On June 10, on the occasion of "Cultural and Natural Heritage Day", the large-scale cultural program "China and Sichuan in Intangible Cultural Heritage", jointly produced by China Central Radio and Television Corporation and the Ministry of Culture and Tourism, and exclusively titled by Luzhou Laojiao, was broadcast on CCTV-1, CCTV-1, exploring the beauty of the brilliant intangible cultural heritage of Bashu with the audience, and playing the theme of "Strengthening the Systematic Protection of Intangible Cultural Heritage and Promoting Sustainable Development".
Shan Jixiang, president of the Chinese Society of Cultural Relics, the sixth president of the Palace Museum, and special researcher of the Central Museum of Culture and History, Sa Bening, host of China Central Radio and Television Station, and well-known singer Huang Ling, together with a number of intangible cultural heritage inheritors from Sichuan, gathered in Yaoba Yi, Hejiang County, Luzhou City, and walked into the old cellar of Luzhou.
Explore the intangible cultural heritage code of Shudi and witness the innovation of the intangible cultural heritage era
"China in Intangible Cultural Heritage" interprets the historical and cultural connotation of intangible cultural heritage, conveys the ingenuity and inheritance spirit of intangible cultural heritage, presents the face of China in the new era through the innovative development of "intangible cultural heritage + N", the program covers ten categories of intangible cultural heritage items, with the concept of "seeing people, seeing things, and seeing life", leading the audience to approach intangible cultural heritage, fully displaying the historical heritage, ingenuity, oriental aesthetics, national charm and Chinese wisdom of Chinese culture, showing the vitality of intangible cultural heritage in the new era.
In the Sichuan chapter, the guests strolled through the ancient town of Yaoba in Luzhou, where they met more than 40 intangible cultural heritage items with Shudi characteristics in the intangible cultural heritage block, and led the audience to start a romantic intangible cultural heritage journey through interesting interactive experiences, innovative intangible cultural heritage performances, and in-depth chats with representative inheritors of intangible cultural heritage, and felt the harmonious coexistence of intangible cultural heritage and the innovation of the times.
Emei martial arts, which brings together the essence of the four seas, has developed a performing art that integrates oriental ancient rhyme and modern aesthetics; Brilliant Shu brocade, "the mother brocade of the world", derived from the new AI splendid that now leads the new national trend; Daoming bamboo weaving, which has been passed down for thousands of years, leads the new lifestyle of "replacing plastic with bamboo"; The world's "living fossil" of drilling deep wells from Gongjing salt deep drilling and extraction technology, which brings infinite enlightenment to modern drilling science; The traditional brewing techniques of Luzhou Laojiao wine, one of the first "national intangible cultural heritages" and known as one of the "living double national treasures", have been passed down from 699 years of ingenuity to brew fragrant wine, which is still creating value for people's lives...
As soon as the program was broadcast, it attracted a lot of attention and praise, and countless viewers expressed that they deeply felt the vivid charm of intangible cultural heritage through the screen. #It's so beautiful to turn Luzhou's traditional winemaking skills into dance##What is the ancient cellar pond that has been used for 450 years in a row# and other topics have successively appeared on the Weibo hot search list, netizens praised: "Sichuan intangible cultural heritage is too strong, sure enough, fine wine is also produced in Sichuan!" "I didn't expect that the brewing process was so complicated, and there was such valuable cultural value and use value behind it" "This show is so meaningful!" Intangible cultural heritage must be passed on so that more people can understand it. ”
Immersive, interactive experiences that live through the rich wine
In this program, the three guests went deep into the 7001 workshop of the National Cellar Class of the Luzhou Old Cellar Intangible Cultural Heritage Center, and completed a vivid interactive experience of intangible cultural heritage under the guidance of Shen Caihong, a master Chinese winemaker and representative inheritor of national intangible cultural heritage. After appreciating or experimenting with several brewing processes, such as returning to the horse, spreading lightly, twisting the liquor by hand, and picking wine by watching the flowers, the guests were amazed by the intricacies and subtleties of the traditional brewing techniques of Luzhou Old Cellar wine, and perceived the profound historical inheritance in a fragrant wine.
Zeng Na, inheritor of the traditional brewing skills of Luzhou Old Cellar and national liquor judge, showed the creative products of Luzhou Old Cellar to the three guests and explained the tasting and bartending skills of Luzhou Old Cellar. The innovative tasting art performance that fully mobilizes the senses vividly shows the traditional wisdom and natural philosophy of "summer yun, autumn harvest, winter storage, and spring wine" in Luzhou old cellar and the harmonious coexistence of heaven and earth, and the new vitality and unlimited creativity of intangible cultural heritage brewing art in today's era.
The innovative skills show "Brewing Art", in a dance and a song, vividly expresses the ingenuity of Luzhou old cellar brewing, connecting the history of Luzhou old cellar and the "wine city" Luzhou local landscape, economy, folk customs and art in the past 700 years. From 1324, Guo Huaiyu, the first generation inheritor of the traditional brewing technique of Luzhou Laojiao wine, invented Ganol koji and created the history of Chinese Daqu wine; By 1573, Shu Chengzong, the "ancestor of the national cellar", chose a site to build a cellar, and explored and summarized a complete set of fragrant liquor brewing processes such as "mud cellar fragrant and continuous ingredients"; Then in 1959, China's first professional textbook for liquor brewing "Luzhou Laojiao Daqu Wine" was published... The living inheritance history of strong fragrant liquor passed down by 24 generations of Luzhou old cellar brewers is slowly unfolding in front of our eyes.
Craftsmanship of classic fragrance to make intangible cultural heritage endless
Luzhou Laojiao 1952, which is the culmination of 699 years of Luzhou Laojiao wine intangible cultural heritage brewing skills, was brewed by Master Zhang Suyi, China's chief liquor taster, revisiting the typical style of fragrant baijiu, and is a veritable "masterpiece of Chinese fragrant liquor".
From raw grain to wine picking to wine storage, through nine strict selection standards of the best of the best, a fragrant, mellow and plump aroma has been brewed; The raw grain selection of more than 95% amylopectin, complete and full "the best raw material for Chinese liquor" Sichuan glutinous red sorghum, to ensure the wine aroma, excellent wine quality, sweet and mellow in the mouth; Every drop of wine that has been stored for five years in three natural wine caves is carefully selected as the base wine, and seasoned with legendary cave old wine to make the taste more intense and mature.
The same brewing technology, nine strict selection standards, five famous wine quality assurance, and the golden ratio of new and old wines in the double cave storage have created the classic flavor and ingenuity of Luzhou Old Cellar 1952, and also carried the fragrant liquor brewing technology and the essence of Chinese excellent culture, so that the cultural heritage is endless.
Shan Jixiang said, "Sichuan people will enjoy life, but also have the spirit of struggle, Sichuan's intangible cultural heritage is a kind of harmonious coexistence between people and nature created by people's lives and the natural environment." "The traditional brewing skills of Luzhou old cellar wine have never been interrupted and endured in the living inheritance in 699, and in the integration and symbiosis with the "wine city" Luzhou, through the exploration and practice, integration and innovation of generations of brewers, it is the material and wisdom crystallization of the long-term labor of the Chinese nation and is an irreproducible cultural heritage.
Luzhou Laojiao, the "originator of fragrant fragrance", adheres to the rich accumulation of history and culture, always adheres to the cultural roots, is committed to the innovative expression of traditional culture, and will continue to promote the integration of intangible cultural heritage of fragrant liquor into modern daily life, so that intangible cultural heritage will bloom with timeless brilliance with ingenuity and perseverance.
China Liquor Magazine Hao Peng, Xu Yiming