Fascinating video, thank you for sharing. One thing I am curious about is why this drink is referred to as a 'wine' in English, when it's abundantly clear that what Sangdian is making is a liqueur. It is plant matter macerated in high proof spirit which is then sweetened. In that respect it seems very similar to Italian amaro, German krauterlikor, French amer and products like Chartreuse, genepi and Suze; all of which are liqueurs rather than wines (and were also originally developed for medicinal purposes). I have no doubt that there are traditional Chinese 'medicinal wines' which do use an actual fruit wine as a base, and in that way would be very similar to European aromatized wines (Italian/French vermouths, quinquinas, Americanos, etc.) in construction, but I'm surprised there isn't a distinction made, linguistically speaking, between the two categories in China.The only fermentation taking place is in the production of the spirit, pre-distillation; the fruit, in this case, is not being fermented. Do Chinese dialects not make a distinction between a fermented product ('beer' if from cereal grain, 'wine' if from fruit; with a maximum ABV limited by yeast ethanol tolerance) and a product which is distilled (post fermentation) in China?
Great question! In Chinese all alcoholic drinks are characterized as 酒 (jiu) which translates to both liquor and wine. A sake, which is brewed, is 清酒 (clear jiu). A baijiu, which is strong and distilled, translates to "white" jiu. Wine is "grape" (葡萄) jiu. So some of the nuances definitely get lost in translation, and in Chinese the makeup of the liquor/wine is more of the focus. Therefore, you'd be right in calling this drink a berry liquor. It's just that historically, these drinks have been translated as wines, so you'll tend to find them listed as so if you're in this part of the world shopping for a medicinal wine.
@@Vostadues Because the venom is clearly extracted into the wine..... Alcohol denatures snake venom. It's 200% novelty. Also, even if it wasn't denatured by the alcohol, it is very doubtful you would get anything out of it that the medical field would be using it for (and it would be so diluted that it would like taking a crumb of an aspirin pill to treat a headache).
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@@ems7623 Actually, you are incorrect. Many plants have been analyzed and documented to be made up of all kinds of chemical, biochemical, and biological properties that are medicinal. It's actually quite fascinating to be genetically analyzing plants for medicine. Everything you eat has an affect on you and how your body performs. It's amazing. That being said, I don't believe every single plant has something medicinal to offer. Some are just so darn tasty!
Often in the west people think of Tibetan people as one monolith, just as they think of other Asians, which is not true. Tibetans actually live across a few provinces, not just Tibet, or even what Dalai Lama claim to be Tibet. There's also plenty of differences between each group, some dialects had loan words from Mandarin, and some had even loan grammar.
Yep .. She is trying to speak Mandarin but she is not well versed. Strangely although she identifies as Tibetan and looks like one, Her clothes and head dress is more like Qiang than Tibetan.
@@LibeliumDragonfly Really Intresting ..Which Tibetan dialect has borrowed Mandarin grammer? All Tibetan dialects have same grammer in my experience as a native speaker.
It's not a wine per se, it's just how it's termed, because there isn't a direct translation of the Chinese word for liquor. But you're right, it's a spirit.
I'm all for protecting cultural folklore and traditions, that's very important. But let's be honest, probably most of the "advantages" of those drinks are either placebo or of extremely small benefits. The idea that there would be a "western medicine" and a "eastern medicine" is dangerous. There's just medicine, either it works or it doesn't. It doesn't mean that we should stop drinking those wonderful beverage, it just means that we should be honest about what we are to do with those.
If you study eastern medicine you’ll realize that there is science behind it and it’s just more of a osteopathic and/or homeopathic approach. So instead of pills (which there are in modern eastern medicine) it is often in medicinal food and drinks. It doesn’t aim at targeted treatment like western medicine but at attempting to strengthen the body’s overall health and to prevent long term side affects. Sure there may be some quasi-science in some of the old folk remedies but I see that in folk medicine across the world.
@@tenki-no-ko The scientific consensus regarding homeopathy is that is relying on placebo and/or contextual effects. So I'm not sure it's a good example for a scientific effect of those beverages :P I guess your point was it's not aiming to the same effects that "modern eastern medicine", but I would disagree with that. There's plenty evidence-based medicine that is aiming for general health and protection. Indeed you are right that we see that quite a lot around the world, but I would argue that it's more a traditional common folklore to rely on available food and beverage to create more a ritual around it.
@@tenki-no-ko homeopathy is literally pseudoscience, its placebo in a practically pure form, the more dilution the stronger the effect is very backwards, its not something people should keep doing
That's beginner stuff man, gotta get the advanced ingredients like tiger penis and/or deer penis. A medicinal wine without a penis or two is lack luster. There's another tier above that, but no one really fuck with those.
