The earliest written record of Yuanyang rice can be found in the History of the Song Dynasty: Wang Anshi advocated releasing silt to cultivate rice in the northern Song Dynasty, "Bian Zhangduo sees its effect", and in the sixth year of Xining (1073) 10, 364 households such as Xing Yan, a citizen of Yangwu County, said, "Tiansha alkali is barren, begging for silt.
1983, archaeologists found carbonized rice grains in Ming tombs in the area. Rice has been widely replanted in Yuanyang for only a few decades. According to historical records, the Yellow River has burst its banks 57 times in Yuanyang County in the past thousand years, and this land has suffered from floods and saline-alkali intrusion.
1968, Qiao Yongqing, the "father of Yuanyang rice", tried to plant 600 mu of rice in Nanguan Brigade of Yuanwu Commune, and the yield per mu reached 450 kg that year. Since then, the rice planting scale in Yuanyang County has expanded rapidly, and the dream of "10,000 mu of alkali area becomes fertile land, and yellow water attracts rice fragrance" has finally become a reality, and the rice planting scale in Yuanyang County has been expanded rapidly.
1On August 22nd, 973, People's Daily made an in-depth report on the front page with the title "Arousing the fragrance of rice flowers in the Yellow River water-alkali area".
199 1 year1month 15, the first "rice festival" in Yuanyang county held a press conference in the Great Hall of the People in Beijing.
Yuanyang rice has gone through five stages along with the historical evolution of rice cultivation, during which, after several ups and downs, the planting area has been continuously expanded and entered 2 1 century. In order to strengthen and expand Yuanyang rice brand and take the road of industrialization, Yuanyang County listed the development of pollution-free, pollution-free, green and organic rice food in the Five-year Plan for National Economic and Social Development.
Product honor of Yuanyang rice
1990, Yuanyang rice was designated as the special food for the 11th Asian Games in Beijing.
1March, 1996, Yuanyang rice was approved as green food by China Green Food Development Center.
In 2002 10, Yuanyang rice was awarded the "certificate of origin trademark" by the State Administration for Industry and Commerce, becoming the first registered certificate of origin trademark in Henan Province and the first in the rice industry in China.
In 2003, "Yuanyang Rice" was certified by the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine, becoming the third rice product in China and the first product in Henan Province to implement geographical protection. Many honors are enough to prove that "Yuanyang Rice" is worthy of the title of "the first rice in China".