5 Healthier Chinese Alcoholic Drinks That Are Good For You!

Wine is arguably one of the oldest beverages of mankind. When it comes to foreign wines, the first thing that comes to mind is wine, beer, etc. When we talk about the most representative Chinese wines, there are white wine, yellow rice wine, and medicinal wine. Liquor belongs to distilled liquor, while non-distilled liquor includes rice wine, rice wine, wine, etc. Radishes and vegetables, each have their own preferences; too many wines are difficult to adjust, and everyone has their own preferences.

Friends who like strong wine prefer Chinese liquor or whisky; friends who like sweet and low-alcohol wine prefer rice wine and fruit wine; friends who like health care prefer red wine and medicinal wine...

Chinese Liquor

Liquor is acrid in taste and hot in nature. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that white wine can warm the blood and dredge the veins, dispel wind and dispel cold, but because white wine is pungent and easy to disperse, it is necessary to keep warm after drinking, and it is not advisable to drink too much at one time.

Yellow Rice Wine

Rice wine is a kind of grain wine brewed with rice as raw material. It originated in China (and only China has it) and is one of the oldest wines in the world. Generally, the alcohol content is less than 20%. About 3,000 years ago in the Shang and Zhou dynasties, the Chinese began to brew a large number of rice wine using the original double fermentation method of koji. The main raw materials include rice (including glutinous rice, stem rice, indica rice), millet, corn, corn, buckwheat, etc. Rice wine is rich in nutrients and contains a lot of amino acids, including several unknown amino acids. Drinking rice wine can obtain amino acids that cannot be synthesized by the human body.

Rice wine

Rice wine is a favorite drink for many people. It is sweet and sour. Many people will brew it at home, and the flavors of the north and the south are different. Rice wine is suitable for men and women of all ages. It can nourish qi and nourish the stomach. It can stimulate the secretion of digestive juice and increase appetite. It is especially suitable for middle-aged and elderly people, pregnant and lying-in women, people with poor stomach and weak body, and has a nourishing effect.

Gruit Wine

Fruit wine is fermented with various fresh fruits as raw materials. Popular wines, hawthorn wine, green plum wine, etc. are all fruit wines. Fruit wines can be seen in many supermarkets. Their advantages are sweet taste and bright color. There is a special fragrance of fresh fruit. Fruit wine contains a lot of polyphenols, which have antioxidant, anti-aging and heart-protecting effects.

Beer

Beer is one of the oldest drinks humans have produced. The first chemically confirmed barley beer dates back to the 5th millennium BC in modern-day Iran, and was recorded in the written history of ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia and spread throughout the world.

As almost any cereal containing certain sugars can undergo spontaneous fermentation due to wild yeasts in the air, it is possible that beer-like drinks were independently developed throughout the world soon after a tribe or culture had domesticated cereal. Chemical tests of ancient pottery jars reveal that beer was produced as far back as about 7,000 years ago in what is today Iran. This discovery reveals one of the earliest known uses of fermentation and is the earliest evidence of brewing to date.

Today, the brewing industry is a global business, consisting of several dominant multinational companies and many thousands of smaller producers ranging from brewpubs to regional breweries. 

Medicinal Wine

Medicinal wine is a popular health care product on the market. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that "cistanche wine is the best of all medicines", and has the effects of promoting blood circulation, relieving pain, dispelling cold and helping yang. Medicinal liquor can be divided into two categories: therapeutic medicinal liquor and nourishing medicinal liquor.

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Medicinal liquor is a kind of medicinal liquor whose main function is to treat or prevent diseases, and relieve mental and physical stress, and has certain requirements for formula.

Although nourishing medicinal wine has certain preventive and therapeutic effects on certain diseases like kidney failure and hepatic steatosis, it mainly plays a nourishing and health-care effect on the human body. Most nourishing medicinal wines have the characteristics of mellow taste and unique flavor and can be served with meals or drunk in any quantity.