There are many kinds of popular wines, including Yuan red wine, yellow wine, good wine, Xiangxue wine and Huadiao wine. Among them, the most distinctive is Huadiao wine. Carved wine evolved from the ancient "daughter wine". As early as the Song Dynasty, every family in Shaoxing would make wine. Every time a family gives birth to a girl, they will choose several jars of wine at the full moon, ask someone to carve them for good luck, and then seal them with mud. When the daughter grows up, she will take out the old wine to entertain the guests. This custom has been handed down from generation to generation and has become an indispensable folk custom in Shaoxing. It was named "Huadiao Wine" or "First Year Huadiao Wine" because there were colored paintings with China national style carved outside the altar.

folk custom

Carving wine, also known as "Zhuangyuan Red" and "Daughter Red". Carved wine evolved from the ancient "daughter wine". As early as the Song Dynasty, every family in Shaoxing would make wine. When a girl is born in every family, a number of jars will be selected on the day of the full moon, and people will be asked to carve and paint them for good luck (usually all kinds of flower patterns, birds and animals, landscape pavilions and so on). ) and then seal them in the mud. When the daughter grows up and becomes a monk, she will take out the aged wine from the cellar, and ask the painter to paint "various states" on the altar with oil paints, such as "Eight Immortals Crossing the Sea", "Dragon and Phoenix Coming Together" and "the Goddess Chang'e flying to the moon", and treat the guests with auspicious and full moon.

characteristic

Huadiao wine is a wonderful flower in China yellow rice wine. It is made of high-quality glutinous rice and high-quality wheat koji, supplemented by crystal clear lake water in Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces, brewed by ancient methods, and then stored for a long time, with unique flavor and rich nutrition. After scientific identification, carved wine contains amino acids, sugars, vitamins and other nutrients beneficial to the human body, and is called "advanced liquid cake". According to the different storage time, there are three years old, five years old, eight years old, ten years, even decades and so on. And Chen is the most valuable. Generally speaking, wine is soft, bright orange and mellow.

taste

It is precisely because of its mild characteristics (generally around 15 degrees) that Huadiao wine is also deeply loved by Cantonese people. Carved wine can be drunk directly or when it is scalded to 38 or 40 degrees. After heating, the alcohol content of Huadiao wine decreases, so it becomes more mellow, thick and easy to eat. Besides serving as a side dish, many famous dishes are made of carved wine, such as carved chicken and stewed crab meat. It is worth mentioning that eating crabs is best to drink carved wine. Crabs are cool, and carved wine warms the stomach, which is the best match.