Archaeological excavation site. Courtesy of Sichuan Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology
Chengdu, December 13 ( China News Network ) Sichuan Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology released a news on the 13th that the "Archaeological Wuliangye" research project presided over by the institute, after 18 months of archaeological excavation and research, has been confirmed with archaeological materials, confirming that liquor workshops have appeared in Yibin, Sichuan at the end of the Yuan and the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, providing strong empirical evidence for tracing the history of Chinese liquor brewing.
The above-mentioned projects adopt multidisciplinary collaboration, scientific and technological archaeology and traditional archaeology to carry out archaeological research, with a total excavation area of more than 2,000 square meters, 95 relics have been found, and more than 600 restorable cultural relics have been excavated. On the basis of the archaeological survey of the whole territory of Yibin, Sichuan, archaeologists have focused on the archaeological excavation work of the "Ruins of the Fire House Brewing Workshop", the "Zouma Street Ruins" of the ancient official road in history, the "Yejia Courtyard Ruins" adjacent to liu Dingxing Ancient WineRy, and the "501 Workshop" of Wuliangye, all of which have achieved important archaeological results.
Archaeological excavation site. Courtesy of Sichuan Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology
Tang Fei, president of the Sichuan Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology and the general manager of the "Archaeology Wuliangye" project, introduced that the excavation for the first time traced the history of human activities in the main urban area of Yibin to the early and middle period of the Shang Dynasty from the perspective of combining archaeological evidence and documentary data, enriching the physical data of the history of Yibin's urban development since the Han Dynasty; in the "Ruins of the Fire-fired House Brewing Workshop", a continuous accumulation of culture from the Han Dynasty to the Ming and Qing Dynasties was found, and rich relics from the Han, Wei and Jin Dynasties, Sui and Tang Dynasties, Song Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties were unearthed. It also discovered the relics of the Ming Dynasty city wall, the Qing Dynasty street shop buildings, and the large-scale municipal drainage facilities of the Ming and Qing dynasties, which are of great significance to enriching and improving the history of Yibin's urban development.
It is understood that the most important value of this excavation is that it provides clues for the Yibin Multi-grain Daqu Winemaking Technology and the Wuliangye Ancient Cellar Pond Group with the "Crypt-style Qujiu Fermentation Cellar Pond" as the main feature, and combines the existing historical data to basically clarify the development history of Yibin distilled liquor from the Yuan to the Qing Dynasty, represented by Wuliangye, providing strong physical evidence for exploring the origin of Chinese liquor, and also providing physical support for the study of the long-standing brewing civilization in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River. (End)
Source: China News Network