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Jianping red small beans grains plump and glossy, bright color, sweet taste, high amount of bean sand, in the local "ruby" reputation. Jianping red beans flat, sweet, especially to dispel dampness and swelling, diuretic detoxification, which contains folic acid, the maternal have a very good effect. Jianping red beans are rich in dietary fiber, it has a laxative, lowering blood lipids, mediation of blood sugar, bodybuilding and weight loss effect.

Located in the western part of Liaoning Province, Jianping County, located in the Mongolian Plateau to the Songliao Plain on the transition zone, the territory of the rolling hills, the terrain of the north high and south low, the Nuruerhu mountain range, from the east to the southwest through the county, is a warm and humid half-humid semi-arid continental monsoon climate. Per capita arable land in the province's forefront, rich in resources, ecological environment, as early as the late Paleolithic period, the ancestors began to flourish here. The famous red mountain culture "cow river site" is located in Jianping Lingyuan junction, here is the "Liaoning red small beans hometown", planting red small beans so far has a history of thousands of years.

According to historical records, Jianping red beans Liao Dynasty, there is a large number of cultivation of history, "Stillwater Alliance" after the Song and the Khitan friendship for more than 80 years, the two sides about the brotherhood of ambassadors to and fro, more Ouyang Xiu, Su Zhe and other famous ministers of the Song Dynasty to the northern border, they remember the story of the memory, leaving a large number of famous poems, of which Zhezong of the Song Dynasty, the first time in the fourth month of Yuan You (i.e., the fourth month of Gong Gong), the first time in the fourth month of Yuan You (i.e., the fourth month of Gong Gong). In August of the fourth year of Yuanyou (1089 AD), the great poet Su Zhe, who was the right minister of Shangshu, in addition to completing his mission as a messenger, also visited the beautiful scenery outside the Seychelles, and went to Huizhou in the north of Jianping County, which is titled as "28 Poems on the Envoy to Qidan", one of which is "Huizhou", which reads "the captive's tent lived in the winter in the Shatuo, and the goats and weaving reeds were called the Palace of the Travelers. The officials were scattered by the mound, and the felt grottoes deceived the frosty wind. The red beans were boiled in the snow, and the rabbits were shot at the deer." From this poem, we can see that Jianping Huizhou was a famous city outside the race at that time, which also proves the long history of cultivating red beans. In the next few hundred years, Jianping red beans have been people's obscurity, especially after the reform and opening up, Jianping red beans this specialty product has been out of the Northeast one after another, sold to the country's large and medium-sized cities. 1997 the then member of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee, Premier 1, came to Liaoning inspection, has been to the town of Jianping County, Zhuluko field study of the miscellaneous grains planting farmers. With the improvement of people's living standards and health care awareness, the demand for red small beans is also increasing, and the comparative benefits with grain crops are gradually revealed.

Jianping red bean edible methods are diverse, both with white rice with steamed rice or porridge, and can be made into red bean sand, as a variety of pastries, pasta fillings, but also in the stew when adding red bean, unique flavor, nourishing and nourishing the body, in the increase in the diversity of diet at the same time, the more healthy to brighten up the color.

There is a traditional folk custom in the area of Huizhou, Heishui, Laojianping, Yangshuling and Zhu Luke in the northern part of Jianping County, which is to kill pigs and slaughter goats and to prepare for the New Year's Day goods from the eighth day of the Lunar New Year, in which red beans are indispensable, and it's a delicacy for everyone to put red beans and dates in Lahai congee, and on the 15th of Lunar New Year people start to send out the yellow rice noodles, and the big yellow rice with cowpeas to steam the New Year's Day cake,

This is a good idea. The small yellow rice and red small beans steamed bean buns, reserved for the New Year and the first month to eat. On the 23rd day of the Lunar New Year, there is a custom in the countryside to send Zao Wang Wang, who is the king of the kitchen, back to the heavenly palace to report on the warmth and suffering of the people. The offerings are usually cowpea rice cakes, red bean buns, zaosugar (melon) and a bowl of dried millet rice. When it gets dark, firecrackers are set off so that Zaowangzi can take the offerings to the Heavenly Palace to report to the Jade Emperor on the affairs of the earth, and to say more good things to get a happy ending. Among them, the dried millet rice signifies the five grains and abundance of wealth; Zao sugar (melon) signifies a full life and sweetness; red small bean buns signify red-hot and happy family; cowpea rice cake signifies good health and high grade year after year. The local people generally choose the old Jianping, Yangshuling, Zhu Luke area of the red beans, this red beans good quality, good taste, young and old like, because the old Jianping is a big town, or Jianping County, the old county seat, so the people used to be the red beans here as Jianping red beans.

Jianping red small beans originated from the administrative area under the jurisdiction of Jianping County, Chaoyang City, Liaoning Province.