Where does Dragon brand soy sauce come from?

Dragon brand soy sauce is one of Xiangtan’s traditional specialties. It won the gold medal at the Panama International Food Expo in 1915 and is produced by the city’s No. 1, No. 2 and No. 3 sauce factories. This product won the National Silver Award in 1982. (Xiangtan)

Long brand soy sauce, which was first produced in 1740, is brewed using the traditional natural sun-dried fermentation process and has original flavor. It is rich in 18 kinds of amino acids and more than 260 kinds of aroma components.

When you arrive in Xiangtan, if you don’t buy ‘Dragon Brand Soy Sauce’, you haven’t gone there. "This is not nonsense. Xiangtan has always been known as the "Kingdom of Soy Sauce". As early as 1915, Xiangtan's Dragon Brand Soy Sauce and Kweichow Moutai won the "Gold Medal of the Panama International Expo" at the same time. Xiangtan Dragon Brand Soy Sauce has been "cancelled" In addition to the unique advantages of bright color, rich sauce aroma, delicious taste, salty and sweet taste, no change in storage for a long time, no turbid precipitation and mold floating film, it also contains more than 260 kinds of aroma components and amino acids necessary for the human body, which is the best nutrition. Excellent product. Dragon brand soy sauce has a long history of being fragrant and fragrant. There is no one in Xiangtan who was born around the 1960s who did not grow up eating Dragon brand soy sauce rice. You can choose from "Dong Meizi". These are enough to prove the popularity and necessity of Long brand soy sauce in the daily life of Xiangtan people. As early as more than 100 years ago, He Shaoji, a great scholar and famous calligrapher in the Qing Dynasty, tasted the delicacies made with Long brand soy sauce. , leaving behind the famous saying "Three meals will make a person live longer, and a drop of flavor will be endless"

Xiangtan has a long history of making sauce. According to the "Xiangtan County Chronicle", there was a sauce making workshop in Xiangtan as early as the early Qianlong years of the Qing Dynasty. The soy sauce industry in Xiangtan City was pioneered by Gong Peiran, a businessman in the county in the early years of the Qianlong reign of the Qing Dynasty. At that time, the soy sauce produced by Gong Qingxiangzhai’s wine sauce workshop was “rich in juice, dark red in color, and fragrant and warm”, and was known as the “Three Wonderful Colors and Flavors”.

Xiangtan’s Dragon Brand soy sauce uses the finest soybeans and flour as raw materials and is brewed using a unique traditional process. It has a delicious color, rich aroma, salty and sweet taste, and no turbidity, no precipitation, and no turbidity after long-term storage. Wu Yuantai and Wu Hengtai Sauce Gardens, which pioneered original soy sauce, are two century-old shops.

After the public-private partnership in 1956, the three major soy sauce gardens "Liangwu" and "Dafeng" merged into Xiangtan. The product trademark of Xiangtan Sauce Factory is "Dragon Brand", and "Dragon" officially became the symbol of Xiangtan soy sauce. In December 1965, Long Brand soy sauce was rated as the best soy sauce for export in the five provinces of Central and South China. In June 1978, Won the first place in the National Export Soy Sauce Council; won the National Silver Award twice in 1981 and 1985. However, this is not the ultimate goal of Xiangtan Sauce Making colleagues. They have already set their sights on winning the gold medal in 1985. Professor Ma Bi, who resolutely returned from Taiwan in response to Chairman 1's "Nine Suggestions" on peaceful reunification, heard that the soy sauce in his hometown had "won silver" twice, and he composed an impromptu poem: "Taipei neighbors expose the fragrance of soy sauce, and every time I smell it, This taste reminds me of my hometown. I am happy to see the silver medal when I return. It is expected that the gold medal will shine even more. "Sure enough, "Family happiness will come after hard work." On December 27, 1988, Xiangtan's Dragon Brand soy sauce finally won the gold medal at the first Food Expo. After winning the gold medal, Zhang Guoji, chairman of the All-China Federation of Returned Overseas Chinese, wrote an inscription to congratulate: "Oh my God! The kitchen perfects the taste, and the wok relies on harmony. ”

The reason why Xiangtan Long brand soy sauce is so popular all over the world is that the selection, production and even storage are very particular. The main ingredients are Lihe black-mouth beans and Jinghe beans with high fat and protein content. Huangkou beans and goose beans produced in the upper reaches of the Xiangjiang River are specially used as auxiliary salt. The embryo vat is made of Su vat, which is thin and has fast heat transfer and long-term storage without deterioration. The seven steps of fermentation, stepping on the vat, drying the dough, and extracting the oil are all interlocking, strictly operated, and meticulous. In addition to the production of soy sauce, there are also original soy sauce, purple oil radish, and purple oil ginger, which have always been popular among consumers. Welcome. In particular, purple oil ginger has a long-standing reputation. It is made from high-quality young ginger that is unearthed in front of Bailu and looks like the palm of a human finger. The stem is broken without tendons, the branches are long and thin, and the mouth is short. It is carefully processed and finally soaked in Long brand soy sauce. It has a delicious taste. , salty, spicy and delicious, fragrant and tender, it is a good food to increase appetite.