Specialties of Langxi County

The mountains are rich in Dongwu, and the tea is called Ruicao Kui. Although cutting talismans is a common history, repairing tributes is also an immortal talent." - Du Mu's "Inscription on Tea Mountain"

Ruicaokui is produced in Yashan in southern Anhui. It is also known as Yashan tea and is a famous historical tea. As early as In the Tang Dynasty, Langxi County was the hometown of tribute tea, and the Tang Dynasty tribute tea "Rui Caokui" grew in the mountains of Langxi, Anhui Province.

Rui Caokui was produced in Yaocun Township, Langxi County, Anhui Province. Baiyanggang, located in the south of Miaoquan Village (Yaojiata Village), is a famous historical tea. Because of the large intersection angle of the main lateral veins of the tea tree, it looks like a horizontal grain, so it was famous in China as early as thousands of years ago.

“The mountains are beautiful in the east of Wu, and the tea is called Ruicao Kui. Although it is a common history, it is also an immortal talent.” This is a famous line from the poem "Inscribed on the Tea Mountain" by Du Mu, a poet of the Tang Dynasty. Rui Cao Kui is praised as the best tea.

There are more than 80,000 temple tea gardens in Langxi. It is the largest green tea production base in China. On average, 1 jin of every 10 jins of tea in the country is produced in Langxi. In 1996, Langxi County was awarded the "Hometown of Green Tea in China" by the Ministry of Agriculture. The famous historical tea "Rui Caokui" was produced in Yashan, Yaocun Township, Langxi.

Yashanyang. The altitude of Pobai Yanggang is 487 meters. It has towering ancient trees, green bamboo forests, tinkling streams, and shrouded clouds. The tea fields have black gravel soil, which is particularly suitable for the growth of tea. The tea trees are naturally wild and very unique. The area of ​​​​the fresh leaves can be harvested. More than 8,000 acres, the finished tea is flat and straight like a bird's tongue, even in size, green in color, with visible pekoe, long and long-lasting aroma, light yellow-green soup, clear and bright, fresh and refreshing taste, and a rich aftertaste. It is actually the finest among famous teas. There are detailed historical records of "Rui Caokui" from the Tang Dynasty to the Song, Ming and Qing Dynasties.

Du Mu, a famous poet in the Tang Dynasty, highly praised Rui Caokui in his poem "Inscribed on the Tea Mountain". . Tea was produced in Yashan in Xuanzhou in ancient times. It was recorded in Lu Yu’s Tea Book of the Tang Dynasty and Shu Mao Wenxi’s Tea Book of the Five Dynasties: “There is Yashan (i.e. Yashan) in Xuancheng County, where small square cakes are spread across Mingya. Pretend. The tea from Shandong is called Yangpo by the Chao Ri, and its tea is the best. The prefect tried it and recommended it to people in Jingluo, and named it Yashan Yangpo Horizontal Tea. "The poem written by Mei Yaochen of the Northern Song Dynasty in his "Answer to Master Zhang of Xuancheng's Book of Remains of Tea in Crow Mountain is Second to the Rhyme" says: In the past, when I read the poems of the Tang Dynasty, the rhyme of tea was in Yashan Jia. The crow was born with tea seeds, so the same mountain was named crow. The first spear flag was emphasized,

Although it is abundant in the south of the Yangtze River, this tea is as delicate as a sparrow's tongue. It is roasted with green bean sprouts and is not heavily sprinkled with auspicious herbs. Excellent, famous throughout the country, it is an ancient famous tea with a long history of more than a thousand years.

