Shaoxing wine contains rich nutrition of various kinds of amino acids, fats and vitamins etc.Keeping drinking the wine moderately is beneficial to one's blood circulation and can make one energetic. It is said that President Jiang Zemin had praised the Shaoxing wine as exquisite beyond bellieve. The giant of the generation-Deng Xiaoping had a keep-fithabit of drinking a glass of Shaoxing wine every day during his lifetime.Fine wine must be based on good source of wate. As one of the Chinese Ancient Top Three Wine, Shaoxing wine is brewed of the unique water of Jianhu Lake that originates from the clouding forests in the high mountains. The water has many advantages of high transparency, highdensity of dissolved oxygen, moderate mineral contains etc. All the fine qualities of the water make the Shaoxing wine look clear and have a delicious taste, pleasant smells and a strong fragrance of rice wine.We have to mention Shaoxing wine when we talk about the long history and culture of China, All previous generation of poets, men of letters, calligraphers had been very keen on the wine. In the spring of AD353 under the Eastern Jin emperor Yonghe's reign. Mr.Wang Xizhi, the calligraphy master, invited his relatives and friends to come here for a festival to clean away evil influences. People there recited pomes while drinking wine from cups floating on the winding stream. Wang's friends asked him to record that great event. Thus the prologue to the Orchid Pavilion collection was written which has entered history with eternal glory Wang has since been crowned as the Sage of Calligraphy and the place as the Calligraphy Mecca. That perfect combination of poems reciting wine drinking and calligraphy spread well to Japan and now it has become a must during the activities in exchanges of friendly visits between Japan and China.
