In the 61st year of the Kangxi Emperor (1772), Huang Shujing, the first imperial censor to visit Taiwan, left a vivid verse in his Record of a Posting Beyond the Taiwan Sea: "[ The Aborigines] come to play games and trade; they have ginger, and trade it for glutinous rice, which they make into wine, which they offer to officials when they come to visit.
記錄了原住民最普遍的釀酒法。康熙六十一年，首任的巡臺御史黃叔璥在《台海使槎錄》中，有一首生動的歌謠：「來賽戲，種了薑，去換糯米，來釀酒，釀成好酒，請土官來飲酒。