Langxi, the largest green tea production base in China, has an endless green tea sea that sets off the grandeur of the Jiangnan tea sea. , beautiful; every year around the Qingming Festival, green tea tips emerge in the tea garden, and tea-picking girls sing beautiful folk songs of southern Anhui and pick green and tender tea leaves. Connected to the tea garden is the rippling blue lake, water and sky. The scenery of the same color is set against the green mountains and green tea. Under the rays of the sunset, a beautiful picture of Jiangnan landscape is revealed. Walking in the fresh air and fragrant tea garden in the morning, you can see the undulating green tea at the edge. Enjoying the wonderful scenery of nature and the refreshing fragrance of tea make people feel energetic. This blessed land of tea all reveals the natural treasures and spiritual spirit of this Jiangnan water town. A long time ago, there was no rain in the Jiangnan area. The river and lake dried up, and an Oolong was trapped on the Tall Grass Lake. One day, the Jellyfish Queen passed by. The dying Oolong begged her to be kind and save his life. Seeing this, the Jellyfish Queen suddenly felt pity and agreed to set up the water dragon. The jellyfish queen flicked her sleeves and threw out the pure white gauze silk, and set up a altar more than one foot high. The colorful auspicious clouds at her feet gently lifted her up onto the high platform. He lit a stick of heavenly incense and bowed three times to the east. Suddenly, fog rolled in at the bottom of the tall grass lake. At this moment, Wu Zi, the grandson of Lei Xingxing, was passing by with his daughter-in-law for some reason. He saw the Jellyfish Lady wearing a thin wrap around her shoulders. She was practicing the method with her bare chest and back exposed. She suddenly became curious and turned into a mouse and got under the altar to peek up at the Jellyfish Queen's method. According to the law of heaven, if you peek at the immortal family's method, you will be punished by five thunders. Sun Wuzi thought that as long as she was not discovered, she would be fine. The Jellyfish Queen shook her right sleeve again, and a bowl of fairy water appeared in her hand, and it poured like a waterfall into the tall grass lake. At this moment, there was a sound of "Ah!" from the audience, and a big mouse rolled in the water waves and revealed its true form. The Jellyfish Queen was shocked to see that it was Sun Wuzi. At this time, the law was broken and the water stopped flowing. Half filled with lake water.

