The history of Yanghe Daqu

According to records, during his second southern tour, Emperor Qing Qianlong built a palace in Suqian and stayed there for seven days. After tasting Yanghe Daqu, he left the praise of "mellow wine, really good" and designated it as a royal tribute.

At the beginning of the 20th century, the production of Yanghe Daqu was further developed. 19 15 The liquor brewed by Sanyi Winery won the silver prize in Panama Competition in San Francisco, USA, and the Daqu liquor from Yuchangyuan Winery won the second prize in the 1929 China Goods Exhibition of the Ministry of Industry and Commerce. 1932 There are eight wineries with an annual output of 6,040 tons of liquor. They are famous for Juyuanyong, Fengtai, Renhe, Wang Nan in Yanghe Town and Shuquan and Runquan wineries in other towns. Jiangsu Province 1934 items were exhibited. It can be seen that "the wine is fragrant, and the birds smell it and turn it into a phoenix; The antithetical couplets of "dross falls to the ground and fish tastes like dragons" are the most wonderful compliments to Yanghe Daqu.

The traditional famous song Yanghe Daqu was on the verge of extinction because of years of war before liberation. After the founding of People's Republic of China (PRC), the government allocated special funds to establish the state-owned Yanghe Distillery on the basis of several private winemaking workshops. Over the past decades, Yanghe Winery has been transformed and expanded several times, and now it has become a famous wine producer in China. Yanghe Daqu liquor has five unique styles: color, aroma, freshness, strength and alcohol. Yanghe Daqu liquor is well-known at home and abroad for its "sweet entrance, soft entrance, clean tail and fragrant aftertaste" and won the title of national famous liquor for three times in a row.