Where does the old yellow rice wine belong?

Yunxian old yellow rice wine originated from the people and has a long history. It's all over the county. Everyone has wine and everyone likes to drink it. It is one of the traditional drinks. In recent years, immigrants from Yunxian County brought old yellow rice wine to Wuchang, Jiayu, Hanyang, Jingshan and Yicheng counties. After the locals tasted it, they all called it the best, vying to teach yellow rice wine. It is not difficult to make Yunxian old yellow rice wine. Housewives can also do it, but they have a unique skill in koji-making ingredients and wine-making. The main raw materials for making yellow wine koji are whole wheat flour, or bran and colored grass. The production method is to collect fresh flowers and plants in summer and summer, soak them in water until they are sticky, then throw them out, mix them with the water soaked in flowers and plants for kneading, and press them into a mold to make bricks, commonly known as "stepping". Cover the prepared koji and ferment until it smells like loose wine, and take it out to dry. The longer the storage time, the better. Brewing raw materials include glutinous rice, yellow rice, corn and so on. And glutinous rice is the best. Because of the different ways of mixing koji, there are two kinds of koji wine and mixed koji wine. Its practice: take a small amount of glutinous rice, steam it, air dry it in summer and stir it while it is hot in winter. Before mixing, break the brick and soak it in clear water for several hours. After filtering, it is mixed with qu water, cooled and sealed, and the jar is opened after half a month, and the wine is overflowing, thus obtaining the yellow wine. Yellow rice wine can be brewed all year round, and it is best to brew it with pickled water in the second year of the ninth day of the ninth lunar month. Qing Tongzhi's "Yun County Records" records: "All brewers must take preserved water for it, and the experience is not bad."

The longer Yunxian old yellow rice wine can be stored, the better. When drinking, the jar will be full of fragrance, with the color of Huang Liang, mellow and delicious, slightly sour, thin and peaceful in taste, full of stamina, and it will not hurt people when drinking. Drinking rosy cheeks in spring is cool in summer, relaxing in autumn and keeping warm in winter. It is a good product in the four seasons and is often used to keep fit and prolong life.

At present, many scholars at home and abroad believe that 2 1 century will be the century of functional food. Yunxian old yellow rice wine has the most functional food characteristics, such as antioxidation, improving immunity, dredging channels and promoting blood circulation, delaying aging, preventing cancer, lowering blood pressure, resisting fatigue, removing blood stasis and resolving hard mass. Old yellow wine made of red glutinous millet can also treat many gynecological diseases such as irregular menstruation and postpartum blood stasis, so it has become a good habit for pregnant women in Yunxian County to drink yellow wine during confinement. Pastes and pills made of yellow wine can treat traumatic injuries, reduce swelling and relieve pain. There are more than 65,438,000 varieties of Chinese patent medicines made from yellow wine in Yunxian County. It can be seen that yellow rice wine plays an important role in traditional Chinese medicine.