the authentic Moutai liquor is from Chengyi Shaofang. There is a history here: In 1857, a filial son and Hualian Hui, the general manager of salt affairs in Luzhou, Sichuan, rebuilt a brewery on the ruins of Maotai Town for five years in order to satisfy his mother's wish to drink Maotai-flavor wine when she was young, which was the prototype of the later "Chengyi Brewery".

In the fifth year of Guangxu (1879) and the local Ronghe Burning House, in order to resist the foreign Hengchang Burning House, the two burning houses jointly brewed Maotai original pulp cellar wine, and engraved the names of the two burning houses on the bottle seal to distinguish it. This is the earliest maojiang cellar.

In p>1951, Renhuai County People's Government acquired Chengyi Shaofang and made it public. Chengyi Shaofang was renamed Renhuai Maotai Distillery, a monopoly company in Guizhou Province (today's Maotai Distillery). Zheng Xingyi, Zheng Yongfu and Zheng Yinan, the three winemakers of Chengyi Burning House, entered Maotai Distillery, which was known as Maotai Sanzheng in history. Fang Yanben, Zheng Yongfu's close disciple, became the last biography of Zheng's brewing technology and registered the trademark "Chengyi Burning House".

so, your friend said it was the same as maotai, that's right.