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Ruins of a Brewery for Jiannanchun Liquor at Chengguan Town in Mianzhu of Southwest China's Sichuan Province
 Period:
From Qing
Dynasty (1644-1911) to Republic of China
(1912-1949)
Listed in: 2004
Excavated by: the
Cultural Relics and Archeological Research Institute of Sichuan
Province
Archeological team
leader: Chen De'an
 Site description
 The
site revealed a large group of ruins in close connection with the technology for
liquor brewing, including the water-wells, wine-cellars, stoves and ovens,
cooling halls, water-drainages, ponds, distilling facilities, road-bases and
granary, plinths (part of the square base of a column), and wall-base and so on.
This shows the whole process of material soaking, steaming, and yeasting and
distilling, all the way down to the discharging of sewage water. It is a
well-preserved brewery site from the Qing Dynasty to the
Republic of China
.
 Significance
The excavation of the site is of great scientific value in terms of its
scale, the completeness of brewery ruins, and its well-preserved
state.
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