【Explanation】There is a "world's oldest winemaking workshop" on the bank of the Jinjiang River in Chengdu, which is the most comprehensive, complete, oldest and most nationally original ancient winemaking workshop site excavated by scientific archaeology in China. On April 4, the reporter walked into the Shuijingfang Museum to visit this charming ancient brewery.
Shuijingfang Museum is located in Shuijing Street, Jinjiang District, Chengdu, and opened to the public in July 2013. The museum systematically preserves the "Shuijing Street Distillery Site" in its original location, and reproduces the national intangible cultural heritage - "Shuijingfang Wine Traditional Brewing Technique" with real production scenes. According to Wang Gang, director of Shuijingfang Museum, the site of Shuijing Street Winery is the most complete and earliest existing archaeological discovery site of wine at home and abroad. In the excavation area of the core site, various brewing facilities such as drying halls, cellar pools, still bases, stoves, ash pits, and wooden pillars of different ages have completely restored a complete set of technological processes for people brewing distilled spirits in ancient times. In 7, the site of Shuijing Street Winery was listed as the fifth batch of national key cultural relics protection units.
【During the same period】Wang Gang, director of Shuijingfang Museum
Shuijingfang has a national intangible cultural heritage "Shuijiefang Wine Traditional Brewing Technique", which has been passed down for 9 generations, and there is currently 1 national inheritor and several provincial and municipal inheritors, with clear genealogy and strong inheritance. Shuijingfang has set up a "cultural heritage protection fund" with special funds, and set up special protection institutions such as "Shuijingfang Cultural Heritage Protection Committee" and "Intangible Cultural Heritage Protection Office" to ensure the orderly management of intangible cultural heritage assets. Through the implementation of the "Training Program for Representative Inheritors of Intangible Cultural Heritage", we will build a talent pool for intangible cultural heritage skills and cultivate the backbone talents of intangible cultural heritage. Continuously strengthen scientific research on the "No. <> flora" of Shuijingfang, and use modern science and technology to promote the inheritance and innovation of winemaking technology.
【Commentary】It is not an exaggeration to say that Shuijingfang Museum is a "living" museum. According to museum docent Wang Yuan, Shuijingfang Museum has successfully integrated the production line in production as the largest exhibit with the visiting exhibition line, which is the first museum of its kind in China.
【During the same period】Shuijingfang Museum docent Wang Yuan
This old brewery actually smells a very strong aroma of wine, because to this day the brewery is still engaged in real sake production. So we say it's a living museum of wine culture and a breathing brewery. Brewing has requirements for the environment, which needs ventilation, ventilation, shading, and shelter from rain, so when we look up, we will see many staggered and small windows above the roof, which are called lion's mouth. This is actually a window opening method that is often used to introduce light and flowing air in wooden houses in western Sichuan, and it will be applied in many old factory buildings. And on both sides of this winery, we will also see many neatly arranged cellar pools, the so-called cellar pool is a container for the fermentation of sake lees, they are about two meters deep below the surface, which contains all sake lees, which are now fermenting, the surface is sealed with a layer of yellow mud, the thickness of yellow mud is about 15 cm thick, fermentation time will last about 2 to 3 months, after the end of fermentation, we will open the cellar, take out the lees for distillation to take out the wine.
【Commentary】Follow Wang Yuan into the art hall, you can also see the busy figures of the winemakers, or on the top, or stall, or under the curve, this ancient production of the brewing line is still running alive. Mixing materials in the cellar, distilling the upper cellar, picking wine in quantity and quality, spreading the koji, fermenting in the cellar, blending and storage... The reason why the "traditional brewing technology of Shuijingfang wine" has a long history, in addition to adhering to these ancient brewing processes, it also has a lot to do with the ancient cellar group that has been used for hundreds of years.
【During the same period】Shuijingfang Museum docent Wang Yuan
When we mention Shuijingfang, we will mention this No. 5 ancient cellar pool, when it was discovered, there were still ancient cellar mud and ancient sake lees from more than 600 years ago, and the ancient cellar mud was still wet. Researchers have extracted excellent strains from the moist ancient cellar mud, rejuvenated and developed them and applied them to other cellar pools, which is why today's Shuijingfang wine and such a brand.
【Commentary】Wang Gang said that in order to strengthen the protection, inheritance and rational use of intangible cultural heritage, the museum will also launch the exhibition upgrade in the future, highlighting the display and interaction of skills, so that more audiences can know and understand this "treasure" in Chinese baijiu culture in more ways.
【During the same period】Wang Gang, director of Shuijingfang Museum
In order to strengthen the protection, inheritance and rational use of intangible cultural heritage, the museum will start the exhibition upgrade, highlight the display and interaction of skills, highlight the vitality of intangible cultural heritage, and allow more audiences to participate in the understanding and understanding of intangible cultural heritage in multiple ways and at multiple levels. This is our original intention and responsibility.
【Commentary】He has participated in many foreign cultural exchange activities organized by the government, continued to carry out cultural and educational activities for the public and schools, and undertook the activities of Chengdu International Poetry Week... Once Shuijing Street Distillery, to meet the interest of Chengdu people to gather for feasts and drinks, now Shuijingfang Museum has become an important cultural window, using wine as a "medium" to attract visitors from all over Chengdu.
Reporter He Xi reported from Chengdu
Responsible Editor: [Song Yusheng]