"Intangible cultural heritage" craftsmanship in Guangdong Jiangmen Xinhui District creates a better life

Our reporter Xie Wei correspondent Chen Jiwu Xiong Xing

2021 is the first year of the "14th Five-Year Plan" and also the tenth anniversary of the promulgation and implementation of the "Intangible Cultural Heritage Law of the People's Republic of China"

Xinhui District, Jiangmen City, Guangdong Province is located in a monsoon climate zone.

Cultural accumulation and inheritance for a hundred years

"As members of Xinhui, we are very happy and proud

"Traditional Chinese medicine processing refers to the traditional methods and techniques of processing Chinese herbal medicines into Chinese herbal decoction pieces according to the requirements of Chinese medicine under the guidance of Chinese medicine theory

Xinhui District is located in the alluvial plain belt on both sides of the Tanjiang River and the sedimentary plain area on the southern coast.

"The new era requires high-efficiency and high-quality industrial development, as well as the protection of authentic roots

Unique skills enduring

Xinhui tangerine peel processing techniques include picking, peeling, flipping, turning, drying and aging

"Once every ten years, use machine fertilizer for planting fruit

"Although it's just an agricultural proverb, it has been passed down to this day, and it also shows that traditional skills are the premise of the quality assurance of

No matter how innovative the technology is, how innovative the craftsmanship is, every good old tangerine peel with a certain age has to experience real time precipitation

Processing technology is considered to be one of the core technologies of traditional Chinese medicine, and it is also a unique traditional skill of traditional Chinese medicine.

In the description of the characteristics of "Xinhui Chenpi Production Skills", there is a saying: the art

Rejuvenating the countryside with the same source of medicine and food

Of course, Lingnan people who take food as their priority will not forget to add tangerine peel to the production of food

"Compendium of Materia Medica" records: "The citrus peel is thick, yellow and thick, with a lot of white film inside, and its taste is spicy and sweet

Professor Liu Changhua, a member of the National Intangible Cultural Heritage Expert Committee, affirmed the value of Xinhui tangerine peel in traditional medicine from the aspects of origin, harvesting, processing, taste and function, and put forward three points of "protection, inheritance and respect"

He said, "Xinhui tangerine peel, as a time-honored brand and an excellent national brand, should be protected; from the perspective of medicine, Xinhui tangerine peel as a traditional Chinese medicine must pass strict checks, and Xinhui tangerine peel should be allowed to return to its own.

In recent years, Xinhui District has been driven by the construction of Xinhui Chenpi National Modern Agricultural Industrial Park, with "one axis, two belts, three bases, four centers, and five parks" as the construction idea, from strengthening the protection of germplasm resources and promoting green standardization.
Starting from planting, improving supervision and management capabilities, revitalizing land circulation and use, cultivating new agricultural business entities, and supporting Xinhui tangerine peel e-commerce, we vigorously promoted the transformation and upgrading of the tangerine peel industry, and successfully built a "big base + large processing + big technology + big integration" The development pattern of the five-in-one modern agricultural industrial park with "+big service" has formed a series of product scale of more than 100 varieties in 6 categories, 35 categories, such as medicine, food, tea, health and cultural tourism, and finance, and realized the transformation of Xinhui tangerine peel from a single industry to Integrated development of primary, secondary and tertiary industries
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In 2019, Xinhui tangerine peel National Modern Agricultural Industrial Park was successfully recognized, Xinhui tangerine peel and Xinhui orange were selected into the "2019 National Rural Characteristic Products" catalogue, and Xinhui tangerine peel was selected as a typical case of national rural industry revitalization
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In 2020, Xinhui tangerine peel played an active role in the fight against the epidemic, and was also selected as a case study of the special film on the effectiveness of the implementation of the rural revitalization strategy of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs.
In the same year, "Xinhui Chenpi" was selected into the 2019 Agricultural Products Regional Public Brands (First Batch) Value Evaluation List of the China Agricultural Brand Catalog, with a brand evaluation value of 9.
821 billion yuan, ranking first in the 2020 China Regional Agricultural Industry Brand - Chinese Herbal Medicine Industry Impact Index bit
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With the excavation and promotion of the medicinal, food and health care value of Xinhui tangerine peel, Xinhui tangerine peel not only goes to the whole country, but also goes to the world through the "Belt and Road", becoming the industry benchmark of Fuminxing Village in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area
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Taking advantage of the successful "application for heritage", the person in charge of the Agricultural and Rural Bureau of Xinhui District said that at present, the Agricultural and Rural Bureau of Xinhui District is promoting the application of Xinhui dried tangerine peels related to China's important agricultural cultural heritage, focusing on the protection and development of traditional techniques, and exploring A new path for rural revitalization of "agricultural heritage + industry"
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"China Food News" (08 edition on October 14, 2021)

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