Nation's Oldest Brewery Unearthed in NE China

[Richard Roman]

While former U.S. president Richard Nixon was advised to avoid drinking "baijiu," or Chinese liquor, during his visit in 1972, the emperors of a 1,000-year-old dynasty craved the drink, according to researchers in northeast China's Jilin province who are working to analyze the oldest alcohol-distilling devices ever found in the country.

Feng Enxue, an archaeologist from Jilin University, said Monday that researchers have been brought in to study two large iron boilers, as well as several other components, that were unearthed in the city of Da'an in 2006.

The devices date back to the Liao Dynasty (916-1125 AD) and include boilers, a porcelain urn and thousands of furnace stones, Feng said.........

...........Emperors of the Liao Dynasty were known to travel to Da'an for vacation. They often held grand dinners and boozed for days, generating significant demand for alcohol, said Song Dehui, director of the Baicheng Museum.

http://english.cri.cn/6909/2012/05/14/2021s699590.htm

So Ghangchun truly is a spiritual place!

[CCF Beijing]

Is it near Grandpas or THE HAPPY HOME?

[CCF Beijing]

Aha! So this is where the terracotta warriors used to drink!?!?