China's medicinal liquor appeared after the Warring States Period. The oldest prescription of medicinal liquor, like other prescriptions of traditional Chinese medicine, has no name. In the silk book unearthed in Mawangdui, there is no specific name for the prescription of medicinal liquor. This situation is still preserved in many prescriptions in the Tang Dynasty, such as "Ganjin Yaofang Under the Spleen", "There is no bad prescription for treating dysentery, colic and intestinal slippery." "The Recipe for Treating Wind-arthralgia and Addiction Eruption" in Volume 15 of "The Secret of Foreign Taiwan", etc.

China people's research and application of wine can be described as a complete success. Since the advent of wine, the contents of this cup have been interpreted by our ancestors into countless wonderful stories. Thus, there was the feat of Wu Song's drunken crouching tiger, the heroic spirit of Lu Zhishen's drunken beating of the mountain gate, and the eternal talk of Granny Liu's drunken lying in Yihuiyuan.

From brewing and drinking to appreciating and discussing wine, wine has penetrated into all aspects of human beings and gradually formed its own unique culture-wine culture. There is an indissoluble bond between wine and medicine. The traditional word "medicine" is from "unitary", and the unitary one is also wine. This is probably because the ancestors accidentally ate the fermented melon juice and found that it can treat some diseases such as deficiency cold and abdominal pain, thus making wine have a close relationship with the original medical activities.

Huangdi Neijing has a "treatise on soup mash", which is devoted to the way of medication. The so-called "soup" is the decoction of today, and the "mash" is the medicinal liquor. Obviously, in the Warring States period, there was a deep understanding of the medical function of medicinal liquor.