According to legend, the ancient Han people drank on the first day of the first month to avoid the plague. Some people say that Tu Su is the name of a kind of grass, while others say that Tu Su was originally the name of an ancient house.

"In addition to firecrackers at the age of one, the spring breeze warmed Tu Su. Thousands of families always change new peaches for old ones every day. " The poem "January Day" by Wang Anshi, a poet in the Song Dynasty, vividly depicts the happy scene of the New Year in ancient China, in which "Tu Su" refers to Tu Su wine and also tells the custom of the ancients drinking Tu Su wine in the New Year.

According to legend, Tu Su wine was created by Hua Tuo, a famous doctor at the end of Han Dynasty, and its formula was made by soaking rhubarb, Atractylodes macrocephala, Cinnamomum cassia twig, Saposhnikovia divaricata, Zanthoxylum bungeanum, Radix Aconiti Lateralis and Radix Aconiti Lateralis in the wine. Every year in the twelfth lunar month, Sun Simiao always gives his neighbors a pack of medicine and tells them to use it to make wine. Sun Simiao also named his house "Tu Su House". Since then, after several generations, drinking Tu Su wine has become the custom of China New Year.