effect of strengthening the spleen, nourishing the liver and eyesight and black hair beauty.
In the Three Kingdoms, Zhuge Liang rewarded the three armies with lamb wine. In the Empty City Plan, when Sima Yi's soldiers came to the city, Zhuge Liang sang on the tower: "The opening gate will welcome you, and I will reward your three armies with lamb wine." The lamb wine of the Tang Dynasty entered the court as a tribute for the emperor to enjoy. When Li Longji, Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty celebrated Yang Guifei's 20th birthday, he specially selected "Lamb Wine" for Yang Guifei from the tribute wine of "Qinxiangting" to express his congratulations. After the noble concubine was drunk, she danced and danced the "Nium clothes and feather dance". Xuanzong wine played music. When Su Dongpo, a great writer in the Song Dynasty, drank lamb wine with his guests, he wrote an exquisite poem "Try to open the cloud dream lamb wine, quickly diarrhea money and Tang medicine king ship". Li Shizhen, a medical scientist in the Ming Dynasty, recorded in his famous book Compendium of Materia Medica: "Lamb wine strengthens the spleen and stomach, benefits the waist and body, and nourishes vitality" tonic health care products; Qing Dynasty scholars Li Ruzhen recorded in Jinghuayuan that the lamb wine was produced in Luancheng, and listed the lamb wine as the amount of 55 famous wines at that time.
7. Fenjiu from Xinghua Village
According to the Book of Northern Qi, Fenjiu in Xinghua Village has become a palace tribute wine in the Northern and Southern Dynasties 1500 years ago. Du Mu, a great poet in the Tang Dynasty, "I asked where the restaurant is, and the shepherd boy pointed to Xinghua Village" made Xinghua Village and Fenjiu famous all over the world, which is well known to women and children. The History of the Tang Dynasty, the Beishan Wine Classic in Zhu Yi in the Northern Song Dynasty, the Wine Spectrum by Dou Ge, the Wine Names of Zhang Nengchen, the Wine History of Song Bolen in the Yuan Dynasty, the Wine Products by Wang Shizhen in the Ming Dynasty, and Yuan Mei's Suiyuan Food List in the Qing Dynasty all have records about Xinghua Village's famous wine. In 1915, at the beginning of the last century, Fenjiu won the first-class gold medal at the Panama International Exposition, becoming an outstanding representative of China's national industry.
8, Wujiapi wine
Wujiapi wine is the oldest tribute wine. Wujiapi wine is made from a variety of traditional Chinese medicinal materials, and there is a beautiful legend about its preparation.
Legend has it that the fifth princess of the Dragon King of the East China Sea, the maidservant, came down to the world and fell in love with mortals. Because of the difficulties in life, the five official documents proposed to brew a wine that can both keep fit and cure diseases, which makes it difficult to neutralise. The five official documents let Zhizhong brew according to her method and put traditional Chinese medicine in a certain proportion. When putting in traditional Chinese medicine, the fifth princess sang a song: "One blindly replenishes the heart and blood of Angelica, removes blood stasis and removes moisture with concubine yellow. Gansong wakes up the spleen and can eliminate evil, dissipate stagnation and the stomach. Peppermint is cool and refreshing, and papaya is refreshing. The only living hawthorn is wet and evil, and the wind is cold and stubbornly paralysed. Five plus bark has a strange fragrance, nourishing the liver, kidney, muscles and bones, blending all medicines and adding licorice, and osmanthus branches and jade bamboo can't be forgotten. It's a wonderful way to increase or decrease. It turns out that this song contains twelve kinds of traditional Chinese medicine, which is the formula of Wujiapi wine. In order to avoid suspicion, the five princesses named the wine "Zizhonghe Wujiapi Wine". According to the "Shen Nong Ben Cao Jing" in the Qin and Han Dynasties, "Lu Ding's father and mother take five skin wine alone, so that they will not die."
9, **wine
According to Ge Hong's "Xijing Miscellaneous Records of Yi Jizai" in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, at the time of Emperor Gaozu of the Han Dynasty, he wore dog dog dog on September 9th, ate lotus bait, and drank ** wine in the palace. Clouds make people live a long life." According to Liang Guanjun's "Continuation of Qi Harmony" written by Liang Guanjun in the Southern Dynasty, "September 9th..., drinking chrysanthemum wine, the disaster can be eliminated." This is the beginning of the Double Ninth Festival, and you need to drink ** wine.
Mr. Pujie once wrote a poem for ** liquor: "It's comparable to the white lotus, and the bamboo leaves are green next to it. Juying praised the longevity of the world, and the medicine estimated to celebrate the age. The new flavor of alcohol is passed on to the old forbidden court. The Long March is accompanied, and there is no need to stop the leap forward. The poem for the lotus liquor is: "The brewing of mellow condensation, the fragrance is far and the essence, the secret recipe is passed on to the forbidden garden, and the longevity is famous."
10, "Tongshengjin" shochu
On June 9, 1996, an amazing archaeological discovery was made in Jinzhou, Liaoning Province. When people moved the old factory of Lingchuan Brewery in Jinzhou, they accidentally found four wooden wine seas (the containers of ancient wine) 80 centimeters underground. The wine sea of wine was well preserved with a pleasant aroma. These wine seas are made of red birch, with a length of 2.62 meters, a width of 1.31 meters, and a depth of 1.64 meters. The box is covered with about 1,500 layers of rice paper dipped in deer blood. These rice papers are written in Chinese characters, such as "Daqing Daoguangyi has been over the year", "Tongshengjin", "Daqingguo" and so on. Through these records and other relics, cultural relics and archaeological experts, it is confirmed that this is the "Tongshengjin" winery sealed in Qing Daoguang for 25 years. These wines are not only long-lived, but also very delicious.
"Shu" is an aged type, with a slightly yellow color and an alcohol content of 53%. The physical, chemical and hygiene indicators meet the national food hygiene standards. Because it is a tribute wine, it is sealed with deer blood dipped in rice paper. After more than 150 years of soaking, the deer blood has penetrated into the wine, which is very effective.
According to the repeated verification of the Liaoning Provincial Institute of Archaeology and the Liquor Professional Association of the China Food Technology Association, it is believed that this batch of Qing Dynasty tribute wine is the longest-old liquor in the world. It and the discovery of the "wood wine sea" of wine vessels is of great value to the study of Chinese wine culture.