Luotian chestnut Luotian chestnut is rich in protein, fat, carbohydrate, starch, vitamin B and lipase, which not only has high nutritional value, but also has the effects of tonifying kidney, treating abdomen and relaxing bowels (stew). Luotian is the main chestnut producing area in China, with an annual output of 20 million kilograms from 65438 to 0998, ranking first in the country. Chestnut products produced by fresh food factory won the excellent certificate of export products of the Ministry of Foreign Trade and the Golden Dragon Award of the State Economic and Trade Commission, and the products are exported to the United States, Canada, Japan, Hong Kong and other countries and regions. Chestnuts in Luotian County were planted artificially as early as the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period. There are many varieties, unique color and taste, and the origin is distributed all over the county, but its products are sold as "Luotian Chestnut". Varieties such as "Li Jinkui" and "Oil Chestnut" are famous all over the country and exported to Japan, and are known as "fruits of life". Professor Lawton of Australian University in the United States believes that Luotian chestnut is the "world chestnut gene bank" through field investigation of its varieties.

Macheng old rice wine Macheng old rice wine is mainly produced in Mu Zi store, Dongxicheng and other places in the eastern mountainous area of Macheng, so it is also called Dongshan old rice wine. It is made of glutinous rice and special distiller's yeast. The color is clear, the taste is sweet, the quality is rich, and it does not hurt the spleen and stomach. According to the analysis of relevant departments, the wine contains a variety of amino acids and vitamins, which is rich in nutritional value, and also has the functions of strengthening the spleen and stomach, relaxing muscles and activating collaterals, relieving pain and removing blood stasis. Combined with Chinese herbal medicines, it can also treat rheumatism and paralysis. Therefore, it is very popular among the people. There is a local saying that "old rice wine will burn, except the emperor, count me in".

Wuxue Yam Yam contains 18 kinds of nutrients, such as sugar, protein, potassium, amino acids and vitamins. It has the functions of nourishing yin and benefiting lung, strengthening kidney and stomach, stopping diarrhea, resolving phlegm and promoting fluid production, moistening hair, etc. It is a good food and medicine. Yam has been planted in Wuxue for more than 300 years, especially Longping Yam, which is called "Dragon Medicine", followed by Mei Chuan, Henggang Baiyuan and other places. The highest annual output of Wuxue yam is 2 million kilograms, which is sold to eastern Hubei and the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River.

Yingshan tea is very popular with customers because of its tight rope, light green color and pleasant aroma. As early as the Tang Dynasty, it was a court tribute. Yingshan Mountain is located next to the main peak of Dabie Mountain, with high altitude, high humidity and suitable temperature. Every household has the habit of drinking tea since ancient times. Its main products are Yingshan Yin Hao, Yangjiaochun, Jifeng Maojian and Changchong Fried Green. 1987 Hubei tea identification, 9 kinds of famous tea Yingshan included 5 items. "Jifeng Maojian" tea was rated as an excellent product. Tea has become one of the main commodities in Yingshan County. Since April 1992, yingshan county has designated Grain Rain as the annual Tea Festival, which will be held every year. Every year, tea merchants from all over the country flock to the Tea Festival. 1998 the total output of tea in the county reached more than 7 million kilograms.

