China called wine "wine" in ancient times, which first appeared in prehistoric times. There is a saying that the ancestors found that the picked fruit began to mold during long-term storage and had a special taste. After tasting it for the first time, the ancestors found that the juice of this fruit was delicious, so they started the wine culture.

The earliest wine was natural wine, mostly brewed with fruit. Because the brewing process is simple, without any treatment or human intervention, the alcohol content is low, and because it is brewed with fruit, it tastes sweet, so it is called "fruit wine". Later, when people entered a nomadic society, they began to domesticate wild animals in captivity. Under the condition of captivity, people found that animal milk would taste like wine for a long time, so they began to try to make wine with animal milk, which was called "milk wine".

The history of wine

In China's pre-Qin ancient books, there are few books that don't mention alcohol. China's earliest writing, Oracle Bone Inscriptions and bronze inscriptions, all have the word "wine". The ancient Chinese character bamboo slips, with the word "wine" and "unitary", are written like a clay pot. Push up again. Among the pottery unearthed from banpo village site in Xi 'an about 7,000 years ago, there are "unitary" pots such as Oracle Bone Inscriptions and Jinwen.

About the excavation of Dawenkou site in Shandong province 4000 years ago, there were a large number of pottery for holding wine, such as beer, beans, cups, etc., which proved that drinking was quite common and particular at that time, and the development of wine culture had reached a considerable level.