Jingjiang ducks are mainly produced on both sides of Jingjiang River in Hubei Province. Jiangling, Jianli and Biyang counties are the central producing areas, and Honghu, Shishou, Gongan, Qianjiang and Jingmen counties are also distributed.

1, physical appearance

This is a duck breed with a slender neck, narrow shoulders, a slightly longer body and a slightly wider hindquarters. Beak blue, shin and webbed orange. The head and neck of the drake are green and shiny, the chest and waist are reddish brown, and the tail is light gray. The mother duck has tawny feathers, long white eyebrows above her head and eyes, and black stripes on her brown back feathers.

2. Production performance

Adult weight of male duck1.6 ~1.8kg, and female duck1.5 ~1.7kg. The spawning age is 100 ~ 120 days. The annual egg production is 200 ~ 220. Eggs weigh 65 to 68 grams. White-shelled eggs account for the majority, and eggs are also heavier. The ratio of male to female is 1:20. The fertilization rate of eggs is over 90%, and the hatching rate of fertilized eggs is about 90%.

Water chestnut, commonly known as "chestnut", "horseshoe", "rice in the pool" and "water chestnut". It is a perennial aquatic herb, belonging to Cruciferae. There is a wheel under the ground, and its tip expands into a ball (this ball is what we usually call "water chestnut"); The stems on the ground are clustered, erect, tubular, like dragon whiskers and dark green. Sexual preference is warm and humid, and it is suitable for growing in low-lying lakeside areas in the south.

There is a story about water chestnut in the town of Huang Xie on the bank of Egret Lake: At the end of the Spring and Autumn Period (A.D. 522), the fatuous King Chu Ping listened to slanderers and unjustly killed Minister Wu She and his eldest son Wu Shang. Wu's second son, Wu Zixu, is at home. ......

Iced fish

I once heard someone sing a song: Love is in late autumn. But I like the spring when birds are singing and flowers are blooming, and I feel the magnificence of life in the chilly autumn rain, and I feel the poem of "I say autumn is better than spring". Three or four literary friends, fishing in Pu Yuan, looking for poetry in the bridge. Chatting while drinking, around the "boiled whitebait" hot pot, holding chopsticks in the steaming, heart to heart. A fresh face, permeated with the breath of spring, such a situation, the chest is full of warmth.

Rare whitebait hot pot, the main ingredients are chicken, pork liver, mutton and fish cake, and the "auxiliary material" is whitebait. This whitebait is also called "residual fish". ......

Hebei Beida cloth is a kind of high-quality cloth hand-woven by Jianli people. During the Song and Ming Dynasties, it was exported to Sichuan, Guizhou and Guangxi provinces.

Jianli is a famous cotton producing area in history, especially in Xingou, Zhoulao and Changgong towns. The terrain is high, the land is fertile, and the soil and sediment are half, which is suitable for cotton growth. The cotton produced is famous for its long cashmere, whiteness and good warmth retention. Merchants from Sichuan, Shaanxi, Yunnan, Guiyang and other places gathered in Xingou for purchase, making Xingou a famous flower market and cotton distribution center in Qianjiang and Jianli.

The development of cotton production has promoted the development and prosperity of textile industry. Farmers in Jianbei area have spinning wheels and weaving.

Zixu cake

During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, fierce heroes dominated and Lintong competed for treasures, claiming that the winner was the overlord and the loser was the vassal. The State of Chu sent Zixu as a gambling envoy, and all the envoys had treasure ships and carried them by car. It's bustling and lively here, but it's deserted in front of the Chu State Inn. Only Zixu was accompanied by three people, and there was no jewelry in the apartment except knives, swords and halberds. The messengers said, "Chu is poor, only a few big men are poor." When this word reached Wu Zixu, he smiled. During my three days in Chongqing, it's time to grab the treasure. The messenger sent people to carry silks and satins, jewels and cultural relics, which were placed one by one in two doors at the table, and Zhou Wang sat. ......

Quyuan cake

There is also an interesting story about "Qu Yuan Cake" produced by Huang Hu Cake Factory. According to legend, on the first night of Qu Yuan's first arrival in Haokou, he was exhausted from hunger and collapsed in front of a fisherman. An old woman found him and helped him into a thatched cottage. After asking, he found that he was a doctor, Qu Yuan, who had been admired by the people. Full of passion, the old lady carefully selected the raw materials such as sugar, flour and dried peach kernels stored at home, made several fragrant and sweet cakes with ingenuity, and solemnly brought them to the doctor. Qu Yuan ate a few mouthfuls of cakes and felt refreshed. He even called them "wonderful cakes"! ............