Huangjiu · FFET10077
Red-Yeast Huangjiu Brewing Craft
The red-yeast huangjiu craft entered the fifth national heritage batch as an extension item, declared from Pingnan in Fujian.
A hand pours golden wine from a bamboo dipper into a shallow two-handled bowl, beside it stand a jar sealed with a clay cap and a bamboo tray of steaming glutinous rice, and paddy fields lie in the distance.
Huangjiu, fermented from glutinous rice, millet or wheat and then pressed.
On the China Intangible Cultural Heritage website, the item "Brewed Wine Traditional Brewing Techniques (Red-Yeast Huangjiu Brewing Techniques)" is a traditional craft listed as an extension item, declared by Pingnan County, Ningde, Fujian, and was added to the fifth batch of the national representative list in 2021; the protection unit is Fujian Huizelong Liquor Co., Ltd. The item page names as its materials "spring water drawn at the hour of chen, highland glutinous rice and hand-made red yeast" with a clear Pingnan character, says the craft spreads across Fujian, Zhejiang, Guangdong, Jiangxi, Taiwan and Chinese communities in Southeast Asia, and calls it "closely tied to people's daily life and folk belief".