Where is the specialty of Huichang Dried Sauce?

Huichang Dried Soy Sauce is a geographical indication certification mark.

Dried soy sauce is known as dried soybean sauce, and Huichang, Jiangxi Province is famous as the hometown of dried soy sauce. Huichang dried soy sauce is rich in long and thick cultural heritage, it is in the Qing Dynasty Jiaqing years, was designated by the government as tribute, reputation in Beijing. In fact, its historical origin can be traced back to Emperor Qianlong, the "True Dragon Son", which is a great story and a beautiful one.

Historically, Emperor Qianlong made three trips to Jiangnan. Once he personally led several close ministers, private visits, came to the mountain city of Huichang, the son of God love landscape scenery, but also like to attach to elegance, everywhere poems and lyrics. He saw Huichang is a secluded place, but the scenery is beautiful, wild and natural, so the tour was great, a line of people enjoy at will, competing people walking on the side of the stagecoach road in a deep mountain. Ambiguous warm far people village, according to the market smoke. But see a grass house in the mountains, smoke curls. At this time the people are hungry, they do not care about decency, broke into the family. This housewife hospitality, although I do not know the identity of the visitor, or while serving water to let the people wash their faces, while open cooking. The minister said: "We are hungry, quickly go to do twelve dishes to." The housewife smiled and agreed. In a flash, the food was good and the dishes were fragrant. On the table put three big bowls of food: a bowl of steamed eggs, a bowl of vegetables mixed with tofu, a bowl of sauce dry silk. Emperor Qianlong and his entourage are used to eating mountain delicacies, how have you ever seen such small dishes in the mountain village? The emperor pointed to the steamed egg and asked: "What is this dish?" The woman replied: "rolling frozen." Rolling hot and can "freeze" knot, interesting! The Son of Heaven nodded. The woman pointed to the other two bowls of dishes introduced one by one: this is called "daybreak", that is called "dragon beard". The minister, however, continued to show off and asked, "Woman, I ordered you to prepare twelve dishes, why only three, are you afraid that we do not have silver?" The housewife pointed to the leeks in the steamed eggs and said, "leeks plus eggs, not ten dishes!" The ministers were dumbfounded, the emperor's heart was pleased, even said "very good". After the meal, the housewife does not accept silver, but also specially sent a package of dried sauce. Emperor Qianlong face a smile, instructed the close minister to research ink and paper, the imperial pen to write a seven-percent return.

After returning to Beijing, the Qianlong emperor shared the dried sauce with the crown prince and his concubines. The crown prince said "good", never forget. After the prince became the throne, the temple name Jiaqing. Emperor Jiaqing talked about Huichang Dried Soy Sauce, and there was no lack of praise in his words. Fudai secretly in mind, back to Gan after directing the subordinates to pay tribute. At that time, dried sauce is not yet fresh technology, Fudai will be attached to a special delivery along the river. Pity a few boatmen day and night, suffering. Due to the mountain people can not read and write, finally the Qianlong Emperor wrote the ink treasure lost, so the book was written a little later, "Ganzhou Prefecture" and "Huichang County Records" records are very little. However, the folklore has been passed down from one generation to the next, just like the dried sauce production technique.

In recent years, Huichang County, on the basis of traditional craftsmanship, but also in the preservation of freshness, nutritional aspects of the product continued to innovate, so that this local specialty has been favored by more consumers. At the same time, the county in terms of funding, sales support for the dried sauce industry, and constantly expand the scale of production, so that the production of dried soybean sauce enterprises reached more than 20, the annual production of more than 2,000 tons of dried soybean sauce, the products are exported to more than 30 provinces and cities, such as Guangdong, Shanghai, Beijing and so on.