The legend of "Yi Di making wine" is recorded in pre-Qin classics such as "Lü's Spring and Autumn", "Warring States Policy", and "Shiben". Song Sima Guang's "Rewarding Neighbors with a Few Questions and Not Drinking Planted Chrysanthemums" even wrote: Wine is a human skill, and later because of Yi Di Cheng. Sima Guang, as a great historian and university inquirer, believes that the invention of wine has a long history, until the dayu period achieved outstanding achievements in wine-making technology through the hands of Yi Di, which fully affirmed the special status and outstanding role of Yi Di in the history of Chinese wine culture.
YiDi is widely known in Chinese legend for "making wine". However, the gender of Yidi has never been clearly recorded in history, and it is often considered male by the world.
In fact, Yi Di should be a woman.
It is not difficult to infer the gender of YiDi from the following two aspects.
First, Yi Di lived around the time of Dayu. In addition to the accounts of Sima Guang in the Song Dynasty, the Warring States Policy of the Pre-Qin Dynasty also has a record of "in the past, the emperor's daughter ordered Yi Di to be beautiful in wine, entering Yu, Yu drinking and sweet, Sui Shu Yi Di, absolutely the purpose of wine, that is: 'In the future, there will be those who will destroy their country with wine'".
The social division of labor in the Dayu period should be based on the principles of ability, experience, and efficiency. Thus, the physically fit and experienced are responsible for hunting wild animals and sustaining the livelihoods of the tribes, while the elderly, the infirm, the wounded and the sick and the women are engaged in gathering, breeding, production and reproduction in and around the settlement. It is not difficult to imagine that the working members left behind in the place of residence are mainly women. "Sake brewing" also has the possibility of changing from a daily phenomenon of life to a daily brewing affair.
Second, the initial human cognition and early use of wine was mainly a medium substance for sacrifice and communication with ghosts and gods. And because of the primitive fertility worship, female physiological worship, and the position of sacrificing and communicating with ghosts and gods have always been held by women, the brewing business as a psychic medium can only be performed by women for a long time.
The relationship between women and wine has begun since ancient times, so there is no doubt that Yidi in the Dayu era must be a woman, and the role of women in the history of human wine culture, especially in the history of early wine culture, cannot be ignored or replaced.
However, today, the function of wine has gradually penetrated from the initial ghost god sacrifice to the entire world's civilization history, from literary and artistic creation, cultural entertainment to food and cooking, health care and other aspects in the life of the world occupy an important position, regardless of gender, national boundaries.
Just like yuexiang wine, coming from history, with the inheritance of Chinese "wine delight culture" and the operation of the health concept of "food and medicine homology", it has evolved into the core of its own "yue-based"; it pays attention to the wine itself and the five senses in the drinking process, namely the body, mind and spirit pleasure brought by sight, smell, hearing, taste and touch; advocates the pleasure of feasting and feasting, the joy of drinking and drinking, the joy of human exchange, the joy of emotional communication, and the joy of drinking and drinking.
Drink Chinese wine and do what is pleasing.