Yellow rice wine/Shaoxing wine is one of the oldest wines in the world, which originated in China and only exists in China. It is called the three oldest wines in the world together with beer and wine. About 3000 years ago, in the Shang and Zhou Dynasties, China people invented the double fermentation method of distiller's yeast and began to brew a large number of yellow rice wine.
There are many varieties of yellow rice wine, such as Jimo Old Wine in Shandong, Gujiangdong Wine in Ji 'an, Jiangxi, Huiquan Wine in Wuxi, Zhuangyuanhong in Shaoxing, Daughter Red in Shaoxing, Huang You in Shazhou, Zhangjiagang, Wugong Old Wine in Wujiang and Baihuayang. Shanghai wine, Hebi Yu He Shuanghuang wine, Fujian Min 'an wine, Jiangxi Jiujiang Fenggang wine, Jiangsu Baipu yellow wine (Shuiminglou), Jiangsu Jintan and Danyang Fenggang wine, Henan Shuanghuang wine, Guangdong Hakka Niang wine, Zhangjiakou Beizong yellow wine, Shaoxing yellow wine (Huadiao wine, etc.). ), Guangdong pearl red wine, etc.
Yellow rice wine takes rice, millet and millet as raw materials, and its general alcohol content is 14%-20%, which belongs to low-alcohol brewing wine. Yellow rice wine is nutritious and contains 2/kloc-0 amino acids, including several unknown amino acids. However, the human body cannot synthesize by itself, and must rely on food to ingest 8 essential amino acids. Yellow rice wine is therefore called "liquid cake".
References:
Baidu encyclopedia-yellow rice wine