Is "Lanling Wine" really produced in Changzhou?

I don’t mean to pour cold water on it, but I also hope that the conclusion that Lanling Wine originally came from Changzhou is established. I feel proud of my hometown that such a good wine can be sung by poetry immortals. However, since it is a topic of folk culture, we should also adhere to the principle of well-founded and measured scholarship. Every time we draw a major conclusion, we must first have detailed literary and historical evidence to support it, rather than just "having" or "completely possible". The inferences based on the chain of evidence should be loosened to avoid making an international joke and causing people all over the world to ridicule Changzhou for its lack of culture. It can be seen that in the history of Changzhou, it was called "Lanling" for a very short time. When it was popular to call it Lanling, Li Bai was at least still in his grandfather's lap. When was Li Bai's famous poem "A Guest Journey" written? The authoritative opinion was written during the Kaiyuan period, which was the heyday of the Tang Dynasty, before Li Bai went to Chang'an. The place where the poem was composed was "Donglu". At that time, Li Bai was living in Donglu. After returning from Chang'an, he officially moved here during the Tianbao period. The so-called Donglu refers to the southeastern part of Shandong Province, which should naturally include Cangshan County in Shandong Province, which borders Xuzhou, Jiangsu Province. This county happens to have Lanling Town, and Lanling Town has produced Lanling wine since ancient times. From the historical organizational evolution, Lanling County was established during the Qin Dynasty, just within the scope of Lanling Town, and was under the jurisdiction of Donghai County. During the Western Han Dynasty, it was Lanling County, Donghai County, Xuzhou. During the Yongjia Rebellion, a large number of officials and people of the Jin Dynasty fled south. Huaiyin ordered Xiao Zheng to lead the Lanling Xiao clan southward to Changzhou, and established Lanling County in Wujin, which was known as "Southern Lanling" in history. Well, this is basically consistent in time with the "Book of Sui" records that the Liang Dynasty established Changzhou as Lanling County, and precisely because it was a "temporary" setting, after the Sui Dynasty unified the country, it quickly abolished this establishment and restored it. Changzhou’s old establishment system conforms to the basic laws of historical objectiveness. About Shandong Cangshan Lanling Wine. Winemaking in China dates back to the Shang Dynasty. The cultural center of the Shang Dynasty was in the Central Plains of the Yellow River Basin, mainly in Henan, Shandong and northern Anhui. Until now, this area is still very famous for wine making and can be said to be the birthplace of Chinese wine culture. Lanling is very famous for its wine in history. According to archaeological historical data, in 1995, two well-sealed jars of Lanling wine were unearthed from the tomb of the Han Dynasty in Shizishan, Xuzhou. The mud seals were engraved with the stamp "Lanling Letter Seal". This is direct archaeological evidence. At this time in the Han Dynasty, Lanling was in the southeast of Shandong, and there was no Nanlanling that moved to Changzhou. This at least shows that Lanling in Shandong was the origin of "Lanling Wine". According to relevant information, Lanling Fine Wine was already quite famous in the Eastern Zhou Dynasty. In the Han Dynasty, it was said that it was made by the Xiao family, so it was also called "Xiao Wang Fine Wine". Since most of the Xiao clan came to the south, it is very likely that they brought the wine-making technology to Changzhou. Therefore, the relationship between Changzhou and Lanling Fine Wine is only marginal at best. However, since the "Yongjia Rebellion", wars in history have never subsided for a moment. Even if the Sui Dynasty restored temporary peace, the area south of the Yangtze River in the late Sui Dynasty was ruled by the peasant uprising army Du Fuwei. I think having enough food is very important to the common people. It's a problem for everyone. Where can I get the surplus grain to brew fine wine? Even if a wealthy family accidentally brews some, it will not be of the level of fine wine. At most, it will be a kind of rice wine that we still make in rural areas of Jiangnan today. This kind of wine has neither the taste of "tulip" nor the color of "amber light" , just a turbid, alcohol-rich