User:Madalibi/Wine in China

Ancient
For centuries after the Han, grape wine remained little known. The third-century Bowuzhi 博物志 mentions. It was imported. In the fourth century, Tao Hongjing's work on materia medica stated that grapes were successfully grown in several places in Gansu (including in Dunhuang).

Only in the Tang dynasty (618–907) did grape wine become more appreciated. After the Tang conquest of Gaochang – an oasis state on the Silk Road – in 641, the Gaochang ruler submitted. The Newly Compiled Materia Medica (Xinxiu Bencao 新修本草; 652).

In the nineteenth century, Father Évariste Huc, a French missionary