Is the earliest wine in China white wine or yellow wine?

Yellow rice wine is the earliest wine in China.

Yellow rice wine is a specialty of Han nationality in China, which belongs to brewing. It plays an important role in the world's three major brewing wines (yellow wine, wine and beer). Brewing technology is unique and has become a typical representative and model of oriental brewing industry.

About 3000 years ago, in the Shang and Zhou Dynasties, China people invented the double fermentation method of distiller's yeast and began to brew a large number of yellow rice wine. There are many varieties of yellow wine, such as Jimo Old Wine in Shandong, Mr. Huang Yellow Wine in Ganzhou, Huiquan Wine in Wuxi, Jiangyin Black Wine, Shaoxing Zhuangyuanhong, Shaoxing Daughter Red, Zhangjiagang Shazhou, Wujiang Wugong Old Wine, Suzhou Tonglihong, Baihuayang and so on.

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Yellow rice wine is the oldest wine in China, the ancestor of wine and the king of wine. The brewing technology of yellow rice wine is the best in the world and a precious scientific and cultural heritage of the motherland.

There are many special wine vessels in Neolithic pottery unearthed in modern times, which give people many clues for imagination and research. However, looking through the history recorded in the existing books, there is no detailed record of the invention of wine, only the occasional mention of yellow wine between the lines, and the rest are legends all over the folk villages.

Baidu Encyclopedia _ Yellow Rice Wine