Shuijingjie distillery site

Shuijingjie distillery site

The water well Street distillery site, located at 17~23 Jinjiang District Water Well Street, Chengdu, Sichuan, China, is the workshop site of the Baijiu liquor in the Ming and Qing Dynasties. It is one of the ten archaeological discoveries in 1999. It was listed as the fifth batch of national key cultural relics protection units in 2001.

Shuijing Street distillery site is located in the south of Shuijing street, Jinjiang District, Chengdu City, Sichuan Province, to the east of the intersection of Fuhe River and Nanhe river. It used to be the Qujiu production workshop of Quanxing distillery. In August 1998, when Quanxing distillery rebuilt its workshop here, it found that there were ancient wine making relics buried underground. Afterwards, the Sichuan Provincial Museum carried out archaeological investigation to determine the distribution scope of the relics. From March to April 1999, under the direct leadership of Sichuan Provincial Department of culture and Chengdu Municipal Bureau of culture, Chengdu Institute of cultural relics and Archaeology and Sichuan Institute of cultural relics and Archaeology jointly carried out the archaeological excavation work here, and some personnel of Sichuan Museum also participated in the work. The purpose of this excavation is to determine the initial age of shuijingjie distillery site, understand the distribution of wine making facilities and the pattern of "front shop and back shop", and provide material materials for the construction of Sichuan Quanxing wine culture museum. The site covers an area of about 1700 square meters, with an excavation area of nearly 280 square meters. The relics revealed include 3 air drying halls, 8 wine kilns, 4 stoves, 4 ash pits, subgrade, wooden columns, wine making equipment base, etc. A large number of blue and white porcelain pieces and hanging hall were unearthed in Ming Dynasty and Qing Dynasty, and have been used to modern times. The discovery of the distillery site reveals the whole process of wine making technology in the Ming and Qing Dynasties. From the excavation site, the site is in the form of "front shop and back square". The air drying hall, wine cellar and stove are the remains of "back square"; the street pavement and ceramic drinking utensils cleaned beside the distillery are the relics of the street side shops. The shuijingjie distillery (Quanxing Shaofang) site is located in the old cellar of Quanxing distillery, which is still in production. From the stratigraphic stacking and the typological ordering of utensils, it can connect the Ming, Qing, Republic of China and contemporary times, and continue to produce continuously for five or six hundred years. It is the only example of ancient wine making and hotel found in China, and it is the first Chinese baijiu.

Address: 19-21 Shuijing Street

Longitude: 104.08620064724

Latitude: 30.64515953858