China is the home of wine, in the 5000 years historical perpetual flow, wine and wine culture in the traditional Chinese culture has its unique position. In the thousands of years of history of civilization, the wine almost penetrated into various fields of social life.
As for has a long history of wine is produced when, the authorship, there have been numerous legends, the wine itself has large a unique charm, the legend of the legendary wine are not surprising. These legends is a widely popular, basically have the following kinds:
The first: God of wine making.
Since ancient times, Chinese have the wine is wine made in heaven star ", " a " in the wine flag constellation records: the right angle South Samsung day wine flag, wine, flag, the main feast food. Xuan ape ancient Chinese star, 17 star, 12 among them is leo. Wine flag Samsung, a pattern:
Wine flag star discovery, the earliest to see the " Zhouli " in one book, it is now nearly three thousand history, after that, began in the Shang Dynasty and it in the Zhou Dai, is the ancient Chinese astronomy one of great creation, at the time of scientific instrument extremely poor condition, our ancestors in the great stars observed that a few do not bright wine flag star, leaving about wine flag star various records, this has to say is a miracle.
However, since God make wine said, neither the theoretical science, and no scientific evidence, is attached to said, literature with exaggerated, it is not worth a letter.
Second: simian build wine to say
On the ape of wine making said, in the history of China's books can be found in the related records. In the early Ming Dynasty, the apes make wine legend has been recorded. The Ming Dynasty scholar Li Rihua in his writings, records: Mount Huangshan ape to scratch, spring and summer flowers in stone WA, brewing wine, fragrance overflows, the smell of hundreds of steps, these records are shown in the ape, home office, often have similar wine things are found.
Experts, scholars from this inference, origin of wine by fermentation began when fruit. Because it is easier to grain fermentation.