The scene of the 2nd Sino-French Wine Culture Forum. Photo by Yang Xuan
Yinchuan, September 27 (Xinhua) -- On September 27, the second Sino-French Wine Culture Forum was held at helan wine house in Minning Town, Yongning County, Yinchuan City, Ningxia. The guests, experts and scholars used grape wine as the medium and cultural exchange and innovation as the theme to express their insights and jointly promote sino-French wine cultural exchanges and mutual learning, so that Chinese wine can better integrate into the world.
Wine is the accumulation of the art and culture of time, and it is a work of art that contains historical and cultural values. The "Treatise on Tea and Wine" written by Wang Shi, a tang dynasty township gongjinshi, has a wonderful discussion on wine. Today, French wine has become a cultural symbol that French people are proud of. Looking at the history of China, you can also feel the profound accumulation of wine culture. "Grape wine luminous glass, want to drink pipa immediately urge." "Grapes and wine tulips, jade bowls filled with amber light." ...... The ancient Chinese also left many famous poems about wine.
"As the 'language of the world' and the 'link of culture', wine has built a bridge and provided a carrier for closer people-to-people exchanges between China and France." Chen Zhu, vice chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, said in his speech to the forum that the Sino-French Wine Culture Forum aims to continue to promote mutual learning, exchanges and blending between Chinese and French wine cultures. In particular, we will promote the successful experience and typical practices of China and France in vineyard management, winemaking, wine art, wine education, etc. To learn, share and improve each other.
Ningxia Helan WineRy. Photo by Li Zeyang
In terms of wine aesthetic innovation, Christine Cayol, vice chairman of the Sino-French Cultural Forum, vice chairman of the Sino-French Cultural and Art Research Center, and chairman of the Musée Rodin in France, put forward a more "trendy" proposal. She believes that wine is culture, creation, innovation, and beauty. If China and France can combine the art of winemaking, bottles, wine utensils, and all the products surrounding wine and the pursuit of beauty, it will burst out extraordinary innovation. "I hope that between Ningxia and France, we will be able to create new products, new bottle shapes, and new ways of using wine-related utensils." Aesthetic innovation will also be promising. Jia Yue said.
Zhao Yongqing, member of the Standing Committee of the Ningxia Party Committee and executive vice chairman, said that since the first bottle of wine was brewed in 1984, Ningxia has insisted on benchmarking the world's major production areas, drawing on the world's advanced model, building a high-quality grape base, and creating a brand winery cluster, which has become China's largest concentrated contiguous wine grape production area and star production area. Relying on the unique resource advantages and terroir conditions in the eastern foothills of Helan Mountain, Ningxia has developed into a bright new star in the field of wine in China and even in the world. At present, Ningxia wine grape planting area of 550,000 mu, accounting for 1/4 of China, 211 wineries, annual output of 130 million bottles, has more than 60 wineries of wine, in the international wine competition won thousands of awards.
How to turn the unique natural advantages of the eastern foothills of Helan Mountain into economic advantages? And let Chinese wine "shock the world"? In Zhao Yongqing's view, the most critical thing is to establish its own industrial system in a Chinese way, establish its own cultural system with enough self-confidence, and establish its own discourse system with "Chinese taste" to promote the high-end, green, intelligent, integrated, and brand-oriented development of the wine industry. "We must excavate and carry forward the wine culture of Chinese wine and the eastern foothills of Helan Mountain, so that wine has Chinese characteristics, Chinese flavor and Chinese brand, and create a well-known 'wine capital'." Zhao Yongqing said.
In order to better integrate into the world wine discourse system, Ningxia has also carried out in-depth exchanges and cooperation with many countries. This year, the Eu-China Geographical Indications Agreement came into force, and the wines of the eastern foothills of Helan Mountain were also among them. Ningxia will further expand and deepen cooperation with France and other countries in the fields of grape planting, variety breeding, winemaking technology, talent training, wine trade and cultural tourism.
The eastern foothills of Helan Mountain, which used to be vast in the Gobi, are now full of vitality. As a unique "purple business card" in Ningxia, wine is representing China to show the charm of wine culture, industrial strength and development vitality to the world, leading Chinese wine to better integrate into the world. (End)
Source: China News Network