Longhui is located slightly southwest of central Hunan. It has jurisdiction over 26 towns and villages, with a total area of ??2,866 square kilometers and a population of 1.1 million.
Like Anhua and Xinhua, Longhui is also the birthplace of Meishan culture.
The Yao people in Xiaoshajiang area of ??our county are the descendants of Meishan barbarians.
In the beautiful land of Longhui, the historical relics and cultural landscapes of Meishan culture can be seen everywhere.
Baili Chen River has beautiful scenery; mysterious Yaoshan Mountain has unique characteristics.
Since ancient times, it is said that Qu Zi's chanting was once here, which gave Longhui a magical and gorgeous color.
In modern history, Longhui gave birth to outstanding figures such as Wei Yuan, China’s first great thinker who opened his eyes to see the world, Wei Guangtao, an important official in the late Qing Dynasty, Tan Renfeng, a pioneer of the democratic revolution, and Yuan Jiliu, Mao Zedong’s teacher.
Longhui is also a famous hometown of poetry and folk painting.
The Yao people’s flower-stitching and beach New Year paintings are famous far and wide and are known as the “two wonders of China”.
Longhui is the hometown of honeysuckle in China and the hometown of the three spicy peppers praised by Zhou Enlai. Baoqing pepper, red garlic and tiger claw ginger are famous both at home and abroad. With an annual planting area of ??60,000 acres, it is the national pepper production base and Chili pepper foreign trade export base.
Honeysuckle
Longhui honeysuckle has been cultivated for more than 30 years since the early 1970s.
In the past 10 years, our county has listed honeysuckle as one of the key pillar industries for development, formulated a series of supporting policies, accelerated the pace of industrial construction, and the area, output, and output value have increased steadily. In 2003, the area has It has grown to 280,000 acres, with an output of 10,000 tons and an output value of about 150 million yuan. The products are sold well in large and medium-sized cities such as Guilin, Guangzhou, Chongqing, and Nanjing, as well as major pharmaceutical factories across the country.
Longhui pepper (Baoqing pepper)
Longhui pepper is a traditional product of this county. The current annual cultivation area is about 30,000 acres. The main production areas are Taohong Town, Shan It is bounded by Hui Nationality Township and Beishan Township, and the rest are cultivated throughout the county.
Before liberation, it was mainly distributed in the Hui Township in the south of Longhui Mountain and the Hui residential area in Beishan Township. According to county records, the sown area in 38 years of the Republic of China was 2,500 acres, producing 150 tons of dried chili peppers. It developed more after the 1950s. Soon, the area increased to 10,000 acres. In 1957, it was designated as the national pepper production base. The sowing area exceeded 12,000 acres and the total output was 1,000 tons. In 1958, the production area at that time: Hongqi People's Commune attended the National Congress of the Forefathers and won the State Council Award Flag.
In the 1970s, the promising area in the foreign trade market remained at 12,000 to 25,000 acres, with a total output between 550 and 1,670 tons.
In 1979, it was designated as a foreign trade export base county.
The production area expanded to 30,000 acres, and the total output exceeded 2,000 tons. It has remained between 30,000 and 25,000 acres since then.
Red-skinned garlic
Longhui garlic is mainly red-skinned garlic, with a plant height of 60-70 centimeters, and leaf strips with lanceolate shapes. The adult plant has 6-12 leaves. Slices, dark green in color, 50-70 centimeters in length of garlic moss, oblate spherical bulb, purple-red outer skin, enlarged stem valves (garlic cloves), 6-9 cloves per branch, longitudinal diameter 3.5-3.8 cm, transverse diameter 4.5-4.5 cm 5 cm, a single garlic head weighs 30-41.5 grams, has a strong spicy taste, aroma, and high quality. In the 1980s, Hong Kong businessmen once printed four small characters and three large characters on the page of Hong Kong Ta Kung Pao: Baoqing Garlic The growth period of fragrant, spicy, fresh and swollen red garlic is about 210 days. It is sown in mid-to-late September. The spacing between plants is 2-3 inches and the spacing between rows is 6-7 inches. Each 667m2 can produce 300-4000 pounds of garlic moss. .
Tiger claw ginger
The main variety of Longhui ginger is tiger claw ginger, which is called by farmers in the producing area.
According to the shape, it should be classified as red claw ginger, because its above-ground basal plant has strong growth potential, the rhizome meat should be plump and thick, with less fiber, light yellow, and the mature rhizome epidermis is light yellow with buds. red.
It forms Zhejiang flower-claw ginger, but it is slightly different. Its shape is like a tiger's claw, and the rhizome is slightly longer than that of flower-claw ginger.
Secondly, it also has the characteristics of red bud ginger and Fujian bamboo ginger.
The average plant weight is 0.5-1 kg, and the output of 667 square meters is generally around 2,000 kg. The sowing area has remained between 4,000-6,600 in the past ten years, mainly distributed in Shanjie Hui Township, Taohong Town, Beishan Township, Jinshiqiao Town and other places.
In the early days of liberation, the sown area was about 80-100 acres.
Longhui ginger has experienced two development periods in the 1950s and 1970s. In 1981, the total output was 1,236 tons and the planting area was 1,646 acres. In 1998, the sowing area was 4,650 acres and the total output was 3,822 tons. In 2000 The sown area is 6,600 acres, with a total output of 6,027 tons.
Polygonatum odoratum: Also known as tail ginseng, it is a rare medicinal and food product with the same origin.
It is sweet in nature and slightly bitter. It has the effects of nourishing yin and moisturizing, producing body fluid and quenching thirst. It is suitable for the treatment of lung and stomach yin injuries, dry-heat cough, dry throat, internal heat and thirst.
Polygonatum odorifera has been cultivated in Longhui for more than 40 years. After long-term production practice and scientific research and exploration, a mature planting and processing technology system has been formed.
In recent years, Polygonatum odoratum has been listed as one of the priority medicinal varieties by the Longhui County People's Government, and policy funds have been given priority to enable this industry to develop rapidly in the short term.
In 2002, the county's planting area reached 9,000 acres, with an annual output of 2,500 tons (polygonati bamboo) and an output value of 50 million yuan.
The supporting processing industry has also been fully developed. According to statistics, there are 20 processing factories with an output value of more than one million yuan, and there are 50 smaller processing factories of other scales. With standardized industry management, the product quality is very stable and sells well in Guangdong, Hong Kong, Macao, South Korea, Singapore, Malaysia and other countries, as well as the United States, Canada and other countries.
There are more than 80 kinds of mineral resources such as gold, manganese, silica, and rare earths in the territory. After on-site inspection by the Chinese Academy of Sciences, our county has been identified as a rare selenium-rich area in the world. The selenium content in some towns is the world's average selenium content. 25 times, which is 30 times that of the whole country.
Selenium-rich agricultural products have been effectively developed, and Yipeng and Yinxian brand honeysuckle tea, Baoqing brand Longya Lily, Taohua brand hot sauce, Haozhiyuan brand pumpkin powder, Fengdu brand Cuiluo tea, etc. have won national Green food certification, honeysuckle, as the county's traditional advantageous selenium-rich agricultural product, has been officially included in the National Pharmacopoeia. Its output accounts for more than 50% of the country's total output, and it was named the "Hometown of Honeysuckle in China" by the State Forestry Administration.
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