Luotian Poria cocos, also known as Poria cocos, Poria cocos, Songmao and Shenxian noodles. Fuling's name comes from historical records? "Biography of the Turtle", the cloud says: "The so-called ghosts and gods, under the warning line, look like birds." "Huainanzi" also contains: "The pine of the Millennium has poria cocos and tussah silk." Li Shizhen said: "There is Poria cocos under the ground, and there is silky aura on the ground, which the villagers will see from time to time, and it is not the silk of dodder. It is wrong to note that "Huai Nan Zi" refers to dodder and female Luo. " Poria cocos is the dry sclerotium of Poria cocos, a basidiomycete and polyporaceae plant, which grows by absorbing water and nutrients from pine trees. White cotton wool when tender and brown skin when mature. Li Shizhen said, "Poria cocos is as big as a bucket, as hard as a stone, and it will win. The weak are not good, and the strong are not enough to cover their ears. " There are still some wild varieties, but they are mainly cultivated artificially. According to Compendium of Materia Medica, Poria cocos is mainly used to treat chest and hypochondriac qi, anxiety, fright, heartache, cold and heat, cough, dry mouth and bad urination. Long-term use will make you feel refreshed and not hungry. Some people even say that it is "happy and happy, and it is also a top-grade fairy medicine." Song Susong wrote "Gathering Immortals", describing Poria Crisp as "an eclipse, no hunger all day long". "Empress Dowager Cixi once ordered the chef to cook" Fuling cake "for dinner, and used it to reward princes and ministers. The main components of Poria cocos are pachyman, pachymic acid, ergosterol, choline, histidine, phospholipid, protein, enzyme and so on. This is a very nutritious and healthy medicine. Therefore, the long-lost poria cocos food has been listed in recent years, and the Jiuzihe poria cocos candy in Luotian County is coming out soon. Poria cocos in eastern Hubei is known as the whole country, and the main producing areas are Luotian, Yingshan and Macheng. Luotian has been producing Poria cocos for more than 500 years, and was once known as the "hometown of Poria cocos". 1930, the county's total output reached more than 3 million Jin, 1956 reached 4.25 million Jin, 1983 decreased to 6 1 10,000 Jin. The total output of Luotian, Yingshan and Macheng counties is only1120,000 Jin. The commodity specifications of Poria cocos are different from those of Luotian, Yingshan and Macheng. Yingshan export film is famous for its white and uniformity; Macheng is good at being neat and tidy; Luotian is famous for its delicate skin and good medicinal properties. Once, a 96 kg "Poria King" was exhibited at the Guangzhou Expo, and many foreign businessmen were amazed.

Glutinous rice pile flower wine is made from pure glutinous rice by traditional brewing technology. When you pour wine or shake the wine in a glass, the wine splashes small garlands, one on top of the other, for a long time. Because the raw material is glutinous rice, it is named glutinous rice pile flower wine. Wuzu brand glutinous rice pile flower wine is a kind of high-quality Xiaoqu wine produced by Huangmei Distillery. It was originally named aged rice wine, shochu, also known as medicinal koji. It has a production history of more than 500 years. It is made of more than 30 kinds of Chinese herbal medicines, such as pure glutinous rice, mint, orange peel, cassia twig, etc., and brewed with Jasper flowing spring water in Wuzu Temple. Its process is typical, with the characteristics of colorless and transparent, mellow and delicious, elegant honey fragrance and sesame fragrance. Shake the wine in a container, and layers of transparent pearl-like hops will appear, which will last for a long time, hence the name "stacking hops". The wine also has the functions of invigorating qi, strengthening kidney, strengthening body constitution, dredging blood vessels, thickening intestines and stomach, moistening skin, dispelling cold and benefiting qi. When Wang Meiyun, a poet in Ming Dynasty, visited the Fourth Ancestral Temple in Huangmei, he wrote a poem "The old monk has a unique flavor, and the bamboo shadow is clear". 1975, Huangmei winery organized technical research, absorbed the essence of traditional folk crafts, re-selected the formula, improved the technological process, made the production more scientific and greatly improved the quality. 1977 and 1979 were well received at the wine tasting in five provinces in central and southern China. Six physical and chemical indexes, such as total aldehyde and lead content, are lower than the ministerial standard. 1980, at the national wine quality inspection and evaluation meeting, it passed the tasting and inspection of the national and provincial wine evaluation Committee, ranking first in the province.

