The latest archaeological discovery in Jiahu Village, Beiwudu Town, Wuyang County, Henan Province shows that the Chinese ancestors who lived in the Neolithic Age more than 7000 BC had already started to ferment and make wine. The emergence of China liquor should not be later than the Eastern Han Dynasty, that is, it has a long history of 1600 years. 1In August, 1998, the ruins of Shuijing neighborhood in the early Ming Dynasty were discovered outside Jinjiang, Chengdu, which is the evidence of China's distilleries that have been producing liquor for 800 years.

China is the birthplace of koji-making and wine-making, with unique wine-making technology in the world. Liquor, made from distiller's yeast, is a characteristic drink of the Chinese nation and a unique distilled liquor in the world. It is often called spirits, and has become the main producer and exporter of alcoholic beverages in the world. According to historical records, China people had the habit of drinking in Shang Dynasty. After the Han and Tang Dynasties, besides yellow rice wine, the production of various kinds of liquor, medicinal liquor and fruit wine also developed to some extent.

Liquor introduction:

Liquor, English name (Baijiu), is the general name of China liquor (except fruit wine and rice wine), also known as shochu, tempting boiled rice and burning knife. China liquor is a compound flavor with esters as the main body, koji and distiller's yeast as saccharifying and fermenting agents, and starch (sugar) as raw materials, which are cooked, saccharified, fermented, distilled, aged and blended.

Strictly speaking, the blended wine made of edible alcohol and edible spices can't be regarded as liquor. Liquor is mainly concentrated in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River and the triangle of Renhuai in Guizhou, Yibin in Sichuan and Luzhou in Sichuan. It has the largest and best quality distilled liquor producing areas in the world, namely, the three famous wine huts and Luzhou in China. Its liquor industry cluster shoulders half of China liquor industry.

The above contents refer to Baidu Encyclopedia-Liquor.