No one knows anything about Chinese history without knowing it. As the name of the first generation of the tang dynasty, he left behind a series of stories from "the lens of man" to "the dragon in dreams". But outside the court, he has another identity: wine winemakers.
The famous prime minister of the tang dynasty
Wine of China's most famous tagline is still in the tang dynasty Wang Han "grape wine luminous wine glass", just "grape", "wine" and "luminous wine glass" run-on sentences, not impossible, and records of the three things in the Chinese history books are some ambiguous: "grape" I'm afraid not now people take it for granted red grapes, wine, "wine" is not necessarily a imagination "luminous wine glass" is probably not as today's glass glittering and translucent connect fully.
Referring to the history of wine brewing in China, some people are happy to say: "the silk road is eight thousand miles, the grape wine three thousand years." Whether or not the fight is the right one, the latter half is probably not the case. Chinese history is "five thousand years", so that any better things sorry fathers, do not add a thirty-five thousand Chinese wine brewing history is hidden in the trap. Some of the classic of poetry seems to prove the shells in the central plains have grapes, but as Fried eggs and egg is not the same, there are grape wine, doesn't mean how much more the central plains native grapes are not suitable for wine. King mu of zhou saw that the mother of the west also had an ambiguous "water essence" luminous cup. Orchard "rites" mentioned in the right there is a "the fruit of the tree Luo, extraordinarily thing in the world", zheng xuan as "extraordinarily, acuminatissima, a batch of the genus". Whether this is still not a proof of wine, the book was written in the warring states period, and zheng xuan was a man of the eastern han dynasty, and both were difficult to count as "eyewitness testimony".
East to west wine history of the legend of the "art" is derived according to the record of upright shi-ji dayuan's "around nanyang PuTao as wine, rich wine to Yu Shi, for dozens of years old don't defeat. Common alcohol, horse's alfalfa. Han to take to actually, so the right kind of alfalfa, PuTao fat rao. And tianma, foreign to the, don't view by all kinds of PuTao detached palace, alfalfa" look. In the folk wine story, "han" was interpreted as zhang qian, and added that "while bringing in grapes, it also attracts wine artists". The fact is that zhang qian had been away for at least 10 years. When zhang qian was alive, the wine was only briefly mentioned to emperor wudi, and his interest in emperor wudi was clearly more concentrated in the "heavenly horse". As "tianma" feed, alfalfa in emperor mind actually is more important than grapes, today all kinds of grapes and alfalfa is more approximate to the "foreign" showing off "landscape project". As for the fabled "winemaker", the book of "the great air" has never been mentioned.
Despite the emperor's affinity for wine, the green wines of wei are still extinct in China.
According to zhang yz introduced the textual research of the grape and wine, wine brewing technology in the eastern han dynasty to the western region of operating the corn distillery had to, but because of the central plains folk prefer traditional rice wine, the technology until the southern and northern dynasties are limited to known millet, wine, are regarded as extraordinarily for nobles enjoy alone. Zhongyuan really start introduced from the western wine brewing technology, it is Wei Zheng in early stage, then nearly one thousand years of fault occurred in the song dynasty period, so that the imitation and koji fermentation of yellow rice wine brewing method. The wine-making method of the western region was once again in the middle and reached its peak in the yuan dynasty, but the Ming dynasty fell again until the end of the qing dynasty. Wine in the central plains the fate of the continuation of the simple and brutal mode: if the regime is the control of the northern and western nationalities, wine will flourish, vice versa. After such ups and downs, the ancient Chinese wine was able to dock directly with the "zhangyu" wines of 1892, less than 200 years ago.
It is for these reasons that it is now possible to know the wines of wei in historical materials, but his technique has long since been lost. Biography written by liu zongyuan "liuzhou record" has recorded: "can it cure wei left phase, is called rulu, often with daikin trader in storage, drink ten years, the world has no its taste. Emperor taizong emperor tastes poetry was given a male, said 'rulu. One thousand drunk not awake, the festival atmosphere unbeaten 10.' birth, namely HanWu subway purport wine; jade scallions, yang-ti wine name. And this wine brewed this study in western qiang people, then the method of the dayuan, sima qian said: 'around nanyang PuTao as wine, rich wine to Yu Shi, for dozens of years unbeaten." Wei Zheng wine is generally recognized as rulu two kinds of wine, but literally, unlike today common red and white wine, Wei Zheng which is a kind of "green wine".
