The history of Chinese rice wine brewing can be traced back to the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period more than 2,400 years ago. "Lu's Spring and Autumn Annals" records: When the king of Yue lived in Kuaiji, some wine was thrown into the river, and the people drank from it and their fighting spirit became a hundredfold.
Kuiji is today’s Shaoxing, and the story of King Gou Jian of Yue using wine to inspire the fighting spirit of his soldiers and civilians has been told by people in the wine country for thousands of years. Coincidentally, Jiashan, another wine town in Zhejiang, also has a story about rice wine. According to legend, during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, Wu Zixu, the general of the State of Wu, once stationed in Jiashan. And established dozens of miles of defense lines from south to north in preparation for war with Vietnam.