Most of people's understanding of green ant wine comes from Bai Juyi's "Ask Liu Nineteen" written in Xunyang City:
Green ant new wine, red clay small stove.
Late to the day want snow, can you drink a cup of nothing?
It is said that this kind of wine was also the best wine on the upper floor of xunyang. But what type of wine is "Green Ant Wine"? A lot of people don't understand. So today we're going to talk about this special wine.
I believe that everyone is no stranger to Jiujiang's famous aged sealed cylinder wine. According to historical records, Fengju wine is a traditional chinese wine in Chinese history, which originated in the Tang Dynasty a thousand years ago, when it was called Pickle Wine. Sake is rice wine that has not been filtered to remove the sedimentation of dregs. Green Ant Wine is the first way to make sealed wine (new sake). Green ant wine is also referred to as ant wine, and the older this wine, the better it tastes.
Since ancient times, Jiujiang has developed water transport. We rely on convenient water transportation, rich "Tianfu" products, become an important commercial port, abundant grain, but also let the original well-known Jiujiang winemaking industry has been greatly developed.
Since the Tang Dynasty, the industrious and wise people of Jiujiang have successfully brewed green ant wine into an aged sealed cylinder wine that has swept the country.
Song Jiang was drinking the Xunyang historical wine "Blue Bridge Wind Moon" in Xunyang Lou at that time, which was actually a kind of green ant wine. This kind of use of Poyang Lake glutinous rice as raw materials, with Xunyang River water as a solution, pure grain brewing "Blue Bridge Wind Moon", the entrance is like Pohu Lake rice mellow and tender, a few cups of belly, the wine is like a big wave of sandy Xunyang River water, aroused the heroism of Song Jiang, a big stroke, wrote "Xijiang Yue", since then our Xunyang Building is also famous.
Do you also want to climb the Xunyang Building today and drink a cup of hot "green ant wine"?
Source: Xunyang Jiangtou Scenic Area