Simiao rice is a high-quality indica rice with obvious local characteristics, with beautiful appearance, long grain shape, slender, crystal white, silky and glassy rice; The amylose content is moderate, the texture is moderate, the cooking is smooth and delicious, with fresh fragrance and good taste, and the rice grains are strip-shaped but not rotten. Known as the jasper in rice and the best in rice.
Silk Miao rice is slender, with no abdomen, white heart and transparent crystal. Silk Miao rice is moderately soft and hard, fragrant and delicious, and is known as "Jasper in rice" and "Best in rice". The traditional varieties of old silk seedlings are Baishui short-legged silk seedlings in Zhucun of this city, and high-legged silk seedlings are top-grade in Paitan Lingshan and Zhengguo Shuikou Village.
Simiao Rice is known as "the king of rice in China", which is just as famous as Zengcheng Gualu Litchi. It is famous in Lingnan for its white and glittering rice grains, rich oil, rich aroma, softness and delicacy, and enjoys a good reputation at home and abroad.
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There are about two acres of terraced fields in Baishui Village, Danqiu Village, Zhucun Town, Zengcheng City (now changed to Zhucun Street), which are divided into more than ten pieces. The author has visited them, belonging to sandy shallow-footed fields, and the legend is that they are the origin of "silk seedlings". Legend has it that during Jiaqing period of Qing Dynasty.
Legend has it that one day, two immortals (probably Taoist priests) swam over Baishuimo, and suddenly a purple air rose. When the immortals saw the beautiful scenery here, they thought that there must be a treasure trove of geomantic omen under Xiangyun's purple air, so they drove the clouds, settled in Baishuimo, established temples and planted rice in these terraces.
This kind of rice has golden husk, slender and slender grains, glittering and translucent white, silky rice and smooth and delicious cooking. Local farmers introduced and expanded their species.