China has an over 5000-year history of wine brewery. In China there is a legend of "Du Kang making the wine". Hence wine is also called Du Kang. About three thousand years ago, the Chinese people in the Shang and Zhou Dynasties created compound zymotechnics of yeast and brewed yellow wine on a large scale. About one thousand years ago, Chinese people in the Song Dynasty invented the method of distillation. And since then distilled spirit has become the main type of wine in China.

In the thousands of years of civilization, wine has permeated almost all aspects of social life. In ancient time wine was something indispensable for all important occasions, otherwise the rites could not be reckoned as completed. There must be wine for every important festival, which could increase the atmosphere of festivity. There must be wine for wedding ceremonies and funerals. Some monarchs had their empire lost because of their addiction to wine while some scholars left behind masterpieces after drinking wine. Wine is no longer something to be understood as purely material, it has evolved into a culture that plays an important role in social life.

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