A long time ago, soldiers lived near the Great Wall of China. In 2024, workers found a bronzebronze/brɒnz/L1青铜；一种棕色的金属a hard brown metal used to make pots, tools, and statues pot near a cemetery in Ningxia. People closed the pot with cloth and clayclay/kleɪ/L1黏土；一种湿的泥土，可以用来做陶器a type of soft earth that becomes hard when it is baked over 2,300 years ago.
Inside the pot was a liquid. Scientists studied the liquid and found it was winewine/waɪn/L1葡萄酒；一种用水果或谷物做的酒a drink made from plants like grapes or wheat that some adults drink! Someone made the wine from millet, wheat, and barley. It is from the time of the Qin people. A soldiersoldier/ˈsəʊldʒər/L1士兵；在军队工作的人a person who works in an army and fights in wars loved this wine very much. When he died, his family put the wine in his tombtomb/tuːm/L1坟墓；埋葬死人的地方a place where a dead body is buried. This is a special discovery and one of the oldest wines in the world.
