Huanjiang Xiang Pig, produced in Dongxing Township and Minglun Township of Huanjiang County, is the birthplace of Xiang Pig. There is grass specially used to roast fragrant pigs. The baked taste is absolutely unique, crisp and tender, and it is one of the specialties of Huanjiang.
Huanjiang Xiang pig is a specialty of Huanjiang Maonan Autonomous County, and it is also a delicious dish at the banquet, which is famous throughout the country for its unique delicacy.
-the product of a unique geographical environment. According to folklore, Xiang pig has a long history since it settled around the river in the Ming Dynasty. Minglun, Longyan, Xunle and other towns along the river are located in the hinterland of 90 thousand mountains and belong to the remote and high areas of Huanjiang County. Most of them are peaks and valleys with an altitude of 500-800 meters. Short sunshine time on the ground, long growing period of crops, blocked traffic and long roads in rocky mountainous areas have led to the formation of pig breeds in this miniature place under such unique environmental conditions. Since the 1960s, due to the lack of progress in science and technology, people tend to raise excellent pigs with large size and fast growth, and put short and slow-growing Xiang pig breeds in the cold, resulting in a significant reduction in the number of this rare breed. 1978, the animal husbandry laboratory of Jinan University cooperated with the animal husbandry department of Huanjiang County to dig authentic varieties again and set up a project for research. With the help of Yi Bei's leisurely green mountains and green waters and pleasant climate, rich miscellaneous grains and wild vegetables in mountains and rivers are used as the main feed for Xiang pigs, and then a proper amount of unique and rare fragrant glutinous rice and fragrant japonica rice are fed, mainly in captivity, with two meals a day. After several years of cooperative development, it finally succeeded. With the continuous improvement of people's material living standards, the diet that pays attention to nutritious food has turned, which has made the "aristocratic family" in this pig family regain people's love and achieved rapid development.
In addition to living in a unique ecological environment and enjoying unique feed, Huanjiang Xiang pig also prevents the introduction of foreign blood by "attacking from generation to generation", thus creating the unique physical characteristics of "Black Pearl" and "Fat Winter Melon": First, it is short, generally 19cm high and 40 cm long when it is two months old; Second, the body is black, from head to toe, even the hard hooves and thin hair tips are black and shiny; The third is thin skin, which is 0.05cm for suckling pigs and 0. 16cm for adult pigs. Fourth, the bones are thin, accounting for only 7.9% of the body weight; Fifth, the weight is light, weighing 4-8 kg after weaning for two months and about 60 kg in adulthood; Sixth, bear hardships and stand hard work, transport cars for two days and two nights, hungry for thousands of miles, and rarely faint. The local germplasm and genetic genes above Xiang pig have been very stable and have not changed.
Huanjiang Xiang pig is generally around 6 kg, which is the most ideal slaughter quantity. After scalding, use glutinous rice straw to burn until the skin is golden yellow. Its meat can be roasted or boiled. The fire is crispy and delicious, and the aroma is overflowing; White cut is tender and delicious, and the fragrance is elegant. Both have no fishy smell, and they are not tired of eating more. However, seasoning is indispensable. When eating boiled fragrant pigs, you must make a bowl of salt dipped in vinegar essence, horseshoe incense, ginger, pepper, Polygonum hydropiper, onion, garlic paste, bean curd, biscuit powder and sesame oil, which tastes more beautiful. The New Year's Eve dinner will make your appetite big and your alcohol consumption soar. If you don't restrain yourself, it is "every family will get drunk."
Huanjiang Xiang pig not only has tender meat and delicious taste, but also has unique nutritional components.
The sensational effect of Huanjiang Xiang pig is seen by the "parents" in Huanjiang County, and they are beaming. In the autumn of 1993, an exciting decision was made in the office building: "Huanjiang Maonan Autonomous County Development Corporation" was established immediately; Strive to achieve four "ten thousand fragrant pig towns" within two years. Then, the county Xiangzhu Development Corporation signed an agreement with Fujian Putian Defa Automobile Operation Co., Ltd. to jointly establish a Xiangzhu feed breeding base and a Xiangzhu wholesale market in Huanjiang, and implement one-stop operation services of production, supply and sales. When conditions are ripe, towns and villages that started canned fragrant pigs such as Minglun, Dongxing, Longyan and Xunle set up fragrant pig development companies one after another to organize and mobilize the masses in these towns and villages, and every household became a fragrant pig farm. At present, Minglun Township has achieved "Ten Thousand Xiang Pig Township".
As the saying goes, "adopting a daughter asks for a hundred things." In mid-March, 1994, Guangxi International Folk Song Festival, trade fair of economy, trade and science and technology, became a household name in Tancheng. The eight attractive characters of "world food, fragrant pigs around the river" in the exhibition hall of Maonan Mountain Township have attracted merchants from all over the world. The preferential price per catty of roasted fragrant pigs is 35 yuan, and the preferential price per catty of live fragrant pigs is 140 yuan. More than 40 pigs sent to the exhibition were snapped up in less than half an hour. Guangxi TV station interviewed the production and sales of Huanjiang Xiang pig on the spot and broadcast it at the trade fair, which made Huanjiang Xiang pig shine brilliantly in Nanning in March and become famous all over the world. At present, some export departments inside and outside the region, Hong Kong and Taiwanese businessmen have come to discuss cooperative development, and some business units and individual industrial and commercial households in Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Huizhou and Shunde have also come to contact and order.
One side is soil and water, and the other side is things. Whether it is spring, summer or autumn and winter, if you come to Huanjiang, you can not only witness the elegant demeanor of the fragrant pig market, but also feast your eyes. Then visit the beautiful mountains and rivers that endow Xiang pig with aura, which will make you memorable and linger.