The production and breeding of crabs in Wuwei area have a long history. Influenced by the crab culture in his hometown, Wang Zhidao, a poet from Wuwei in the Song Dynasty, has a lot of poems describing the crabs in Wuwei, such as: "The west wind shakes the yellow flowers and autumn, and crabs float in the river"; In the third year of Song Chongning, when Mi Fei, a great calligrapher, was appointed to know the army by doing nothing, there was an allusion to "cooking crabs three times"; Since 1980s, there has been a saying that "China crabs look at Anhui and Anhui crabs look at inaction".
2. Nanling tail pig
Xu Pig is produced in Xuancheng, Anhui Province, and its central producing areas are Wenchang in Xuancheng County on both sides of Qingyi River and Yijiang, Xitan, Taifeng, Donghe, Xianfang, Jiulian and Dong Tang in Nanling County. There are polder fields and hills in the producing areas, with annual average temperature 16. 1℃, annual precipitation 1608 mm and frost-free period of 230 days. There are many canals, dense ditches and ponds, lush aquatic plants, a large number of fish, shrimp, snails and mussels in polder areas, and the agricultural production level is very high. Known as "the land of fish and rice in the south of the Yangtze River". On both sides of Qingyi River, rice is abundant. Historically, it has been used not only for early and dry crops, mainly for mid-season rice, but also for dry miscellaneous grains such as barley, wheat, corn, sweet potato, soybean and cajanus cajan, providing rich feed resources for pigs. The hilly areas are mostly yellow sand and red sand, and the polder areas are mostly sandy and lack of organic matter. In addition to planting green manure in winter leisure, it mainly depends on the accumulation of pig manure, so raising pigs has always been a habit.
3. Seeds of Astragalus sinicus in Nanling River
The scientific name of Chinesemilkvetch is Astragalus, and the English name is Chinese milk vetch. Also known as buckwheat medicine, safflower, grass seed and so on. Zhu Fu, Yao Che and Qiao Fu were called in ancient times, which were recorded as early as the Book of Songs Erya Cao Shi. Its stems are called "Wowo Cuisine" and "Xiu Yuan Cuisine", and its seeds were called "Floating Bean" in ancient times. The planting history of Chinese milk vetch is very long, which was introduced in Jia Sixie's Qi Yao Min Shu in the Northern and Southern Dynasties. Su Shi in the Northern Song Dynasty: The beauty of food is the nest of Shu township, so people love it because it is called dish; Lu You's Preface to Poetry in the Southern Song Dynasty also mentioned that Chinese milk vetch was widely planted in paddy fields in Liang Wudi. In Ming Dynasty, Li Shizhen also recognized the medicinal value of Chinese milk vetch, and listed it as the second dish in Volume 27 of Vegetable Department of Compendium of Materia Medica.
4. Nanling rice
Nanling County is known as "Wuhu Rice Market and Nanling Granary" and "Jiangnan Land of Fish and Rice" and "Jiangnan Granary". Wuhu Rice Market, one of the four rice markets in China, is the main grain-producing area. Nanling county has simple folk customs and hardworking farmers, and the area of double-cropping rice accounts for more than 70% of the paddy field area. Since 1985, this county has been recognized as "National High-quality Rice Base County" and "National Commodity Grain Base County" and won the title of "National Advanced Grain Production County". According to textual research, the planting history of rice in Nanling can be traced back to the late Western Zhou Dynasty in the 9th-8th century BC, and poets such as Jia Dao and Mei in the Tang and Song Dynasties left famous works for it.
5, Tao Xin green shrimp
The aquaculture area of Taoxin green shrimp exceeded 3,000 mu, benefiting 260 farmers with an annual output value of 7 million yuan. It is the largest pollution-free shrimp breeding base in the city and has become an important local brand. As early as the Northern Song Dynasty, Tao Xin had a history of breeding, catching and eating shrimp. According to known historical records, as early as two years in Chiwu, Wu Dong, Sun Quan recruited100000 refugees from Jiangbei to reclaim land in Wuhu area. At the end of the Northern Song Dynasty, especially in Hui Zong, with the constant invasion and harassment of foreign nationalities, people in the Central Plains moved to the south of the Yangtze River to seek survival. Later, the population increased day by day, and the cultivated land was obviously insufficient. Reclaiming land around the lake naturally becomes the main means to solve the livelihood. It is precisely because of the reclamation around the lake in history that the town is rich in high-quality aquatic products such as fish, shrimp, crabs and turtles. Today, farmers in Taoxin Town still keep the traditional way of catching shrimp with "shrimp", and there is also a saying that "no fish, no shrimp, no table".
6. Fanchang Jujube
Fanchang jujube is a deciduous plant, with long cylindrical fruit, asymmetric waist scar in the middle and skewed ends. Distributed in Anhui Province, China. Fanchang jujube is mainly produced in Fanchang, Anhui Province, accounting for 95% of the local jujube trees, with a cultivation history of more than 300 years. The fruit is long and cylindrical, the middle waist is asymmetrical, the two ends are skewed, the average single fruit weight is 14.3g ... The skin is thin, the white ripe pulp is bluish white, and the edible rate is 98.3%. Every 100 kg of fresh jujube can produce 78 kg of candied jujube with the highest quality.
7. Peony bark of Lushan Mountain
Yashan is known as the "hometown of peony", and the so-called peony bark is the root bark of peony. The elevation of Yashan Mountain is between 50 and 450 meters. Fertile land, sandy soil, cold and humid climate, high organic matter content and loose soil particles. This is an ideal area for planting peony. Peony is known as the "king of flowers" in China, and it has been called "national beauty and fragrance" and "national flower" since ancient times. Liu Yuxi, a poet in the Tang Dynasty, said: "Only peony is the real national color, and flowers move to the capital when they bloom", which shows that peony has pleasing ornamental value. Every year around Tomb-Sweeping Day, peonies are blooming all over the mountain, attracting bees to fly around and tourists to weave.
8. Sweet Potato Bay
Wuhu City has a long history of planting sweet potatoes, and Haiwan Town of Wuhu County is one of the main planting areas and rich producing areas of sweet potatoes. Because of its unique geographical conditions and cultivation methods, "Gulf Sweet Potato" has formed a unique quality, with less water content, more meat powder, sweet and delicious taste, less crude fiber and rich dietary fiber and minerals. It is deeply loved by consumers in Nanjing, Tianjin, Shanghai and other places, and is known as "color like a wall, sweetness like a wall".
9. Wuwei salted duck
Also known as Wuwei smoked duck, it is a famous traditional halal food in Wuwei County with a history of 100 years. Chaohu duck is used as the raw material, and fat ducks weighing more than 4 kg in that year are generally selected, with about 30 kinds of Chinese medicines and seasonings such as J Guagua, Illicium verum, Zanthoxylum bungeanum, clove and fennel. Smoked first and then marinated, the color is golden and shiny, the sebum is thick and moist, the meat is fresh and tender, the fragrance is delicious and the aftertaste is meaningful. It is famous all over the country.