The Northern Wei (386-534 AD) work Important Arts of the Ordinary People, which contains detailed information about various products and techniques, has a "Chapter on Wine Making" with a section devoted exclusively to describing in detail how people fermented alcohol out of rice in the spring.
對農技與農產品有詳細記載的北魏《齊民要術》中，在「造酒卷」中特別列有「梗米酒」一章，仔細描寫時人在春天以米釀酒的方法。