Tongxiang Hangbai Chrysanthemum

Tongxiang Hangbai Chrysanthemum

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　　　　Product Name: Tongxiang Hangbai Chrysanthemum

　　Also Known As: Sweet Chrysanthemum

　　Place of Origin: Tongxiang, Jiaxing, Zhejiang Province

　　Product Features: Slightly sweet and fragrant, making it a premium-quality product.

　　Product Ingredients: Chrysanthemin, amino acids, flavonoids, as well as multiple vitamins and trace elements.

　　Product Efficacy: Nourishes liver and improves eyesight, clears the heart, nourishes kidney, strengthens spleen and stomach, soothes throat, promotes saliva production, and helps regulate blood lipids. Relieves summer thirst, alleviates autumn dryness, and clears winter heat. Enhances beauty and complexion, enriches blood and boosts energy, delays aging, and promotes longevity in the elderly.

Product Introduction: Hangbai Chrysanthemum contains chrysanthemin, amino acids, flavonoids, along with multiple vitamins and trace elements. Research in traditional Chinese medicine shows that Hangbai Chrysanthemum has benefits such as nourishing liver and improving eyesight, clearing the heart, nourishing kidney, strengthening spleen and stomach, soothing throat, promoting saliva production, and regulating blood lipids. Regular consumption can help dispel dampness in spring, quench summer thirst, relieve autumn dryness, and clear winter heat. It also enhances beauty and complexion, enriches blood and boosts energy to invigorate life, delays aging, and prolongs longevity in the elderly. It is a highly effective and valuable health beverage sold both domestically and internationally. Hangbai Chrysanthemum refers to the dried capitulum of the chrysanthemum plant. Historically, it was honored alongside Dragon Well tea, and is one of China’s traditional and renowned export medicinal herbs among the “Eight Treasures of Zhejiang.” Tongxiang has been recognized as the “Hometown of Hangbai Chrysanthemum in China.”

　　Product History: Tongxiang is the birthplace of Hangbai Chrysanthemum, where its cultivation history spans many centuries. During the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, Zhang Lüxiang, a renowned scholar and agronomist from Tongxiang, wrote in his book "Supplement to Agricultural Books": “Sweet chrysanthemum is warm and sweet in nature; long-term consumption yields great benefits. In ancient times, people would eat its sprouts in spring, blossoms in summer, and roots in winter, which is quite reasonable. Planting one or two chrysanthemums on each ridge head allows you to reduce your tea intake by half. The bitter nature of tea complements the chrysanthemum when brewed together, providing mutual benefits. Planting several acres yields more profit than planting beans. Although our village doesn’t grow cotton, some make a living this way. However, harvesting is labor-intensive, and market trade is chaotic. Cultivation is very easy—as long as the area gets sun, drains well, is free of weeds, and requires little fertilizer. There are both yellow and white varieties, but the white ones are superior.” This shows that over 300 years ago, Tongxiang residents were already cultivating chrysanthemums as a livelihood, continually accumulating experience, and growing white chrysanthemums as commercial flowers.

　　Product Legend: Long ago, by the Grand Canal, there lived a farmer named A'Niu. A'Niu’s family was very poor—he lost his father at age seven and relied on his mother’s weaving to get by. Two years later, his mother's eye disease worsened until she eventually became blind. A'Niu thought, her blindness is because of me, and I must cure her eyes no matter what. While working for a landlord, he rose before dawn and toiled into the night to reclaim wasteland and grow vegetables, selling them to earn money for his mother’s medical treatment. Despite trying countless remedies, her eyes showed no improvement. One night, A'Niu dreamed of a beautiful girl who helped him tend his garden and told him, “West along the canal for dozens of li, there is a lotus marsh called Tianhua. In the marsh grows a white chrysanthemum that can cure eye diseases. This flower only blooms on the ninth day of the ninth lunar month, the Double Ninth Festival. When it blooms, use it to make a decoction for your mother—her eyes will surely be healed.” On the day of the Double Ninth Festival, A'Niu set out with dry rations to search for the white chrysanthemum in Tianhua Marsh. It turned out to be an overgrown, wild wasteland known as Tianhuang Marsh. He searched for a long time but only found yellow chrysanthemums, never the white ones. Just as the afternoon wore on, he finally spotted a single white wild chrysanthemum nestled in the grass beside a small mound in the marsh. This white chrysanthemum was unique—one stem with nine branches, only one blossom open while the other eight remained in bud. A'Niu dug up the plant, roots and soil intact, and transplanted it next to his home. After careful watering and care, the other eight blossoms soon opened, fragrant and beautiful. From then on, he picked one white chrysanthemum each day to make a decoction for his mother. By the seventh flower, his mother’s eyesight began to return.