Xinghua duotian taro

There are "thirty-six stacks" outside Xinghua East Gate. Legend has it that the place where the broken nomads are placed in the "eight-hanging array" is now named Duotian Township. The township has more than 16,500 mu of arable land, and half of it grows taro in summer. The annual output of taro is more than 20 million Jin. There are many places where taro grows all over the country, but they are not as delicious as those in the fields. Why? The whole growth process of taro can't live without water, but it is afraid of water, and the head that grows in water can't burn. Duotian is like "gossip". The big piece of land is seven or eight points, and the small one is only two points. Surrounded by water on all sides, it is long, like a wax gourd floating on the water. Water is easy to pour, fertilizer is easy to soil, and seeds are easy to manage. After busy planting, the Longtan taro should be watered every day, the sub-trees should be watered every day, and the Longtan taro should be watered every day for forty-five days from the light summer to the summer. This is really "who knows that every meal is hard." In order to keep the soil at the root of taro moist, loose and fertile, water plants are usually spread on the root of taro twice, or mud is poured, or the mud is shoveled into the pond and dragged onto the root of taro. Prevent dew green, taro dew green is not delicious. Every year from autumn to August, taro comes on the market. Here, a family boat transports taro to cities and villages on both sides of the river for sale. Taro is cheap and delicious, and it is both a meal and a dish. The local people have the saying that "ten catties of taro and eight catties of rice". Taro is a favorite food for urban and rural people, and some people regard it as a symbol of wealth, saying that eating taro on New Year's Eve will "meet good people" and "eat big taro and make a fortune". Now, due to the establishment of Xinghua Refrigeration Factory, the taro seeds are processed, all of which are as big as glutinous rice balls, weighing twelve or three per catty, and selling well in Nanjing, Shanghai and other places.
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