Zhai Gen Township in Xixia County, Henan Province, is located in the northwest of Xixia County, covering a total area of 169 square kilometers with a population of 7,900. In recent years, Zhai Gen Township has vigorously developed the edible mushroom industry, with a focus on shiitake mushrooms. It has now cultivated 156 specialized large-scale growers and over 55 rural brokers, and has initially formed a 15-kilometer-long standardized edible mushroom production corridor...
Geographical Scope Xixia Shiitake Mushrooms are a specialty of Xixia County, Henan Province, and a China National Geographical Indication product. They are exported to cities such as Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Fuzhou, and Zhejiang, as well as to countries and regions including Japan, South Korea, Singapore, Taiwan, and Hong Kong. Specific Qualities Xixia Shiitake Mushrooms are known for their superior quality, delicious taste, and high rate of flower mushrooms, making them highly popular among consumers. Cultural Stories…
Funiu Mountain raw honey, also known as Funiu Mountain local bee sugar, has a rich red hue, a thick consistency, and a long shelf life. It is rich in glucose, fructose, amino acids, vitamins, and other nutrients, offering benefits such as detoxification, nourishing the middle energizer, moistening dryness, beautifying the skin, and anti-aging. Funiu Mountain honey itself is a high-value, highly effective nutritional food, with functions such as lubricating the intestines, moistening the lungs, detoxifying,…
Nutritional Information – Noodles (standard wheat flour): The main nutrients in noodles include protein, fat, and carbohydrates. Noodles are easy to digest and absorb, and they help improve anemia, boost immunity, and balance nutrient absorption. Pork (lean): Pork is rich in high-quality protein and essential fatty acids, and provides hem…
Ginkgo nuts, also known as ginkgo or ginkgo seeds, are about the size of an apricot kernel, pure white like jade. They have a sweet, bitter, and astringent taste, and overconsumption may cause diarrhea. They come from a deciduous tree that can grow up to 40 meters tall. The trunk is upright with gray bark. The branches are of two types—short and long. Leaves grow in clusters on short branches, and are alternate or spirally scattered on long branches. They are fan-shaped, measuring 4–8…
Qinghua cotton linen fabric is highly sought after for its natural handmade advantages such as being made entirely from plant-based materials, processed by hand, breathable, and anti-static. All its raw materials come from cotton, containing no synthetic fibers or wool, making it a truly green and eco-friendly textile. It adopts a unique "warp thread pattern" as the main weaving process, which...
Tiger-head boots are a concrete representation of traditional Chinese culture. They generally hold value for use, decoration, and collection, making them both a daily necessity and a handicraft. In 2008, the "Zhenmei Welfare Arts & Crafts Farmers' Professional Cooperative" was established, absorbing a large number of surplus rural female laborers, and tiger-head boots became one of the cooperative’s...
Zishan Changhong Deer Farm is a private enterprise integrating sika deer breeding with the production and deep processing of deer by-products. Its signature product, Deer Antler Blood Wine, is a 35% alcohol-content nutritional health wine. It has a gem-like red color, is clear and shiny, with a pleasant and harmonious aroma, mellow and sweet taste, and a smooth, lingering aftertaste. It helps combat fatigue, resist hypoxia, nourish kidney function…
The Zhang Heng Seismoscope series of products is supervised by the Geophysical Exploration Center of China Earthquake Administration and the Nanyang Zhang Heng Research Association of China, and manufactured by the Four Sages Science & Culture Communication Service Center in Nanyang, China. It features seismographic demonstration functions and comes in 12 models (large, medium, and small). Phone: 0377--6…
Hand-pulled noodles can be steamed, boiled, pan-fried, deep-fried, or stir-fried, each offering a unique flavor. Hand-pulled noodles are a specialty of Lanzhou, Gansu Province. Making hand-pulled noodles requires considerable skill. To prepare them well, you must master the correct techniques: when kneading the dough, prevent dehydration; when swinging the dough strips, ensure evenness; when pulling the noodles, make them uniform and round; when dropping them into the pot, spread them out to avoid clumping. Depending on different...