sour soup. Has Li Bai ever been to Changzhou? At present, Changzhou's literary and historical circles are still inconclusive because no strong evidence can be produced. But they say that Li Bai visited Liyang several times, which can be proved by records and relics. Because Liyang now belongs to Changzhou, Li Bai counts as having visited Changzhou. First of all, during the Mid-Tang Dynasty where Li Bai lived, Liyang was not under the jurisdiction of Changzhou. It had always been under the jurisdiction of Yixing County (today's Yixing). Later, Xuanzhou and Jiangning were both under the jurisdiction of each other. Especially during Li Bai's period, it was mainly under the jurisdiction of Xuanzhou. Therefore, To say that Li Bai's visit to Liyang is equivalent to his visit to Changzhou is based on ignorance of historical local institutions and is completely unreliable. Li Bai left the famous Yuefu poem "Traveling of the Tiger" in Liyang, which is enough to prove that he had been to Liyang. However, the "Anshi Rebellion" was breaking out at this time. Li Bai, who had been away from Chang'an for several years, heard the bad news. His grief and anger were clearly reflected in his writing: "The people of Qin were half the people of Yan." Imprisoned on the ground, Hu Ma turns over Luoyang grass in his mouth." This is a true portrayal of the arrogance of the Anlushan rebels.

Li Bai's second visit to Chang'an was in the autumn of 742 AD, the first year of Tianbao, and the "Anshi Rebellion" began in the 14th year of Tianbao, 755 AD. Li Bai was busy doing one thing at this time, which was to find ways to contribute to the court. He participated in quelling the rebellion, so even if he passed by Liyang, he would not be in high spirits, pick up a glass of wine and sing Lanling wine. Moreover, the name of this poem is "A Journey from a Guest", which can be understood to mean that he shuttled among many friends to sing A cup of socializing can also be understood as when he is visiting a foreign country, and writing this must have a basic premise: he is in a very good mood. But both Li Bai and Du Fu were in a very sad and depressed mood during the eight years of the "An-Shi Rebellion". Li Bai was also exiled and demoted for being suspected of participating in the Yongwang Uprising. But even if it can be proven that Li Bai visited Liyang before the "Anshi Rebellion", Liyang has never heard of "Lanling Fine Wine" being produced so far. Li Bai must have drank in Liyang. What brand of wine was produced at that time? This requires researchers to dig into it carefully. The Liyang people served them a good wine, assuming it was Lanling wine. Li Bai, who was very familiar with the rules of the game in social situations, would at best praise the wine, but not praise it with poetry, because the owner was not in Lanling, but in Xuanzhou. In Liyang, eating other people's feasts while writing poems praising the specialties of other places is obviously contrary to common ethics and does not conform to Li Bai's usual style. We really can't find a convincing reason to prove that the "Lanling Wine" praised by Li Bai is a specialty of Changzhou. So now Changzhou people are trying to justify themselves based on historical data and legends that are scattered and cannot be integrated organically. , is it a kind of obscenity? I remember that a long time ago, Changzhou produced a kind of liquor, the "Lanling" brand. This kind of liquor was a very common liquor, cheap and suitable for mass consumption. Please note that it is white, not the "amber light" described in the poem. "Amber light" is a metaphor that the color of wine is similar to the crystallization of a thousand-year-old tree sap flow, which is light sauce or light yellow. Lanling brand liquor is white glass color. It is said that this wine-making process will not be easily lost after more than a thousand years, and there should be documented records. However, at that time, there was no "Amber Light" Lanling wine brewed in Changzhou. Now this kind of wine has disappeared in Changzhou. Why? In the early years, I heard that Lanling had registered the "Lanling" trademark and was trapped in Changzhou for "misappropriation". Changzhou people had no choice but to sell it. I would like to ask the person who is raising the topic again in a high-profile manner, if you were really confident enough to prove that this "Lanling Wine" is Changzhou's patent, and history can speak for itself, why don't you stand up and refute it like you do now?