Yue Goose

Yue Goose

　　　　Product Name: Yue Goose

　　Place of Origin: Shaoxing

　　Category: Poultry

　　Product Features: Entirely covered in pure white feathers, compact body type, easy to raise, fast-growing, requires less concentrate feed, high returns. The goose meat is rich in nutrients, tender, and juicy without being greasy.

　　Product Benefits: The whole bird is valuable, with goose liver being a premium nutritional health food, and goose feathers can be used to make warm accessories.

Product Introduction: The Yue Goose, also known as the Shaoxing White Goose, is an excellent local breed among China’s white geese. It has a medium build, a compact structure, a long and straight rectangular body, and is entirely covered in pure white feathers that lie tightly against the body. Some geese have grayish-brown speckled stray feathers on the head, back, and tail. The beak, webbed feet, and wattles are all orange-red, with the wattles protruding in a hemispherical shape. The eyes are prominent and golden yellow, with bluish-gray irises. Adult male geese are tall and robust, with prominently raised red wattles, holding their heads high and chests out, strutting as they walk, and emitting loud cries. They tend to chase and peck at pedestrians, appearing quite proud. Adult female geese are more docile than males, with lower and slightly yellowish wattles, a broad and drooping abdomen, and a softer call.

　　Product Story: In ancient times, Wang Xizhi loved geese—not because he enjoyed eating them, but because the way he wrote the Chinese character for “goose” was in one continuous stroke, never lifting the brush or retracing, resembling a vivid and full-bodied goose. Legend has it that an old Taoist, wishing to obtain Wang Xizhi’s calligraphy of Laozi’s work “Huangting Jing” (The Yellow Court Scripture), raised a flock of geese and gave them to him as a gift—and succeeded. Later generations jokingly referred to the “Huangting Jing” as the “Goose-Exchange Scroll.”