The water flows out along the creek below the lake. Wherever the water reaches, the dried grass turns green, and the dried fish and shrimp in the ditch gradually come to life. Wulong was about to take advantage of the water head to soar, but the water was cut off and he suddenly fell down. The head became the top of Wuya Mountain and the tail was in Takao Lake. The legend of "the sky opened at the source of the dragon and the earth turned into the lakes and dried up" was left behind. The Jellyfish Queen put away her magic tools and angrily went back to the Heavenly Palace to complain. At this time, Sun Wuzi knew that something bad was going on. He had violated the laws of heaven and would be struck by five thunders. Anxiously, he summoned his daughter-in-law Miao Tianxiang and said: "Your father-in-law, I have committed the crime of being struck by five thunders, and I cannot escape death. You are the only one who can save me now." "How can I save you?" "I am the one who committed the crime of heaven, not Mr. Lei. If I want to beat you, I will immediately turn into a jujube. You can hold me in your mouth. When Lei Gong is gone, you can spit me out and I can escape this disaster." After that, I turned into a huge jujube. Miao Tianxiang immediately picked up the green dates and just put them into his mouth. There was lightning and thunder in the eastern sky, and dark clouds rolled in. There was a loud "click" sound, which scared Miao Tianxiang and opened his mouth. "No!" Swallowed this "father-in-law" into his stomach. After a burst of lightning and thunder, calm returned. At this time, Miao Tianxiang was panicking. Not far down the road from Gao Cao Lake, she suddenly thought that her father-in-law would suffocate to death after being in her belly for too long. She wanted to let him out quickly, so she opened her mouth and vomited out. A date core. I thought that this must be my father-in-law. His flesh has been digested by me, and only these bones are left. ? She was sad and scared, so she dug a hole by the ditch with her hands, buried the date stones, and then lay on the ground and kowtowed three times. Strangely enough, saplings sprouted from the jujube core, and in an instant it grew into a big jujube tree, which blossomed and bore fruit. This fruit looks exactly like the fruit my father-in-law turned into, big and bright. ? Miao Tianxiang thought to herself, this jujube must have been entrusted to me by my father-in-law, and I must fulfill my filial piety for him. So he built a small hut next to the jujube tree and began to protect this "sacred tree". When she was thirsty, she would drink the fairy water from the stream. When she was hungry, she would pick a few dates to satisfy her hunger. After each date she ate, she would bury the date core in the soil and a new date tree would grow. Year after year, this place has become a jujube forest. Miao Tianxiang's husband, Sun Su, was in charge of the Jade Emperor's back garden. He heard that something seemed to have happened to his father and wife. He had not seen his wife and father for more than ten days. He was very worried and went out to look for them. Sun Su found out from Dian Mu that his father and daughter-in-law were in the mortal world around Gao Cao Lake, so he hurriedly asked for leave from the Jade Emperor and came to Gao Cao Lake. He saw Miao Tianxiang picking dates, and went up to him and cried, knowing that his father was Unfortunately, Sun Su asked his wife to return to the Heavenly Palace with him. Miao Tianxiang smiled bitterly and said: "I can't go back. I have to guard this jujube forest until a replacement comes." Sun Su said helplessly: "Okay! I will I will protect it with you too!" After saying that, he turned into a bee and made a big hive under the jujube tree. From then on, bees went out to collect flowers every day to make honey, and Tianxiang cooked dates with honey juice to make candied dates. Before cooking jujubes every time, she would dig out the jujube pits and plant them again. She believed that the jujube pits were her father-in-law and could not allow him to be boiled in boiling water. The dates with pits removed are filled with honey, crushed, dried and eaten. I don’t know how many years passed, but there was another severe drought, the river dried up and the ground cracked, and the victims fled the famine one after another. After Cangjie, Hou Po took his whole family, wife, children and children, fled from Henan and came here. Hope saw that the crops and trees in other places had dried up, but the flowers and grass in this river were lush and the green bushes were full of life. He thought that this must be a geomantic treasure. Going further, I found a small stream with gurgling water. Hopper's family planned to settle here, and found a piece of flat land. The family began to cut wood and grass, built two thatched huts, and settled down. The next day, in order to get to know the surrounding environment, Hopper took some wild animals, holding a steel fork in his hand and a cloth bag tied to his waist, and went up the creek alone. Not far away, he saw a middle-aged woman sitting on a stone platform in front of him, holding something in her hand. At this time, a fragrant aroma wafted into his nostrils, which deeply attracted Hou Po. He walked closer and bowed and asked, "Is this the case?" Sister, may I ask what you are pinching?" "Candied dates." Tianxiang agreed without raising her head. Hope asked again: "Why do you live alone in this remote ravine?" "Waiting for someone." "I just came here too, and we will be neighbors from now on. What do you call me?" "Tianxiang." Middle-aged. Due to the woman's lukewarm attitude, Hope couldn't say anything more and was about to move on. "Stop, take all these candied dates! These are all prepared for you." Hou Po was overjoyed when he heard this and thanked him repeatedly! He was already salivating at the ocher-yellow transparent candied dates with a pleasant fragrance. Sorry to ask for it.

