The Song Dynasty was a relatively developed era of economy and culture in Chinese history, and it was also an important stage in the development of artificial breeding of Chinese bees, family beekeeping was more common, and professional bee farms appeared.
Part of the Northern Song Dynasty Zhang Zeduan's "Map of the Upper River of the Qingming Dynasty"
Song liao confronted, and Miyun belonged to Tanzhou. Empress Xiao of the Liao State, nicknamed Yan Yan (燕燕), was the empress of Emperor Jingzong of Liao, the biological mother of Emperor Shengzong, and empress dowager Xiao of Liao, who defeated the Song army several times in the commentary "General of the Yang Family". When Shengzong became emperor, he was only 12 years old, and Empress Xiao was regent of the dynasty. In the first year of the same year (938), Liao upgraded Youzhou, where beijing is located today, to the capital of Nanjing, also known as Yanjing. Empress Xiao and Emperor Zhenzong of Song signed the "Alliance of Liaoyuan", and the two countries divided the Line of Baigou, Juma River, and Haihe River, creating a period of peaceful development of Song and Liao. Empress Xiao actively adjusted the tax policy to protect and develop agricultural production. In February of the seventh year of reunification (989), Empress Xiao relocated three hundred households to the three prefectures of Tan, Shun, and Ji, providing them with manpower and material support and encouraging them to cultivate. In June of the same year, Empress Xiao also gave the wasteland of Yanle and Miyun counties to the people for cultivation free of charge, and exempted them from rent for 10 years.
The picture shows Empress Xiao of the Liao State
According to legend, Empress Xiao's mother's family was in Chengzi Village in Taishitun Town. Chengzi Village is located on the south bank of the Chaohe River, very close to Gaoling, at the junction of the two towns, there is a local story: Xiao Yanyan was elected empress by the Emperor of the Liao State, and local officials saw that the village was small and scattered, so they built a square city pool and renamed the original Xiaojia Village Chengzi.
Empress Xiao traveled back and forth between Yanjing and Shangjing, leaving many historical sites related to Empress Xiao. For example, the only river in Beijing named after a character, the Xiao Empress River, the Hualin of Huanggu Mountain, the ruins of the Tianzhu Palace, which was built by Emperor Jingzong of Liao, for Xiao Yanyan, and the yanfangdian of the Tongzhou Royal Spring Hunt.
In folklore, Empress Xiao is still a "Aimida person". Yanqing Guangou has a basin stone, called "bird's nest", Qianlong's "Yanqing Zhiluo" said: "At the top of the Upper Guandong Mountain, there are stone basins, and the word 'bird's nest' is carved in stone, and the dressing place of Empress Xiao of Liao is passed on." Yongzheng "Miyun County Chronicle" Yun: "Looking at the flower platform, in the twenty miles northwest of the county, in the Great Water Valley, Empress Xiao took the stage to admire the flowers, and the ruins still exist." ”
Xiao Yanyan grew up in Miyun, where she grew up with many beekeepers, so she has a special love for the White Honey of the Chaohe River in her hometown. When Empress Xiao was stationed in Hualin and Tianzhu Palace, she often drank honey from Tanzhou and used bee products to beautify the "secret recipe", and the skin was like gelatin and abundant. People still look old in middle age, which shows the beauty and beauty effect of honey.
The Emperor of the Liao Dynasty knew that Empress Xiao liked Chaohe White Honey, and ordered the imperial doctor to use Chaohe White Honey as raw material for her, and configured honey grapefruit tea, which was deeply loved by Empress Xiao, and since then, Chaohe White Honey has also become a tribute to the Empress of Liao.
Honey grapefruit tea not only tastes fragrant and delicious, but also has the effect of whitening and removing spots, rejuvenating the skin and nourishing the face. The L-cysteine contained in honey has a detoxifying effect, and people who often have acne can effectively alleviate skin diseases after taking it, and have a certain freckle removal effect.
"Medicinal and food homology". The "secret recipe" for honey medicine began in the third century BC. The earliest medical book, the Shennong Materia Medica, lists honey as the best of medicines. Generations of medical scientists have admired the role of bee products on human health, and Chinese medicine is known as "the whole body of the bee". The Tang Dynasty's hundred-year-old famous doctor Zhen Quan's "Treatise on Medicinal Properties" records that honey "often serves noodles like red" and "this thing is very expensive in the immortal formula". Li Shizhen's "Compendium of Materia Medica" of the Ming Dynasty systematically summarized the achievements of pharmacology before the middle of the Ming Dynasty in the mainland, promoted the development of Chinese pharmacology, and summarized the five functions of honey into medicine: qing fever also; Complement also; Moisturizing also; Detoxification also; Pain relief also.
Modern research shows that honey does have the function of replenishing the essence and pleasing the face, which can make "the old people less, and the fewer more beautiful." ”
The picture shows Okinda "Hua Tong" brand honey
The picture shows the Okinda "Huatong" brand honey production line
Honey produced in Miyun (Tanzhou) is often used with traditional Chinese medicine, as the "messenger" in the "Junchen Zuo Envoy", it plays a role in communicating with various organs of the body, summer can prevent summer and purify the heart, winter and warm yang nourishment, mediate the balance of yin and yang in the body, prolong life, beauty and beauty. Deeply loved by Empress Xiao, she achieved a good local story.