The degrees of soju are generally 38 degrees or more and 60 degrees or less.

Shochu refers to a variety of transparent and colorless distilled spirits, generally also known as baijiu, which is also known as baijian, old baijian, shaojian, shaojiu, shaojian, steaming, luwu, luulu, luodi, and other aliases around the world. Usually, shochu is named according to its place of origin, such as changle yao, hengshui old white dry, south road shochu and so on. During the Qing Dynasty, Shochu produced in the north was best known as Nanlu Shochu. The main places of origin of South Road Shochu are Huangcun, Lixian and Caiyu towns in Daxing County, Beijing.

The shochu brewed by several shochu pots in the town of Huangcun had a pungent and sweet flavor, and a rich, mellow aroma, especially the shochu brewed by the Yuxing shochu pot located in Hai Zijiao, which was exported to the capital and made a great profit, and became famous, and was then named "South Road Shochu".

"South Road Soju" is one of the important products of Daxing County. According to statistics, in 1932, Daxing County Huangcun, Lixian and Caiyu still had six wine-making workshops. At the end of the Republic of China, Daxing County liquor industry is moribund, "South Road Shochu" has existed in name only. 1949, Renqiu County, Hebei Province, "overflow springs" brewery moved to the town of Huangcun, in the old site of Yuxing burn pots built Huangcun brewery. 1958 was officially renamed the state-run Beijing Daxing Brewery.

Origin of Soju:

A bronze still from the Eastern Han Dynasty was found in the Shanghai Museum. The age of the still, after the bronze expert identification is the early or middle of the Eastern Han Dynasty products, with this still for distillation experiments, steamed out the alcohol degree of 26.6-20.4 distilled spirits. And in anhui chuzhou huangni township also unearthed a seemingly identical bronze still. Mr. Wu Deduo and Mr. Ma Chengyuan, who specialize in the study of this subject, believe that as early as the beginning of the first century AD or the first two centuries, the people in their daily lives have been using bronze stills.

The construction of the Eastern Han Dynasty bronze stills is similar to that of the Jin Dynasty stills. The distiller is divided into two parts of the retort body and kettle body. 53.9cm high. The height is 53.9 cm. There is a part of the retort body that stores liquid or solid spirits, and there is a condensation chamber. The condensation room has a pipe interface, can make the condensate out of the distiller outside, in the upper part of the kettle body has an entrance, about anytime to add material with.