Zhongshan Songlaojiu

Zhongshan Songlao Liquor is a specialty of Dingzhou City, Baoding City, Hebei Province. Zhongshan Songlao Liquor is made of natural mineral water from Black Longquan, with yellow rice as the main ingredient and rare Chinese medicines such as Radix Notoginseng, Radix Codonopsis and Almond. It is known as "liquid cake" and has certain health care effects. Songlao wine is a kind of wine, just like yellow wine and white wine, and its origin and brewing technology are different. The reason why Zhongshan Songlao Liquor enjoys a unique reputation is that it originated from a poem "Zhongshan Songlao Fu" written by Su Dongpo, a famous Song Dynasty writer. During the Northern Song Zhezong period, Su Dongpo served as Dingzhou Prefecture Governor. Because he loves to drink Songlao Liquor, Su Dongpo personally collected materials according to the local brewing technology of Songlao Liquor, and brewed Songlao Liquor from the local Black Dragon Spring. Because Zhongshan had its capital in Dingzhou, Su Dongpo called his wine brewed in Dingzhou "Zhongshan Songlao Liquor". Later, Su Dongpo wrote "Zhongshan Songlao Fu", praising Songlao wine for "sweet taste but little bitterness, sighing for its unique elegance, knowing the sweetness and sourness, and laughing at the grapes of Liangzhou". His Fu became a masterpiece in the history of China's calligraphy, and the reputation of Zhongshan Songlao Liquor spread all over the world. Zhongshan Songlao wine is golden and attractive, with a low degree of fragrance, which is between yellow wine and white wine. It is not white wine, let alone yellow wine, fruit wine or health wine, but it has the advantages of various major wines in the liquor market today, namely, the masculinity of white wine, the nutritional value of yellow wine and the feminine beauty of fruit wine, and it has the style characteristics of white wine, yellow wine and fruit wine. It can be heated in winter and added with ice in summer, and enjoys "three wines (white wine, rice wine and medicinal wine) and five flavors (alcohol). Zhongshan Songlao Liquor is made from dozens of traditional Chinese medicinal materials, such as millet, pine nuts, dried tangerine peel and kudzu root. According to modern scientific tests, Songlao wine contains 21 kinds of amino acids, some of which can't be synthesized by human body itself and must rely on 8 kinds of amino acids ingested from food. Therefore, the wine is known as "liquid cake" and has certain health care effect.
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