Wine on the island of typhoons: culture of wine and wine drinking in a southern chinese frontier
pdf

Keywords

wine, wine brewing, Hainan Island, the Li people, the Miao people, rice wine, medicinal wines

How to Cite

1. Саракаева Э. Wine on the island of typhoons: culture of wine and wine drinking in a southern chinese frontier // Journal of Frontier Studies. 2017. № 1. C. 83-103.

Abstract

The article discusses the culture of wine brewing and wine drinking of the indigenous population that inhabit the most southern part of China – the Hainan Island.

The author suggests that the culture of wine and winemaking in China is the result of a cross-cultural dialogue in which various ethnic and social actors of China took part. Among most colourful of local wine cultures that enriched the world of Chinese wine are those of national minorities inhabiting the most southern territories of China – the Hainan Island

For the ethnical minorities that have been for centuries living on the island wine plays a very important role in their profane, everyday life, private and collective festivities and in their cults and religious ceremonies. Wine culture is closely intertwined with the spiritual life and ethnic self-awareness for the people of Li, Miao, Yi, Tujia and other islanders.

The article gives a brief introduction into the wine brewing technologies, traditional recipes and rituals of wine drinking of the Hainan people. Hainan ethnic minorities still sustain their own rich culture of brewing and drinking alcoholic beverages, the culture which relies heavily on the ecological conditions and natural resources of Hainan Island. The manner in which wine is used by these minority groups emphasises their core values, such as friendship, communal spirit and reverence of their elders and ancestors.

pdf

References

陈士铎 (编者) (2008) 本草新编。北京: 中国中医药出版社。(Chen Shiduo (editor). Newly Revised Book on Medical Herbs. Beijing: The Publishing House of Chinese Medicine.

陈小双 (2014) 浅谈土家族的酒文化。清年与社会 Vol. 572 N. 26, Pp.331-332. 武汉:中南民族大学出版社,2014 (Chen Xiaoshuang. The wine culture of Tujia people. Youth and Society. Vol. 572 No 26. Pp. 331-332. Wuhan: the Publishing House of South China University).

韩立收 (2012)。查禁与除禁: 黎族“禁”习惯法。 上海:上海大学出版社。(Han Lishou. Imposing and removal of bans: "bans" in common law of li nationality. Shanghai: the Publishing House of Shanghai University)

李志云 (2016)。三亚市黎族民间故事汇编。三亚:三亚市群众艺术馆 /三亚市非物质文化遗产保护中心。(Li Zhiyun. The collection of folklore of li nationality from the city of Sanya. Sanya: Museum of folk art of Sanya city / The Center of non-material cultural heritage protection of Sanya city)

潘正云 (1999)。凉山彝族酒文化探析。西南名族学院报。哲学社会学版。Vol.20 (Aug.1999), Pp. 3-6. (Pan Zhengyun. An analysis of the wine culture of Yi nationality in Liangshan. The Journal of Southwest College of nationalities. The Volume on Philosophy and Sociology No 20 (August 1999 ). Pp. 3-6).

仁青卓玛(2008)浅析苗族酒文化。酿酒 Vol.38 (Sep. 2008), Pp. 112-113.(Renqing Zhuoma. A brief analysis of the wine culture of Miao people. Wine brewing No 38 (September 2008), Pp. 112-113)

亚根 (2014)。黎族。北京:中国人口出版社 (Ya Gen. Li people. Beijing: The Publishing House of China’s people)

Basic Prescriptions of Chinese Medicine of China (1988), vol. 1. Hunan, 1988.

Peng Minsheng, He Jundong, Liu Haiixin, Zhang Yaping. (2011) Tracing the legacy of the early Hainan Islanders - a perspective from mitochondrial DNA. Evolutionary Biology N. 11 (46) 15th February 2011. Стр. 115-140. BioMed Central LTD.

Schein Louisa (1986).The Miao in contemporary China. In The Hmong in transition. Edited by Hendricks, G. L., Downing, B. T., & Deinard, A. S. Staten Island: Center for migration studies. Pp. 73-85.

Sarakaeva E.A., Sarakaeva A.A. (2016). Self-presentation of Southern China’s Rulers in the Context of Frontier Cultural Interaction (Vth c. B.C.). Journal of Frontier studies. No 2 (2016-08-21), Retrieved from http://frontierstudies.com

Song Jie, Yakushenkov S.N. (2015) Cultural security and Factors of Development of National Alimental Culture. In Caspian Region: politics, economics, culture. No 4 (45), Pp. 247-253.

Xia Xunli. History of Chinese Medical Wine. The Chinese Journal of Integrated Traditional and Western Medicine Press and Springer. Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2011, Pp. 549-555.

Yakushenkov S.N., Yakushenkova О.S. (2012) Barbarian Body: Construction of the Alien’s Body on the Chinese Frontier. In Caspian Region: politics, economics, culture. No 4 (33), Pp. 233-240.

Creative Commons License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.