Luotian Chuxiang Liquor Luotian "Chuxiang Brand Chuxiang Liquor" is produced by Hubei Chuxiang Winery. Clear and transparent in color, pure in fragrance, sweet and palatable, rich in kiln fragrance and long in aftertaste, it is a good wine in Hubei. Since 1982, it has ranked first among similar products in Hubei, won the title of high-quality products in Hubei Province since 1984, and won the gold medal of Hubei Consumer Satisfaction Cup for five consecutive years since 199 1. And won the gold medal of 1997 Hubei industrial boutique brand-name products Expo and the title of international brewing brand-name products in the second international food Expo. Hubei Chuxiang Winery is located on the Yishui River in Fengshan Town, Luotian County. Established in 1952, with fixed assets of 30 million yuan. At present, it has established five branches of Qu liquor, liquor, packaging, food and beverage and mineral water, and has eight production lines of liquor, alcohol, Daqu, tonic wine, fruit wine, soft drinks, cartons and mineral water. The annual production capacity of liquor and mineral water reaches 6,543,800 tons.

Mushrooms, also known as "Lentinus edodes", belong to Basidiomycetes, Laminaria and Agaricus. Umbrella fungi. There are many kinds of edible fungi, such as Lentinus edodes, Tricholoma matsutake, Pleurotus ostreatus, Pleurotus ostreatus (Luotian called "Badanchai") and Pleurotus ostreatus. Its fruiting bodies are clustered or clustered, and the umbrella covers are large and small. At first, they are flat, and the surface is not sticky, white, gray, yellow and brown. The handle of the umbrella is cylindrical, the same color as the umbrella surface, and the bacterial fold is light red at first, and then turns purple-brown. Mushroom meat is thick and dense. Natural mushrooms are born after continuous rainfall in summer and autumn, and the growth period is three to five days. Artificial can be cultivated indoors, and horses, cow dung and straw are often used as culture materials. Cottonseed hulls are widely used along the Yangtze River in eastern Hubei, and sawdust is often used as a cultivated plant in mountainous areas. The suitable temperature for mycelium growth is 65438 06 ~ 22℃. There are many raw materials for artificial cultivation of edible fungi, and there are mainly three kinds in eastern Hubei. One is broad-leaved tree segments or sawdust (such as flower tree, chestnut tree, phoenix tree, locust tree, etc.). ), which can be used to cultivate mushrooms, auricularia auricula, tremella fuciformis and Pleurotus ostreatus. Two, crop straw (such as straw, wheat straw, corn cob, cottonseed hull, etc.). ) used to cultivate mushrooms, straw mushrooms, Pleurotus ostreatus, etc. Three, industrial production waste (such as waste cotton, bagasse, sawdust, waste paper, biogas residue, etc.). ) is used to cultivate straw mushroom, mushroom, Hericium erinaceus and Pleurotus ostreatus. Mushrooms are delicious, as our people have long known. "Lu's Spring and Autumn Annals" said during the Zhou and Qin Dynasties: "The beauty of taste lies in the abundance of bacteria." The northern Wei Dynasty's Book Yao Min of Qi introduced its cooking method and its delicacy. Huang Tingjian, a poet in the Northern Song Dynasty, compared it to "tree chicken", "goose web" and "turtle lip". There is a poem saying that "the fungus (mushroom) is full of nails, and the white goose peels its claws and the turtle unloads its armor", and "the reward is a chicken, and the beautiful jar is cooked in the south". There are also comparisons with "ground chicken", "mulberry goose" and "pheasant". It is not only delicious, but also nutritious. According to laboratory analysis, fresh protein products containing 7.2~49. 1% are higher than chicken and eggs. It also contains a large number of auricularia acid, tricholomic acid, amanita acid, shiitake mushrooms, chanterelle, wild mushrooms and so on. Its "dietotherapy" effect is more remarkable. Compendium of Materia Medica says that "Jizong" has the efficacy of "invigorating stomach and clearing heart" and "treating hemorrhoids". According to "Bacterial Spectrum", "Tricholoma matsutake" has the curative effect of treating phlegm and turbidity. Some can treat chronic hepatitis, others can treat dizziness, blindness, tinnitus, limb numbness and epilepsy. Natural bacteria are edible, but be careful. Compendium of Materia Medica says: "Bacteria are nontoxic in winter and spring, toxic in summer and autumn, and there are snakes and insects at the bottom." "Where bacteria are cooked, ginger slices and rice grains are thrown. If black people kill people, they are not poisonous. " Li Shizhen said, "It's not because you don't know the taste after eating horse liver. Whoever is poisoned by it will laugh. Dissolve it with bitter tea alum and swallow it with fresh water. "

