Deep in the Wine Alley

This film (drama)Also known as酒巷深深，is aMainland ChinaProducerbeauty live，At2006Released in year 。The dialogue language isMandarin Chinese，Current Douban rating7.5(For reference only)。

The twenty-episode TV series "Deep in the Wine Alley" tells the story of the early Republic of China, in Luzhou, Sichuan Province (formerly known as Jiangyang), where the renowned liquor Jiangyang Old Cellar, after enduring hardships, is ultimately revitalized through the blood and toil of several generations of brewing inheritors. The protagonist, Lu Yunqiang, is the illegitimate son of the owner of the brewing workshop Wanli Cellar, which has a 300-year-old national treasure. As a child, he was marginalized by the legitimate wife and lived a life of hardship with his birth mother, eventually moving far away. After the death of his mother in adulthood, he returns to his hometown, only to find the family in decline and the ancestral brewing business in the hands of others. In order to restore the family business, Lu Yunqiang undergoes a transformation, changing his name and hiding his identity. He takes a job at Qian Gu Quan Workshop, one of the two major brewing workshops in Jiangyang city at the time, alongside Tian Yi Workshop. With his intelligence and wisdom, he earns the trust and appreciation of the old shopkeeper Gu Tianci. In addition, possessing exceptional skills, he saves the Gu family from disasters several times using his inherited brewing techniques and the martial arts he learned at a military academy. Eventually, he is promoted to the position of head of tile management and even becomes Gu Tianci's son-in-law. However, Gu Tianci has no idea that this is all part of Lu Yunqiang's careful planning to reclaim his family's business after enduring humiliation and hardship. At this time, various brewing workshops in Jiangyang city are also engaged in overt and covert struggles to compete for the old cellar market, refusing to yield to one another. Tian Yi Workshop, as a government-operated workshop, is overseen by the cunning and treacherous manager Hou Jingru, who is willing to use despicable means to eliminate his competitors. He secretly buys tiles from the Gu family and sabotages their materials to prevent their old cellar from producing liquor, thus achieving the goal of squeezing out his rivals. Additionally, local feudal forces and warlord bureaucrats conspire and vie for power, exacerbating conflicts in the entire industry. At this time, the Japanese are also eyeing the national treasure of the old cellar, having secretly placed deep-rooted confidants in Jiangyang to monitor local brewing activities and gain access to the old cellar's secret recipes. They collude with local traitors, waiting for opportunities to sabotage and plan to seize the treasure for themselves or even attempt to move the entire national treasure to the East. In order to prevent the old cellar from falling into Japanese hands and to revitalize and promote this national industry, Lu Yunqiang ultimately decides to sacrifice his own family for the greater good. He sets aside past grievances, putting aside ancestral enmity, and fights alongside patriotic individuals in Jiangyang city, uniting against a common enemy. He engages in a life-and-death struggle against local evil forces and Japanese commercial spies, facing numerous trials and tribulations, and ultimately preserves the national treasure that has lasted for 300 years. He also brings Jiangyang Old Cellar to the Panama International Exhibition, earning a chance to showcase its quality and ultimately wins a gold medal, returning in glory. The fragrance of the liquor knows no bounds; Jiangyang Old Cellar becomes famous worldwide. Accompanying the aroma are various unique characters striving for the revival of national industry: the resilient male protagonist; the independent new woman; the loyal Sichuan opera artist; and the ambivalent warlord—each taking their turn on the stage, together brewing the national cellar's heavenly fragrance. In the blink of an eye, dynasties change, Lu Yunqiang’s contemporaries grow old, and their descendants stand by the brewing pot. But what remains unchanged are the four national treasure cellars, still exuding the fragrance of Chinese culture.