【正文】 Foreign Languages College Inner Mongolia Finance and Economics University Comparison of the Wine Culture between China and the West Feng Xueyao A thesis submitted to Foreign Languages College of Inner Mongolia Finance and Economics University In fulltime fulfillment of the requirement For the degree of Bachelor of Arts May 2021 Hohhot, China 摘要 酒是人類生活中的主要飲料之一。s national unique treasure, it can push for China one of the world?s five great inventions. In China?s history of more than 5,000 years of ups and downs, more than 4,000 years are of fully and delightfully wine culture. Wine closely adhered to agriculture and bee part of the agricultural economy. Saying the four originators of wine making, all are wine made from food. That is to say, wine is linked to both agriculture and nature. In fact Chinese wine culture has been involved in all aspects of social life, permeate every state of society. Today, China is also famous for its masterly technology and distinctive style of wine and is more renowned for the long history and profound culture. The world people gradually realized the great value of wine culture of China as the rapid development of Chinese wine since the foundation of the People?s Republic of China. In China, the word for alcohol jiu is used to mean all types of alcoholic beverages, from pijiu(beer) to liquors (just called jiu) and to grape wine (putaojiu). The origins of the alcoholic beverages from fermented grain in China cannot be traced definitely. The distilled drink was not popular until the 19th century. Traditionally, Chinese distilled liquors are consumed together with food rather than drunk on their own. The Yellow Liquor The wine can be generally classified into two types, namely, yellow liquors (huangjiu) or clear (white) liquor (baijiu). The yellow liquor is fermented wine that is brewed directly from grains such as rice or wheat. Such liquor contains less than 20% alcohol due to the inhibition of fermentation by ethanol at this concentration. This wine is traditionally pasteurized， aged, and filtered before their final bottling for sale to consumers. Yellow liquor can also be distilled to produce white liquor or baijiu. White Liquor White liquor (baijiu) are also monly called shaojiu, which means hot liquor or burned liquor, either because of the burning sensation in the mouth during consumption and the fact that they are usually warmed before being consumed, or because of the heating requirements for distillation liquors of this type typically contain more than 30% alcohol in volume since they have undergone distillation. There are a great many varieties of distilled liquors, both unflavored and flavored. There are a large number of types of famous Chinese liquors and wines familiar to us. For example: (1) Fen Jiu this wine was dated back to Northern and Southern Dynasties (5500 .). It is the original Chinese white wine made from shum. Alcohol content by volume: 6365%. (2) Mao Tai Jiu this wine has a production history of over 200 years. It is named after its origin at Mao Tai town in Guizhou province. It is made from wheat and shum with a unique distilling process that involves seven iterations of the brewing cycle. This wine is famous to the western world when the Chinese government served this in state banquets unentertaining the US presidents. Alcohol content by volume: 5455%. (3) Gao Liang Jiu Gao Liang is the Chinese name for shum. Besides shum, the brewing processes also use barley, wheat and so on. The wine was originated from Da Zhi Gu since the Ming Dynasty. Nowadays, Taiwan is a large producer of shum. Alcohol content by volume: 6163%. The Materials and Categories of Western Wine The western civilization was originated in the Mediterranean area, located on the Mediterranean coast of Italy and its surrounding areas of France and Germany, which made the two countries bee the world big wine industry countries and Germany the “the country of beer” in Central Europe. Western wine culture has thus bee a grape wine and beer culture. Moreover, the western culture is based on the Bible. One of these is the story of Noah?s ark. Noah, with animals and vegetable selected from all of the world, and with his three sons, boarded the ark of Noah. The ark came to Mount Ararat, Noah started to cultivate the land, the first plant he planted is the grape plant, and later, he began to brew wine. The Western winemaking technology and religion are closely linked. The western wine spirit takes the winemaking God Dionysius as a symbol. As Europeans profess Christianity, they called bread and wine God39。 to drink one more cup of wine is to bid farewell to the friend going away. Different feelings and different mood are passed through the wine. In the western countries, the purpose of drinking is often very simple, to enjoy the wine and alcohol. Of course, the red wine in the West also has the function of munication, but it is more of a pursuit of how to enjoy the taste. It can be seen that the western wine culture focus more on the wine itself while we Chinese people seem to pay more attention to the spiritual experience after evaporation or distillation of the wine. Western habit of tasting wine is to taste with their tongue, while we Chinese people use more of a heart and brain to feel the feeling the wine bring to us. Shallow Sip and Cattle Drink Chinese people pay attention to the “Shallow sip”. The socalled “Shallow sip” is to put the glass in one hand and enjoy the fun by singing a song or poem to pursue the realm into a little drunk. The socalled little drunk is like nondrunk drunk and nonawake awake, with a rather wonderful feeling to get high in t