Global EditionASIA 中文雙語Fran?ais
Lifestyle
Home / Food

Ancient suds in modern mugs

By Mike Peters | China Daily | Updated: 2017-04-18 07:00
Share
Share - WeChat

Li (left) and Acker add broomcorn millet to a brewing kettle at JingA. [Photo by Aaron Berkovich/China Daily]

After arriving in Xi'an, our group's first stop is a warehouse labeled: "Storage of Archaeological Objects No 03". Xing Fulai, the leader of the Mijaya dig, unlocks the big steel doors and pulls them apart with a loud clang. Each of us, our inner Indiana Jones primed for excitement, leans in to look.

A few minutes later, the awed modern brewers are allowed to hold some of the clay vessels used by their ancient predecessors.

"These things are more than 10 times as old as America," says photographer Aaron Berkovich.

China has a long history of alcohol production. Evidence of rice-based fermented beverage has been found at the 9,000-year-old Jiahu site in today's Hunan province, but barley-based brewing - our modern notion of beer - had not been recorded until much later.

"In China, the earliest written record of beer appears in oracle bone inscriptions from the late Shang Dynasty (c. 16th century-11th century BC)," the Stanford-Shaanxi researchers wrote in the US National Academy of Sciences journal PNAS in June 2016. "According to the inscriptions, the Shang people used malted grains, including millets and barley/wheat (barley and wheat are represented by the same Chinese character) as the main brewing ingredients." While scholars had speculated that the beer-brewing tradition dated back to the Neolithic Yangshao period, there had been no direct evidence for alcohol production from Yangshao-era sites.

The new research provided evidence of both early alcohol production and a surprise: barley.

"Barley was one of the main ingredients for beer-brewing in other parts of the world, such as ancient Egypt," Wang told National Public Radio in the US. "It is possible that when barley was introduced from Western Eurasia into the Central Plain of China, it came with the knowledge that the crop was a good ingredient for beer brewing."

|<< Previous 1 2 3 4 Next   >>|
Most Popular
Top
BACK TO THE TOP
English
Copyright 1995 - . All rights reserved. The content (including but not limited to text, photo, multimedia information, etc) published in this site belongs to China Daily Information Co (CDIC). Without written authorization from CDIC, such content shall not be republished or used in any form. Note: Browsers with 1024*768 or higher resolution are suggested for this site.
License for publishing multimedia online 0108263

Registration Number: 130349
FOLLOW US
 
主站蜘蛛池模板: 欧美xxxxx69| 亚洲成人中文字幕| 亚洲精品无码久久久久| 亚洲另类激情专区小说图片| 亚洲av综合色区无码一区爱av| 久久无码人妻一区二区三区午夜 | 乱人伦人妻中文字幕在线入口| 久久国产加勒比精品无码| 一级成人生活片免费看| 99久久精品费精品国产| 国产黑丝袜在线| 精品无码国产AV一区二区三区| 欧美综合自拍亚洲综合图| 日韩午夜免费视频| 好色先生视频tv下载| 国产特级毛片aaaaaa毛片| 台湾香港澳门三级在线| 亚洲国产精品一区二区久久| 久久99久久99精品免观看| 999影院成人在线影院| 韩国大尺度床戏未删减版在线播放| 疯狂七十二小时打扑克| 最近2018中文字幕2019国语视频| 岛国片在线观看| 国产激情精品一区二区三区| 十六以下岁女子毛片免费| 亚洲六月丁香六月婷婷色伊人| 中国一级淫片aaa毛片毛片| 香蕉视频国产在线观看| 美女把腿扒开让男人桶爽了| 欧美在线精品一区二区在线观看| 扒开内裤直接进| 国产欧美精品一区二区三区-老狼 国产欧美精品一区二区三区四区 国产欧美精品一区二区三区四区 国产欧美精品一区二区色综合 | 国产在线精品一区二区中文| 免费爱爱的视频太爽了| 九九热视频精品| 97成人碰碰久久人人超级碰OO| 色噜噜在线观看| 欧洲美熟女乱又伦免费视频| 女人18毛片a级毛片免费视频| 国产在线观看精品一区二区三区91|