Shaoxing is a famous wine-making town, and there is a local proverb: "To marry a person, you must marry a true heart, and when you drink wine, you must drink a daughter red." So, what is this "daughter red" wine, why is it so famous, and why does it have such a name? All of this must start from a story.
Legend has it that a long time ago, there was a tailor who was skilled, but there was no successor, and he always wanted a son to inherit his craft, but his wife had been passing through the door for several years, but there was no sound. Finally, this year, the wife suddenly felt uncomfortable, often felt disgusted, the tailor found a langzhong to treat his wife, found that it was Huaixi, this tailor was very happy, immediately brewed several altars of wine, ready to wait for the birth of the child to feast on guests.
Pan Ya Pan, ten months finally passed, the wife successfully gave birth to a baby, the tailor went to inspect with joy, but found that it was a baby girl, the mood suddenly fell to the bottom, in his heart, the girl is going to marry after all, naturally can not inherit his craft. The tailor who is in a depressed mood, of course, has no intention of entertaining guests. Several pots of fine wine that had been carefully prepared before were also hastily buried under the osmanthus tree in his backyard.
Later, the days passed day by day, the girl grew up beautiful and generous, not to mention, but also inherited the tailor's craft, and yes, the blue is better than the blue, the peony she embroidered can attract bees to collect honey, the embroidered mandarin duck is also lifelike, people in the eight townships will find her to do embroidery work, and the tailor's business is more prosperous because of this.
At this time, the tailor also had his own apprentice, so he mated his daughter to his most proud apprentice, hoping that the two couples could run their own tailor shop together. Today, his mood is naturally completely different from when his daughter was born, and he has deliberately operated a beautiful and beautiful operation, inviting many relatives and friends to attend his daughter's wedding.
On the wedding day, the tailor remembered the wine he had buried that year, and he couldn't help but feel a little guilty, and to make up for it, he dug up the wine and brought it to entertain everyone. The wine, which has been shelved for many years, does not know what the taste will be, and the tailor has no bottom in his heart. But who knows, the moment the lid of the wine was opened, the house was suddenly filled with a strong aroma of wine, and everyone admired it after tasting it, and had never drunk such a mellow wine.
Therefore, after that, people in Shaoxing area, regardless of boys and girls, will bury several altars of fine wine on the day of the birth of the child, if the child is a boy, they will wait for him to take out the guests when he is successful in his studies, called "Zhuangyuan Hong", if it is a girl, wait for her to take it out on the day of marriage, called "daughter red".
It is worth mentioning that it also has a nickname "flower carving", because the "daughter red" jar of wine is also very exquisite, often has exquisite reliefs, carving content for folklore, mythological stories, etc., especially like Chang'e Benyue, Zhaojun out of the plug and other beautiful women's themes, is more popular, so "daughter red" is also called "flower carving".
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