Qichun quartzite quartzite mine is composed of silica with hexagonal stigma and hard texture. Pure time is colorless and transparent, called crystal; Milky white is called milk season; The light red one is called rose timely; Smoke yellow is called tea crystal; Impurities are purple, brown, light yellow, dark black and other colors, generally milky white, translucent crystals. Timing is an important part of many rocks. Qichun has large seasonal reserves, good quality and high grade, and its silicon content reaches 99.98%, ranking first in the country. According to the preliminary investigation and survey by the mineral department, there are 58 quartzite mines in Qichun County, and the largest one has a reserve of about10 million tons. The county's total proven reserves are about 230 million tons. Tested by 40 1 Geological Team of Building Materials Department, Shanghai Hardware and Mineral Import and Export Corporation, Wuhan Commodity Inspection Bureau and other units, the silica content of Qichun quartz stone is 99.6% to 99.9%, and the iron content is below 0.2%. Quartz stone is used to manufacture optical instruments, radio equipment, refractories, ceramics, etc. It is a good raw material for developing the glass industry. There are 58 timely mines in Qichun County, most of which are exposed on the surface and can be mined in the open pit. Qichun quartz stone is of good quality and high grade, with a silicon content of 99.99%, ranking first in China. It is a rare material for making high-grade glass. Qichun county is currently undergoing preliminary development, and the county glass factory uses timely resources to produce glass products such as wine bottles and wine glasses.

Giant salamander giant salamander, scientific name, belongs to Amphibia, giant salamander family. Because the cry is like the cry of a child, it is called "giant salamander". It is also a strange thing to call a fish not a fish. Giant salamander is not unique to eastern Hubei, it is distributed in Hubei, Anhui, Sichuan, Shaanxi and other provinces 17, and its footprints can often be seen in streams in the valley of its habitat. 1At the beginning of August, 982, flash floods broke out in Luotian County. A 60-cm-long giant salamander weighing more than ten kilograms rushed to the side of the road closed by Phoenix. A farmer got it and sent it to County No.1 Middle School for feeding. Giant salamander is the largest amphibian in existence. The largest is 1.8 meters long and weighs 40 to 50 kilograms. Brown back with big black spots and pale abdomen. The head is wide and flat, the mouth is big, and the teeth are curved. Nose and eyes are very small, located in the back of the head, without eyes and face. Strong body and flat tail. The limbs are very short, with four toes on the forelimbs and five toes on the hind limbs, with slight webbed between the toes. The skin is smooth, and the wart grains on the head are obvious, mostly arranged in pairs. It is fertilized in vitro, and its parents have the habit of protecting eggs. Living in a dark stream in a deep mountain, eating fish and shrimp.

