Proposals were then made to various superiors of French Trappist monasteries and the prior of the Trappe of Tamié accepted them with the intention of transporting his small community, expelled from its convent, to China. He first came alone to Yang-Kia-Pinn in 1883 and was joined, a few months later, by 2 monks from the Abbey of Grace-Dieu; this House developed and was raised to the rank of abbey in 1892, under the authority of the abbot of Sept-Fons..

 

By 1940, conditions at the novitiate were worsening; communications were becoming increasingly difficult, the threat of conscription into the Red Army was hanging over the young men, and the atmosphere of insecurity was becoming heavier the longer it lasted.  Under difficult circumstances, the decision was taken to evacuate the abbey to N.D. de Liesse near Cheng-Ting-Fu, in Hopeh.

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Information attesting to the existence of a brewery within this abbey is very scanty, but we can learn from the book  "Les missions catholiques" - N°2132 , April 15, 1910,  that during a visit made at this time: “You have there the complete body of trades : the shoemaker's store, the store for apricot kernels which are the wealth of La Trappe, a Lilliputian (tiny) brewery, the wine press, the wheat and millet granaries, the laundry, the covered well, the fruit orchard, and finally the “grand parlor”, i.e. the room where every evening, the cellarer tells everyone their work for the following day. ”