Origin and drinking method of flower carving wine

When it comes to flower carving wine, many people will only think of flower carving, and it is difficult to associate flower carving wine with "daughter wine". Today, I will popularize the knowledge of flower carving wine for everyone.

Flower carving wine is a kind of yellow wine, in ancient times the earliest batch of flower carving wine called "daughter wine", today's flower carving wine is evolved from "daughter wine". As early as the Song Dynasty, the Shaoxing family would make wine, and whenever someone gave birth to a girl, on the day of the full moon, they would choose several altars of wine, ask people to carve characters to paint auspicious (usually carved with various floral patterns, characters birds and beasts, landscape pavilions, etc.), and then sealed the cellar in mud. When the daughter grows up and leaves the cabinet, take out the cellar wine, ask the painter to paint the "Hundred Plays" with oil on the altar, (usually painted "Eight Immortals Crossing the Sea", "Dragon and Phoenix Chengxiang", "Chang'e Running Moon", etc.), and with auspicious wishes, spend a full moon "color head", and use this wine to entertain guests. This is the origin of the daughter's wine.

Huadiao wine is a rice wine belonging to fermented wine, which is a strange thing in Chinese rice wine. It uses the best glutinous rice, high-quality wheat koji, supplemented by the clear and clear lake water of Jiangsu and Zhejiang, and brewed by ancient methods, and then stored for time, resulting in a unique flavor and rich nutrition. According to scientific identification, huadiao wine contains a variety of amino acids, sugars and vitamins beneficial to the human body and other nutrients, known as "high-grade liquid cake". According to the different storage time, the flower carving wine has three years old, five years old, eight years old, ten years old, and even decades old, etc., with Chen as the most expensive. In general, the flower carving wine is soft, the wine color is orange and yellow, the wine is rich and fragrant, and the wine taste is sweet and mellow. The drinking method of flower carving wine is also different with the change of seasons, such as the winter suitable for warm wine drinking method, (warm wine drinking method: warm drinking is the most traditional flower carving wine drinking method, the flower carving wine is heated to warm water, the wine aroma will be more intense, the taste will be more soft. However, it should not be overheated, and too long will make the alcohol volatilize, so that it will be tasteless. However, you can also add ginger shreds and goji berries to drink according to your own preferences. Summer is suitable for ice cold drinking, (ice cold drinking method: In the summer, iced flower carving wine is more popular among young people, that is, adding ice cubes to the flower carving wine or putting the flower carving wine into the refrigerator for a period of time and then taking it out to drink, which is very cool. Of course, you can also add some plums, ginger, lemons or other juice drinks according to your favorite)