There are various Tibetans tribes - Goloks, Yunnan Tibetans, Khampas, etc. Heck, some would even call Dzongkhapas in Bhutan and Sherpas Tibetan tribes too since they speak Tibetic languages
Read more about Chinese medicinal wine here: gt4.life/tcmwine
Wine is the most civilized thing in the world. Penicillin cures, but wine makes people happy. Wine is life. Love from Korea🇰🇷💕
Wine is life, but alcohol almost took away my life, LOL. Yet I envy you who can still drink. Cheers mate.
yup Penicillin cures that is why the western medicine had attacked it ever since it inception.
@@thaivang What? Penicillin was discovered by a Brit and introduced soon after to western medicine. When was it attacked?
Fascinating video, thank you for sharing. One thing I am curious about is why this drink is referred to as a 'wine' in English, when it's abundantly clear that what Sangdian is making is a liqueur. It is plant matter macerated in high proof spirit which is then sweetened. In that respect it seems very similar to Italian amaro, German krauterlikor, French amer and products like Chartreuse, genepi and Suze; all of which are liqueurs rather than wines (and were also originally developed for medicinal purposes). I have no doubt that there are traditional Chinese 'medicinal wines' which do use an actual fruit wine as a base, and in that way would be very similar to European aromatized wines (Italian/French vermouths, quinquinas, Americanos, etc.) in construction, but I'm surprised there isn't a distinction made, linguistically speaking, between the two categories in China.The only fermentation taking place is in the production of the spirit, pre-distillation; the fruit, in this case, is not being fermented. Do Chinese dialects not make a distinction between a fermented product ('beer' if from cereal grain, 'wine' if from fruit; with a maximum ABV limited by yeast ethanol tolerance) and a product which is distilled (post fermentation) in China?
Great question! In Chinese all alcoholic drinks are characterized as 酒 (jiu) which translates to both liquor and wine. A sake, which is brewed, is 清酒 (clear jiu). A baijiu, which is strong and distilled, translates to "white" jiu. Wine is "grape" (葡萄) jiu. So some of the nuances definitely get lost in translation, and in Chinese the makeup of the liquor/wine is more of the focus. Therefore, you'd be right in calling this drink a berry liquor. It's just that historically, these drinks have been translated as wines, so you'll tend to find them listed as so if you're in this part of the world shopping for a medicinal wine.
@@Goldthread Thanks very much for breaking that down for me! Great to know!
@@Goldthread Hm. Pretty interesting.
in german language, liqeurs are also sometimes reffered to as wine
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Growing up my grandpa had this wine jar with a snake in it and it was my favorite thing to sneakily take out to stare at.
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I’m Chinese but I’m not drinking the snake wine. This is clearly just for the novelty of it.
Not really... If you know the price of snake venom on the international medical resource market right now...
@@Vostadues Because the venom is clearly extracted into the wine..... Alcohol denatures snake venom.
It's 200% novelty.
Also, even if it wasn't denatured by the alcohol, it is very doubtful you would get anything out of it that the medical field would be using it for (and it would be so diluted that it would like taking a crumb of an aspirin pill to treat a headache).
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Now this one is right up my ally! I make medicine at home with all kinds of herbs, plant parts, wild fruits etc. A little goes a long way! XD
@@ems7623 Actually, you are incorrect. Many plants have been analyzed and documented to be made up of all kinds of chemical, biochemical, and biological properties that are medicinal. It's actually quite fascinating to be genetically analyzing plants for medicine. Everything you eat has an affect on you and how your body performs. It's amazing. That being said, I don't believe every single plant has something medicinal to offer. Some are just so darn tasty!
China is a good country. I would like to go there someday
Holy crap props to her climbing skills
Now I truly have no excuses
huh didnt expect to see you here, interesting
Interesting how the Tibetan woman speaks a Tibetan-Chinese creole language.
Often in the west people think of Tibetan people as one monolith, just as they think of other Asians, which is not true. Tibetans actually live across a few provinces, not just Tibet, or even what Dalai Lama claim to be Tibet. There's also plenty of differences between each group, some dialects had loan words from Mandarin, and some had even loan grammar.
Yep .. She is trying to speak Mandarin but she is not well versed. Strangely although she identifies as Tibetan and looks like one, Her clothes and head dress is more like Qiang than Tibetan.
@@LibeliumDragonfly Really Intresting ..Which Tibetan dialect has borrowed Mandarin grammer? All Tibetan dialects have same grammer in my experience as a native speaker.
With 75% alcohol, no wonder it cures you lol
真是宝藏频道
very interesting, her dialect hits very similar notes to Hangzhouese. all the gezong and weyahs...
Yikes!!! HEY To each their own.... Very Interesting
> Highland specialty medicinal wine
Proceeds to make moonshine sangria
they sel this in my home village back in tingjian, fuzjian!