A covered bowl dish is a type of steamed pork with rice flour, known by this name in the Sichuan and Chongqing area. Preparation: First, slices of meat are neatly arranged in an unglazed earthenware bowl—six slices laid lengthwise and the other two placed on either side. Then, cubed potatoes or sweet potatoes are placed on top of the meat. After steaming, the bowl is inverted onto a plate, resembling...
Originally from the Nanyang Basin in the southwestern part of Henan Province, the main production areas include Wulong District, Wancheng District, Tanghe, Dengzhou, Xinye, and Fangcheng in Nanyang City. The cattle are predominantly yellow in coat color, with some being red or straw-white; the face, eye area, and lower limbs are generally lighter in color, the nose mirror is mostly fleshy red or accompanied by black spots, and the hooves are mostly amber-colored...
Pingyu County’s white sesame is listed as a National Geographical Indication Protected Product and is the second most important crop in the county after wheat. Pingyu County is the largest production base of white sesame in China. In 1980, Pingyu white sesame was awarded the title of “High-Quality Product” by the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation, and in 1988, Pingyu County…
Ingredients: 200g all-purpose flour, 80g soft tofu (use the tender middle part, discard the hard skin), 40g eggs, 50g sugar, 1/4 tsp salt, 1 tbsp black sesame seeds, 1 tbsp white sesame seeds. Method: 1. Mix all ingredients evenly and let rest under a damp cloth for 30 minutes; 2. Roll the dough into as thin a sheet as possible…
Ingredients: Potatoes, sauce, salt, sugar, five-spice powder, cumin powder, chili oil. Method: 1. Cut the potatoes into "spiky" zigzag shapes in advance, soak to remove surface starch, then drain, deep-fry until cooked, remove and drain the oil, mix in seasonings and sauce while hot; 2. Place the potatoes in an enamel basin, sprinkle with seasonings such as salt, sugar...
Ingredients: 180g glutinous rice flour, 30g non-glutinous rice flour, 60ml boiling water, 50ml cold water, 15 organic Chinese flowering cabbages, 7 black fungus (wood ear mushrooms), 1000ml chicken stock, a little cornstarch for dusting. Method: 1. Mix glutinous rice flour and non-glutinous rice flour in a bowl, first pour in boiling water and stir, then add cold water and stir; 2. Boil water in a pot…
Temple leather is a type of goat skin produced in the Miaowan area of Pingyu County, Henan Province. It is praised in the leather industry for its soft weight, dense fur, good elasticity, strong tensile strength, and appropriate oil content. It is a renowned product among Chinese goat skins and is popular both domestically and internationally. The reason temple leather can achieve such high quality lies in three factors: first, the superior quality of the grazing grass…
Ingredients: Fresh soybean residue, cornmeal, soybean flour, wheat flour, sugar, eggs, yeast and baking powder, water. Method: 1. Mix all the above ingredients evenly to form a thin batter, let it rest for 10 minutes; 2. Heat a pan, brush with a thin layer of oil, scoop the batter into the pan with a spoon, and let it spread naturally into a pancake shape; 3. Cook over medium heat until fragrant…
Wangwubridge Aged Vinegar originated in the Qin Dynasty. It is made using a secret family recipe and a unique traditional process. The vinegar is primarily made from wheat, blended with 18 kinds of spices and tonic herbs, and soaked in water drawn from a local ancient well said to date back to the Shang and Zhou dynasties, known for its sweet taste. On the first day of the initial dog days (Fu Days) of summer each year, the mixture is sealed in vats with mud and left to ferment under the sun and dew for 140 days. After fermentation, the vinegar is buried in an earthen cellar…
After years of variety improvement and the promotion of advanced, practical technologies, the rice industry in Zhengyang’s Huaihe River region has begun to take shape. The rice produced here has been tested by the Ministry of Agriculture’s Grain Quality Supervision and Testing Center, which found that the selenium content in every kilogram of polished rice reaches 72.4 micrograms — 5.55 times that of ordinary rice. In particular, Huaihe japonica rice is highly favored by consumers for its...