The raw material of wine is grain, so behind the wine,agricultural production conditions, natural calamities as well as economic situation in history can be known . Wine is both an important means for political rewards and punishments and the bulk of tax in the government hands of the dynasties. The history of temperance and its release is closely related to that the year harvest is good or bad, political gains or losses and the change of situation.

 The prosperity of the brewery industry also promote the development of the commodity economy. According to “Shi Huo Zhi of Song Dynasty Summary”,Some people make a calculation about average annual production of more than 1,000,000kg distiller's yeast and the quantity of distiller's yeast in “Brewery Method in Wine Book” by Su Shi,as follows:

The annual quantity of brewery is up to 40,000,000kg in Tokyo,North Song,the population peak of this city is 1,500,000, so the average consumption of Merchandise liquor is more than 25kg/person/year.

As the liquor tax rate is high,the income of treasury has gone up soon with the mass production of merchandise liquor,such as,The income of liquor tax is 11,640,000guan(a string of 1,000 cash in ancient time)in ten years(1007) in North Song,which is about 1/5 of the total income of the state treasury. The past is that,so do today.According to the newspaper, the total output of Chinese liquor reached 50,000,0000 kgs in 1988,

 the average annual consumption of liquor is 5kgs/person/year. If we put an end to tax evasion,it can add RMB200000,0000 to state income only for the liquor,plusing the taxes of other kinds of wine,the total amount is very considerable.it surely can promote the rapid development of modenization of our country economic.