Guanjiazui Town, Mindong, Hunan: Yellow flowers become gold everywhere

A yellow day vegetable processing base in Guanjiazui Town, Zhaodong County, workers are drying the yellow flowers, which is also an indispensable part of processing daylily.

On April 24 this year, Jidong County, Hengyang City, was removed from poverty. The news came and the county was excited.

"In this battle to fight poverty, the daylily has been indispensable." Li Manyuan, director of the Huanghua Vegetable Industry Development Office of Qidong County, said that more than 20,000 people in the county have succeeded in poverty alleviation by planting daylily.

When talking about daylily, you have to mention a township in the western part of the county, Guanjiazui Town. It is the birthplace and origin of daylily planting, and is also the main producing area of ​​day lily. At present, the whole town of Guanjiazui Town has planted more than 20,000 acres of daylily, with an output value of nearly 150 million yuan. Nearly three-quarters of the population of the town is planting daylily, or engaged in daylily-related industries. The per capita income of daylily planting reaches 3000. Yu Yuan. In the local area, daylily is called the “money bag” and “life root” of farmers.

Is the day lily cool? It is still very hot

On August 30, the reporter drove to Guanjiazui Town. Although the daylily season has been passed, there are still many yellow flowers that have not yet been picked in the fields and fields on both sides of the road. The wind blows yellow flowers and screams.

Looking at the flowers in the distant field, Zhang Daye, a villager in his 70s, said with a smile, some people may not have eaten it, but they must be “early and familiar”. For example, the idioms that the common people often say “the daylilies are cold” “Tomorrow Yellow flower, etc., it is the "protagonist."

"The Modao farmer has no treasure, and the yellow flowers are golden needles." Jidong has been planting daylily for more than 500 years. It is the largest daylily planting base in the country. It has an annual area of ​​more than 160,000 mu and an annual output of more than 80,000 tons of dried vegetables. The total output accounts for 60% of the country and the output value exceeds 2 billion yuan. Products are exported to the United States, Japan, Thailand, Laos, Malaysia and other countries and regions.

Take the day lily to the road to prosperity

In the grassland village of Guanjiazui Town, several striking rural “villas” attracted the attention of reporters.

The owner of one of the houses is Guan Xiaowei. At the age of 34, relying on the daylily, he got rid of the fate of being a wage earner and embarked on the road to self-improvement. “I just received a big order from Guangzhou. The customer orders a day lily worth 300,000 yuan per month.” Guan Xiaowei introduced that in 2010, he was still a frontline worker in a factory. In the wake of the rise of e-commerce, he thought of his home's daylily, and he came up with the idea of ​​returning home to start a business.

In the past eight years, Guan Xiaowei sold the day lily to the whole country through the Internet.

The wine is also afraid of the deep alley. In order to promote the home lily, he followed the trend of the Internet. In the past two years, short videos have become popular, and he naturally will not miss the opportunity of free publicity.

In July of this year, Guan Xiaowei photographed the farmers’ picking of the daylily in the vegetable field, and passed it to a video platform, with the words “a headlight, propped up a home, paying tribute to the midnight flower pickers, you are the most beautiful laborers. ". I know the daylily, but the netizens who haven’t seen or eaten the daylily have been on the lookout, making it a popular hotspot. They have won more than 300,000 likes and more than 550 million readings.

Guan Xiaowei said that he wants to create a tourist experience area at home, allowing people to come to the hometown from all over the country to experience the whole process of picking and processing yellow daylilies.

Achieve a span of 2 billion to 10 billion

In Jidong, there are more than 400,000 farmers who live on the cultivation of daylilies like Guan Xiaowei.

The cultivation of day lily can be traced back to the Ming Hongzhi years. Guan Fumin and Guan Fushun brothers from Yongnian Village of Guanjiazui Town introduced daylily from the outside, planted in their own barrel gardens and bean gardens, and cultivated and bred. In this way, the number of farmers who planted more and more, and the area planted is getting bigger and bigger.

From June to August every year, farmers will work in the fields from night to morning, and each day will last for more than ten hours. The children will also work with their parents in the field. Guan Xiaowei has been studying planting and picking with his mother since he was 7 years old. “Our clothing, food and shelter, almost all come from daylily”.

One side of the water and soil cultivates the spirit of one side, and the arduous environment has nurtured the spirit of the "strength and hard work" of the people of Mindong. This is also one of the cores of the "Dalian cuisine spirit" proposed by the local people.

At this year's Jiulong Huanghuacai Food Culture Festival Cultural Forum, Du Dengfeng, secretary of the county party committee, said that the tenacious life of the daylily is amazing! Even if it grows in the barren and dry yellow land, even if it encounters the freezing cold of frost, they will blow the spring breeze. Born, dense and lush. They reached the raging days of the heat, and the roots of the arrow were upright, barely growing, and they were not bent, but the people of Dongdong did not fear the hard bones of hardship and dare to win.

Talking about the future of Huangdong's daylily industry, Lei Jianjun, the deputy head of the Mindong County People's Government, said that they will promote the leap-forward development of the daylily industry in eastern Fujian and promote the transformation of the daylily industry, from production to culture. Strive to achieve a leap from 2 billion to 10 billion within five years. Let Jidong maintain the status of China's largest daylily production base, and at the same time build Mindong into a Chinese alfalfa culture inheritance and transmission base, and build a heritage research base for Chinese mother flowers and mother culture.