Wufeng is the hometown of famous tea in China. Wufeng belongs to subtropical warm and humid monsoon climate, with the lowest elevation 150m and the highest elevation of 2320m in the county. The mountains are surrounded by clouds all year round, with abundant rain, fertile soil and warm climate, which makes Wufeng tea grow naturally. As early as the late 8th century, British businessmen directly set up tea clubs in today's Caihua Township and Shuizhuo Temple to deal in tea, and their gold-lettered signboard "Yingshang Baoshunhe Tea House" is still preserved in Hubei Cai Hua Tea Co., Ltd. ..
The county has a high-quality tea garden10.5 million mu, with an annual output of more than 7,000 tons of green tea. It has four famous brand products in Hubei, including "Caihuamaojian", "Tianma Hao Jian", "Xiangshifu Tea" and "Narcissus Spring", five design patents and two invention patents. Maojian Caihua won the titles of "No.1 Tea Brand in Hubei" and "Tea Specially Supplied by Diaoyutai State Guesthouse", won the title of "Hubei Famous Brand Product" for four times, and won the "China Agricultural Expo Gold Award" for five consecutive times.
Tujia bacon
Tujia bacon is prepared by frying pepper, star anise and mountain pepper with salt and grinding them into powder. After cleaning and crushing pigs and sheep, cut off their heads, legs and forearms, put them in a jar for pickling, cut the rest into strips according to 5 kilograms, marinate them one by one, put them in layers, sprinkle seasoning on each layer, take them out and put them on the kang for about ten days. When curing bacon on the kang, it is forbidden to burn smoky and greasy firewood such as pine. Most of the firewood is green, green, fragrant leaves, cypress and other fragrant firewood, which is cooked in the morning and evening, and fireworks continue. After that, it will be smoked in summer for the second year, cooled and collected in rice. After millet absorbs water, bacon is more resistant to storage and does not rot for a long time.
Zhaguangjiao
Zhaguang pepper, also known as pepper and Thai pepper, is a special snack of Han and Tujia people in Yichang and Enshi, Hubei Province. It is made of red pepper and corn flour.
enema
Pig's blood is mixed with glutinous rice or millet, seasoned with salt, poured into pig's large intestine, cooked and dried on the kang, and the color is dark red. When eating, it is steamed and sliced, fragrant and soft, and it is the best food for the elderly and children.
Blood clot (a dish)
Mix the mashed fresh meat with pig blood, tofu and seasoning, cut into square blood tofu, and then put it on the kang to dry. It tastes red and fragrant.
Stewed chestnuts with duck meat
After the duck is fried, add chestnuts and stew. Duck is strong and chestnuts are sweet.
Shi Wa braised soup
Peel Shi Wa, remove dirt, stir fry, and stew. Cook frog skin and add seasoning. The meat is tender and has the smell of chicken, and it has a lingering fragrance after eating.
Loach arch tofu
Put the live loach in clear water, let it spit out the mud residue, then pour it into the cooked white tofu, and the loach will drill into the tofu, then cut it into small pieces and fry or cook soup.
Steamed crab with oatmeal
First, add water to oatmeal to make it paste, then pour in live crabs, cover the pot and cook it with recycled fire. When eating, adding oil and salt as seasoning can not only make the wheat pulp fragrant, but also make the crab soft and chewy and fragrant.
Vegetable tofu
Commonly known as "slag". Processing soybean into soybean milk or powder, adding water to boil, and then eating vegetable leaves. Light color, sweet taste and good nutrition.