Drinking is a very common custom in Hakka diet. Older Hakkas can drink, and so can younger ones. In some Hakka areas, wine is widely used instead of tea in midsummer. As for festivals and birthdays, wine is indispensable. In daily life, Hakka people like to hold banquets for their guests, which is called "brewing wine". For example, children should brew graduation wine, wedding wine, wedding wine, three-day wine, full moon wine, one-year-old wine and old people's birthday wine three days after the child is born. However, the Hakka wine refers to rice wine specially made from glutinous rice. This kind of rice wine is brewed in every household, and it is generally brewed by the hostess at home. The level of brewing yellow rice wine is still the standard to measure whether a Hakka woman is capable.

Hakka rice wine is not only a hospitality drink, but also a good gift for relatives and friends. Especially at the wedding, rice wine is one of the important gifts that the woman gives back to the man. The woman puts rice wine and other gifts together and sends them on a pole, commonly known as the "wine-sending pole". The wine sent is usually brewed by the woman herself. In addition, when a Hakka gives birth to a child, the husband-in-law should have a rooster, a pot of yellow wine and another set of firecrackers, which are sent to the woman's house to report good news, commonly known as "reporting ginger wine".

There is a saying in the Hakka proverb that "Don't (don't) dare to make decisions by steaming tofu brain". As far as brewing is concerned, there are two reasons besides human factors. The first is to choose high-quality wine cakes, and the second is that water quality is crucial, and pure and sweet mountain spring water or well water is selected. Yellow rice wine is completely different from rice wine and sorghum wine. Because its alcohol content is extremely low, its taste is mellow and slightly alcoholic, and it is suitable for all ages, especially Hakka women, especially like this kind of yellow rice wine that can quench thirst and replenish deficiency. Everyone has seen many people who get drunk because of drinking rice wine or sorghum, but few people get drunk because of drinking rice wine.

Homemade rice wine, everyone drinks rice wine, and the popularity of rice wine can be said to be a very unique social phenomenon in Hakka rural areas. Yellow rice wine is made of glutinous rice, which is easy to grow in Hakka rural areas and has a low price, which is only more expensive than ordinary rice 10%. In addition, the amount of glutinous rice steamed in a jar can be more or less, and the process is simple, and everyone in Hakka women can cook it. Hospitality Hakkas, yellow wine is a necessity for banquets or wedding celebrations on holidays. During the dinner, one person drinks a bowl while pouring, and the host and guests, guests and guests toast each other, and you come and go, pushing a cup for a change, adding a lively and happy atmosphere to the banquet.

The ingenious Hakka women brew an unusual, fragrant, pure, sweet and slightly mellow hakka yellow rice wine (also called Shuijiu in some places) with ordinary glutinous rice, ordinary fermented wine cakes and ordinary production techniques. In the daily life customs of Hakkas, whenever there are holidays, weddings, birthdays and other weddings and funerals, all kinds of banquets are held to entertain relatives and friends, and the guests who hold banquets are called "inviting wine" or "brewing wine", such as "full moon wine", "wedding banquet wine", "entering a higher school wine" and "adding wine". No matter any banquet in Hakka villages, there must be yellow wine. This "wine culture" phenomenon plays an extremely important role in the real life of Hakkas.