The Township Characteristic Products in Qianchang Town

As early as the Tang Dynasty, the "eight fruits" recorded in Lu Yu's Tea Classic were produced in Ezhou, including Tongshan and other places. Tea bricks produced in Qianchang Town in Song Dynasty were exchanged for horses in Inner Mongolia as commodities, 1 tea brick constraint 1 first-class horses. Later generations stipulated that Qianchang Town had the contribution task of tea. By the middle of the extinction period, tea trade had occupied an important position. After more than 1000 years of planting, tea has formed a mixed variety of local genera and groups. Orange, orange. Citrus was cultivated before the Qing Dynasty, and the varieties were mostly fragrant round, pickled orange and tangerine. 1979, leader of Ministry of Agriculture and China Academy of Agricultural Sciences.

Institutions and scientific research units have sent people to Tongshan to inspect, test and impart technology. And decided to distribute orange seedlings free of charge regardless of collective individuals. By 1980, an orange orchard of1.5000 mu had been opened in Qianchang Town. After nearly 30 years of seed selection and cultivation, Tongshanfu Reservoir Area has become a natural growing place for citrus, sweet orange and other subtropical fruits. Miju, a "Guimei" variety, was rated as a famous brand in Hubei Province. Long red orange, golden orange, etc. To promote sales inside and outside the province.

Medicinal materials. There are many kinds of medicinal materials in Qianchang town, which are widely distributed, with more than 500 kinds of domestic and wild medicinal materials. The mountain area is a treasure house of natural medicinal plants, with 204 kinds of woody medicinal plants, including 19 kinds of medicinal materials, such as tremella, seven leaves and one flower, a bowl of water by the river, Panax japonicus, Sichuan incense, Radix Angelicae Pubescentis, Radix Codonopsis, Radix Adenophorae, Bletilla striata and so on.

Agricultural and sideline products are mainly tea, silk and tobacco. The bitter buckwheat wine in Huangsha, the "Tubaye" in the road, the oranges in Cikou, the sesame cakes in big rice, the sweet brocade in Wanjia, the sauce in Yangfang, the grilled fish in Honggang, the pears in Wang Chuang and the wine in Xiapu have become the treasures of local products in Qianchang Town.