The history of osmanthus wine is as long as the Mid-Autumn Festival. As early as in Qu Yuan's Nine Songs, there were sayings of "helping a horse to fight and drinking osmanthus syrup" and "drinking osmanthus syrup". In Qing Dynasty, drinking osmanthus wine in Mid-Autumn Festival became an established custom. According to Pan Rongbi's Jing Di Sui Sheng in Qing Dynasty, in the Mid-Autumn Festival in August, "Poetry" drinks "Osmanthus fragrans East Wine".

Osmanthus fragrans is a wine with a long history. In the season of sweet-scented osmanthus blooming in August every year, the flowers in bud are picked, fermented into wine and sealed in a jar for three years to become good wine. This wine is particularly mellow, amber in color, mellow and thick, with sweet osmanthus fragrance at the top, which is quite distinctive. Generally, the wine is clear and sweet-scented osmanthus wine is sticky. According to legend, Taibai drank this wine and wrote hundreds of poems.

The best time to brew osmanthus wine should be in autumn and August. Find a thick, dry old osmanthus fragrans, take off its pink petals, dry them, add soft sugar, stir and ferment them, then mix them with rice wine and cellar them for several months.

If you want to drink good wine, you need to wait patiently for three to five years. In a sealed container, after time tempering, sweet-scented osmanthus, together with its own fragrance, completely dissolved into the wine, soothing life with a golden warmth. It's a bit like a moth to a fire. Both of them laid down their lives for righteousness and realized the value of life.

Osmanthus fragrans can be drunk all year round, but the best time is Mid-Autumn Festival. On the night of the full moon, sitting around with my loved ones, five or six moon cakes, seven or eight taro, a dozen Saussurea involucrata, and all kinds of fruits, plus osmanthus wine, it's a great pleasure for the whole family to get together and enjoy the moon and chat.

Literati who are wandering outside and have no time to go home often invite three or five friends and carry a pot of osmanthus wine to get together in the garden with flowers and trees. Everyone is not bound by etiquette, or recite poems, or guess riddles, or play the piano. At this time, osmanthus wine will add fuel to the fire. It slips through the mouths of drinkers and stirs up the elements of happiness in their hearts. A few hours later, the elegant osmanthus wine was collected and distributed, but it was mellow and Qingyuan for a long time, which attracted autumn insects under the soil to sing excitedly.

Especially in the northeast, there is a saying that "the eldest son was killed on August 15th". People use moon cakes to pin their thoughts on their hometown and relatives, hoping for a bumper harvest and happiness, which has reconciled the good wishes of people all over the world.