What flowers can make wine?

Brewing wine with various flowers has a long history in China. Qu Yuan, a great poet in the Warring States Period, wrote a poem in "Nine Songs", which read "Yao Hui steamed Xi Lan chicken, Yunnan ghost wine Xi Jiaojiang". Obviously, osmanthus was popular at that time. So far, osmanthus wine is still a kind of high-grade wine, with a mellow osmanthus fragrance, mainly produced in China. Lotus is widely distributed in China and has high ornamental value. Besides lotus seeds and lotus roots, lotus flowers can also be used to make wine. It is recorded in "On the Continuation of the World" that the method of making wine with lotus flowers is generally to mash the lotus flowers and immerse them in the wine to make the wine have the fragrance of lotus flowers. Bi Fang wine. In the Qing Dynasty, the method of making lotus wine developed again. "Clear Money" says: "Yingtai has ten thousand handles, green plates and green covers, which are endless. After the filial piety, the eunuchs took their nuclear and medicinal materials as fine wine, but the jade liquid was nectar. " It can be seen that this wine made of lotus is the favorite drink of empresses, so that it is not as good as its reputation of using jade liquid and nectar. Chrysanthemum wine has a long history. During the Wei and Jin Dynasties, there was a custom of wearing dogwood and drinking chrysanthemum wine on the Double Ninth Festival in China. Chrysanthemum wine is divided into chrysanthemum wine making and chrysanthemum wine soaking. Brewing is made by mashing semi-open chrysanthemums with a few stems and leaves in September every year, mixing and fermenting them in steamed glutinous rice mash cheese, and then opening and squeezing them in September of the following year. Although this method is simple, it will take a year. Soaking wine is picking pure flowers and removing pedicels when chrysanthemums are in full bloom. You can make five pounds of good wine per catty of flowers, and you can drink it after sealing it for about ten days. Coconut tree inflorescence growth. Coconut flowers were used to make wine in the Tang Dynasty. This wine tastes sweet and drunk. The brewing of this kind of coconut wine still spread to the Song Dynasty, but today it is rare even in Hainan Island, a coconut producing area in China. Rose wine is also one of the important flower wines in China. There is a kind of "Camellia Wine" in Xiaolan Town, Zhongshan City, Guangdong Province, which is fragrant and enjoys a high reputation. In recent years, due to the development of perfume technology, many places have adopted the method of extracting essence first and then mixing wine to brew wine with rich fragrance and fragrance. "White Flower Wine" uses white orchids, which can make the wine mellow and make people fondle it, making it an unsung hero in hops.