The Story of Maotai Liquor.
The direction against the wind is more suitable for flying. I'm not afraid of thousands of people blocking me, I'm just afraid of surrendering myself. If you get angry for one minute, you lose 60 minutes of happiness. Being busy is a kind of happiness, leaving us no time to experience pain; running around is a kind of happiness, allowing us to truly feel life; being tired is a kind of enjoyment, leaving us no time to feel empty. Life is like "breathing", "exhaling" is to take a breath, and "inhaling" is to get a breath. The predecessor of our Moutai may have been a prototype, and it entered the historical records during this glorious period of Chinese winemaking. "Historical Records" records: Tang Meng, an envoy of the Han Dynasty, ate wolfberry sauce in Nanyue (today's Guangdong), and returned to Chang'an to ask the Shu merchants. The Shu merchants said, "Only Shu produces wolfberry sauce, and most of them steal wolfberry sauce." Later experience. Historians have repeatedly verified that this kind of wine should be produced in Yelang or the southwest corner of Shu (today's Zunyi area). In order to avoid the government's double tax, merchants "stealed" other areas of Yelang to make profits. In 111 BC (the sixth year of Yuan Ding), Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty sent Tang Meng to the south to grant seals to King Yelang and King Dian. He must have gone directly to the palace of Prince Yelang. This Han official who returned to Chang'an and asked about Goujiang, of course, must have I ate the prototype of Maotai liquor - wolfberry sauce. For this reason, "Tang Meng and Goji Sauce Wine" in "The Legend of Chinese Maotai Liquor" provides an artistic and creative description: Tang Meng was ordered to enter Sichuan to open up a barbarian road... Tang Meng deliberately changed the route and specially passed through it along the Chishui River from the south of the Sichuan River. Maotai Village was warmly welcomed by the villagers playing bronze drums and eating our old "Maotai" every day. Even his little wife died of illness during the journey and was buried on the mountain behind Maotai Village. The restaurant can be a neighbor to express Tang Meng's love for wolfberry sauce wine. of affection. Although the story is a folk creation, the events are consistent with history. It proves that the predecessor of our Maotai liquor was coveted by Han Dynasty officials because of its unspeakable beauty. It was included in Sima Qian's "Historical Records" and had already become famous all over the world. It laid a solid brewing technology foundation for the later birth of national liquor.
Throughout the ages, people have admired Moutai and been fascinated by the fine wine. The story "Liu Bang Drinks Goji Sauce Wine" in the Maotai story tells that the Pu troops who joined Liu Bang's troops were invincible because they often drank the wolfberry sauce brought from their hometown. When Liu Bang collapsed due to the death of his mother, Xiao He brought him wolfberry sauce. After drinking it, his mood improved, and he realized the secret of the Pu army's bravery in battle, so he wanted to drink wolfberry sauce day and night. This legend has not been proven true or false, but it shows that people have been praising Moutai for a long time. There are rumors and records about the relationship between wine and politicians and celebrities in the past dynasties: Zhao Kuangyin in the Northern Song Dynasty and Zhu Yuanzhang in the Ming Dynasty used wine to seize power; Liu Yilong in the Southern Dynasty used wine to release hatred; King Zhuang of Chu, Duke Mugong of Qin and Pei Du in the Tang Dynasty used wine to show kindness; Chen Ping and Cao Shen, the prime ministers of the Han Dynasty, used wine to protect themselves; the Seven Sages of the Bamboo Grove in the Wei and Jin Dynasties used wine to avoid disaster; Xiang Yu's "Hongmen Banquet", Qi Wang's "Military Law Supervision of Wine", Guan Yu's "Single Sword Club" used wine as a tool of political struggle; Liu Bei and the Northern Wei Dynasty in the Three Kingdoms Tuoba Tao and Li Zicheng in the late Ming Dynasty used wine to win people's hearts; Du Fu, Bai Juyi, and Wang Ding in the Qing Dynasty used wine to criticize the current ills. Zheng Quan, a famous scholar from Wu during the Three Kingdoms period, saw through the mortal world and spent his days as a god with wine as a companion. He also said that after his death, his relatives would bury him next to the pottery workshop. A hundred years later, someone dug out his skull and used it as a wine pot, and still drank it with wine. If you get close, you will die without regrets. Ruan Ji, a handsome man among the Seven Sages of the Bamboo Forest in the Wei and Jin Dynasties, had no intention of pursuing an official career and would not do it if he could be an official. However, he heard that the infantry cooks (cooks) were good at making wine, so he became an infantry colonel because of the wine requirements, and he actually could Drunk for sixty days. Liu Ling, another one of the seven sages, often went to the house naked after drinking to receive courtiers. Others laughed at him for being rude. He said that the sky is my house and the room is my trousers. You have got into my crotch and you still laugh at me. Etiquette? Ridicule hypocritical etiquette. Therefore, Pi Rixiu's poem said: "What did he say to the emperor in his year? Please give Liu Ling as a drunken marquis."
If you count the famous people, you still have to look at the present; if you count the best wines, Maotai should be the first. In the story of "Premier Zhou and Maotai", Zhou Enlai was of extraordinary magnanimity and used Maotai and "Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai" as "two platforms" to promote his country's prestige in Geneva, bringing the country, national wine and people to the attention of the world; the British Prime Minister and Tito's fight for the empty bottle of Moutai at Premier Zhou's banquet shows the status and charm of our Moutai; the praise of Moutai by the President of the United States and the Prime Minister of Japan illustrates China's international status and the true value of Moutai. Without a strong The country will not have the true splendor of its famous products. In the story "Xu Shiyou and Maotai Liquor", Xu Shiyou drank Maotai Liquor with a clear distinction between public and private affairs, which showed his character as a general. He drank a bottle of Maotai Liquor several times. In order to show his opposition to the Cultural Revolution, he wanted to go to the Dabie Mountains to fight. Guerrilla reflects the extraordinary spirit of a generation of heroes. Marshals Chen Yi and He Long also loved Moutai very much. There are also stories about the iron lady Margaret Thatcher getting drunk on Moutai and Chaplin getting to know a real "man". Reading them is as intoxicating as drinking. The love story between Sima Xiangru and Zhuo Wenjun has been passed down through the ages, and wine is the main theme. The county magistrate Wang Ji greatly admired Sima Xiangru's magnanimity and talent, and they had close contacts with him. In order to increase his reputation, the richest man Zhuo Wangsun also wanted to curry favor with the county magistrate and Sima Xiangru. They hosted a banquet one day, and his daughter Zhuo Wenjun was also present. A generation of talented people secretly watched and fell in love with each other. During the dinner, Sima Xiangru expressed his feelings over wine and played the popular "Phoenix Seeking the Phoenix" for Zhuo Wenjun. Since then, they have been in love with each other. To make a living by opening a hotel. There are many poems praising later generations. Xu Xue of the Tang Dynasty said in his poem: "If you have enough wine to flower a tree, how can you spare the time to support Wenjun." Just like Yi Cai washes the utensils himself, Ziyun is literate and ends up in the pavilion.
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Coincidentally, in the story of Maotai liquor, the king plays the role of recruiting a son-in-law, the flowers are all married because of the wine, the fairy comes to the river to give the fragrance of wine, and the fairy butterfly attracts the spring to make good wine, which has also become a good story of Maotai liquor.