食醋,是家庭生活中必不可少的一种调味品。食醋的历史十分悠久,千百年来,有关食醋的传说故事、趣闻轶事真是不少,现辑录如下。一、醋的来历民间传说,“杜康造酒儿造醋”。说的是夏代有一名叫杜康的人,因造出了“三杯通大道,一斗合自然”的“壶中物”而出了名,以致时人将酒直呼为“杜康”,这一呼不打紧,急煞了他的儿子黑塔,他发誓要造出另外一种饮料,一种要比酒好得多,或至少可与酒齐名的液体,这样,他才不会辱没祖宗。于是,他在长江岸边的一处鱼港设立了一家大糟坊,用清洌的长江水浸泡,每天上下翻动,泡到二十一天的酉时,一开糟缸,则香气四溢。他很高兴,逐一让人尝之,大家品尝后,虽觉味道不如醇香好酒,但慑于黑塔的神威,就一致称起好来。黑塔也有自知之明, Vinegar is an essential condiment in family life. Vinegar’s history is very long, for thousands of years, the story of vinegar, anecdote is really a lot, is now recorded as follows. First, the origins of vinegar Folklore, “Dukang wine making vinegar.” It is said that there was a man named Dukang in the Xia Dynasty who became known as “Dukang” because he created the “pot thing” of the “Three Cups of the Boulevard and the Nature of a Fight.” A call does not matter, urgent evil of his son, Black Tower, he vowed to make another kind of drink, a much better than wine, or at least with the liquid liquor, so that he would not disgrace ancestors . As a result, he set up a big bad factory at a fishing port on the bank of the Yangtze River soaking up in the clear water of the Yangtze River and turning it up and down day by day. He was very happy, let people taste one by one, after we tasted, though it feels better than mellow wine, but terrified of the dedication of the Black Tower, unanimously called good. Black Tower also has self-knowledge,