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Why Fuling squash can become one of the world's top three pickles?

Squash is a famous product of Sichuan, according to historical records, it was invented by Qiu Hanzhang, a Fuling man, at the end of the Qing Dynasty. The seventies in France held a world pickle competition on the Chinese Fuling pickle and Europe's pickle, Germany's sweet and sour kale is known as the world's three big salt pickles. Sichuan pickles since 1898 in Fuling since its inception, long-term reputation at home and abroad, favored by the majority of diners.

Fuling is located at the confluence of the Yangtze River and the Wujiang River, and produces a kind of developed stems, petioles under the milky protuberance of the head of green cabbage. The local people call it "cabbage", "pimples" or "beetroot". Fuling is known as the hometown of squash because of its abundance of squash, which won the Panama International Gold Medal in 1951. It was awarded the Panama International Gold Medal in 1951, and is most famous for its "Wujiang Brand".

The 1920s to the 1950s, squash has been the main brand of China's foreign trade exports, to the 1960s to the 1970s, it is directly named "Fuling squash" exports, and then to the 1980s, "Wujiang brand". "Fuling pickled mustard is the representative brand of Chinese pickled mustard, "Wujiang" is the representative brand in the history of nearly a hundred years of Chinese pickled mustard, which has long been famous both at home and abroad; and the main place of origin are Fuling, generally known as Fuling pickled mustard. The reason why it is called squash, that is because the head of green cabbage processing, need to use the pressing method to squeeze out the water in the vegetable, slowly people will be called "squash", is because of its need to press this unique process, if you do not press out the water in the head of green cabbage, squash will be much worse in terms of taste and flavor. From the head of the green vegetables to the squash also have to go through a series of production process, in order to become the squash in everyone's mouth.

You can not underestimate the small package of squash, this small package of squash achievements of Chongqing Fuling Group, its "Wujiang" brand squash almost monopolized the Chinese squash market, and exported to the United States, Japan, Southeast Asia and other countries around the world, a package of squash to support the Fuling Group more than 1 billion yuan a year! The company's revenue is more than 1 billion yuan per year.