The hometown of pickled mustard is Fuling City, Sichuan. In 1915, Fuling mustard won the gold medal at the Panama International Commodity Exposition. Today, pickled mustard has become a business card of Fuling. Fuling pickled mustard is made from Fuling's unique green cabbage heads and is made with a unique processing technology to produce a fresh, tender and crispy flavored product. Together with French sour cucumber and German sweet and sour cabbage, it is one of the three most famous pickles in the world. It is also one of the three most famous vegetables exported by China (mustard, mustard, and bamboo shoots).
"Fuling mustard mustard" was approved and registered as a geographical indication certification trademark in April 2000, and "Fuling Zhacai" was approved and registered as a geographical indication certification trademark in April 2006.
Fuling pickled mustard is made from Fuling green cabbage heads. Fuling green cabbage heads are nearly round, oblate spherical or imitation hammer-shaped, with green skin, white and plump meat, tender and crisp texture, and rich in essential nutrients for the human body. It contains a variety of proteins, sugars, vitamins, calcium, phosphorus, iron and other trace elements. It is tender, crispy, fragrant and delicious, and has a variety of methods and unique uses.
Mullard originated in Fuling. According to the original Fuling Prefecture Chronicle "Fuzhou Chronicle": In the 24th year of the reign of Emperor Guangxu of the Qing Dynasty (1898), Qiu Shouan, a businessman from the suburbs of Fuling County (now Ximo Road, Fuling City District), "air-dried and dehydrated" Fuling green cabbage heads and salted them. Squeeze to remove the brine (salt water), mix with spices, put it into a pottery jar, seal it and store it. A jar was given to his younger brother Qiu Hanzhang who opened the "Rongshengchang" Sauce Garden Store in Yichang, Hubei Province. Qiu Hanzhang gave it to his brother Qiu Shouan at a banquet. The pickles are available for guests to taste, and they find them more delicious. Its flavor is "tender, crisp, fresh and fragrant", which is unmatched by any other pickles, and they rush to place orders.