“嚼酒”民俗初探

A Preliminary Research on a Custom of Making Wine by Chewing

"嚼酒"是人类利用唾液发酵的原理来做酒,是最原始的做酒法之一。在中国历史记载中,只有魏晋南北朝时的勿吉族和自明代始台湾岛的原住民使用这种独特的造酒术。本文在材料分析的基础上,探讨"嚼酒"民俗的产生、发展至湮灭的过程。

<Abstrcat> One of the oldest methods of making wine is chewing which take advantage of the yeast be developed by salivary zymogens. In Chinese history, only the people in WujiChu who had ever lived during the periods between Weijin, North and South dynasties and the aboriginal in Taiwan island which lies in the southeast of Ming dynasty by far got used to this special method. On the basis of the analysis of the historical materials, the paper attempts to examine the course of the custom of making wine by chewing: how it was born, developing and vanishing.