Kakuei Tanaka's Favorite_"Spicy Sheep Cellar Wine"

Kakuei Tanaka was the 64th and 65th Prime Minister of Japan, and during his term of office he restored the normalization of Sino-Japanese diplomatic relations with China, and was praised as the founder of sino-Japanese friendship, a hero of Sino-Japanese friendly relations, and an old friend of the Chinese people.

In 1937, the Japanese invasion of China broke out, in 1938, the Japanese imperialists invaded Shandong, after the fall of Shandong, the Japanese imperialists in Heze rested and stationed, and shamelessly occupied the then very famous XinYang Distillery, when the Xinyang Distillery produced the Xinyang Cellar Wine because of the exquisite craftsmanship, positive taste, lees and other characteristics and famous, so that the Japanese devils at that time for this wine such as the treasure, the Japanese soldiers and the plundered Xinyang Cellar wine sent to the Japanese army headquarters in Shandong at that time. It is said that when the Japanese transported this wine back to Japan, it was drunk by the alcoholic Kakuei Tanaka, who even called it a good wine in the world, and Du Kang praised it.

It is said that in the process of negotiations on the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and Japan in 1972, Tanaka Kakuei visited China and was warmly received by Premier Zhou Enlai, who mentioned the Xin Yang Cellar wine to the Chinese reception staff at that time and entrusted the Chinese personnel to help find it.

However, due to the attention of his international friend Tanaka Kakuei, the government attached great importance to it, and it is said that Shu Tong, who was the secretary of the Huxi Prefectural Committee at the time, learned of this matter and instructed the Shan County Distillery in Heze City to send people to resume the production of "Xin Yang Cellar Wine" at the original distillery's former site, Xin Yang Ji.

According to records, at the end of the 1970s, a batch of "Xin Yang Cellar Wine" was sent to Japan, which fulfilled the Japanese Prime Minister's dream of "Xin Yang Cellar Wine" and enhanced the exchanges between The Chinese and Japanese people.

According to Mr. Sato, a member of parliament who accompanied Kakuei Tanaka on his visit to China at that time, he had a fondness for "Xin Yang Cellar Wine" in that year. Mr. Sato had seen his collection of Simmon Cellar wine at his uncle's house, and his uncle often told Mr. Sato about the Prime Minister's indissoluble relationship with Sim Sheep Cellar Wine. It is believed that in the future, it will be able to continue the Chinese and Japanese folk wine culture, restore the glory of "Xin Yang Cellar Wine", and have positive significance for promoting the harmonious development of Sino-Japanese cultural exchanges.