《天工开物·下篇·曲蘖》
古时候人们用曲酿黄酒，用蘖酿甜酒，但后来的人嫌甜酒的味道太淡，不容易广泛流传，结果酿甜酒的技术都失传了。
古来曲造酒，蘖造醴，后世厌醴味薄，遂至失传，则并蘖法亦亡。
In ancient times, people used yeast to brew yellow wine and malt to brew sweet wine. However, later people found the flavor of sweet wine to be too bland, so it was not widely disseminated, and eventually the technology for brewing sweet wine was lost.