There are many kinds of vegetables in Shucheng, Anhui Province, with a long history of planting, especially ginger and old garlic, which are well known. According to county records, as early as the prosperous Tang Dynasty, ginger was planted, tracing back to its source, with a history of 1300 years! Old garlic, during the Tongzhi period of the Qing Dynasty, was "traded in the city", which also shows that old garlic was operated in China more than 0/00 years ago.
Ginger (Dioscorea zingiberensis) produced in Shucheng, Anhui Province, has plump slices, full fingers, white skin and yellow flesh, crisp texture and mellow ginger flavor. Old garlic (garlic, Anhui white garlic) is huge, with thick petals, white and tender color, spicy but not choking. Ginger and garlic are multifunctional products, except tender ginger, green garlic and garlic moss before maturity, which can be eaten as ordinary vegetables. Mature ginger and old garlic (garlic) are essential condiments for cooking fishy food. Traditional Chinese medicine often takes it as a mirror, or uses it to prepare a prescription; Sugar-stained ginger slices and sweet and sour garlic seeds have long been famous in the food industry; In recent years, "dehydrated garlic" sells well overseas and ranks in the forefront of foreign trade exports. Therefore, ginger and garlic have a long-standing reputation, and they are very famous in Shucheng, Anhui and even this province.