osmanthus wine
The Mid-Autumn Festival banquet is accompanied by osmanthus wine. Looking up at osmanthus in the middle of the month, smelling osmanthus fragrance and drinking a cup of osmanthus wine celebrate the sweetness of the whole family, and getting together has become a wonderful enjoyment of the festival.
Osmanthus wine is made from Jingui, which blooms in autumn and is aged with high-quality rice wine. It has the characteristics of golden color, rich fragrance, sweet and sour taste. It is an excellent wine for banquets and cocktails, and it is also a good product for you to enjoy or give to your relatives and friends.
Osmanthus fragrans is warm in nature and pungent in taste. It can be taken orally by decocting, making tea or soaking in wine, which can resolve phlegm and dissipate blood stasis, and has certain curative effects on anorexia, excessive phlegm, cough and asthma, intestinal wind and bloody dysentery, amenorrhea and abdominal pain. Osmanthus fragrans wine is especially suitable for women to drink, and is known as "women's happiness wine". Traditional Chinese medicine has the theoretical practice of flower therapy, and osmanthus wine is a typical example.
yellow rice wine
Mid-Autumn Festival reunion, what wine to drink? Experts recommend that yellow wine is the most suitable. Yellow rice wine often appears in traditional festivals in China, which not only means that yellow rice wine has health care function. It also plays a great role in the health of some people. At the same time, holiday entertainment and dinner are naturally indispensable. If you are afraid of hurting your liver and kidney, drinking yellow wine on Mid-Autumn Festival is a good choice.
Drinking yellow rice wine in Mid-Autumn Festival is sweet, sour, bitter and fresh, which is very good for promoting appetite. Yellow rice wine contains a certain amount of zinc, which is an important component of energy metabolism and protein synthesis. When zinc is deficient, the taste will decrease and the appetite will be poor. Supplementing some zinc is good for stimulating appetite.
For women, yellow rice wine is rich in B vitamins, which is beneficial to beauty beauty; For the elderly, it has the functions of promoting blood circulation, dispelling cold, dredging menstruation and activating collaterals; For middle-aged people, yellow rice wine is rich in minerals such as magnesium and selenium, which can prevent blood pressure from rising. Moreover, the dextrin, maltose and glucose contained in rice wine are easily absorbed, so I can't think of a better Mid-Autumn Festival drink than rice wine.
Yellow rice wine is most suitable for warm drinking in this season, generally around 38 degrees, and the heating time should not be too long, otherwise the alcohol will volatilize and lose its mellow and tasteless. If you want to make your rice wine taste better, you can also add ginger slices or shredded plum, which is sour and sweet, purer and more nutritious.
It is suggested that the daily consumption of yellow rice wine with the degree of 15 should not exceed 8 Liang; If the degree is around 20 degrees, don't drink more than 6 ounces a day.
wine
Mid-Autumn Festival is a day of reunion, and it is essential for relatives and friends to have dinner. Then, the effect of "drinking" red wine is highlighted. In Europe, the hometown of red wine, it is the most indispensable drink on the table. Red wine with red meat and white wine with white meat are delicious and delicious. In China, red wine also has a wide range of catering adaptability, including roast duck, grilled fish, hot pot, Sichuan cuisine, barbecue, and beautiful sheep's feet ... all of which complement each other and have their own advantages.
Wine is also a kind of low-alcohol, rich in vitamins and contains trace elements such as manganese, zinc, molybdenum and selenium. Cardiologists have proved that drinking a small amount of red wine every day can reduce plasma viscosity, make thrombosis difficult to form and prevent arteriosclerosis. Red wine is especially popular with women because it has the miraculous effect of beauty and slimming. Grapes have a natural red color and are rich in antioxidant polyphenols, which can enhance skin resistance, promote blood circulation and make skin look white and ruddy. Wine can prevent aging and make skin wrinkle less.
Sweet wine is best with fruits and desserts. If you pour sweet wine on the cantaloupe, it will become a ripe dessert! Fruits that are not suitable for wine are sticky fruits with strong acidity, such as oranges and bananas. But wine is really good with fruit desserts. Don't forget to drink some wine when eating dessert!