He quickly untied the small cloth bag and put all the candied dates on the stone table into it. After thanking him again and again, he ran back to the hut. After telling his mother and family what he had just encountered, he took out a handful from his pocket. The candied dates were wanted to be tasted by the mother first. Hou Mu took the candied dates and squeezed them. They were soft and soft. When she smelled them, the green fragrance hit her nostrils. She put them in her mouth and tasted them. They were sweet and soft. The old lady praised it repeatedly: "It's delicious! It's delicious! It's really a fairy fruit!" She ate three pills in a row. Miraculously, the old lady's white hair gradually turned into black hair, her hazy eyes became brighter, and she was full of energy. The whole family was surprised. Hou Po suddenly realized and said: "I met a fairy!" Hou Mu said: "My son! Why don't you go and thank the fairy who gave our fairy fruit!" Hou Po turned around quickly and came to the stone platform again, but there was no fairy. There was no trace of him, so he had to lie down in front of the stone platform and kowtow a few times. It turns out that Miao Tianxiang and his wife had already sworn to protect them until someone came here before leaving. Hope was the new owner of this place. Sun Su left behind a group of bees and took Miao Tianxiang back to the Heavenly Palace. At night, Miao Tianxiang asked Hou Bo a dream, explaining the management of some jujube trees and the techniques of making jujubes. Besides, after Hou Po returned home, he enshrined the candied dates given by Tianxiang at home, offered incense and bowed before him every day, and began to take on the task of managing the jujube garden. When the harvest season comes, his wife and children help pick dates, wash and boil the dates with the fairy water in Takao Lake, and use the collected honey to make sizing. Hou Po imitates the Tianxiang deity and teaches his wife and children how to knead the dates. After drying on the fairy stone table, store it. When the family couldn't finish the food, they took it to the market to sell it. When Hou Po got old, he passed on his skills to his son and daughter. He lived to be 105 years old, and Hou's mother lived to be 99 years old. The art of making candied dates is passed down from generation to generation. There were more and more jujube trees, and the village was getting bigger and bigger. Later, people called this village "Hou Village". In order to commemorate their ancestors, the descendants of the Hou family called the dates with pits removed and filled with honey "Tianxiang", and the ocher-yellow and transparent dates with the date core visible from the outside were called "Amber". In practice, the jujube farmers have created new candied jujube varieties such as "Zao Wang, Da Mian, Lan Hua, and Chao Dan". Houcun candied dates are famous for their unique aura, and many officials use them as gifts to please their superiors. In the Qing Dynasty, Emperor Qianlong went to the south of the Yangtze River, played music, sang and danced all the way to Daibu. The noble concubines coquettishly asked the emperor for local specialties to satisfy their greed. Qianlong asked the officials and eunuchs around him: "They all say that Jiangnan is a good place with beautiful mountains, green waters, and outstanding people. Do you know what delicious food there is here?" Eunuch Li hurriedly stepped forward and saluted and replied: "Long live Qi Zhen! I heard that the candied dates in Houcun, Jianping County, not far from here, are quite good. "Oh! Why don't you go get some for me to try?" The next morning, the magistrate of Jianping County brought the best. "Tianxiang" and "Amber" came to pay tribute to the emperor. The emperor looked at the candied dates in front of him, took one and ate it, and said, "You all say how delicious these candied dates are, but I think they are just average!" Eunuch Li, who was standing aside, said, "Your Majesty, you just ate "It's too fast. You should taste it slowly." "That's because I'm too greedy for food!" "I don't dare." The emperor stretched his waist, took another one and put it into his mouth. Chewing, "Hmm... Not bad! Not bad! It's really delicious. I've eaten a lot of delicacies and delicacies, but this candied date is unique. Where is it made?" Magistrate Lu knelt down and said, "Long live!" It’s my Jianping specialty.” "Yeah! Jianping candied dates are particularly good at fame." The accompanying recorder immediately wrote down the emperor's words. Later, in the fifty-seventh year of Qianlong's reign, Hu Wenquan recorded this sentence in the "Guangzhou Chronicles": "Jianping is particularly good at making candied dates, and it is a special book."

——The legend about Houcun candied dates. Chestnuts have the functions of strengthening the spleen and stomach, replenishing qi, tonifying the kidneys, strengthening the waist, strengthening the muscles, stopping bleeding, reducing swelling and strengthening the heart. They are suitable for treating soreness and weakness of the waist and knees caused by kidney deficiency. Disability in the waist and legs, increased urination, chronic diarrhea caused by deficiency of the spleen and stomach, and fractures, blood stasis, swelling and pain, and muscle and bone pain caused by trauma. Bright chestnuts also have high medicinal value. Chestnuts have the functions of strengthening the spleen and stomach, replenishing qi, tonifying the kidneys, and strengthening the heart. They are mainly used to treat nausea, vomiting blood, hematochezia and other diseases, and are suitable for people of all ages. Chestnuts are rich in soft dietary fiber and have a lower glycemic index than rice. As long as no sugar is added during cooking, diabetics can also enjoy them in moderation. The rich unsaturated fatty acids and vitamins contained in chestnuts can prevent and treat diseases such as hypertension, coronary heart disease, and arteriosclerosis.

