Introduction to Jiugong Mountain’s famous specialties

Tea, as early as the "Tea Classic" written by Lu Yu in the Tang Dynasty, recorded that "eight out of eight" tea originated in Ezhou, including Tongshan and other places. In the Song Dynasty, the tea bricks produced in this county were traded with horses in Inner Mongolia as commodities, and one tea brick cost one high-quality horse. Later dynasties stipulated that this county has the task of contributing tea. By the middle of the Xiao Dynasty, tea trade had occupied an important position. After more than a thousand plantings, tea has formed a mixed variety of local genera and groups. Orange. Before the Qing Dynasty, citrus had been cultivated in this county, and the varieties were mostly Xiangyuan, Paogan, Baogan, etc. In 1979, leading agencies and scientific research units such as the Ministry of Agriculture and the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences successively sent people to Tongshan to inspect, test and teach technology. It was also decided to distribute orange seedlings free of charge regardless of the collective or individual. By 1980, 15,000 acres of orange orchards had been opened in the county. Through nearly thirty years of seed selection and cultivation, the Tongshanfu Reservoir area has become a natural growing place for tangerines, sweet oranges and other subtropical fruits. The "Kuijing" variety of mandarin oranges was rated as the first brand in Hubei Province. Changhong orange, Jincheng, etc. are promoted both inside and outside the province. Camellia oil, Tongshan County is a major camellia oil county in Hubei Province. It has a long history of growing camellia oleifera. The rolling mountains are an excellent natural growing place for camellia camellia. medicinal materials. There are many kinds of medicinal materials in this county and they are widely distributed. There are more than 500 kinds of domestic and wild medicinal materials. Jiugong Mountain is a natural treasure house of medicinal plants. There are 204 species of woody medicinal plants. Among them, various medicinal plants include Shi fungus, Aesculus aesculus, a bowl of water by the river, bamboo ginseng, Sichuan incense, Duhuo, Codonopsis pilosula, 19 species including Adenophora adenophora and Bletilla striata. The main agricultural and sideline products are tea, silk and tobacco. Camellia oil from Jiugong, tartary buckwheat wine from Huangsha, "Tuba Ye" from Dalu, oranges from Cikou, sesame cakes from Dafan, sweet brocade from Wanjiajia, sauces from Yangfang, and big grilled fish from Honggang , the sand pear from Chuangwangling, the alcohol from Xiapu, etc. have become treasures among the local specialties of Tongshan, Xianning City, Hubei Province.