Editor's Note:
With the rapid implementation of the "Ru Porcelain Confidant Ruzhou Waiting for You" city brand that De Anjie participated in planning, Ruzhou City is becoming a name that people often mention when talking about city brands. The azure Ru porcelain is the inheritance of Ruzhou culture and one of the important Chinese symbols. In Ruzhou, Ru porcelain, which has the reputation of "national treasure", is closely related to people's lives. In traditional Chinese culture, the pursuit of gourmet utensils has been around since ancient times.
With the strong support of the Cpc Ruzhou Municipal Party Committee, the Ruzhou Municipal People's Government, and the Ruzhou Municipal Bureau of Culture and Tourism, the tourism food book "Awakening Food in Ruzhou" co-curated by De Anjie will meet with readers with the strong support of China Tourism Publishing House. Now, we have serialized some of the stories in the book and started a journey to trace the origins of Ruzhou's gastronomic culture with tourism and food lovers in the form of words.
Today, we have entered the wine culture of Ruzhou in the Song Palace wine that has been passed down for many years.
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Chinese wine culture has a long history, and when you go to any place, there is definitely a wine with local characteristics. "The ancients Shaokang Chu Ji made brooms and rice wine. ShaoKang, Du Kang also. "From the time the story of Du Kang's winemaking appeared in "Speaking of Words and Words", wine culture has become an indispensable part of Chinese culture.
"Man's law, earth's law, heaven's law, heaven's law, and nature", the wine produced by grain records the attitude of people's lives on the land of China. Ruzhou has a long history, many people may not know that there is another kind of wine that accompanies Ru porcelain, that is, the Song Palace banquet wine in Ruzhou.
Go to Ruzhou, if you find anyone who has a collection of Song Palace wine bottles, there must be some stories in it. Zhou Huajian once sang in the song: "A word, a lifetime, a lifetime of love, a glass of wine." "If you have had a drink with ruzhou people, you will find that Ruzhou has the most worthy friends.
The wine table rises, and the storm surges
Some people say that wine table culture is the best way to understand the personality of a local person. Ruzhou people love to drink, raise the wine glass, Ruzhou people can immediately let you feel the central plains people straight. As the old saying goes, "No wine is no table", and the wine table etiquette of Ruzhou people is not to drink first, it is not considered to be an opening table.
For Ruzhou people, drinking is not only a pleasure during the banquet, drinking is a kind of ruzhou people's hospitality etiquette. At the beginning of the feast, the host divides the wine into small cups, then holds it up with a plate, and pours the small cup of wine into a large cup in front of the crowd, and the host drinks it all to show the sincerity of the toast.
Friends at the wine table are not simply enjoying the pleasure of mouthing, everyone is feeling a culture, an atmosphere, a taste, a state of mind. The so-called wine is less than a thousand cups per confidant, if there is a Song Palace banquet wine on the table at this time, "victory but countless in the world" is probably said to be this scene.
Song Palace banquet wine, listening to the name is not difficult to guess, this wine must be related to the Song Dynasty. According to legend, during the Song Dynasty, the Yang family will fight here, Yang Liulang was in charge of brewing wine in the army in Ruzhou, and the prestige of the Yang family general inspired the soldiers who made wine, so everyone worked together to brew a good wine that was handed down to the world. Although the legend has yet to be studied, the wine of the Song Palace is indeed an ancient law.
A glass of wine, Ruzhou affairs
Like many places, Ruzhou people will gather to eat and drink whenever they have major life events, such as marriage, childbirth, birthday, relocation, etc., and the Song Palace banquet wine is a witness to the changes in the lives of people in Ruzhou. As in many places, toasts want each other to drink more wine to fulfill the host's friendship, and the more the guests drink, the happier the host is.
If you have felt the hospitality of Ruzhou wine table, you must want to go into the winery to see the wine making process. The Song Palace Wine Industry has long condensed the whole process into an exhibition, and the living sculpture is like a winemaking comic strip, displayed in the museum. The antique wine culture museum seems to take you back to the old Ruzhou in the past.