Maoshan crab, which is produced in Cehu Lake (the lake is learning water and the mountain is in Qichun), is scientifically called "Chinese mitten crab" and is famous for its fat, yellow and delicious taste. According to qi zhou's record in Guangxu period of Qing Dynasty, "Crab comes out of Maoshan, yellow and sweet, which is better than other places." Maoshan crabs each weigh half a catty, and yellow makes them stick to the ground when crawling. Unlike crab pincers in other places, their claws are suspended. Beginning of autumn is the fattest season for Maoshan crabs. It is said that "July is sharp, August is round" and "September is double ninth, and crabs are full of yellow". Crab meat is salty, nutritious and delicious. "All crabs cooked raw, preserved in salt and soaked in wine sauce are excellent" (Ming: Li Shizhen's Compendium of Materia Medica). In particular, crab roe (ovary and digestive gland) tastes fresher and has high nutritional and medicinal value. Crab paste contains a lot of protein (per100g of protein14.5g), fat, vitamin A, vitamin B 1, vitamin B2, riboflavin, and also contains calcium, phosphorus, potassium, iron and other components. Cooking methods are drunk, rotten, sauced, fried, steamed and so on. Steamed crabs should first wash the dirt outside the crab shell with clear water, soak it in salt water for about an hour, let the crabs spit out the bacteria and dirt in their intestines, and then wash it with clear water. Steamed crabs should be fully cooked, and the sign of maturity is that the shell turns red. If the crab is steamed, dipped in Jiang Mo and vinegar, and sprayed with some hot wine at the same time, it can not only sterilize, but also dispel the cold and taste fresher. According to the "Materia Medica Classic", vinegar dipped in cooked crabs can replenish bone marrow, nourish liver yin, relax muscles and promote blood circulation. Maoshan crab also has the function of removing blood stasis and resisting tuberculosis, and has a good effect on killing scopolamine, relieving eel poison, painting literacy, treating malaria and jaundice, or mashing it into paste to apply scabies, ringworm sores and deafness. There is a story around Xishui Lake. In the second year of Hongwu in the Ming Dynasty (1369), Kang Maocai, the minister of Zhu Yuanzhang (Qi Chunren, an official who knows everything in the governor's office, and a prince in charge of state affairs, Rong Lu Jinshi, was named Duke of Qi after his death), went home to visit his mother, and when he returned to Beijing, he specially brought hairy crabs from Cehu to Beijing and sent them to the imperial palace. . Why are crabs produced in the lake so good? Mainly have good ecological conditions. There are many POTAMOGETON POTAMOGETON and POTAMOGETON, the roots are crisp and sweet, and there are many fish and shrimp in the lake, which is a good bait for crabs. Coupled with the soft soil at the bottom of the lake, the lake is clear and the sunshine time is long. This is beneficial to the growth of Eriocheir sinensis. The annual output in the early Qing Dynasty was 20,000 to 30,000 Jin; After the completion of Maoshanmen in the 29th year of Guangxu, the output dropped to about 20,000 Jin. 1964, the Maoshan sluice was rebuilt again, blocking the rivers and lakes, making it impossible for young crabs to swim back into the lake. In addition, the lake is narrowed and the hairy crabs are on the verge of extinction.

Wuxue Crisp Sugar was originally named Guihua Dongtang. Legend has it that there was a dutiful son named Dong. When his mother was ill and had no food to eat, she fried the flour and mixed it with sucrose, sesame seeds and osmanthus flowers. Delicious and motherly. After transplanting to the pastry industry, it was originally named osmanthus Dongtang, but because people didn't understand the meaning of the word "Dongtang", it was renamed osmanthus crisp sugar. Sweet-scented osmanthus crisp candy is strictly selected and carefully made. It has four characteristics of fragrance, sweetness, crispness and crispness, and can cure cough and moisten lung. There are hemp chips, sugar, fragrant strips, osmanthus and so on. In terms of materials, it tastes sweet and crisp. Although the bone is made of caramel, it is very brittle, deep in the mouth and does not stick to the teeth. In the early 1980s, this variety was listed in the "Hubei Pastry" list. In September, 1983, Hubei Provincial Department of Commerce awarded the Provincial Commercial Excellent Famous and Special Product Award; In recent years, he has won many gold medals in China International Food Expo. At present, there are twenty or thirty food enterprises mainly producing crisp candy, including Meiya, Guangji, Zhenxiong and Desheng. Guangji Crisp Sugar Factory has also developed corn crisp sugar, which is very popular in the market.