Lanzhou Lily has a cultivation history of more than 130 years and is one of the most distinctive agricultural products in Lanzhou City.

The core production area of ??Lanzhou Lily is in the Eryin Mountain District in the south of Qilihe District, Lanzhou City, with a planting area of ??47,000 acres. Lanzhou lilies take at least three years to grow, and those that have been planted for more than six years can become the best lilies.

Lanzhou lily is the only lily in my country that has the same origin as medicine and food. It has fine fiber and sweet taste. It can be steamed, fried, fried and eaten in various ways. In addition to fresh lily, there are also dried lilies and lily flowers. and other products, while lilies from other places taste bitter and can only be used for medicinal purposes.

Let us visit the core production area of ??Lanzhou Lily in Qilihe District.

The first stop was Caojiashan Village, Shenjialing Administrative Village, Weiling Township, Qilihe District. Climb all the way from the Cultural Palace along the mountain road in the south of the city. I don’t know when the asphalt road turned into a red brick road. The road became narrower and steeper. The altitude must have exceeded 2,000 meters. Shenjialing was fought in the Battle of Liberation of Lanzhou. The most tragic part was that after traveling for about 20 kilometers with twists and turns, the terrain became slightly flatter, and after turning around a mountain col, we reached Caojiashan Village.

Lily is a perennial herbaceous plant. The lily after flowering period looks like this. The lily we eat is its bulb growing underground.

Lily field. Lily bulbs need to grow for at least three years to achieve the best edible effect. Therefore, during the growth process, when the lilies bloom in mid-to-late June every year, the flowers must be pinched off to ensure that the lilies under the soil grow better and bigger.

Beautiful lilies

Dried lilies can be eaten cold, fried, or soaked in water. (Photographed at Hongyuan Lily Cooperative in Chaijiahe, Xiguoyuan Town, Qilihe District).

In the warehouse of Hongyuan Lily Cooperative, it was the first time I saw such a large pile of lilies!

Scrambled eggs with lilies

After planting a crop of lilies, the land needs to rest, commonly known as resting ground.

Let’s get back to the subject,

Now let’s take a look at how lilies are processed. This is a lily that has just been harvested.

In the workshop of the Guihua Planting Cooperative, the girls brushed the soil off the outer skin of the lilies and peeled off the old skin.

Packing bags, either two-ended or three-ended bags. The one with two heads is called the Two-Headed Emperor, and the one with three heads is called the Three-Headed Emperor.

Packing with vacuum packaging machine

Vacuum-packed lilies

Weighing

This is the core origin of Lanzhou lily: Eryin Mountain District in the south of Qilihe District, Lanzhou City.

There are basically two places where Lanzhou lilies are produced. One is Xiguoyuan in Lanzhou, and the other is the towns in Beishan, Yuzhong County. The soil quality, climate and temperature in both places are suitable for the growth of lilies. Lanzhou lily is a famous specialty product of Gansu Province. It is as white as jade and has thick and sweet flesh. my country's famous plant taxonomy expert

Kong Xianwu

Beishan

Qilihe District

The development of Lanzhou's lily industry has gone through a very tortuous development process. In the 1980s, Chen Junyu, a professor at Beijing Forestry University, named it "Lanzhou Lily". Since then, Lanzhou Lily has been used as a common name and is famous throughout the country, different from other planting areas. This set off the peak of Lanzhou lily cultivation. .

By 1987, Lanzhou's total lily area reached more than 30,000 acres, with a total output of more than 7.5 million kilograms. However, the good times did not last long. In 1988, Lanzhou lilies experienced the first wave of "difficulty in selling and falling prices", and then continued to shrink. By 1991, the planting area in Qilihe District was only 6,400 acres. When the relevant departments analyzed the reasons, they believed that the first was limited processing capacity, the second was insufficient market development, and the third was too many thousand-headed lilies (relative to high-quality single-headed lilies), which led to a decline in the quality of commercial lilies. Beginning in 1992, lily planting in Lanzhou began to recover, and prices continued to rise for nine consecutive years. By 2001, when the purchase price was at its highest, commercial lilies reached 17 yuan per kilogram. It was also in December 2001 that Qilihe District obtained the certification trademark (certificate of protected origin) for "Lanzhou Lily". At this time, the lily planting area in Qilihe District reached nearly 40,000 acres. All counties and districts in Lanzhou City and surrounding counties also planted lilies. The lily planting area in the province reached 100,000 acres.

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The first lily village in the world, Yuanjiawan Village, Xiguoyuan Town, Qilihe District, Lanzhou City

Lanzhou fresh lily, Xiguoyuan,

Don’t ask me how I know, because I sell Lanzhou fresh lily