Yongfeng Hot Sauce is a traditional specialty product of Shuangfeng County, Hunan Province, with a very long history. According to the records of Shuangfeng County, as early as in the 16th century (Ming Chongzhen years), Shuangfeng County (formerly Xiangxiang County) Yongfeng Town, the area around the town began to sun Yongfeng Hot Sauce, the taste of fresh meat thick lantern chili pepper as the main raw material, the first to the wheat steaming, fermentation, milling, adding salt to adjust the water, exposure to sunshine into a sauce.

In the middle of the 17th century, the Cai brothers have opened Cai Guangxiang, Cai Guangyi, Cai Shunyi three sauce garden in Yongfeng Town, and then successively opened more than 10 hot sauce workshops such as Shengyixing, Longshengtai, etc., and began to produce commercial hot sauce on a large scale. Among them, Cai Guangxiang store is the most famous, with an annual output of more than 40 quintals of sauce. Yongfeng hot sauce began to have a reputation, the product is sold more and more far. the first half of the 19th century (the Qing dynasty Xianfeng years), the Xiang army leader Zeng Guofan once Yongfeng hot sauce this hometown specialties to the capital, presented to the Xianfeng emperor. The emperor was tired of eating sea food, a taste of this full of countryside flavor of the spicy sauce, greatly appetizing, greatly appreciated, and listed it as a tribute to the court. So Yongfeng Hot Sauce became famous in China from the capital. By the end of the 19th century (the end of the Qing Dynasty), the territory of the annual production of commercial hot sauce about 200 quintals. By the beginning of the 19th century, during the Republican period, Yongfeng local sun-dried sauce was prevalent and was sold in large quantities to Changsha, Shaoyang, Xiangtan and other places. Cai Hesen, one of the outstanding leaders in the early days of China, was apprenticed for three years in the Cai Guangxiang Sauce Garden run by his uncle when he was a teenager. Cai Hesen, who broadened his horizons here, later went to Changsha to study, and initiated the founding of the New People's Society with Mao Zedong, which began the exploration of the revolutionary path to save the country and the people.

After 1949, Yongfeng Hot Sauce got a faster development, the output rose sharply, and the quality is also improving. 1954, Shuangfeng County Foodstuffs and General Merchandise Company built the county's first Hot Sauce Preserves Factory, Hot Sauce by the family workshop production gradually shifted to the factory production, the raw materials, the ingredients from manual grinding to mechanical crushing, greatly improving the efficiency of the work, and later, the mechanical crushing method is widely used. In 1965, Yongfeng town red flag brigade built hot sauce factory, annual output of 25 tons of hot sauce. 1981 County Vegetable Company built sauce factory, with an annual output of 40 tons.

In 1986, Shuangfeng County set up Yongfeng Hot Sauce General Company, the organization of hot sauce production enterprises loosely united, the state has invested more than 3 million yuan of hot sauce enterprises to expand and transform the original hot sauce preserves factory into Yongfeng Hot Sauce Factory, red flag village hot sauce factory into a factory, the County Vegetable Company Sauce Factory into a factory.

In the 1990s, with the advancement of enterprise reform, Yongfeng hot sauce to form the Cai Boss Pickle Food Co., Ltd., Yongfeng Sauce Garden and other leading enterprises, hot sauce production of science and technology content is increasingly improved, the new closed transparent glass sun system field, improve the nutritional hygiene level of hot sauce sun system. Hot sauce finished product packaging to achieve diversification, in addition to large-capacity continue to use the traditional ceramic altar packaging, small and medium-capacity commonly used glass bottles, blow-molded bottles, and the introduction of advanced filling, packaging production lines, the use of temperature and humidity control and ultraviolet sterilization, the implementation of vacuum packaging, greatly extending the shelf life of the product. The varieties of hot sauce are increasing, and on the basis of traditional Yongfeng hot sauce, more than 20 varieties have been developed, including seedless hot sauce, bean hot sauce, silkworm hot sauce, garlic hot sauce, black bean hot sauce, five-spice sauce, eight treasures sauce, assorted sauce, beef sauce, fish prince sauce, and so on.

Entering the 21st century, Shuangfeng County Yongfeng hot sauce as a pillar industry to develop, the implementation of the "leading drive, regional development, professional production, brand effect" strategy, the formation of a market with the leading, leading with the base, the base of the industrialization pattern of farmers. The establishment of the Yongfeng Hot Sauce Development Office, Yongfeng Township set up the Yongfeng Hot Sauce Industry Association, the hot sauce production enterprises to implement the production license system, where the production conditions do not meet the enterprises are suspended and rectification, where the quality does not meet the requirements of the product is strictly prohibited from the market.

As of 2009, the county has Yongfeng hot sauce production enterprises more than 100, of which the annual production capacity of more than 2,000 tons of three, with a total annual output of nearly 10,000 tons; built for hot sauce processing of perennial chili peppers, soybeans, wheat production base of 666.7 hectares. In the 320 national highway county section built about 5 kilometers long hot sauce sales street, and in Beijing, Shanghai, Tianjin, Guangzhou and Changsha and other cities set up offices and general agents, the establishment of a more stable sales network, and at the same time in the international Internet Yongfeng hot sauce supply and demand information for online trading. 2000, Yongfeng Hot Sauce sales revenue of 100 million yuan, generating profits and taxes of more than 30 million yuan.