CCTV News: During the Spring Equinox solar term, many places will hold folk activities with their own characteristics. In Anren County, Hunan Province, a farming cultural activity that has been passed down for thousands of years - Gan Branch was held.

There is a Shennong Square in Anren County, Chenzhou, Hunan Province. Listening to this place name, you will remind you of Shennong. According to local legend in Anren, Emperor Yan Shennong once came to Anren to taste hundreds of herbs and teach the people to farm. In order to commemorate Shennong, the people of Anren held branches to rush around the Spring Equinox every year. The "division" in the branch club is the spring equinox, and the "society" refers to market transactions. On the day of the Spring Equinox, men, women, young and old will come to the market to trade agricultural tools, seeds, and Chinese herbal medicines. After thousands of years of development, this folk activity has now become a national intangible cultural heritage. Gathered at Anren to the branch. The Chinese medicinal materials market transactions are busy. Anren is a major county in Chinese medicinal materials resources. In the branch office, an important event was the Chinese medicinal materials market, which attracted hundreds of medicinal materials merchants from many places across the country to gather here, and farmers would also take out their homes to set up stalls to sell them.

This row looks like orange peels, but in fact they are called "citrus", which is the citrus in "citruss is orange when grown in Huainan, and in Huainan, it is citruss." Unlike the sweet and juicy oranges, this is a relatively sour fruit. It can be made into different medicinal materials at different growth stages of the fruit, such as Citrus aurantium and Citrus aurantium. When it is fully mature, it is called stinky skin orange, also called yellow skin lime. If a child coughs, locals are used to cutting the stinky skin tangerines, boiling soup or steaming to relieve cough. Local agricultural products companies will also process mature stinky tangerines into goji tangerine drinks and sell them. Pour it into a cup and it looks like a glass of orange juice, which is slightly astringent and more sour than orange juice.

As the saying goes, medicine and food are the same, and Chinese herbal medicines can also be combined with other ingredients to make health food. This bowl is stewed with Chinese herbal pig's feet, which also contain black beans and eggs. Add a spoonful of sweet rice wine to neutralize the taste. The locals are used to serving a bowl before going to the rice fields to work, and they are warm all over after eating. Spring Equinox Branch Plow the first rice field in spring

After eating Chinese herbal stewed pig's feet, you have to start working. The culmination ceremony of the Spring Equinox is also an important activity for the branch. A ploughing ceremony was held in the rice field park 1 km away from Shennong Square. From the aerial photography, you can see that the continuous sea of ​​rape flowers is floating leisurely in the wind, just like a giant scroll painted by nature.

The fields where rapeseed flowers are not planted next to them are planted with double-season rice. Centralized seedling cultivation and land plowing are carried out simultaneously around the Spring Equinox, and early rice is sown during the Qingming Festival. The land for growing rapeseed flowers adopts the "rice and rice oil" crop rotation model. The golden rapeseed flowers sea attracts tourists to enjoy the flowers and view the scenery, and wait for the rapeseed to be harvested at the end of April to plant early rice. The two models not only improve land utilization, but also drive the integrated development of agriculture, culture and tourism.