Today, no matter how you look outside the door, you will not find that this decadent courtyard was once the site of a large-scale winery. Through its thin rusty iron doors and faded brick walls, people who have not experienced that era cannot imagine the prosperity and prosperity of its year.
This is the original site of the former Heze County (Rhubarb Set) Distillery, which was established in 1951 when it was established as a public-private partnership to 1987 and moved to Zhonghua East Road in Heze City, and the Heze County (Rhubarb Set) Distillery has dedicated 36 spring and autumn seasons with different winds and months in this ordinary town in the southwest and west of Luxi.
Rhubarb Ji is located in the southwest border of Mudan District, Heze City, bounded by Dingtao South and Cao County in the west and Dongming in the east. In the history of Yangyang Huaxia, this town in the west of the Central Plains may seem insignificant. But the people here are simple and unpretentious, the loess here is thick and fertile, and there have been some earth-shattering figures here, such as the Yellow Nest.
According to the comprehensive historical records, the former village of Huangchao should be in the area of today's Rhubarb Jinan Huangzhuang Village, which belonged to Gujiaoju County during the Tang Dynasty. In addition to such a big person as Huang Chao, Rhubarb Ji also had a drink that Chinese was extremely enthusiastic about- wine.
The original name of the wine produced by Rhubarb Is unknown, but it is certain that this wine was the creation of the people of Rhubarb. Around the time of the Qing Dynasty, many small winemaking workshops were formed here. Later, because a local official in the capital brought this wine to the capital and let the emperor of the Qing Dynasty taste it. The emperor couldn't let go of the drink, so he listed it as a tribute wine.
Because this wine entered the imperial palace, it was later called the palace wine, and then after several generations of inheritance, the palace wine became the yellow wine. In modern times, due to the liberation war, Liu Deng's army fought a battle with the Kuomintang reactionaries in the area of Yanghu Village in Dahuangji, which was called the Battle of Dayang lake. Therefore, after liberation, in order to commemorate the victory of the Battle of Dayanghu Lake, Huanggong wine was changed to Yanghu wine to this day.
After the founding of the People's Republic of China, during the period of China's socialist construction, Heze County established the Heze County (Rhubarb Ji) Distillery in the north of today's Rhubarb Ji Town Rhubarb Ji Village, that is, on the west side of today's Rhubarb Ji Town Health Center. This is also an optimal allocation of resources, and the production process of rhubarb and yellow liquor is used for economic construction in the primary stage of socialism.
The establishment of heze county (rhubarb set) distillery not only made a certain contribution to the finances of Heze County at that time, but also brought some gospel to the local people to a certain extent, which can be described as killing two birds with one stone, benefiting the country and the people. The 1960s and 1970s were the most flesh-and-blood era of New China, the era of the blue wisps of Yanlu, and the era when hundreds of millions of Chinese people were striving to be strong under the glory of the party, and it was in that era of the most youthful era that the Heze County (Rhubarb Set) Distillery "rose from the ground".
Nearly half a century later, don't look at it as dilapidated and desolate today, as if no one cares has become the loneliest corner of the big era. But you know, it was also a bustling place. A group of optimistic young men and women have come and gone here, pouring sweat with youth. They are sunny, healthy, and undistracted.
Today's old wineries, many buildings have been unable to withstand the wind and rain of the years, and some have collapsed. But when it was the most prosperous here, it was certainly a rare "big factory" in Heze, and the work here also made many spirited young people envious and eager.
The water tower that soars straight into the blue sky seems to be an ordinary building today. But in those days, this should be a relatively high-tech and high-level building. The water tower was not inferior to the central position of a winery at that time, and I think that building such a water tower in that era was no easier than building a certain bridge and a certain building today.
People will grow old, and things will grow old. However, after the years, it is often the right thing to be human. The old distillery was still there only a little broken, and it sat there quietly and never moved. But the men and women who were there were gone, and no one cared where they went. Who did the handsomest man in the factory marry in the end, and who the most beautiful woman in the factory finally married, it is estimated that no one will care about these problems except those who have lived and worked there. Just like this abandoned distillery, I don't know what else it has to use today.
Afterword: This article is only for memories, part of the information comes from the mouth of the masses near the old winery, there may be an incomplete beginning, I hope readers forgive!