The most memorable green wine

White rice cake rice cake, pork knuckle whole chicken and duck, old house bright lamp to share the family. A few pots of blue and red, the taste of the year wafts into the heart!

I woke up in the afternoon in the bright sunlight outside the window and realized that today was the first day of work in the new year. There was no joy or sorrow, and nian slipped away quietly. Perhaps with the plough of time and the cultivation of years, we have passed the age of anticipating for the year, rejoicing for the year, waiting for the year, and considering the taste of the year. But in the depths of memory, there is always a memory of the hometown about the year that will never fade, that is, the steaming farmhouse meal that is usually saved between the teeth on the table, and the blessing of the whole family to drink green red wine and drink green wine for the future...

The strongest taste of the new year in childhood is that pot of boiling hot and mellow green red wine, a year of hard work and busyness of the family, more than 360 days and nights of thrift, replaced by a table of fragrant in the nose tip of the chest delicious, just in the most solemn moment of crackling firecrackers, the strong aroma of wine to drive away the winter cold, dispel the fatigue of a year of wandering, and start everyone's vision of the new year!

In my memory, every winter solstice day is a day to look forward to, because it is Mom's winemaking season. The wood fire in the farmhouse stove burns fiercely, and a large cooking bucket is placed in the pot, and the glutinous rice that has been soaked in well water and washed and washed is steamed. When the glutinous rice is steamed, spread it out in a bamboo sieve plaque, and when the rice is cool, you can make wine in the tank. The steamed glutinous rice is fragrant and very tough, it is the favorite of every child, we always can't wait for the steaming moment, immediately grab a handful, the mouth continues to exhale, the left and right hands alternately upside down, rub into a rice ball, enjoy the sweetness of glutinous rice. And that mixed with red yeast glutinous rice balls, plus pure well water, the wine tank is sealed, placed in the corner of the house, stirred the next day, about 30 days xu wine aroma comes to the nose, the color is green and red thick, you can produce wine...

That wine has become a warm companion for the people in the mountains in the cold winter, after working every day, warm a pot, slowly sip, drive away the drowsiness and chill of the croppers, you can sleep until dawn. People in the mountains, others are carefully calculated, only brew green and red wine, always at the expense of blood, every household brews green and red, a brew is hundreds of pounds, New Year's drink, festival drink, cold drink, tired drink, red and white happy drink, rice planting and pig killing drink, visit relatives and friends to drink... When encountering the expected big events such as marrying a daughter-in-law, marrying a daughter, building a house, and having children, it is even more brewing a big vat and a big vat. On the feast with tin pots loaded with green and red, the wine table on the pot is generally a small generation of men who can drink, the wine is a round of respect, you come and go to let the banquet reach a climax, as if to put the enthusiasm and simplicity of the peasant family, through the wine to enjoy the hustle and bustle.

As a child, I knew that green and red wine had the effect of nourishing and curing diseases. Green red wine, also called "confinement wine" in the hometown, can replenish blood and drive away cold. Women who have given birth to a baby need green red wine as a soup stewed chicken for confinement, and when they come down in a month, they usually have to eat dozens of pounds of green red wine. If you go out in the rain or get cold, the old man in the family will take the whiskered shallots and garlic or eggs and ginger to cook soup, drink and go to bed to lie down, cover the quilt, sweat, and get sick!

Green and red wine is also one of the must-have condiments for farmhouse delicacies. If you go to visit relatives and friends, the host will always serve a hot longevity noodle, poured with thick green and red wine, the wine is overflowing, so that your appetite is greatly opened. On weekdays, if there are boiled chicken, duck, upper row, pig's trotters and other things at home, add green and red wine, or stew or pot, the taste is mellow and nutritious. In our Minqing, the remaining lees after the brewing of green and red wine are used for bad meat, bad vegetables and bad duck, which is a particularly cherished category among the many specialties of our Minqing.

The green and red is beautiful, fascinating, mellow, intoxicating and invisible. When I was young, I fell in love with Qinghong. Every winter vacation evening, after a few cups of green and red, the youth commotion of "teenagers do not know the taste of sorrow, and they are strong and sad for new words" are fermented in a slightly drunk. Several times, when classmates came to friends or were sad and sad, they had enough "big pieces of meat to eat, big bowls of wine" of "boldness", and finally overturned the bed, "full of rooms", ugly, provoking others to laugh and laugh, and the bitter mother was busy cleaning up all day long. After stepping on the job, or confused by work setbacks, or sentimental about human feelings like water, I am even more indissoluble with wine, beer, liquor, wine, sauce, fragrance, music, French wine, Japanese sake, Russian vodka have all been experienced a lot, but the most relieving only the hometown of green wine.

In recent years, through the network to know that green red wine is known as the authentic Fujian yellow wine, is a wine with a long history and regional characteristics in Fuzhou, it is rich in glucose, dextrin, amino acids, vitamins and a variety of esters, has the beauty of liquid cake. In winter, a glass of green red wine can be warmed up and replenished with body energy, and drinking a little before going to bed can help sleep; green wine with a small grain of rock sugar simmering can suppress the fire; work fatigue and weakness, you can drink a small amount, which has the effect of promoting appetite, relieving muscles and vitality, replenishing blood, regulating health, and relieving fatigue.

There is also a legend in the Fuzhou area, more than 2,000 years ago, Wuzhu led troops to assist Liu Bang in defeating Xiang Yu, Wuzhu was crowned the king of Minyue, on the day of the kingship, a beautiful young woman offered her own wine, only to see that this wine was green and red, full of aroma, and there was no great joy after drinking, so it was a feast at the top of the mountain for nine days and nine nights, and since then, the Minyue royal palace has sacrificed marriage and must drink this wine. This young woman was called the Green And Red Lady in later generations, also known as the Eighteenth Lady, so the green wine special for sacrifice and marriage folklore was historically brewed by the virgin woman herself through eighteen processes...

Flowing like water, no longer feel that "seeing and not seeing, where are" is very heartfelt, I already know that everything is like the nature of the cycle of the four seasons, there is helplessness, it should be abandoned, it should be put down. There can be a small elegance and interest, a pot of a cup, a drink, no thoughts; there can also be groups of three or five, pointing out the country, laughing and talking about the wind and clouds; you can send homesickness with a cup of turbid wine in other towns; you can also join the family reunion and stagger the words warmly...

No matter when and where, the most memorable thing is the green wine in my hometown!