Hubei Huanggang Wuxue: autumn and winter tonic bergamot yam can be called "Dabie Mountain ginseng"

"Yixi Category Brand Industry Tour Series No. 32"

In China, the place named after "Wu" has a lot of heroism. For example, "Wuwei", "Wuhan"...

The eastern part of Hubei Province, the southern foothills of Dabie Mountain, the north bank of the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River, located in Wutou Chuwei, a place with "three provinces and seven counties through qu", "Edong Gateway" and "the first port into Chu", known as "the hometown of Chinese martial arts", the local Yuejiaquan has been included in the national intangible cultural heritage protection list.

This place is called "Wu Cave".

In addition to martial arts, there is also the aura of Chongwen here. This is the birthplace of the four ancestors of Zen Buddhism, Daoxin, and the background place for the writing of one of the four classical masterpieces, "Journey to the West".

Wuxue City belongs to Huanggang City, Hubei Province, formerly known as Guangji County, set up in the first year of Tang Tianbao, known as the "Buddha's Country", taking the meaning of "Guangshi Dharma, Puji sentient beings". In 1987, with the approval of the State Council, the county was withdrawn and established as a city.

Wuxue Is One of the Top Ten Deep-Water Ports of the Yangtze River. Sun Yat-sen's "Founding Strategy" mentions many "big places" such as Wuhan, and what few people know from the outside world is that the strategy actually "included this place in the development plan". In the middle of the Republic of China, Wuxue was one of the "Seven Major Commercial Ports" in Hubei, and the title of "Little Hankou" did not go away.

As far as the specialty is concerned, the bergamot yam of Wuxue is famous far and wide, also known as "Dabie Mountain Ginseng".

Wuxue yam has a long history of cultivation. Qing Tongzhi Nongshen's "Guangji County Chronicle" records that cultivation began to be introduced during the Tang Zhenguan period, and it has a history of more than 1300 years.

In ancient times, there was no brand story, so the Wuxue yam was handed down as a legend. For today's market economy, this is undoubtedly the best brand story:

According to legend, during the Tang Dynasty, the Tang monk Cunzang (commonly known as Jiang Zu) traveled to Guangji to build the Dazang Temple. Because it has the medicinal effect of "strengthening the spleen and tonifying the lungs, fixing the kidneys and improving the essence", the monks in the Great Tibetan Zen Temple planted yam to save the world. The yam looks like a palm and grows in the temple, so it is called "Buddha medicine". After it was introduced to the people, the people used it as a dish to nourish the body and gradually spread it.

There is another version of the "Brand Story":

The four ancestors of Zen Buddhism, Sima Daoxin, meditated in Guangji. Master Daoxin advocated "attaching equal importance to Zen and farming, self-reliance and self-reliance", and during the practice of Henggang Mountain, he integrated Zen into agriculture and realized the Tao with agriculture. The monks worked during the day and meditated and chanted at night, and their energy gradually ran out. When Daoxin led everyone to collect herbs to replenish their physical fitness, they found that wild yam tasted good and had the effect of strengthening the body. He quickly introduced wild yam seeds to the temple vegetable garden to be planted.

Amazingly, the shape of the yam, which was originally a strip of yam, grew into the shape of a palm. Combining many factors, coupled with the prosperity of Wuxue yam due to the four ancestors of Zen Buddhism, the locals call it "bergamot yam".

The contribution of Li Shizhen of the Ming Dynasty is that he changed the "yam" listed in the ancient herbal book as a grass department to a "vegetable department". In the "Compendium of Materia Medica", it is recorded that yam has the effect of strengthening the spleen and tonifying the lungs, fixing the kidneys and improving sperm.

The records of the General History of China's Economy and the Chronicle of Guangji County prove that folklore is not a fabrication.

The history of artificial cultivation of yam in Wuxue City is more than 400 years. It is extremely demanding in the growing environment: there are unique criteria for the planting location, climatic conditions and soil composition. So far, only the towns of Meichuan and Yuchuan in the northern mountains of Wuxue City are suitable for growing bergamot yam.

Chairman Hu Sibin tasted the Wuxue bergamot yam during his inspection of Wuxue and praised it for its "mellow and thick, tender and white flesh, and rich and crisp meat", which is worthy of the name.

