Vinegar is the acid flavoring in diet of the human. The hobby of eating acetic acid by people is to meet physiological needs of the organism activity of the human. Early in remotely ancient age, some people caught ants for eating as acetic acid, and this is called “eating ants for acid” in history. According to legend, "Shennong" ever taught people to bloat pickle for generating acetic acid to meet the tastelessness. Presently, farmers in such regions as middle region of Shanxi Province and so on still have the customs that mustard is used for bloating yellow dish and Chinese cabbage is used for bloating pickle.
    With proper brewing method, and thus vinegar of Shanxi Province does not only many varieties, but also has fine quality. Out of vinegar in Shanxi Province, old mature vinegar is the best. With a history for more than a thousand year, Shanxi old mature vinegar has a long history and has formed its own system. It is reputable for “unique flavor and high quality” in the world. With its unique flavor of "soft, acid, fragrant, sweet and pure”"and long brewing history, it ranks before Zhenjiang vinegar, Baoning vinegar and Fujian red rice vinegar, and ranks the first place among the top famous vinegars in China, and has the reputable name of "the first vinegar in China”"for a long time.

    Mr. Fang Xinfang, originator of microbiology in China, after examining Shanxi old mature vinegar, stated in his works titled Shanxi Vinegar that “Shanxi vinegar and Zhenjiang vinegar are most famous out vinegars in China. Zhenjiang vinegar is strong and has medical odor, is inferior to Shanxi vinegar. Shanxi vinegar has pure color and odor caused by chemical reaction of the vinegar matured for a long time, and is not artificially made, and it is really the famous product in China”.
    In Tang Dynasty and Song Dynasty, with progress and development of starter propagation technology, vinegar brewing technology has also been updated continuously, which must result in gradual increase of vinegar varieties, and quality must become perfect. In the book titled Essence for Four Seasons in Five Dynasties, it put forward such brewing methods as “rice vinegar, fast brewed rice vinegar, wheat vinegar, fast brewed wheat vinegar” and so on, which indicated that further development of vinegar brewing technology. In Song Dynasty, vinegar brewing industry in Shanxi Province covered urban and rural areas, there was such prosperous condition that “there are vinegar vat in each family, and each one can act as the vinegar worker” in such isolated areas as Taihang, Lvliang and so on.
With development and evolution in several Dynasties (such as Sui, Tang, Song and Yuan Dynasties), vinegar industry in Shanxi Province in Ming and Qing Dynasties reached its peak. One mark is that there were many vinegar workshops, diverse economic forms co-existed. Before Ming and Qing Dynasties, white vinegar in Jinyang is reputable for the mature white vinegar.
    "Shanxi Province is reputable for brewing vinegar in history, and the origin can be found at Qingxu County". During Hongwu Reign in Ming Dynasty, the Master Wang Laifu from “Meiheju” at Qingxu County (called Qingyuan ever) continuously explored and innovated in production practice, increased the “smoking” technology between “acetification” and “vinegar pouring”, namely the “smoking and steaming” method, and the unique flavor of table vinegar of such brand was formed. Since the first year of Shunzhi Reign in Qing Dynasty (the year of 1644), the China old brand “Meiheju” upgraded the vinegar brewing technology to be “insolation in summer and placing in ice in winter”. The vinegar matured for more than one year has black and purple color, has pure fragrance, and was not rotten after storage for a long time, and the people having the vinegar gave high remarks. Thus, the mature vinegar of the past year is called old mature vinegar, and history of old mature vinegar was created. Thus, reputation of “Meiheju” was greatly raised, and the old mature vinegar also became the tribute to the royal and was famous at home and abroad, and it ranked the first place among four famous vinegars in China, and was called “National vinegar” and “the first vinegar in China”. vinegar industry in Shanxi Province also met its “golden age”. Following Meiheju, Baoyuanfang also became the royal vinegar workshop for tribute to the royal court. Baoyuanfang was initially built in the third year of Xuande Reign in Ming Dynasty (the year of 1428). Han Baoyuan, the founder had the tenet of “flourishing business with morality” at the beginning of business initialization. With the principle of “quality first, operation with good faith” abided by him, Baoyuanfang rose fast and became the well-known vinegar workshop. In its peak time, it was appointed to be royal vinegar workshop in Ming and Qing Dynasties and provided vinegar special for the royal. However, with historic advancement, splendid history of Baoyuanfang with a history of more than 500 years became updated because of long-term war in late Qing Dynasty and during the Republic of China era.
    In recent history, “Shanxi old mature vinegar” produced by “Fuyuanchang” has won the great honor of the first prize in Panama International Commodity Expo held in 1924.
    Thus, it can find that, from origin to development, vinegar industry in Shanxi Province has a history of more than 1000 years; vinegar becomes more fragrant with such a long history.
    Shuita Company appeared in such advantaged historical and cultural atmosphere, inherits excellent traditions of Shanxi old mature vinegar, passes the ancient brewing technology of Baoyuanfang and takes up aid of modern bottle filling, continuously develops and becomes stronger. Abiding by the tenet of "flourishing business with morality"of Baoyuanfang, the Company sets up the operation concept of “quality for reputation, reputation for eevelopment”, and the Company has gradually developed to be one enterprise group that integrates raw material base, scientific research and development, starter propagation and brewing, package and transport, marketing and planning and tourism culture.
    Memorizing its own history origin and bearing its own historical mission in mind, Shuita Company will continuously make its own contribution to keeping and publicizing the vinegar culture of Shanxi Province, and make the vinegar industry in Shanxi Province to ride the horse of times in new century and fully display the heroic posture of “the first vinegar in China”.