What kind of wine bottle used in the Republican period

The tin wine bottle used in the Republican period.

The bottles were first made of locally produced jar urns, and from the Xianfeng period of the Qing Dynasty, they were changed to earthenware altar-shaped bottles with small bottoms, small mouths and large bellies, and nowadays they are available in the models of 0.5 kilograms, 1 kilogram and 1.5 kilograms. Later, it was changed to a slightly flat rectangular bottle, and after 1915, it was changed to a cylindrical yellow ceramic glazed bottle with a small body and a long mouth. After the founding of the country, it was changed to white ceramic bottles and the milky white light-avoiding glass bottles that people see nowadays, which are ancient and simple.

During the Republic of China period, there was a rich variety of liquor, not only retaining the traditional liquor such as shochu, yellow wine and fruit wine since the Qing Dynasty, but since the opening of the ports of communication at the end of the Qing Dynasty, foreign beers, wines, vodkas and other liquors were also pouring into China, and these new types of liquors, which were gradually accepted by the people of the country, saw their sales rise year by year. Especially in large and medium-sized cities, there was a time when it was fashionable to eat western food and drink foreign wine, and many government officials changed their places of feasting and drinking to western-style restaurants.

And many of the wine is not suitable for long storage, white wine high quality white wine in order to long-term storage, the more common can be stored for a long time and will be more drinkable white wine is certainly not soy sauce white wine, but for the clear white wine and rice type white wine on the contrary, can not be stored for a long time.