Yellow rice wine making craftsmanship preserved in Shaoxing

Ni Zhongyou wraps the wine jar for the sticky rice inside to ferment to make yellow rice wine in Kebei Village in Qixian Township of Shaoxing County, east China's Zhejiang Province, Jan. 10, 2010. Shaoxing is famous for yellow rice wine and the traditional wine making craftsmanship is still preserved generation by generation in local villages. Ni, a local villager of over 60 years old, learned to make local yellow rice wine from his father since he was 18. (Xinhua/Ni Lifang)

Ni Zhongyou (L2) pours sticky rice into a wine jar to make yellow rice wine in Kebei Village in Qixian Township of Shaoxing County, east China's Zhejiang Province, Jan. 10, 2010. Shaoxing is famous for yellow rice wine and the traditional wine making craftsmanship is still preserved generation by generation in local villages. Ni, a local villager of over 60 years old, learned to make local yellow rice wine from his father since he was 18. (Xinhua/Ni Lifang)
 

Ni Zhongyou cools sticky rice to make yellow rice wine in Kebei Village in Qixian Township of Shaoxing County, east China's Zhejiang Province, Jan. 10, 2010. Shaoxing is famous for yellow rice wine and the traditional wine making craftsmanship is still preserved generation by generation in local villages. Ni, a local villager of over 60 years old, learned to make local yellow rice wine from his father since he was 18. (Xinhua/Ni Lifang)

Ni Zhongyou mixes the wine powder and sticky rice to make yellow rice wine in Kebei Village in Qixian Township of Shaoxing County, east China's Zhejiang Province, Jan. 10, 2010. Shaoxing is famous for yellow rice wine and the traditional wine making craftsmanship is still preserved generation by generation in local villages. Ni, a local villager of over 60 years old, learned to make local yellow rice wine from his father since he was 18. (Xinhua/Ni Lifang)

Ni Zhongyou shows the wine pills of yellow rice wine in Qixian Township of Shaoxing County, east China's Zhejiang Province, Jan. 10, 2010. Shaoxing is famous for yellow rice wine and the traditional wine making craftsmanship is still preserved generation by generation in local villages. Ni, a local villager of over 60 years old, learned to make local yellow rice wine from his father since he was 18. (Xinhua/Ni Lifang)

Ni Zhongyou (L2) pours sticky rice into a wine jar to make yellow rice wine in Kebei Village in Qixian Township of Shaoxing County, east China's Zhejiang Province, Jan. 10, 2010. Shaoxing is famous for yellow rice wine and the traditional wine making craftsmanship is still preserved generation by generation in local villages. Ni, a local villager of over 60 years old, learned to make local yellow rice wine from his father since he was 18. (Xinhua/Ni Lifang)

Ni Zhongyou pours sticky rice into a steamer to make yellow rice wine in Kebei Village in Qixian Township of Shaoxing County, east China's Zhejiang Province, Jan. 10, 2010. Shaoxing is famous for yellow rice wine and the traditional wine making craftsmanship is still preserved generation by generation in local villages. Ni, a local villager of over 60 years old, learned to make local yellow rice wine from his father since he was 18. (Xinhua/Ni Lifang)