Tongling Babao Tongling Ramie

Tongling ramie has been known as the "king of ramie" since ancient times. Tongling ramie is also one of the eight treasures of Tongling, such as gold, silver, copper, iron, tin, ginger and pockmarked garlic. According to "Tongling County Records" and other related historical records, hemp is a traditional specialty of Tongling. At the end of Shunzhi in Qing Dynasty (AD 1655), there were ramie, jute, white hemp and Jima in Tongling County, which were mainly distributed in hilly areas, with Zhongming, Shun 'an and Tianmen as the majority. In the mid-1980s, Tongling linen textiles sold well in domestic and foreign markets, and Tongling textile industry was also in a period of development and growth, with a sharp increase in demand for ramie, and the price of ramie rose from 3 yuan 13 per kilogram to 20 yuan. Farmers destroyed mulberry fields and planted ramie in grain fields, and the planting area of ramie increased rapidly. Tongling land is suitable for all fine ramie varieties, and fine ramie varieties such as Lu Zhuqing and Round Julia are further optimized in Tongling. 1986 The hemp area in Tongling County reached more than 7,000 mu, including more than 7,000 mu of ramie and more than 20,000 mu of ramie. After only a short year 1987, the area of ramie in Tongling increased by 708 1 mu, including 7032 mu of ramie with 28,000 mu. At this time, the planting technology and production scale of ramie in Tongling have become the largest production base in China from all over the world. This is the heyday of planting hemp in Tongling. Compared with other ramie, Tongling ramie is more rugged, crisp, elegant, light, cool, breathable and antibacterial, and its superiority and unique style are incomparable with ordinary ramie.