It is said that in the ancient times of Dayu, the Pu people, the indigenous inhabitants of the Chishui River, were already good at making wine.

In the Han Dynasty, "wolfberry sauce wine" appeared in the area of ??today's Maotai Town. "Zunyi Prefecture Annals" records: wolfberry sauce is the beginning of wine. Sima Qian recorded in "Historical Records": In the sixth year of Jianyuan (135 BC), Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty ordered Tang Meng to go to Nanyue as an envoy. Tang Meng drank the goujiang wine produced in the Nanyue Kingdom (today's Renhuai County where Maotai Town is located). Later, this wine was brought back to Chang'an and presented to Emperor Wu. Emperor Wu drank it and found it "sweet", and left a legend that "Tang Meng drank the sauce to make Yelang".

After the Tang and Song Dynasties, Moutai gradually became the tribute wine of successive dynasties and spread overseas through the Southern Silk Road. This became the beginning of Maotai liquor going out of the mountains. Since then, it has been famous all over the world as a tribute to the imperial court.

In the Qing Dynasty, the liquor industry in Maotai Town flourished, and famous liquors such as "Maotai Spring", "Maotai Shaochun" and "Tongsha Maotai" became famous. "Huamao" is the predecessor of Moutai. In the forty-third year of Kangxi's reign (1704), "Gaisheng Shaofang" officially named its wine Moutai. According to the Qing Dynasty's "Jiu Zunyi Prefecture Chronicles", during the Daoguang period, "No fewer than 20 Maotai houses were burned, and the cost of food was no less than 20,000 shi." In the 23rd year of Daoguang (1843), the Qing Dynasty poet Zheng Zhen praised Maotai's "wine" The crown of the Guizhou people."

Before 1949, the production of Maotai liquor was in decline, and there were only three distilleries, namely: "Chengyi Distillery" funded by the surname Hua, known as "Huamao"; "Rong Maotai" funded and established by the surname Wang. He Winery" is called "Wang Mao"; "Hengxing Winery" funded by Lai is called "Lai Mao".

In 1951, the government merged three private breweries, Chengyi (Huamao), Ronghe (Wangmao), and Hengxing (Laimao), through redemption, confiscation, and takeover, and implemented three Maotai Heyi Policy—The state-owned Moutai Distillery was established. ?

Extended information:

As one of the world's three most famous wines and one of China's three most famous wines, Maotai, Maotai has a history of more than 800 years. In 1915, he won the gold medal and certificate at the Panama International Exposition. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, Moutai liquor won many awards and was sold all over the world. It was praised as "the world's famous liquor and the "light of the motherland".?

The reason why Moutai liquor is known as the "national liquor" is because Its long brewing history, unique brewing technology, superior internal quality, profound brewing culture, as well as its unparalleled role in China's political, diplomatic and economic life in history, and its traditional special status in the Chinese wine industry It is determined by comprehensive factors such as the love of three generations of great men and the long-term market test and cultivation.

The style and quality characteristics of Kweichow Moutai are "prominent sauce aroma, elegant and delicate, mellow body and long aftertaste." ", the empty cup has a long-lasting fragrance." Its special style comes from the unique traditional brewing skills formed over the years. The brewing method is combined with the agricultural production in the Chishui River Basin. It is affected by the environment, seasonal production, Dragon Boat Festival music, In 1996, the craftsmanship of Moutai liquor was designated as a national secret and protected. In 2001, the traditional craftsmanship of Moutai liquor was included in the first batch of national tangible cultural heritage. In 2006, the State Council approved the inclusion of "Maotai Liquor Traditional Brewing Technique" in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage lists, and declared it a world intangible cultural heritage.

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