Flower vines on a shelf on the bank of a small canal at Dongpu town in Shaoxing, East China's Zhejiang province, on Sept 5, 2016. [Photo/chinadaily.com.cn] |
Natives in Dongpu started to make rice wine 2,000 years ago. In 1915, as a representative of Shaoxing wines, Zhouqing wine won a golden metal at the San Francisco Expo. In 1931, more than 530 breweries produced 13,000 tons of rice wine.