Locals say that the mountains here are rich in minerals, supplemented by the irrigation of mountain springs, and the Quality of Wuxue Yam is of course outstanding.

The "Compendium of Materia Medica" records the Wuxue bergamot yam in detail and in detail: "Tonify the false win, remove the cold and heat evil qi, tonify the middle, improve the qi force, grow muscles, and strengthen the yang." Long service, eyes and ears are smart, light body, not hungry, prolonged. The main head is dizzy, breathing, relieving waist pain, curing fatigue and winning thinness, filling the five organs, and removing annoyance and heat. Strengthen the bones and muscles, the main drainage is forgetful, the kidney qi is beneficial, the spleen and stomach are healthy, the diarrhea is stopped, the phlegm is born, and the fur is moistened."

Yam is a medicinal and food homologous agricultural product published by the Ministry of Health. Noodles, vermicelli, canned yam, yam chips and twist flowers made mainly of Wuxue bergamot yam are on the market.

In contrast, our more common way to eat it is to combine it with ribs, fish heads, beef and other soups, which is a good product for autumn and winter nourishment and feasting. As a warm reminder, this season is the season to eat bergamot yam.

Experts also deliberately tested the relevant ingredients of bergamot yam, Huazhong Agricultural University and other experts research analysis and authoritative institutions tested: its starch content is high, rich in a variety of vitamins, trace elements and amino acids.

Wuxue bergamot yam and series of products have been rated as "99 China International Agricultural Expo" famous brand, "Chinese market famous brand products", "2009 China 18th Food Expo Gold Award", "China Green Food 2010 Shanghai Expo Best-selling Product Gold Award".

In July 2009, the Ministry of Agriculture of the People's Republic of China officially approved the registration and protection of geographical indications of agricultural products for "Wuxue Bergamot Yam".

In 2015, the Wuxue bergamot yam produced in Luhe Village was certified as a "pollution-free agricultural product", and the village was recognized by the Ministry of Agriculture as a "National One Village, One Product Demonstration Village" because of the production of yam;

In 2017, the "regional public brand" of Wuxue bergamot yam was successfully approved by the State Administration for Industry and Commerce;

In 2018, "Bergamot Yam Twist" won the National Gold Award in the Tourism Commodity Competition with Chinese Characteristics;

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At the beginning of 2018, China's first large-scale documentary reflecting the theme of geographical indications of agricultural products, "Source Taste of China", was broadcast, and Wuxue Bergamot Yam was further known to audiences across the country.

In the 1960s, the area and yield of Wuxue bergamot yam cultivation fell sharply.

After 1979, the city of Wuxue gradually resumed the cultivation of bergamot yam. However, due to the deep hiding in the mountains and the short storage period, the Wuxue Bergamot yam has always been "raised in the deep and unknown".

In 2009, Wuxue City made the production of bergamot yam an important part of the construction of the "Wuxue Food Industry City", supporting it to introduce incentive measures including cash incentives in all aspects from production, processing to sales.

In 2013, Wuxue issued the local standards for the implementation of the "Technical Regulations for the Production of Green Food Bergamot Yam", which clarified the technical specifications for environmental conditions, pre-sowing preparation, sowing, field management, pest control, harvesting and storage.

In order to protect the germplasm resources of yam, the city strictly plans the advantageous areas, delineates Meichuan Town and Yuchuan Town as suitable areas for the advantages of Wuxue bergamot yam, and selects high-quality seed potatoes, which maintains the genetic advantages of Wuxue bergamot yam to the greatest extent.

Wuxue has cultivated a number of bergamot yam professional production and marketing cooperatives and created a series of bergamot yam brand products. The industrial chain of bergamot yam has basically taken shape: from the production, processing, and sales of all links, it has gradually opened up.

The brands launched by these professional cooperatives have made a name for themselves in the market: "Wanxing", "Layer Peak Mountain", "Jisheng", "Buddha Palm", "Peng Yangwu", "Guangji Impression", "Yam Brothers", "Xiang Pu Pu", "Xing Handong"...

In terms of deep processing, Wuxue City has more than 10 leading processing enterprises such as Wanxing Noodle Industry and Wuyu Powder Industry, and the products launched include yam noodles, yam powder, yam drinks, yam twist flowers, etc., which sell well in more than 10 provinces and cities.

