Wine is a necessity for people, no matter what kind of occasion in the dinner, wine will always play a necessary role in enlivening the atmosphere, people always think that it is better to drink more wine than to say more. We drink more liquor and beer in China, but for red wine, we do not understand its history and culture, and even some people do not know how to drink red wine. This has led to a lot of people drinking red wine indiscriminately. We Chinese like food because we have our own food culture, and red wine also has its wine culture. Next, I will tell you some basic knowledge about red wine in detail.
History and Culture of Red Wine: Ancient texts vary in their origins. It was born about 10,000 years ago, far from being recordable in history. Wine is the product of natural fermentation, and the earliest wines were produced shortly after the grape grains ripened and fell to the ground, the peel cracked, and the oozing juice came into contact with the yeast in the air. Our distant ancestors tasted this product of nature and thus imitated the biological instinct of nature's winemaking process. Therefore, from the perspective of modern science, the origin of wine is to undergo a transition from natural wine to artificial wine.
The "4th China (Guangzhou) International Wine and Spirits Exhibition 2013" jointly organized by the China Chamber of Commerce for Import and Export of Food, Soil and Livestock and Guangzhou Fuya Exhibition Co., Ltd. was held in Guangzhou on May 10-12, 2013. Pazhou. Poly World Trade Center Expo is grandly renewed. At the China (Guangzhou) International Wine and Spirits Exhibition, chapters 8 and 9 of the Bible in Genesis tell the story of Noah's drunkenness: Noah was a man among the countless descendants of Adam and Eve, who believed in God very religiously, and he became the ancestor of later generations. When God discovered the evil and greed in the world, he decided to send a great flood on earth to cleanse all evil beings. Following the Lord's will, Noah selected all the plants on earth (the plants he chose were grapes), a pair of males and females of animal species, and took his 3 sons (Sim, Khan, and Gafe) and boarded a homemade wooden boat, the famous Noah's Ark. After 150 days of flooding, in the seventh month and 17 days, the ark was stranded on the Ararat Mountains (eastern Turkey, the border area between the Republic of Armenia and Iran). Noah then began tilling the land and planted the first vines, and later began to make wine. One day, he was alone in the tent drinking heavily, drunk as mud. When his son Khan found Noah lying naked and drunk on the ground, he summoned Sim and Gafet, who took their robes and retreated into the tent to cover their father's backs, without looking at his father's naked body. When Noah woke up, he cursed the Khan and asked God to make the Khan's son, the Canaanites, slaves of the Gafat family. He was disrespectful after drinking, but he was angry with his son, and even worse, he punished his grandson as a slave. "There is no morality after drinking", it seems that ancient and modern China and foreign countries are the same.
Although the Bible does not mention whether Noah brought wine with him, it seems that from the fact that he first cultivated grapes in order to make wine as soon as he got off the ship, it seems that the first important thing in his mind besides thanking God was to grow grapes to make wine. Of course, Noah's brewing is a Hebrew myth, not a fact.
