Honey along the river is a specialty of Yanhe County, tongren city, Guizhou Province. Yanhe County is one of the main honey producing counties in Guizhou, and its output ranks among the best in the province. The "royal jelly honey" produced by the bee products processing factory in Yanhe County is a health care product suitable for all ages.

According to the Records of the County along the River, "There is an old farmer's proverb in Yanhe County,' attract bees to attract sheep and not eat family food'. During Jiaqing period of Ming Dynasty, honey was one of the main local products in this county. By the end of 1949, the county had beekeeping 1 1560 boxes, and the honey output was 20 tons. 1974 supply and marketing cooperatives bought 86.4 tons of honey. 1976 There were 93 beekeepers in the county, and 162 people brought together 2767 beekeeping groups. In addition, 2,265,438+0 farmers used artificial nests in wooden boxes to raise Chinese bees. The history of human beekeeping can be traced back to primitive animal husbandry in primitive society, and the recorded history of beekeeping along the river today can be traced back to Pakistan. According to the Records of Yuanhe County, in the Tang Dynasty, Sizhou used honey, beeswax, tea, lacquer and cinnabar as tributes.