Chicken head rice is a class of angiosperms of the water lily family.

Chicken head rice for the 1653 Suzhou Turnip Gate Nantang specialties, every year around the mid-autumn market, in Suzhou has a "Nantang chicken head big pond lotus root" reputation. Qing Shen Chaochu "Memories of South Jiangsu" cloud: "Suzhou is good, turnip water planted chicken head, glistening every suspicion of beads ten dendrobium, soft aroma favoring milk full of ou, peeling small court."

Suzhou folk eating chicken head rice in many ways, the most popular way to eat is chicken head rice soup. The production method is very simple, the pot of water boiled fresh chicken head rice into the pot, after boiling to thicken the thickening of lotus root powder, out of the pot and add a little sugar cinnamon can be loaded 5261 bowl into the basin.

"Chicken head rice" (Gorgonzola) is born in the shallow water of the pond, known as "water ginseng" reputation, is medicine, food and green health food. At present, more than 10 townships in Gu Shi County has planted gorgonians, forming a set of planting, picking, processing and sales in one of the industrial chain. Professional cooperatives and enterprises to jointly carry out "chicken head rice 2113" deep processing of dried fruits, to enhance the added value of the product.

The sales model is also shifted from traditional sales to network sales 4102, this year, the county only online sales reached 6 million yuan, gorgonian planting area has reached more than 30,000 acres, absorbing more than 45,000 rural laborers engaged in the industry.