If you visit
Zhenping
County, hosts will usually invite you to
drink the locally made millet wine. At first sip, you won’t have special
feelings. But when you are a little drunk, another dozen cups are not
enough for you. When leaving, you may ask the host gift you some to take
home for your family and friends. The wine isn’t expensive and only
costs three to five Yuan per bottle. However, it can be as good as other
famous wines.
Zhenping
Yellow Millet Wine is a kind of low alcohol grade beverage fermented
with high-quality glutinous rice and sorghum as its raw material, and
wheat as its catalyst. The technical process includes soaking, steaming,
fermenting, filtering, and stocking. It is named after its crystal
yellow color. The wine is sweet, tasty, and fragrant with a good
aftertaste. For a long time, it has been famous all around the world for
its special local flavor.
With a history
of more than 5,000 years, the wine originated in the New Stone Age, and
flourished during the Shang and Zhou Dynasties. According to historical
documents, Zhenping is located to the west of Wan (west of Nanyang),
belonging to
Nanyang
County in the Qin Dynasty. Historical books
put it that there were many wine workshops in the west of Wan during
the Qin and Han Dynasties. It is said that Liu Xiu, a Han Dynasty
emperor, took the wine as tribute. Thus, it became famous and valuable
from then on. Another story put it this way that Zhang Zhongjing, a
famous Han Dynasty doctor, who was born in Zhenping, expounded on the
medicinal value of the yellow wine in his famous medicine books Shang
Han ( On Cold) and Cooking Herbal Medicine Soup. Even today, there are
some praiseful sayings about the wine.
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