2018年CRI Workmanship throughout vinegar brewing

（单词翻译）

Vinegar brewing², a traditional craftsmanship³ with thousands of years of history in China, has in recent years seen more and more involvement from machinery⁴ and technology.

However, in some remote rural parts of the country, local brewers still stick to traditional, manual production methods.

45-year-old Jin Haibo owns a vinegar workshop, which adheres to traditional brewing methods, in Longde County, northwest China’s Ningxia Hui Autonomous⁵ Region.

According to Jin, the best time to begin the brewing is around the Winter Solstice, which falls around December 22nd each year.

He says the vinegar brewed⁶ during Winter Solstice is of the best quality, and can be preserved for as long as a year.

"To ensure that the vinegar has a pleasant flavor, you have to use grains that are fresh and full of energy to brew¹ it. I will try the most primitive⁷ technology to brew the vinegar, which dates back to 3000 years ago. That is, using only grains, without adding preservatives⁸ or any other additives," says Jin.

After the grains are boiled, homemade yeast⁹ will be added into it. And then the mixture will begin fermenting¹⁰.

The next step is to extract the liquefied vinegar by adding boiled water and sifting¹¹ the vinegar out of the fermented¹² mixture.

Unlike other brewers, Jin always repeats the process three times rather than once only, so that the vinegar will have a pleasant texture¹³ and not easily spoil.

Since the texture is good, and no preservatives are added, Jin's products have enjoyed a good reputation across his hometown and the sales volume usually remains¹⁴ high.

And thanks to the Internet, the vinegar has even been sold to Beijing, Shanghai and Guangdong Province.

Jin says the brewing of his vinegar is actually a kind of cultural inheritance to some extent.

"The essence of my products consists of not only the vinegar itself, but also morality, the professional ethics¹⁵ throughout the processes of production and trading. I will pass down all these to someone who can endure hardships and work hard, and is able to impart and inherit such a workmanship," said Jin.