After habitat loss, poaching endangered species for supposed traditional medicine is one of the biggest reasons endangered species are endangered.
I need to find a bottle.
75% ABV will do something to you for sure, LOL! I have some 67% ABV cask strength bourbon, I always feel better after a couple of shots 🤪
song at 8:32?
Wine can't be 75% alcohol, they clearly soak the ingredients in distilled spirit (probably from a rice mash), not wine.
It's not a wine per se, it's just how it's termed, because there isn't a direct translation of the Chinese word for liquor. But you're right, it's a spirit.
@@Goldthread Ah okay, that makes sense. Thanks for clarifying.
absinthe?
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Yeah... Right... Medicine.
huh, never knew that Witcher's Potions were based on real life....
Avoid drinking any alcohol is the healthest. Putting herb into alcohol does not make any sense.
luotong isn't a village in southwestern china, its Tibet
Actually, Yunnan Tibetans are the least separatist out of all the Tibetans in China, so if you ask them, they will tell you they live in China 😁
they are not tibetan... I am a tibetan and they are lowland dwellers from outside the tibetan plateau
I'm all for protecting cultural folklore and traditions, that's very important. But let's be honest, probably most of the "advantages" of those drinks are either placebo or of extremely small benefits. The idea that there would be a "western medicine" and a "eastern medicine" is dangerous. There's just medicine, either it works or it doesn't. It doesn't mean that we should stop drinking those wonderful beverage, it just means that we should be honest about what we are to do with those.
The problem is the research is unbalanced
Hey where'd you get your doctorate?
If you study eastern medicine you’ll realize that there is science behind it and it’s just more of a osteopathic and/or homeopathic approach. So instead of pills (which there are in modern eastern medicine) it is often in medicinal food and drinks. It doesn’t aim at targeted treatment like western medicine but at attempting to strengthen the body’s overall health and to prevent long term side affects. Sure there may be some quasi-science in some of the old folk remedies but I see that in folk medicine across the world.
@@tenki-no-ko The scientific consensus regarding homeopathy is that is relying on placebo and/or contextual effects. So I'm not sure it's a good example for a scientific effect of those beverages :P I guess your point was it's not aiming to the same effects that "modern eastern medicine", but I would disagree with that. There's plenty evidence-based medicine that is aiming for general health and protection. Indeed you are right that we see that quite a lot around the world, but I would argue that it's more a traditional common folklore to rely on available food and beverage to create more a ritual around it.
@@tenki-no-ko homeopathy is literally pseudoscience, its placebo in a practically pure form, the more dilution the stronger the effect is very backwards, its not something people should keep doing
I never heard the Chinese language lady talks. Is it tibetan?
it's yunnanese.
As a native Han Chinese grown up in Shanghai I really couldn’t understand 99% of what she was saying tbh, so many drastically different dialects.
Alcohol in any real quantity poisons the treatment
Ye it’s not chinese a tibetian is in it?
there are like 56 nations in China, they all have their own language.
@@pizzapizza6512 bro Tibet is not China
Ur right temujin 😎😎idk for how long they are going to lie to the world n themselves 🤦♂️
Nope - she is speaking Yunnanese dialect of Mandarin, a variety of Southwestern Mandarin
@@GreaseMonkChronicles Keep telling yourself that and maybe it will become true in the future🤣
Don't see why it can't be a social drink 😆
"China"
herb wine is fine
if make from animal is a big no-no
some are going to extinct
Blame the Chinese... and the rarer the animal, the more voracious they become to get it on their platter (or inside their bottles).
Disgusting, tiger bone wine? Come on Goldthread, don't shed a positive light on that. It should be shamed
of course it's in the past. Use common sense.
eh, that weak sauce wine, my family makes the scary stuff with geckos, cobras, birds, scorpion
god damn that is some potent shit, good shit
That's beginner stuff man, gotta get the advanced ingredients like tiger penis and/or deer penis. A medicinal wine without a penis or two is lack luster. There's another tier above that, but no one really fuck with those.
Voodoo shit snake oil.
Alcohol doesn't cure anything.
tibet is not china.
... sure
Texas is not US！Scotland is not UK！Sikhs are not Indians！
Mind your own country, fools!
@@Eyepetizer8848 Point well taken. I enjoy learning Chinese culture.
Says idiots
Thats Tibet not China
It's not a tribe. These are Tibetan people belonging to the Tibetan nation. Why would you call them a tribe?
There are various Tibetans tribes - Goloks, Yunnan Tibetans, Khampas, etc. Heck, some would even call Dzongkhapas in Bhutan and Sherpas Tibetan tribes too since they speak Tibetic languages
Not China 🇨🇳, Tibet Tibet
Tibet is a part of China.
Yunnan Tibetans will actually tell you they live in China - they are the least separatist of all Tibetans
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