Shaoxing Daling

Product Name: Shaoxing Daling Product Origin: Shaoxing, Zhejiang Product Features: It breeds underwater, and is protected from being swallowed by fish because of its long sharp horns. Product ingredients: It contains starch, protein, glucose, fat, vitamins, carotene, calcium, phosphorus, iron and other minerals. Product season: It can be picked in the middle and next month of September. Function: It can cure the pain of waist and legs, numbness of the whole body, rheumatism, and the old people who eat water chestnut porridge. Product history: Shaoxing has a long history of planting diamonds. As early as the Tang Dynasty, planting diamonds in Yuezhou was very common. In the Tang Dynasty, the poet Zhu Qingyu said, "The lake is breezy, the xiaolan is cool, and the diamonds are turned over and returned to the pond." It depicts the rhombic scenery of Gujian Lake. Qing Dynasty's "Jiaqing Shanyin County Records" records: "Ling, the production of Mo Sheng in Shanyin, every August, Ling Zhou Huan Ji Jian Lake." Product Description: Shaoxing Daling is one of the traditional specialties of our city. Shaoxing is a water town, Zeyuan, with numerous rivers and lakes, and fertile water. The ecological environment is very suitable for the growth of turbot. As early as the Tang and Song Dynasties, it was very common to plant ling in Shaoxing. Zhu Qingyu (Tang) wrote in a poem about Jianhu Lake that "the breeze on the lake is cool, and the ling boat is full of water." According to "Records of Jiatai Meeting", "Four-corner and triangular white ling, whose flowers are purple, open at night in the daytime, and move with the month, and the flowers are still blooming with the day. Produced in Vietnam, Tam Ling is the largest so-called waist Ling. " It can be seen that people were already familiar with Ling at that time, and their biological characteristics were also studied. During the Ming and Qing dynasties, Shaoxing Lingshi was still flourishing. "Yinzhi of Jiaqing Mountain" writes: "The Yue people call the small one a thorn ling, the giant one a big one, and the four corners one a sand horn ling, which grows in the shade of the mountain. Every August, the dragon boat is surrounded by Jianhu Lake." Spinning water chestnut is the wild water chestnut. In the early 1950s, the area around Zhacha Lake was still flourishing, and even the boat roads were blocked. After liberation, Shaoxing Daling production has made new development, and many new varieties have been introduced successively. Every year, the area of planting Daling is no less than 10,000 mu, and the number of years is 20,000 mu, which has become a considerable sideline income for farmers in water towns, and the area has been reduced in recent years. It is maintained at about 5000 mu. Mainly distributed in Jianhu, Mashan, Gaobu, Paogu, Shengli and other districts and townships in Shaoxing County. In addition, some villages in Shangyu and Zhuji "Lake District" are also planted in small quantities.
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