Tip: It is advisable to drink four or two glasses of wine with a degree of 65,438+0.2 degrees every day.
beer
Beer is a refined drink with high calorie. 1 liter of beer is equivalent to 200 grams of bread or 500 grams of potatoes. Beer also contains 17 amino acids and 12 vitamins, so it is called "liquid bread", which shows that it is rich in nutrition. Beer has the functions of stimulating appetite, stimulating gastric acid secretion and improving digestive ability, but beer is high in calories and metabolized quickly in the human body, so excessive drinking is easy to make people fat and produce a "beer belly". In addition, gout patients must not drink beer, in which purine is easy to induce severe pain.
Tip: It is best not to drink more than two bottles of beer with a degree of about 4 degrees per day (1250 ml).
Chinese hard liquor
During the Mid-Autumn Festival, friends and relatives will inevitably push a cup for a change and have a drink at the party. Let's have some white wine to add to the fun. The ingredients in liquor are very complicated, and many of them are necessary for human health. People with insomnia drink a small amount of white wine before going to bed, which is beneficial to sleep, and can stimulate the secretion of gastric juice and saliva, and play a role in strengthening the stomach. In addition, moderate consumption of liquor has the functions of ventilation, dispelling cold, relaxing tendons and promoting blood circulation. However, due to the high degree of liquor, don't drink too much, otherwise it will easily cause fine poisoning and damage the liver and brain cells; Excessive drinking by pregnant women can also endanger the health of the fetus.
Tip: Ordinary people should not drink more than 2 ounces of white wine every day, such as 52-degree white wine. 38 degrees of low-alcohol liquor, it is best not to exceed 3 Liang a day.
Why do you drink on Mid-Autumn Festival?
The Mid-Autumn Festival, also known as the Mid-Autumn Festival and the Reunion Festival, falls on the 15th day of the eighth lunar month. In this festival, no matter whether family reunion or close friends get together, people can't do without enjoying the moon and drinking.
During the Mid-Autumn Festival, the climate is generally refreshing and the moon is particularly bright. The cool summer has just passed and winter has not come yet, and the climate is very pleasant; In addition, at the time of harvest, new crops will naturally appear, fruits will be fragrant, gods will be rewarded, banquets will be held and alcohol will be drunk.
Drinking is another custom related to enjoying the moon. The history of drinking in Mid-Autumn Festival can be traced back to the Han Dynasty, when emperors drank the brewing process and its complicated "town" wine in August. In the Tang dynasty, there were activities to enjoy the moon on stage and drink wine on the moon. "Tianbao Legacy" recorded "drinking on the moon" when the lights and candles went out at night.
In Song Taizong, the Mid-Autumn Festival on August 15th of the lunar calendar was officially confirmed. Dream of China in Tokyo records the grand occasion of Bianjing chanting Mid-Autumn Festival, and Dream of Liang records the excitement of Mid-Autumn Festival in Lin 'an in the Southern Song Dynasty. During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, there was a constant trend of offering sacrifices to the moon, appreciating the moon and drinking alcohol. Nowadays, Mid-Autumn Festival means family reunion, and enjoying the moon and drinking is even more essential.
There are many reflections on drinking in Mid-Autumn Festival in literature and poetry. It is recorded in Shuo Lin that "millet harvested in August can be used as wine". According to "Tianbao Legacy" written by Wang Renyu in the Five Dynasties, Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty held a Mid-Autumn Festival banquet in the palace, put out the lights and candles, and "drank on the moon" under the moon. Han Yu wrote in his poem: "Tonight is the loveliest moon in a year. Everything else is fate, which is beyond our control. However, if we refuse this wine, can we choose more tomorrows?" ? "
In Qing dynasty, drinking osmanthus wine was the custom of Mid-Autumn Festival. According to Pan Rongbi's Jing Di Sui Sheng in Qing Dynasty, in the Mid-Autumn Festival in August, "Poetry" drinks "Osmanthus fragrans East Wine". Until today, the Mid-Autumn Festival still has the custom of drinking osmanthus wine.
Every Mid-Autumn Festival night, drinking a cup of osmanthus wine, getting together and having a sweet family has become a wonderful enjoyment of the festival. There is a poem in Qu Yuan's Nine Songs, "Drink osmanthus wine and pepper paste". The custom of drinking osmanthus wine in Mid-Autumn Festival mainly comes from the fairy tales of Mid-Autumn Festival. WU GANG, who is guarding the Guanghan Palace with Chang 'e and Yutu, has been cutting down osmanthus trees in front of the Palace, and osmanthus trees fall all the year round in the Moon Palace.