The wine of the Three Kingdoms period can be roughly divided into four categories according to the division method of the "Wine Dictionary Collection":
(1) Grain wine
(2) Milk wine
(3) Fruit wine
(4) Other liquors
Needless to say, glutinous rice wine, millet wine, corn wine, whether it is fermentation or distillation is no problem.
Ancient distilled liquor
The reason for the brewing technology, most of the grain wine in the Three Kingdoms period is fermented wine, the degree is relatively low, can not reach the level of high concentration.
In the Three Kingdoms period at the end of the Han Dynasty, the princes were very strict about grain, and when the Shu Han Dynasty was established, Liu Bei even forbade the use of food and wine for a time.
rice wine
Therefore, drinking grain and wine was extremely extravagant at the end of the Han Dynasty.
Let's move on to the second type of milk wine.
Dairy wine is mostly produced by ethnic minorities.
The more typical should be the horse wine.
In addition, there are rice cheese and fruit cheese, cheese is also a kind of milk wine, in the Western Han Dynasty there are records, describing cheese wine: "think of liquor"
Kumiss
At that time, the imperial court even had someone in charge of horse wine. It can be seen that it was highly valued at that time.
"One hundred and forty-two teachers, and seventy-two of them give wine to the high official." (Bangu,"Book of Han, Li Lezhi").
The imperial court attaches great importance to it, but the folk are not necessarily popular, and they all understand it after drinking, and the taste is your habit.
The third type of wine has to mention a person's name - Zhang Qian.
It is said that Zhang Qian's envoy to the Western Regions can be described as the ancestor of the Huaxia Sea Taoke, bringing back many Chinese food without food, such as carrots, cucumbers, garlic and so on.
The grapes he brought back also added a member of the Chinese wine industry since then - wine.
In other words, Zhang Qian is the true father of Wine in China.
Zhang Qian sent an envoy to the Western Regions
Wine was very precious at that time and was highly valued by the nobility.
To what extent?
The Book of Continued Han records that Fufeng Mengta, with a liter of wine, left Zhang Rang, that is, the history of Liangzhou Thorn.
Meng Ta character Tuo, so some officials recorded as Meng Tuo.
People who have seen "Three Kingdoms" should know that the eunuch dictatorship at the end of the Han Dynasty, called the Ten Constant Attendants, is the ten most powerful eunuchs, and Zhang Rang is the eldest of these ten great eunuchs.
Zhang Rang
What do you mean?
Meng Tuo, a fufeng man, sent a liter of wine to Zhang Rang, and Zhang Rang let him do the Liangzhou Thorn History. Quite a provincial administrator now.
Of course, Zhang Rang certainly would not have made him a Liangzhou assassin just because of one liter of wine, but other bribes were not mentioned, and Zhang Rang's bribed wine was recorded alone, which can also see how valuable the wine was at that time.
wine
Of course, fruit wine is not only wine, but also many, such as sugar cane wine.
Sugarcane wine was also known as "gin" at the time.
To describe the syrup with gold, it can be seen that sugarcane wine is also a precious wine.
It can be seen that the fruit wine at that time was not "close to the people".
However, many ciders were later developed, such as apricot wine, and cider began to be "popular".
Because the first three are not easy, this also creates the popularity of the fourth kind of wine.
Other categories of wine.
Pepper wine, cypress wine, osmanthus wine, etc.
The ingredients here are more mixed, not a single variety.
But it's better than being close to the people.
For example, pepper wine is made of peppercorns.
It is a commonly used wine in folk festivals during the Three Kingdoms period.
Cypress wine is made by soaking cypress leaves, and it is also a wine that was often used in festivals at that time.
Now these two kinds of wine are basically gone, but osmanthus wine has been passed down from the pre-Qin period to modern times.
Osmanthus wine