Chestnuts are extremely high in sugar, fat, and protein. They also contain minerals such as calcium, phosphorus, iron, and potassium, as well as vitamins C, B1, and B2, which can strengthen the body.

Pregnant women eat chestnuts to keep fit and strengthen their bones. Chestnuts are also called chestnuts. Together with red dates and persimmons, it is known as the "three major woody foods". Chestnut is rich in protein, fat, carbohydrates, calcium, phosphorus, iron, zinc, multiple vitamins and other nutrients. It has the effects of strengthening the spleen and stomach, nourishing the kidneys and tendons, promoting blood circulation and stopping bleeding. Pregnant women often eat chestnuts, which can not only keep fit and strengthen bones, but also help the development and maturity of the pelvis, and can also eliminate fatigue. Moreover, the fried chestnuts are sweet and delicious, making it a very good delicacy. Langxi specialty lotus root: Langxi County has a large water area and has been a major county producing lotus root since ancient times. Lotus root is suitable for eating raw or cooked. It is rich in nutrients and can prevent many diseases. It is a good product for health care. Its whole body is a treasure. The starch content of old lotus root reaches more than 20%, which can be processed into lotus root powder and candied fruit. The petioles, lotus bark, lotus flowers and lotus root joints can be used as medicine; lotus seeds are excellent tonics. In recent years, due to the adjustment of the agricultural structure, the area of ​​paddy fields planted with lotus roots has increased day by day, reaching 11,000 acres, with an annual output of 15,000 tons of fresh lotus roots, which are exported to foreign markets. Lotus root is native to India and was introduced to my country very early. During the Northern and Southern Dynasties, the cultivation of lotus root was quite common. Lotus root is slightly sweet and crisp. It can be eaten raw or cooked, and its medicinal value is quite high. Its roots, leaves, flowers, whiskers and fruits are all valuable and can be used as nourishing medicine. Powder made from lotus root can digest food and stop diarrhea, appetizer, clear away heat, nourish and prevent internal bleeding. It is a good liquid food and nourishing treasure for women, children, children, and the weak and sick. During the Xianfeng period of the Qing Dynasty, it was designated as an imperial tribute.

Nutritional analysis

1. Clearing away heat and cooling blood: Lotus root is cold in nature, has the effect of clearing away heat and cooling blood, and can be used to treat febrile diseases; lotus root is sweet and liquid, and is good for heat diseases. It is especially beneficial for those suffering from thirst, epistaxis, hemoptysis, and bleeding.

2. Laxative and antidiarrheal, invigorating the spleen and appetizing: Lotus root contains mucus protein and dietary fiber, which can combine with cholates in the human body, cholesterol and triglycerides in food to remove them from the feces. Excreted, thereby reducing lipid absorption. Lotus root exudes a unique fragrance and also contains tannins, which can strengthen the spleen and stop diarrhea. It can increase appetite, promote digestion, appetize and strengthen the body, and is beneficial to the recovery of health for those with poor appetite and loss of appetite.

3. Benefit blood and promote muscle growth: Lotus root has high nutritional value and is rich in iron, calcium and other trace elements. It is also rich in plant protein, vitamins and starch. It can obviously replenish qi and blood and strengthen the human body. Immunity effects. Therefore, Chinese medicine says: "It mainly nourishes the middle and nourishes the mind, and replenishes qi and strength."

4. Stop bleeding and disperse blood stasis: Lotus root contains a large amount of tannic acid, which has the effect of constricting blood vessels and can be used to stop bleeding. Lotus root can also cool the blood and disperse blood. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that it can stop bleeding without leaving blood stasis, and is a good food therapy for febrile disease.