A Beer Festival in China Has German Roots, but No Lederhosen<br />Locals come to enjoy the "re nao" atmosphere, a Mandarin term for "hustle and bustle" or "loud and chaotic." Qingdao’s festival may be of fairly recent vintage,<br />but its beer-making tradition goes back more than 100 years.<br />Inside, the scene was raucous: Performers lip-synced to patriotic Chinese songs, women in skimpy outfits auctioned off traditional Chinese calligraphy,<br />and more than one man felt the need to remove his shirt.<br />The city of Qingdao is home to the similarly pronounced Tsingtao Brewery, which was founded<br />by German settlers in this corner of Shandong Province more than a century ago.<br />Zhao Chen said that Without beer, we don’t have life in Qingdao,<br />If the festival looks like a certain German tradition, there’s a good reason.<br />In 1903, British and German settlers created the Anglo-German Brewing Company and began producing Tsingtao.
