Where is Anhua?

Anhua is located in Yiyang City, Hunan Province, in the middle of western Hunan, about 80 kilometers away from the center of Loudi.

Anhua County, a county under the jurisdiction of Yiyang City, Hunan Province, is located in the middle of western Hunan, in the middle reaches of Zijiang River, in the north-central part of Hunan, in the north of Xuefeng Mountain, bordering Taojiang and Ningxiang in the east, Lianyuan and Xinhua in the south, Xupu and Yuanling in the west, Changde and Taoyuan in the north, about 80 kilometers away from the center of Loudi.

Anhua County is a strong cultural county with a long history, with many cultural heritages, such as national intangible cultural heritage "Xiangxi Medicine" and "Dicuifeng Tea Culture". Anhua, called Meishan in ancient times, is the birthplace of Meishan culture. After five years in Xining, Song Shenzong, Zhang Dun began to open Meishan County. Anhua is also the hometown of famous tea and dark tea in China and the starting point of the ancient tea-horse road in Hunan.

Anhua famous specialty

1, Anhua black tea

Anhua black tea has red leaves, lasting aroma and fresh taste. As early as the Western Jin Dynasty, Anhua recorded a kind of tea, which was listed as a tribute in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, and was also called "three reds" with Qi Hong in Anhui and Jian Hong in Fujian.

2. Anhua Polygonatum

The rhizome of Rehmannia glutinosa is thick, usually with more than two branches and a constant number of massive nodules. The surface is grayish yellow or yellowish brown, rough, with prominent disc-shaped stem marks on the upper side of nodules, and the cross section is granular, yellowish, slightly gaseous, sweet and sticky.

3. Golden dishes

Anhua has a strange dish. Most people don't want to taste it. They haven't even heard of it. This dish is called golden plate. Wild, growing in the depths of Chenshan Mountain in Anhua, is extremely rare.

4. Anhua bacon

Authentic Anhua bacon is golden in color, which is different from the common bacon on the market. Anhua has the custom of killing pigs in the New Year, and all the meat obtained is pickled and hung on the stove, and smoked with fireworks for several months. Therefore, the flavor is thick and suitable for Hunan people and Sichuan people.

Reference to the above content: Baidu Encyclopedia-Anhua County