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The wine Big Claw Guo had brought was Su Province's famous Shuang Gou Wine!

Although Moutai seemed to be hugely hyped these days, seasoned drinkers all knew which liquors were good and what distinctive flavors they had. For example, Fen Wine, Yang He Wine, and Du Kang Wine!

China actually had quite a few good liquors. There was no need to fixate exclusively on Moutai... it was merely more famous.

Guo Changshi himself was from Jiangsu and Zhejiang,

but Zhejiang Province did not produce much baijiu. Shaoxing's Yellow Wine, on the other hand, was exceptional.

Besides,

Yellow Wine was China's true native variety of alcohol! Baijiu, this kind of distilled hard liquor, had actually been introduced to the Central Plains by northern nomadic peoples as early as the Tang Dynasty. Unfortunately, distillation technology had been inadequate at the time, so the name "burned liquor" was little more than an empty label.

It only began to become widespread after the Yuan Dynasty.

It was also then, as distillation technology improved, that baijiu became increasingly potent.

By today,

baijiu had long since developed into a distinct part of Chinese culture.

There were all sorts of sayings and customs when it came to drinking.

The most famous was probably—if our friendship runs deep, drain it in one gulp!

"I've emptied mine! You drink as you please!" And then there were the deadly drinking-persuasion lines from Northeast China: "Ain't you unable to drink anymore? If you can't, then don't drink! Ah, don't drink."

It had to be said with an especially concerned tone. Ordinary people simply could not handle it! But old hands like Guo Changshi, veterans who had spent years in drinking circles, had mastered every trick for urging others to drink and dodging drinks themselves! Just avoiding drinks involved tactics like swapping