Xiaozhan rice is a protected geographical indication product. Xiaozhan Rice is a geographical indication certification trademark.
Tianjin specialty Xiaozhan rice is one of the famous high-quality rice in my country. It was originally produced in the Xiaozhan area in the southern suburbs of Tianjin. It began in the Song and Liao Dynasties and became famous in the late Qing Dynasty. It was once used as royal rice for the palace. At that time, the important military town "Xiaozhan" was located here, so it was named Xiaozhandao. "White and green, shiny, sticky and delicious, with a sweet aftertaste" is the unique flavor of Xiaozhan rice.
The small station is located in the southern suburbs of Tianjin, about 30 kilometers away from the city center. According to records, in order to allow rice from the south to settle in the north and reduce the burden caused by the "south-to-north grain transportation" on all aspects, in 1600, Wang Yingjiao, governor of Baoding in the Ming Dynasty, cultivated 5,000 acres of rice in the Xiaozhan area. The earliest small station rice. In the Qing Dynasty, Zhou Shengchuan, the commander-in-chief of the Tianjin Defense Forces, diverted water from the South Canal to grow rice. Because the irrigation water contained a lot of silt and humus, the rice in Xiaozhan was of high quality.
Xiaozhan rice is produced in Xiaozhan Town, Jinnan District, Tianjin. Its cultivation began in the late Qing Dynasty and was once a tribute rice for the Qing royal family.
The stele of the Liao Dynasty records that "Youyan is divided into four counties, Jimen is the top, and the area is thousands of miles away. It can be crowned by hundreds of cities, red rice is fragrantly cultivated, and the fertile soil of fish and salt" is one of Tianjin's most famous The earliest documented records of rice planting. During the confrontation between Song and Liao, in the fourth year of Chunhua in the Northern Song Dynasty (993), "18,000 soldiers were sent out from various states, 600 miles of weirs were built, bucket gates were built, and lake water was diverted for irrigation" and "large rice fields were planted to provide enough food." At the end of the Ming Dynasty, Wang Yingjiao was appointed as the governor of Tianjin's coastal defense. He cultivated rice in the fields and adopted the Jiangnan farming method of surrounding fields. The surrounding fields were named and sequenced with 10 characters: "Qiu, benevolence, sincerity, sufficient, foolish, food, strength, ancient, suo, and noble", and were known as "Cross Wai". The method of surrounding fields for rice cultivation played an important role in the subsequent development of rice cultivation in Tianjin.
The small station in the southeast of Tianjin faces the Bohai Sea to the east, and is located between Dagu Haiphong and Tianjin City. It was originally a retreat from the sea and was Caodang under the jurisdiction of the salt field in the Ming Dynasty. After the Tianjin religious incident broke out in the ninth year of Tongzhi in the Qing Dynasty (1870), Li Hongzhang, the governor of Zhili, transferred the "Sheng Zi Army" of Zhou Shengchuan Department to garrison and train troops in Machang, Qing County, Zhili, and was also responsible for the construction of the new city fort. Sheng Zijun built a Macao-Xinjiang Avenue from Machang to Xincheng (now Tanggu). It was divided into post stations along the way, with a large station every 40 miles and a small station every 10 miles. There were 4 large stations and 4 small stations. 11 stations. In the first year of Guangxu (1875), Sheng Zijun moved from Machang to Laoshuitao. This was the fifth post station west of Dagu, and the sergeants used to call it "small station".
The Xiaozhan rice cultivation area on both sides of the Machangjia River uses water from the Nanyun Canal and Haihe River to irrigate the paddy fields. The Zhang River flows through the Loess Plateau and flows into the South Canal with a large amount of sediment. According to measurements by relevant departments, each ton of loess contains 0.8 to 1.5 kilograms of nitrogen, 1.5 kilograms of phosphorus, and 20 kilograms of potassium. A large amount of deposited organic fertilizers are injected into the land of the small station, brushing sweetness with saltiness and turning alkali into fat, forming a unique Quality rice growing conditions. Until the liberation of Jinnan in 1948, Xiaozhan Rice had to rely on restricting Machang to reduce water use in the upper reaches of the river to ensure harvests.
As a hybrid rice, Xiaozhan rice has a wide range of sources of high-quality genes. In the Northern Song Dynasty, Jianghuai japonica rice was used as the female parent, and more red lotus rice was planted in the Jinnan area. Rice seeds from Korea and Japan were used as seeds, and varieties such as Zhongsheng Yinfangzhu (referred to as Yinfang) and Aiguo (also known as Jingang rice) were introduced. Local farmers used the "one ear transmission" method to breed 300 water source varieties from the water source system. Xiaozhan Rice is praised as "the fragrant rice spreads thousands of miles, and the water source is pearls". There are various forms of rice planting in the Xiaozhan area, including spring rice (straight seedlings) and late rice (wheat seedlings). Spring rice has better quality, while late rice and wheat grown before the rice have a high yield of two crops a year.
Xiaozhan rice has excellent quality and high yield. The rice grains are oval, slightly long and light green, with uniform grains, like ice and jade, crystal clear and sweet, fragrant and refreshing, soft but not mushy, not hard after cooling, and rich in nutrients. "Xiaozhan Rice" was the only rice named after the production area in my country at that time, and it was also the country's first regional certification mark for food crops.