Recently, the Department of Culture and Tourism of Guangdong Province announced the list of recommended projects in the eighth batch of provincial intangible cultural heritage representative projects, recommending a total of 115 projects, 42 newly selected projects and 73 expansion projects. Among them, Zijin County cast iron technology (purple gold iron pot making technology) and Zijin County pepper sauce production technology were listed in the newly selected projects.
Zijin County cast iron technology (purple gold iron pot making technology)
Purple gold iron pot making technique
The casting craft of the purple gold iron pot has been passed down for more than 600 years, because of the impact of industrialization, the purple gold iron pot once fell silent. In recent years, through technological innovation and innovative development, the zijin iron pot has re-entered the public vision with the characteristics of uniform heating, energy saving and environmental protection. All this is inseparable from the efforts of Chen Annan, the founder of the "Source Jinbao" brand purple gold iron pot.
More than 20 years ago, affected by the rapid development of industrialization, the sales of purple gold iron pots produced by manual pouring fell sharply. Chen Annan had to suspend the operation and production of iron pots and go to the Pearl River Delta to work and earn a living, but he always remembered how to overcome the shortcomings of the purple gold iron pot with thick bottom, slow heat transfer, lack of energy saving, and easy rust, so that the "intangible" purple gold iron pot was revitalized.
In order to realize his dream, in 2000, Chen Annan resolutely quit his job and returned to his hometown to embark on a long research road. After countless improvement experiments, in the early summer of 2015, Chen Annan successfully developed a new generation of purple and gold iron pot with fast heat transfer, uniform heating, energy saving and environmental protection, beautiful appearance and easy to rust. The production technology and the "Source Jinbao" brand he founded have also obtained relevant national patent certificates and trademark registration certificates.
In 2017, Chen Annan won the second prize in the Heyuan Innovation Competition, and with the continuous improvement of performance and popularity, the Zijin iron pot is now in short supply. In 2020, Chen Annan's iron pot manufacturing plant completed some of the upgrading projects – the interior space is more spacious, and production equipment is also being installed and commissioned. Chen Annan excitedly introduced to reporters that the transformation of the new plant took 7 months and is a production line. "Before the transformation, our monthly output was only a few hundred, and the annual output value was about 3 million yuan." Now after the transformation, our output can reach 3,000 a month, and the annual output value can reach more than 20 million yuan. ”
The best-selling of the purple gold iron pot has also led to the employment and income of the surrounding masses. Riding on the east wind of the policy, Chen Annan is working hard to re-polish the famous brand of the purple gold iron pot by updating equipment, improving technology, increasing products, and enriching product types.
Zijin County pepper sauce
Zijin County pepper sauce making skills
Purple gold iron pot, purple gold pepper sauce and purple gold bamboo shell tea, known as the "three treasures of purple gold". According to local historical records, purple gold pepper sauce was first founded in the 36th year of Qianlong in the Qing Dynasty (that is, in 1771), local traders combined traditional technology and modern science and technology, explored and mastered a unique set of production processes, of which the main materials of the product are mainly high-quality peppers and garlic, with more than 20 kinds of auxiliary raw materials such as sand ginger, star anise, fennel, etc., using advanced scientific production technology, aging and aging.
[All-media reporter] Yu Pei
[Correspondent] Huang Conggao
【Author】 Yu Pei
【Source】 Southern Press Media Group South + client