Brewing technology of aged vinegar (meiheju aged vinegar brewing technology)

Name of China's national intangible cultural heritage: brewing technology of aged vinegar (meiheju aged vinegar brewing technology)

Applicant: Taiyuan City, Shanxi Province

Item No.: 411

Project No.: VIII - 61

Time of publication: 2008 (second batch)

Category: traditional art

Region: Shanxi Province

Type: Extension Project

Applicant: Taiyuan City, Shanxi Province

Protection unit: Shanxi old mature vinegar Group Co., Ltd

Introduction to brewing technology of aged vinegar (meiheju aged vinegar brewing technology)

Applicant: Taiyuan City, Shanxi Province

Shanxi old mature vinegar is the first of the four famous vinegar in China, and its brewing technology is the same as the vinegar making technology since the Western Zhou Dynasty. In the first year of Hongwu (1368) of Ming Dynasty, the brewing masters of "meiheju" in Taiyuan vinegar workshop created the technology of "fumigation" and the aging technology of "basking in summer and fishing for ice in winter", which made the brewing technology of Shanxi old mature vinegar develop to a new level. After more than 600 years of inheritance and development, the brewing technology of Shanxi old mature vinegar, which is mainly based on manual skills, has gradually taken shape.

Meiheju mature vinegar brewing technology has its own unique process. In the production, the use of specific raw materials and classical raw material formula, such as liquid fermentation of low-temperature mash, high-temperature inoculation and ignition, fumigation and drenching vinegar fermented grains combined with vinegar making, summer sun drying, ice fishing in winter, storage and aging, etc. are the most important technical means. Meiheju aged vinegar brewing technology is unique in the field of Chinese vinegar brewing, and is a typical representative of the traditional brewing technology of aged vinegar in China.

As the crystallization of the farming culture of the Yellow River, the brewing technology of Shanxi aged vinegar is an important part of Shanxi culture, which has research value in the history of craft, folk custom and social life.