The history spans to 1982, Linru County Distillery was established, renamed Linru County Songgong Distillery in 1985, and in 1988, with the withdrawal of the county and the change of the city, there was Ruzhou Songgong Distillery. In July 1992, song palace banquet wine won gold and silver medals at the 30th International Food Fair in Brussels. In March 1993, he won a special gold and silver award at the Hong Kong Food Expo.
Similar to the fate of many old state-owned enterprises, the Song Palace liquor industry has also experienced the wash of the tide of the times. However, the charm of sake is that as long as the original intention of the winemaker remains unchanged, it can always keep this unchanging taste. From 2009 to 2016, after eight years of painstaking efforts, Ruzhou Songgong Liquor Industry used traditional craftsmanship to brew new wine, and a business card of Ruzhou once again shone.
Generations, keep one
Good wine needs time to polish, and today's Song Palace wine industry has also ushered in a new generation of young people to join. Shi Pengxiang, the current general manager of Song Palace Liquor, pointed to the soil in the brewing room and said: "Don't underestimate these soils, they are all treasures!" This is my father who specially pulled back from the original Song Palace distillery, and now has 30 years of cellar age! In the brewing workshop of the Song Palace wine industry, the ancient admonition of "grain must be refined, water must be sweet, qu must be aged, instruments must be clean, work must be fine, and storage must be long" is still unchanged.
Some people say that something that can exist for a long time must have its mission. The value of the Song Palace banquet wine is that it not only has its own mission, but also makes more people feel the mission.
Now, after 12 years of accumulation and precipitation, the Song Palace has successfully registered trademarks such as "Linru", "WangsongLou", and "Rujiu". The combination of "Ru porcelain" and "Ru wine" is like a commitment to the traditional culture of Ruzhou. And the people who adhere to this commitment are the people who use their labor to silently dedicate themselves to Ruzhou. "Craftsmanship brews regional cultural wine that Ruzhou people can trust, drink and get their hands on." This is the message written on the board by the director of the old stone factory, and it is also the original intention of the struggle of all the craftsmen in the Song Palace wine industry.
The joy of drinking wine lies in the same wine, which gives people different feelings at different times. Tasting the song palace banquet wine, the wine has not arrived and the fragrance wafts in, the entrance is slightly sweet, and the sweet aroma is followed by a slight spicy.
Some people say that making friends is like drinking, and the taste of wine is different at different times. Good wine is not about how it is experienced when you drink it, but after how many glasses you have enjoyed, the wine is still not intoxicating. Friends Are also like this, true friends, do not care about the momentary temperament, but in the common experience and long-term stay.
The Song Palace banquet wine is like a good friend of Ru Porcelain, allowing the years to pass and keep the same friendship. True friends are like the relationship between wine and bottle, if not opened, they will keep the years quiet, and they are not afraid of separation after opening, because the aroma of wine has penetrated into the depths of the bottle, and this taste is a connection that will remain after many years.
Have a glass of wine and make friends. Today's Ruzhou is attracting friends from all over the world to come here. If a friend comes to Ruzhou, be sure to invite him to have a drink of Song Palace banquet wine.
Drinking in Ruzhou is not only the joy of the banquet, but also the hope for the future. Sticking to tradition and constantly innovating, this is Ruzhou. After drinking a cup of Song Palace banquet wine, the friend said to go together.
The practice of the Song Palace banquet wine
Ingredients: sorghum, corn, wheat, rice, glutinous rice, barley and other grains.
Methods: raw materials are crushed so that starch is fully utilized; new materials, lees, auxiliary materials and water are combined to lay the foundation for saccharification and fermentation; steaming gelatinization, using steaming to gelatinize starch; steaming raw materials, using the method of slagging or slagging, so that the material is rapidly cooled; the use of bilateral fermentation process while saccharification, after the slag, at the same time add koji and the mother of wine; the pickle into the cellar can neither be pressed too tightly nor too loose. After installation, a layer of bran is covered with a layer of bran, sealed with cellar mud, and added with a layer of bran; finally the active ingredients such as alcohol, water, high alcohol, and acid in the mash are evaporated into steam, and then the liquor can be obtained by cooling.
Features: the cellar aroma is rich, sweet and mellow.
Song Palace Liquor Co., Ltd
Address: No. 186 Dream Avenue, Ruzhou City