Overview of the development of light-flavor Baijiu

In recent years, with the improvement of consumers' living standards, more and more people's preference for Baijiu style has changed from 'spicy' to 'elegant'. As one of the 12 major flavor-style Baijiu, the style characteristics of light-flavor (Qingxiangxing) Baijiu are just in line with the pursuit of consumers, thus promoting the development of light-flavor Baijiu. In this paper, the development of light-flavor Baijiu since the founding of the People's Republic of China was summarized from the aspects of development history, industry overview, style characteristics, production process and research progress, and the future development of light-flavor Baijiu was prospected, in order to provide references for light-flavor Baijiu enterprises and related workers.