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Unscaled cutaway illustration of a mud-lined strong-aroma baijiu fermentation pit below a workshop floor, with fermenting grain inside, a mud cap beside the opening and covered pits behind it.
Built structures

Strong-aroma baijiu fermentation pit

A below-floor, mud-lined fermentation chamber used in Chinese strong-aroma baijiu production. Its grain mash ferments in contact with the chamber’s microbial pit mud; shape and pit ecology vary among cellars.

Pits and cavities
Luzhou, Sichuan
Editorial illustration of a dark glazed ceramic Sichuan paocai crock with a raised water moat around its narrow neck and an inverted lid seated in the trough.
Equipment

Paocai water-seal jar

The Sichuan paocai jar is a pottery or ceramic crock with a broad body, narrow neck, and annular water trough around its rim. An inverted lid rests in the trough; the seal is separate from the food brine.

Jars, pots and crocks
Sichuan