According to historical records, in the Transcaucasia region of the Black Sea in the Neolithic period 10,000 years ago, Anatolia (called Asia Minor), Georgia and Armenia, all found a large number of grape seeds, indicating that grapes were not only used for eating, but also for juicing wine. Most historians believe that winemaking originated in ancient Persia in 6000 BC, in present-day Iran. The earliest cultivation of grapes began about 7,000 years ago in the South Caucasus, Central Asia Minor, Syria, Iraq and other regions of the former Soviet Union. Later, with the ancient wars and migration, it spread to other regions. First to Egypt, then to Greece. However, among the real sources that can be found are a large number of ruins and relics found in Ancient Egyptian Tombs. In the Nile Valley, from the excavated tomb groups, archaeologists found a small round bottom, a thick belly, and a large upper neck filling liquid burial vessel, which was used by the ancient Egyptians
Clay pots containing wine or oil; in particular, reliefs clearly depict the ancient Egyptians cultivating, harvesting grapes, making steps and drinking wine, which has a history of more than 5,000 years. In addition, the wine pot produced in the Era of the Egyptian Old Kingdom is also engraved with the word Ilpu (Egyptian, that is, wine). Western scholars believe that this is the beginning of the human grape and wine industry. The famous wine-themed writer Hugh? Johnson once described: "Ancient Egypt had very good wine tasting experts, who were like the wine samples of the twentieth century Sherry producers or Bordeaux wine brokers, who could confidently and professionally identify the quality of wine." ”
For Greece, the first country in Europe to start growing grapes and making wine, some navigators brought back grapes and winemaking techniques from the Nile Delta. Wine is not only the cornerstone of their brilliant culture, but also an indispensable part of everyday life. There are many descriptions of wine in the Greek homeric epics, and wine is often depicted as black in the Iliad. And his understanding of the essence of life is also expressed in an idyllic vineyard full of black grapes. According to research, the ancient Greek Aegean Basin had a very developed agriculture,
People mainly grow wheat, barley, olive oil and grapes. Most of the grapes are used to make wine, and the rest is dried. Almost every Greek has the habit of drinking wine. The wine produced was packed in a specially shaped clay pot for storage and trade transport, and the large number of containers excavated along these Mediterranean coasts was sufficient to illustrate the scale and route of the wine trade at that time, showing that wine was one of the important trade goods of the time. During the Mesythian period (1600-1100 BC), viticulture in Greece was already flourishing, and the wine trade reached Egypt, Syria, the Black Sea region, Sicily and southern Italy.
Wine was not only a traded goods, but also part of a Greek religious ritual, and before 700 AD, the Greeks held wine celebrations to show the worship of the mythical god of Wine. The worship of the god Dionysus, associated with wine and drunkenness, as well as viticulture, prevailed throughout Greece. The god Dionysus is the Greek god of wine and one of the most important and complex gods in Greece. Dionysus on the vase and the mad woman who followed him were the sons of the gods Zeus and The Goddess Simle in bizarre circumstances. The god Dionysus in Greece meant happy life, games and grand festivals, because he liked to be in the midst of the clamor of the priestesses with wine. The Greeks believed that he was a patron saint from some kind of festival. A Neo-Athenian-style Bohean pottery vase from the first century AD depicts the drunken scene of the god Dionysus: a drunken dionysus, supported by a forest god Satius, whose glass fell to the ground. Bacchus, on the other hand, was the Roman god of wine, the Roman symbol of grapes and wine, debauchery and debauchery. He was like dionysus, the Greek god of wine, but had little effect in Roman doctrine, and the absurd, debauched Bacchus and his followers were particularly worshipped by a small number of converts. In the mysterious atmosphere of Dionysus, the faithful danced the carnival Dionysian festival dance, so much so that the Roman Senate had to intervene to quell the chaos. The scene is recorded on an ancient bas-relief in the Vatican Museums about the birth of the god Bacchus: after removing Bacchus from the womb of the goddess Himmler, the main god Jupiter placed the little Bacchus in his lap for 3 months. Little Bacchus came out of the Father's leg after full term. At this time, the herding god Helmes, who was standing on the side, was holding a shirt in his hand and preparing to deliver the baby god. The three goddesses of Parca, who then controlled life, death, and destiny, prayed for the newborn baby goddess. The famous Seventeenth-century Italian painter Caravaggio created several images of Bacchus with his "ruthless authenticity" expression.
In the sixth century BC, the Greeks introduced grapes to Gaul (France) through the port of Marseille and passed on viticulture and winemaking techniques to the Gauls. But at the time, grape and wine production in Gaul was not important. After learning viticulture and winemaking techniques from the Greeks, the Romans popularized wine in the Italian peninsula and soon spread to Rome and throughout Europe through the hands of the Romans. In the first century AD, vines spread throughout the Rhône Valley; in the second century, vines spread throughout Burgundy and Bordeaux reached the Loire Valley in the third century; and finally in the Champagne region and the Moselle Valley in the fourth century, and the Gauls, who were originally very fond of barley beer and mead, quickly fell in love with wine and became outstanding grape growers. Because the wine they produced was so popular in Rome, the Roman Emperor Dumison ordered the uprooting of half of the vines in Gaul to ensure the native grape growers of Rome.
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