But there are exceptions to everything. There is a place in China where people don't believe in this evil, which is the seemingly magical work of making wine with bamboo baskets. This not only brings people doubts, but how can bamboo baskets be used to make wine? You said that the raw materials for wine making are packed in bamboo baskets, but there is a reason for that. It is understandable that wine is not easy to flow out when soaked in bamboo baskets.
Dulong people live in Gongshan, Yunnan, China. Although it is sparsely populated, it continues its unique and fascinating cultural and historical time. Dulong River in Yunnan is an area where Dulong people live. People here are hiding a trick, that is, making wine with bamboo baskets and storing the brewed wine with bamboo baskets. What happened to them?
Bamboo basket, made of bamboo. Yunnan is a bamboo-producing area, so many families have bamboo products of all sizes. This kind of bamboo product is not only durable, but also beautiful and generous in design, which is closely combined with the daily life of local people. Dulong is also very familiar with bamboo products. Bamboo baskets can be used to hold large and small dirty things, and can also be used to put back a lot of supplies on weekdays.
There is no difference between the bamboo basket suitable for brewing and the ordinary bamboo basket, and the gap around the bamboo basket is also very large. If you use this bamboo basket to draw water, snow-white water will definitely flow out of the hole, not a drop left. However, the Dulong people have made it clear that using bamboo baskets to make wine is not to pour wine into bamboo baskets as everyone imagines, but to put the raw materials of wine into your pocket.
Before brewing, it is necessary to treat the raw materials for brewing. After all kinds of grains are cooked, they are mixed with yeast used to make wedges and wait for the raw materials to cool down. In the future, women at home will pick fern leaves and slice them, which is not only rich in flavor, but also contains distinctive floral fragrance. Covering the leaves of the vegetables in the bamboo basket is equivalent to covering all the holes in the bamboo basket with a baffle. Later, the refrigerated brewing materials were placed on the leaves of the unique vegetables, scraped flat and covered with a layer of leaves. The outside of the bamboo basket can be sealed with plastic film.
After this process, bamboo baskets filled with brewing materials should be stored in a cool place, waiting for the raw materials to ferment. Generally speaking, after five days of fermentation, the plastic film and bracken leaves can be untied. When the raw material inside is milky white plush and smells a bouquet, it means that the raw material is mellow enough to migrate. Put all the raw materials with black hair into a closed pottery jar, and then seal the pottery jar with bracken leaves and plastic film. A month later, the delicious wine was brewed.
Having said that, I think everyone has understood that although it is also a bamboo basket to make wine, in fact, the bamboo basket is only used as a container for storing raw materials. Coupled with the use of bracken leaves to lay the foundation, raw materials will generally not be scattered from the cracks in the bamboo basket. The brewed bartender exists in pottery, and the Dulong people call it "water wine". Shuijiu tastes mild and sweet, a little bitter, but it still has a aftertaste. Two glasses of wine are not charming, they are very tasty.
Then why did Dulong choose bamboo baskets to make wine? Unexpectedly, bamboo is a very common raw material in the local area. Bamboo products made of bamboo are all over the life of Dulong people. Bamboo baskets are just some utensils for every household, so it is very convenient to make wine. Over time, they have become a habit and transformed into a culture.