What is the development history of Maotai?

Maotai liquor has a history of more than 800 years, and it is a traditional characteristic liquor in China.

After the Tang and Song Dynasties, Maotai gradually became the tribute wine of successive dynasties and spread overseas through the Southern Silk Road. Huang Tingjian, a great poet in the Northern Song Dynasty, once wrote a famous sentence, "A glass of wine in the spring breeze of peaches and plums is Yi Deng for ten years". After drinking, he also lamented that Moutai was "extremely delicious".

19 15, Panama World Expo was held, and the Beiyang government, in the name of "Maotai Company", sent Moutai in clay pots to the exhibition. At the Expo, outsiders initially dismissed Moutai as a "dusty" package. In desperation, a China official intentionally or unintentionally smashed the crock to the ground. Suddenly, the wine overflowed, which surprised everyone.

Subsequently, Maotai won the gold medal in one fell swoop and became one of the three famous distilled wines in the world, enjoying a world-renowned reputation, along with English Scotch Whisky and French Cognac.

Maotai producing area

It is said that the indigenous Pu people in ancient Chishui River were already able to make wine, even earlier than Du Kang. More accurately, according to Records of the Historian, in the Han Dynasty, Renhuai had "gourd sauce wine", which can be said to be the embryonic form of Moutai.

In BC 135 (the sixth year of the Western Han Dynasty), Tang Meng, the envoy of Liu Che, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, went to South Vietnam (now Guangzhou). At the banquet of the King of South Vietnam, Tang Meng tasted the famous historical wine produced in Renhuai today-Goujiang wine. In order to please the Emperor Wu of Han Dynasty, Tang Meng bypassed the Chifu area, which is now Renhuai area, and took the citric acid sauce wine for the Emperor Wu of Han Dynasty. After drinking it, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty felt extremely sweet and praised it as "sweet", so there was a saying that "Tang Meng made the western regions drink citric acid sauce".

In BC 130 (the fifth year of Yuanguang in the Western Han Dynasty), Tang Meng was ordered to go to Yelang, but he was diverted from Guanfu (now south of Hejiang County, Sichuan Province) and went up Chishui River to Pangbu.

Chen Jinxi, a poet of Renhuai in the Qing Dynasty, has a poem to prove it: the stunner is touching and the litchi beach is full of smoke, and the Han family knows about it and earns Tang Meng's department. Zheng Zhen, a great poet in the Qing Dynasty, also said: Tussah does not cross the Wujiang River, but gouache also comes out of pomegranate. It is proved that as early as before the Han Dynasty, Renhuai was rich in wine.

The above contents refer to Baidu Encyclopedia-Maotai