Chinese wine culture has a long history, and its shining style can be seen everywhere in the history of China's 5,000-year civilization. The largest place of origin of China's wine culture is in Luoyang, Henan. Jiang Tong's "Wine Curse" has such a record: "The prosperity of wine is from the Emperor, or Yun Yidi, a Du Kang." There is no end to the meal, the remnants of the empty mulberry, the depressed fruit into the taste, the long-term storage of qi, this is out of this, not by the strange side. "Du Kang represents a generation of wine-making gods.
During the Three Kingdoms period, The Wei Wu Emperor Cao Cao chanted, "What is the life like a song about wine?" For example, the morning dew, going to the day is more bitter. It is unforgettable to be worried. How to relieve worries, only Du Kang", Du Kang has become a synonym for wine.
At the same time, Dukang is also a place, more than 40 kilometers away from Luoyang City, More than 40 kilometers away from The Dukang Village of Caidian Township, Ruyang County, which is where dukang once made wine. Du Kang not only brewed the customs and customs of a pure and thick place, but also brewed the ancient Du Kang culture. Du Kang's innate Genes of Chinese wine culture, judging from the name alone, can remind people of its extraordinary historical journey.
In the long history of 5,000 years, there are more than 20 classical documents that clearly record Du Kang's winemaking, such as "Wine Curse", "Shiben", "Explanation of Words in The Sayings", "Warring States Policy", "Book of Han", etc.; there are more than 100 poems and songs that explicitly mention Du Kang, Bai Juyi's "Du Kang can scatter boredom, Xuancao relieves forgetting worries", Su Shi's "From the present Dongpo Room, do not stand Du Kang Qi", etc.; Du Kang made wine drunk Liu Ling, Bamboo Forest Seven Sages, Drunken Eight Immortals, etc., which can be seen from ancient times to the present, Du Kang's name is known to the world.
In the "Wine Curse" written by Jin Renjiang, it is recorded: "The prosperity of the wine, the Emperor of Zhao, or YunYi Di, a Du Kang, there is no end to the meal, the remnants of the empty mulberry, the accumulation of flavor, and the long-term storage of qi." "It is said that when Du Kang was young, when he was shepherding sheep, he poured the leftovers that he could not eat into the mulberry tree cave, and the fermentation over time had a wine flavor. Inspired by the natural phenomenon of "empty mulberry rice", Du Kang created the first cup of rice wine that broke the world and became the world's recognized "wine ancestor". At present, there is also a 2800-year-old garnet mulberry tree in the Dukang Wine-making Heritage Park, which is rumored to be a descendant of the old mulberry tree. It is extremely vigorous, and although more than 80% of the trunk has decayed, it is still leafy, and the diameter of the canopy is more than six meters. At the same time, people also worship Du Kang as the originator of China's winemaking, the god of dionysus. "Wine Curse"
Du Kang is not only the founder of barley wine, but also the founder of Chinese wine culture! Dukang culture has an irrefutable origin, a distinct meaning of commemorating the ancestors, and a subjectivity representing Chinese wine culture.
Known as the "underground wine city" and "the first cellar in China", the original wine storage area, with a total area of more than 16,000 square meters and a total volume of more than 60,000 cubic meters, is currently the largest underground liquor private wine cellar in Asia.
Du Kang wine here, selected in the natural geographical environment of Du Kang winemaking site, the unique sorghum, wheat as the main ingredient to make koji, adhering to du kang's first brewing of rice wine and the generations of thousands of years of "three steaming, three brewing, five Qi six methods", single beam solid fermentation, with forked koshiki, old five koshiki process, time-based wine, hand brewing, mixed steaming, quantity and quality wine picking and other ancient techniques, each link strictly follows the ancient precepts, meticulous.
The original wine has undergone many years of aging in the relatively constant technical state of the cellar, and the flavor is more gorgeous and mellow. As the late master of fine arts Li Kuchan drank Du Kang's post-poetry cloud: "Drunken tiger sleeps dragon Qiong slurry, drinking Liu Ling is the god of wine." Fang chased the Kang River for a thousand years of fame, and returned to the Immortal Village and the soul of Du".
In the long river of years, Du Kang wine is like a long memory full of mellow aroma, dripping mellow stirring up the far-reaching inheritance of culture, and repeatedly telling the vicissitudes of history in the aroma of wine, and also achieving an intriguing legend.