In pictures: best season for brewing rice wine in Shaoxing (9)

Workers clean crocks used to store yellow rice wine at a rice wine brewery in Shaoxing, east China's Zhejiang Province, Nov. 6, 2014. As winter approaches and the temperature falls, it comes to the best season of a year for brewing rice wine in Shaoxing. Rice wine, with a history of thousands of years, is regarded as one of the three most time-honored wines in the world. The techniques of brewing Shaoxing rice wine was listed as a national intangible cultural heritage in 2006. (Xinhua/Xu Yu)