Gutian Red Yeast Red Is Red Throughout the Country

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Delicious wine. This is the evaluation of Gutian red yeast wine by countless people.

Indeed, the birth of a cup of Gutian red wine, not only the wine koji, glutinous rice to carefully select materials, but also, from the soaking of rice, steamed rice, rice stalls, mixing koji, falling cylinders, clarification, filtering, loading altar, the whole process is followed by the ingenuity of the production of red yeast wine for thousands of years.

What is the soul of Gutian Red Yeast Wine?

It is a high quality red yeast!

Red yeast spread with the Central Plains civilization into Fujian, Fujian is the birthplace of southern red yeast, so red yeast is also known as "Fumi". Gutian, Pingnan, Minqing and other counties have production, of which Gutian red yeast is the most famous. In the middle and late Tang Dynasty, the ancestors of Gutian already knew how to cultivate and purify Aspergillus flavouris from the saprophyllum on the original forest floor. In the "Fujian Provincial Chronicle", there is a saying that "red yeast originated from Gutian", and the Ming version of the "Gutian County Chronicle" records: "Red yeast can only be made in Gutian, and it is used in distant Fujian." Yang Dezhou, a scholar of the Ming Dynasty, described it this way in the "Yutian Miscellaneous Songs": "Hundred mile vendors rarely forget far away, and thousands of villages do not know how to make music." ”

Gutian Red Yeast Is also best in Pinghu Town. The "Chronicle of Gutian County" records: "The red song in the northeast of Yi is the largest sect, and the northern part is the most." "Good music makes good wine, and Pinghu was once known as a "wine country". From the late Qing Dynasty to the Republic of China, many merchants specializing in the sale of red yeast appeared in Gutian, forming the "Red Yeast Gang". In the early years of the Republic of China, the Gutian people established the Gutian Guild Hall in Fuzhou, which spread the Products and Production Techniques of Gutian Red Yeast To all parts of Asia. During the Republic of China period, there were hundreds of red yeast wine workshops in Gutian County. The production of Gutian red yeast is mainly based on traditional hand-refining, and enjoys a high reputation at home and abroad. In the past, Gutian Old City was a place for the sale and wholesale of red yeast, which was sold to Nanyang, Hong Kong, Shaoxing, Ningbo, Tianjin, Shanghai, Taiwan and other places through the qu market, and overseas Chinese compatriots called Gutian red yeast "rich in fragrance and color like pearls", which is a must-have for home. There are relevant records in the Japanese "Imperial Diet Materia Medica" and the Korean "Treasure Book of Eastern Medicine".

In the Ming Dynasty, red wine was successfully introduced to Taiwan with Zheng Chenggong, but Taiwan began to make red yeast wine late. Because the red yeast is all imported from the mainland and the price is high, the red yeast wine cannot be drunk by non-rich families. According to the "History of Taiwan Liquor Monopoly", the entrepreneurs of "Yilan Red Wine" after the seventh year of Jiaqing in the Qing Dynasty (1801) migrated to Taiwan after learning the system of production in Fujian, and Yilan red wine became common and became a must-drink wine for local sacrifices or marriages; at the same time, red yeast was also produced in Taiwan. However, only because the production method of seed music has not been taught, it is still necessary to buy it from Fujian at a high price.

Red yeast, as the main saccharification starter, plays a very important role in the brewing process of pure grain wine, red yeast wine. Therefore, over the years, Gutiankuqu, Light Qu and Color Qu have been exported to more than 20 provinces, municipalities and autonomous regions across the country, and exported to Japan, Canada and Southeast Asian countries. Now, Gutian red yeast is selling well throughout the country, basically occupying the global brewing red yeast upstream trading market. In the beautiful Suzhou, there are a number of Gutian people running successful red yeast merchants. The Gutian red yeast brewing industry was developed on a large scale from the 1950s to the 1990s, and has made great contributions to the development of China's red yeast and brewing industry.

Because of the ancient field red yeast, there is a delicious red yeast wine. Red yeast wine is a traditional Chinese wine. The brewing process of Fujian red yeast wine has matured in the Song Dynasty, and red yeast wine has become the home brew of local nobles at that time, and even become the royal wine of tribute to the royal family, and the literati are particularly fond of Fujian red yeast wine. Not only that, from ancient times to the present, red yeast wine is one of the most common alcoholic beverages for the daily banquets of people in fujian and Guangdong, and it is also a daily cooking condiment and nourishing ingredient. "Last year, the alfalfa plate was raised, and the night poured Fujian wine was vegetarian like Dan" (Su Dongpo of the Song Dynasty), "Fujian wine opened the ocean to meet the world" (Ming Dynasty Zheng He) and other praise sentences, which confirmed the long history of the development of Fujian red yeast wine and the reputation of the "Belt and Road".

Red yeast wine has a natural amber or dark red color without the addition of other pigments, which is different from mai koji brewing wine. Drinking in moderation can regulate blood lipids, which has a certain auxiliary effect on patients with cardiovascular diseases and has the advantages of other rice wines that are incomparable.

In the 1970s and 1980s, it was the golden age of Fujian red yeast wine, and almost all counties built red yeast wineries. After entering the "Twelfth Five-Year Plan", the Fujian red yeast wine industry has achieved new development through structural adjustment, product innovation and technological transformation, and emerging red yeast wine enterprises such as Pinghu Hong have emerged. Up to now, Pinghu Town has 4 registered trademarks of red yeast products and 3 leading enterprises of red yeast. Fujian Pinghu Red Biotechnology Co., Ltd., formerly known as Gutian County Pinghu Koji Factory, has grown into the largest local red yeast enterprise, committed to the biotechnology research and development, process technology innovation and product quality improvement of the red yeast industry, with an annual output of 3500 tons of red yeast, and has developed more than 20 kinds of products in 3 categories of brewing, coloring and medicinal; the annual output of red yeast wine is more than 2,500 tons, and the total storage capacity of vintage wine is more than 10,000 tons.

It is no exaggeration to say that red yeast is a red gem!

Gutian red song, red national!