Yongshan Cured Pig Head is a specialty of Yongshan Town, Leping City. Its production technique has a long history and is relatively complex. A finished cured pig head usually requires nearly ten procedures and about half a month to complete. The Yongshan Cured Pig Head boasts delicious flavor and rich nutrition, with a rich texture that is not greasy and leaves a full mouth of mellow aroma. The traditional way to eat it is the “pig head peeling method”: a whole...
Water Table Wine is a unique type of banquet in Leping, named for the fact that every dish comes with broth. In the past, it was served to guests during weddings and funerals. Dozens or even hundreds of pounds of pork for the celebration were first cut into long strips and boiled in a pot. The cooking time was carefully controlled, and the cooked meat was promptly removed. Regardless of whether it was lean or fatty, it was cut...
Lizhu Brand Late-season Rice: A premium product of Leping City Refined Rice Mill, “Lizhu” Brand Late-season Rice is one of the well-known rice brands in Jiangxi Province. This product is made from high-quality single-crop late-season paddy rice. It features translucent whiteness, a high whole-grain rate, low broken grain rate, and is clean and pure. When cooked, the rice is highly fragrant and nutritious, making it one of the high-quality export rices within the province…
Peach crisp is a traditional Chinese pastry with a long history. Our city’s Anpai Peach Crisp is renowned across more than ten provinces and municipalities in China for its premium ingredients, exquisite craftsmanship, crumbly texture, delicious taste, and rich nutrition. It has also established distribution agents in several major and medium-sized cities. The Anpai Peach Crisp has won numerous honors, including provincial and ministerial-level quality awards, as well as the Gold Award at the First China Food Expo...
Leping City SiHong Bee Industry is a beekeeping venture led by Li Sihong, a "Jiangxi Provincial Model Worker" with 40 years of beekeeping experience, and has significant influence in northeastern Jiangxi. It originated as the SiHong United Bee Farm in northeastern Jiangxi. In April 2010, SiHong honey products obtained organic conversion product certification. In July 2010, the products…
Kudzu, also known as Huangjin, Luhuo, Jiqi, or wild kudzu and wild flat kudzu, is a plant of the Pueraria genus in the legume family. China’s earliest medical classic, the “Shennong Bencao Jing,” documented the dietary therapeutic effects of kudzu; the Ming Dynasty physician Li Shizhen also recorded in the “Compendium of Materia Medica” that kudzu root has heat-clearing, detoxifying, hangover-relieving, and thirst-quenching properties; modern...
In recent years, based on the production of winter-warm greenhouse vegetables, Zhenqiao Town in Leping City, Jiangxi Province has expanded its production and sales scale. In 2007, the town collaborated with Hongmao Fruits and Vegetables Food Processing Factory under the Taiwan Wutai Port Development Promotion Association to jointly develop the production of "contract vegetables" such as baby cucumbers and yardlong beans. The "contract vegetables" grown by local farmers will be...
Sepiolite is a fibrous, hydrated magnesium silicate, typically white, light gray, or light yellow in color. It is opaque and lacks luster. Some pieces resemble lumps of earth, while others have a peculiar crusty or nodular appearance. Under an electron microscope, it can be seen to consist of countless fine filaments clustered together in sheet-like formations. Sepiolite has a strange…
Ming Mountain Coal is a special type of coal from the Permian-Leping Coal Series of the Paleozoic era. With an oil content of 15-32% and a calorific value as high as 7,840 kcal, it can be ignited with a match and serves as premium raw material for producing coke oven gas. The coalfield is distributed across four townships in the southwest of Jingdezhen City, with total reserves reaching 130 million tons. …
Caijia taro from Leping is a specialty of Leping City, Jingdezhen, Jiangxi Province. This variety of taro is a green, organic, locally distinctive vegetable. After being cultivated and consumed for hundreds of years, it possesses unique qualities not found in other types of taro—such as not causing itching when peeled raw, growing in paddy fields, and offering a richly glutinous texture along with the softness reminiscent of glutinous rice mochi...
