Five thousand years ago, the Liangzhu people planted rice in Maoshan Mountain and made jade in Yujia Mountain.
The location of Maoshan and Yujia Mountain is Xiaolin Township in Linping Laodizi, Hangzhou, a few years ago, there were people farming in Xiaolin, and the most famous local specialty is "Xiaolin Yellow Ginger".
The northern production of large ginger, the most famous is Shandong Laiwu large ginger; the southern production of small ginger, ginger flavor, yellow and bright color of the small forest yellow ginger, counted as the best of the ginger, the Northern Song Dynasty "Taiping Huanyuzhi", the Ming Dynasty "Compendium of Materia Medica" have been recorded.
Five thousand years ago, in Maoshan Mountain, whether rice was rotated with ginger, we can't verify, but for a long time, the Xiaolin people have been using ginger and rice rotation for agricultural production.
In this former ginger land, the Yujiashan Ruins Park under construction will be completed next year, and the current Xiaolin Township is actually fully urbanized, it belongs to Donghu Street in Linping District, where the cultivation of Xiaolin yellow ginger originated was just moved north to the fields on the south bank of the Grand Canal this year.
Xu Jianrong, a ginger in Xiaolin, looks especially like Zhang Yi, the male protagonist of "Chicken Feathers Fly to the Sky". This second generation of farmers born and raised in the ginger field has been a ginger grower for generations.
This year, Xu Jianrong found a good piece of land, the night tidal soil on the banks of the Grand Canal, with large sand content and strong moisturizing ability, which is very suitable for growing ginger.
At the beginning of November, new ginger is on the market, get up early in the morning, pluck ginger in the field, remove leaves, pack boxes... People are working feverishly.
This is the second time xu Jianrong has plucked ginger this year.
Qingming planting ginger, 6-7 months of tender ginger, do vinegar soaked ginger is the best, expensive can sell to 25 yuan / catty, half of the ginger in the field has been shipped in the summer.
Autumn vegetable ginger, each bush has grown to 2-3 kilograms of weight, is the only choice for cooking vegetables to go fishy, flavorful, flavorful, fragrant, after harvesting constant temperature storage, can always be sold to the next year.
In previous years, vegetables were cheap, ginger was expensive, this year the market reversed, vegetables rose, and the price of ginger was very close to the people.
Xu Jianrong in the xiaolin yellow ginger, the current purchase price is 3 yuan a catty, everyone in the vegetable market to buy about 5 yuan / jin, authentic Xiaolin yellow ginger has entered the supermarket, the next will be in the century Lianhua, Wumart, box horse shelf sales.
On the right is the mother ginger
Whether it is tender ginger, or vegetable ginger, when harvesting ginger, there is a piece of ginger on each bush of ginger, which is two years old, also called niang ginger or ginger mother, can be picked separately to sell to the pharmaceutical factory, ginger mother has high medicinal value, is a must for autumn and winter to do cream.
After growing ginger for 10 years, Xu Jianrong collected many local ginger varieties in the field.
He planted and planted, or felt that his own Xiaolin yellow ginger performed best: "The yield is high, and the disease resistance is better." ”
In the past, grandpa and dad planted ginger and drove a boat to Hangzhou to sell ginger, which was very popular among the people in the city.
Xu Jianrong remembers: "In the past, every October, my father and I had to sleep in the ginger field to keep vigil, because people often came to steal ginger, and it was sold so beautifully that year. ”
Zhejiang has a ginger cultivation area of 60,000 mu, like the more famous in the province is Jiaxing Xinfeng ginger, which passed the examination in the 90s of the last century, is the only local ginger farmer variety in Zhejiang that has obtained the variety right.
For thousands of years, Xiaolin yellow ginger has been passed down as a farm species, and Xu Jianrong has always wanted to give Xiaolin yellow ginger a name, because after applying for the right to variety, it can be better promoted and sold.
In recent years, Xu Jianrong has promoted more than 3,000 mu of Xiaolin yellow ginger in the province.
Last year, a Shandong vegetable farmer also came to ask him to buy ginger, and the feedback there was that this year he planted 10,000 kilograms of ultra-high mu yield, Xu Jianrong very much wanted to see, hindered by the epidemic delay in leaving.
Xu Jianrong set up the Xiaolin Yellow Ginger Professional Cooperative to drive the surrounding farmers to work hard and get rich together, and his annual income from selling ginger in recent years has reached 8 million yuan.
Source: Qianjiang Evening News Hourly News reporter Shi Wen