The yam noodles developed by Wanxing Noodle Industry have won the national patent, won the "Hubei Famous Brand Product", and won the "China Food Expo Gold Award" for two consecutive years. In February this year, the project of "Key Technology Innovation and Application of Yam Industry" that Wanxing Noodle Industry participated in and completed won the second prize of Hubei Provincial Science and Technology Progress Award.

By the end of 2020, the perennial planting area of Wuxue bergamot yam is about 30,000 mu, with an annual output of 49,000 tons and an annual output value of 300 million yuan.

In addition to the steady growth of the industry, the local government began to explore the new format of "yam +", and promoted the integrated development of the Wuxue bergamot yam industry, e-commerce and rural cultural tourism on the basis of better and stronger planting, processing and sales.

Wuxue explored the path of "landmark premium + e-commerce", adopted the four-in-one service model of "e-commerce public service center, rural e-commerce operation center, logistics distribution center, and rural e-commerce service station", and built a 7,000-square-meter e-commerce industrial park, which was officially put into operation in 2016. At present, Wuxue bergamot yam and its related products have entered the e-commerce platform, with annual online sales of more than 8,000 tons.

In order to fully tap the potential of landmark products, the local government is building "one town, two belts and three gardens": "one town", that is, Yuchuan Yam Characteristic Town, will build a yam landmark museum, yam peeling factory, yam product display center and e-commerce sales center, yam food tasting area, cultural tourism combination experience area, etc.; "two belts", that is, along the 318 National Road and red tourism road, planting yam in succession, forming two yam planting belts; "three gardens", that is, Baiyuan Wuxue bergamot yam harvesting experience park, Luhe yam standardized production demonstration garden, Wuxue bergamot yam product processing garden.

By 2022, the output value of the whole industrial chain of Wuxue Bergamot is 3 billion yuan.

Bergamot yam brought fire to cultural events. Since 2015, every year during the bergamot yam harvest season, cultural activities with the theme of "bergamot yam" have been splendid: tourists digging bergamot yam village tour, 1,000 people tasting bergamot yam feast, bergamot yam competition, e-commerce live streaming with goods, etc.

Bergamot yam brought wealth to the local people. According to media reports, taking a farmer in the fourth group of Luhe Village in Yuchuan Town, Wuxue City (the core production area of bergamot yam) as an example, after planting Wuxue bergamot yam, the income of one mu of land reached 13,000 yuan. This income level, if rice is planted, requires 10 acres.

There are many famous specialties in Wuxue. As of 2019, the city has 7 national geographical indication products, namely bergamot yam, Wuxue shortening, Wuxue rapeseed oil, Wuxue bamboo weaving, Longping oil noodles, Wuxue double low rapeseed, and Wuxue large gold plate duck.

Here is the national grain and "double low" rapeseed market, rapeseed mechanization demonstration county and city, grain cotton and oil high yield to create a demonstration county and city;

There are many reputations such as the hometown of Chinese poetry and the model counties and cities of Chinese greening.

Wuxue is worth a visit, "Journey to the West" author Wu Cheng'en in the Puzhou capital as "Jingfu Jishan", often to the Puzhou Wuxue area to enjoy the mountains and water in his spare time. As a result, many of the place names in his "Journey to the West" are similar, similar or even identical to the place names in Wuxue, such as Taoshuling, Stone Monkey, Tongtianhe, and Tibetan Scripture Cave.

After tasting the Bergamot yam, energetic and strong, you can visit Kuangshan and Xiangu Mountain Tourist Scenic Area, stop at Wushan Lake, Makou Lake, Taibai Lake and other national ecological wetlands and lakes; you can taste the zhenggong pagoda of the national key protection unit, the ancient Linyin Temple, the Huangya Temple, the Dazang Temple, and the Zhenwu Hall; you can admire the tranquility of the world's first Buddha well bathing Buddha well, experience the thrill of longzhu gorge rafting; you can bend down to linger in the cave group, or you can open your arms to marvel at the golden splendor of the 460,000 mu of rapeseed flower fields...

Needless to say, the bergamot yam rib soup is simmered, and it is eaten and drunk while it is hot...

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