China has a long history of wine-making, with a variety of famous wines, which enjoys a high reputation at home and abroad. Yellow rice wine is one of the oldest wines in the world. About 3000 years ago, during the Shang and Zhou Dynasties, China people created the compound fermentation method of distiller's yeast and began to brew a large number of yellow rice wine. About 1000 years ago in the Song Dynasty, China people invented the distillation method, and since then, liquor has become the main liquor for China people to drink. Wine permeates the whole 5,000-year history of Chinese civilization, and plays an important role in China people's life from literary and artistic creation, cultural entertainment to diet and cooking, health care and so on.
Legendary ancestors of brewing: Du Kang and Yidi.
China has the most national wines: yellow rice wine and white wine.
The first wines that humans learned to brew: fruit wine and milk wine.
The earliest malt liquor in China: whole grains.
The earliest complete set of brewing apparatus unearthed at present: Dawenkou culture period in Shandong Province.
The oldest existing wine: 1980 wine unearthed from tombs in the late Shang Dynasty in Henan (about 3000 years ago) is now in the Palace Museum.
The earliest discovery so far: bronze wares of the Eastern Han Dynasty (now in Shanghai Museum).
The earliest monopoly of wine was implemented in the third year of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty (98 BC).
The earliest record of wine price: In the sixth year of Han Dynasty (8 1 BC), officials sold wine at a price of four yuan per liter.
The earliest written record of wine: Oracle Bone Inscriptions in Shang Dynasty.
The earliest record of wine: Sima Qian's Historical Records Biography of Dawan.
The earliest record of malt production method was Qi Yaomin's Book by Jia Sixie in the Northern Wei Dynasty.
The earliest record of medicinal liquor production technology: the silk book "Healthy Prescription" unearthed at Mawangdui in the Western Han Dynasty.
The earliest advertisement for selling wine records that Han Feizi's "Han Feizi" at the end of the Warring States period "Song people drank alcohol and held a high banner".
The earliest mechanized winery in China: Yantai Changyu Grape Brewing Company.
The earliest brewery in China was built in Harbin in 1900.
The First Fully Mechanized Yellow Winery in China: Wuxi Yellow Winery
At present, the most expensive wine in China: Moutai.
At present, the largest output of beverage wine: beer.
Wine, a masterpiece of art, permeates every corner of human life and every aspect of human culture with its unique charm of water-shaped fire characters. Similarly, life is like wine. Life should be knowledge, boldness of vision, quality of wine, optimism in the hardships of life, fortitude in the storms, and enterprising in the struggle, which can bring such rich colors and infinite joy to our life.