Dragon Boat Festival stepping on Qu, lasting for hundreds of years?
The so-called Dragon Boat Festival Treading is to start making wine songs during the Dragon Boat Festival every year. It is the beginning of a production cycle of authentic Maotai-flavor liquor in Maotai Town to step on koji during the Dragon Boat Festival. Daqu is an essential raw material for grain fermentation into fermented grains. Maotai-flavor liquor in Maotai Town is made from local high-quality winter wheat at high temperature (generally above 4 degrees Celsius).
On the eve of Dragon Boat Festival, Maotai Town of Guizhou Province began to harvest wheat, the raw material for making wine and koji. After the Dragon Boat Festival, when the wheat harvest is finished, it is the season with the highest temperature in a year, with the most suitable high temperature for koji making. At this time, we can start stepping on the Daqu for Moutai. The so-called stepping on koji means that female workers step on the "turtle-back-shaped" Daqu with high middle and low sides with their feet, which is beneficial to the growth of microorganisms. At the same time, high temperature can make these microorganisms mix into the koji and secrete a lot of enzymes, which can accelerate the conversion of starch and protein into sugar.
In the production process of Maotai-flavor liquor, sorghum raw material is called sand. In the annual large-scale production cycle, feeding is divided into two times. The first feeding is called Xiasha, and the second feeding is called Coarse Sand. After feeding, it needs to be fermented for eight times. Generally speaking, a large cycle lasts about 1 months. Therefore, Moutai is made of wheat as starter and sorghum as raw material, which can be described as "improving the essence of Liang and taking the soul of wheat", which is one of the reasons why Moutai has become a high-end liquor.
The step of stepping on Qu in Dragon Boat Festival is to crush wheat and make Qu pieces. After the Dragon Boat Festival every year, the wine makers began to make koji medicine. Daqu medicine takes wheat as raw material. First, the wheat is crushed, mixed with water and "mother koji", and placed in a wooden box. Workers stand in the box and keep stepping on it with their feet. Many brands of soy sauce wine in Maotai Town follow this ancient koji-stepping process, such as Guotai, Xijiu, Zhenjiu and Sauce Collar.
put the blocks into the warehouse and save the blocks. Wheat is made into "qu kuai" by "stepping on qu", which is wrapped with cereal grass and "packed in warehouse". After about 1 days, the "turning warehouse" is to turn the block up and down so that each side can be fully exposed to microorganisms. It is generally necessary to turn over the warehouse twice before and after. In another 3-4 days, the block will be ready for storage, but it needs to be stored for more than 4 days if it is to be used. Before use, you should "chop up" the blocks, and the more broken the better. After such a process, it will take at least 3-5 months to produce a qualified koji.
Why is it the Dragon Boat Festival? The Dragon Boat Festival is in summer, and the temperature in the local koji-making workshop in Maotai is often as high as 4 degrees Celsius. High temperature is beneficial to the growth of microorganisms, and these microorganisms secrete a large number of enzymes when mixed into koji, which can accelerate the conversion of starch and protein into sugar. Every summer, the door of koji-making workshop is covered with a layer of bugs called "Qu Mosquito", and people can even breathe in a few with one mouth open, which is what koji-making needs.
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