The Leping Spotted Pig is originally from Leping City, Jiangxi Province, and is distributed in Jingdezhen City as well as Wannian, Dongxiang, Boyang, Dexing, and Wuyuan counties. This breed grows quickly, has high-quality meat, a gentle temperament, strong adaptability, and can thrive on coarse feed without requiring special care, making it one of the fine local pig breeds in Jiangxi Province. The Leping Spotted Pig is relatively large in size, with sparse body hair,...
Fried Dough Stick Wrapped with Glutinous Rice Cake is a popular street snack in Leping. It is made by spreading freshly steamed and hot glutinous rice cake on top of two or more freshly fried dough sticks, sprinkling with white sugar and roasted sesame seeds, then folding the dough sticks over to encase the rice cake. The final step is to roll it in white sugar and sesame seeds before serving. This treat is sweet, delicious, and suitable for all ages. It combines...
Leping Peach Crisps are renowned for their premium ingredients, exquisite craftsmanship, crisp and tender texture, and rich nutrition. They have won eight prestigious awards, including provincial and ministerial-level excellence honors as well as gold and silver awards at the first China Food Expo, earning them the title “King of Chinese Peach Crisps” from food experts both at home and abroad. …
Leping Cigarette Candy gets its name from its resemblance to a cigarette. With a history of nearly a thousand years, it is also one of Leping’s most famous local specialties. Historically, during the lunar December each year, almost every household would make some Cigarette Candy, as it was specially prepared for the New Year and thus also called “New Year Candy.” Making Cigarette Candy is a very complex process…
Sweet potatoes, also known as yams or mountain yams, are biologically classified as Dioscorea. The edible part of this variety is its enlarged tuberous root, which is highly resistant to storage and transportation, rich in nutrition, and abundant in protein and carbohydrates. Its dried form is used in traditional medicine and is popular both domestically and internationally as a tonic. The Leping Li Family Sweet Potato, also called “footplate yam,” is a perennial herbaceous vine. Its stems twine to the right and can grow…
Leping Soybean Ferment is meticulously crafted using an ancient folk recipe and traditional techniques. It contains no artificial colors, additives, or preservatives, making it a natural green food product. With its delicious flavor and spicy, appetizing taste, it is an indispensable cold dish for dining tables and banquets, as well as a highly popular gift when visiting relatives and friends. Among all varieties, the Mingkou Soybean Ferment from Leping is particularly renowned...
Fermented tofu, commonly known as "fu ru" in northern China, gets its name from its main ingredient—fermented tofu. The history of making fermented tofu in Leping dates back a long time, but the fermented tofu from Gaojia Town stands out for its delicate craftsmanship and unique flavor, gaining popularity across the country. The production method of Gao Family Fermented Tofu involves cutting the tofu into small cubes that are 2 cm long, 2 cm wide, and 1.5 cm thick,…
Celery, also known as Chu Kui, is an aquatic perennial herbaceous plant of the Apiaceae family. China is one of its places of origin, and wild celery grows in paddy fields, streams, and shady, damp areas in the southeastern part of the country. It has been cultivated as a vegetable since ancient times. Currently, it is more widely cultivated south of the Yangtze River, especially in Jiangxi, Anhui, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, and Hubei provinces. The large-leaf celery from Leping...
Liji Mountain bayberries grow in the mountainous region of Liji Mountain in Hongyan Town, far from urban areas. The bayberry trees here are cultivated in a completely wild state. Since bayberries do not require chemical fertilizers or pesticides throughout their growth cycle and possess a natural resistance to pests and diseases, the Liji Mountain bayberries have been certified as green food by the National Green Food Committee...
Mingkou Brown Sugar is mainly produced in Shangsi Village, Liufang Village, and Lanjing Village in Mingkou Town. The raw material used for producing and processing the brown sugar is Maosugarcane (sugar cane). This variety is best suited for cultivation in fertile sandy soil, yielding high production, excellent quality, and good economic returns (with an average sugar yield of about 900 jin per mu). Due to the large areas of...