There are various theories about the history of white alcohol, but we know for sure, based on a bronze distilling apparatus unearthed in Qinglong Rural Township in Hebei Province in mainland China, that Chinese had the ability to manufacture shaojiu as early as eight hundred years ago (the Gaozong reign of the Song dynasty).
白酒的歷史說法不一，不過從河北省青龍縣所出土的一套銅製蒸鍋，可知至少在八百多年前的宋高宗年代，中國就可以製作出酒精濃度頗高的燒酒了。