Xilin Huo Jiangren called Jiang "high-quality students." Because of its high content of gingerol, the taste of food is hot, so it is called "fire ginger."

Xilin Huojiang was originally born in the alpine virgin forest above 1000 meters above sea level in Xilin. After the change of forest environment, the wild plants have basically disappeared. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, Xilin Huojiang developed a relatively wide plant. In the late 1980s, due to the great improvement in traffic, the market demand was large, the price was high, and the production planting area continued to expand. Xilin Huo ginger is delicate and spicy, and it has excellent effects on spleen and stomach, dehumidification and relieving phlegm and relieving cough. The Xilin indigenous people Zhuang Buddhism and Buddhism knew the medicinal value of Xilin Fire Ginger very early, and thus cultivated it artificially, planted it on the terraces of the fields, vegetable gardens, etc., and Bu Yue called it "hing". "clear". These Xilin soldiers took Xilin Huo Jiang from their hometowns to treat the soil and water, the cold and the cold and vomiting. The reputation of Xilin Huo Jiang has spread widely. The Xilin Zhuang people are very familiar with the medicinal diet, medicinal value and use of Xilin Huojiang in the long-term cultivation and use of Xilin Huojiang. In addition to the daily use of Xilin Huo Jiang as a dietary ingredient, in places where no tea is produced, Zhuang people generally use Xilin Huo Jiang boiled water as a tea. When they come to the guests at home or start singing folk songs, Jiang Shui is an essential drink. Xilin Zhuang people also use brown sugar to cook ginger soup to treat colds and fever, use simmering ginger to smash and scrape, use ginger to smash and apply externally to treat skin diseases, stew chicken with ginger to increase maternal physical fitness, and make ginger with spleen A fever medicine, etc. Xilin Zhuang people also have many traditional foods made with Xilin Huo Jiang, such as pickled ginger, with Xilin fire ginger, chopped bacon, pickled water bean, Xilin famous dish "white donkey duck" in the cooking production, not less Xilin Fire ginger is used as a filling ingredient. The ancient barrier towns and Maji towns in Xilin County are famous Xilin fire ginger producing areas, and also the Xilin fire ginger distribution center. Every year, Xilin Huo ginger receiving season, a large number of foreign merchants came to buy Xilin Huojiang. Once upon a time, the masses planted ginger, mostly for the sale of ginger. After 1967, large-scale processing into dried ginger pieces and dried ginger pieces began. Because of the characteristics of dried ginger and dried ginger, the smell of spicy ginger, bright yellow color, thick ginger, thin skin, dry and not easy to mold, etc., it was exported to Europe and the United States and Japan in the 1970s. The social awareness of Xilin Fire Ginger is very good. Great improvement. Xilin Huojiang production enterprises have won such honors as “Guangxi Agricultural Industrialization Key Leading Enterprise”, “Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region Leading Poverty Alleviation Enterprise”, and “Guangxi Smart Agriculture Top Ten Model Enterprise”. In order to develop the healthy seedling production of Xilin Huojiang and continue to produce high-quality and high-efficiency standardized production technology, and promote the development of Xilin fire ginger industry, from 2014 to 2015, the Science and Technology Department of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region implemented the “standard processing technology for processing special ginger” in Xilin County. Demonstration base construction demonstration" research project.

Xilin Huojiang Quality Technical Requirements I. Variety of local traditional small turmeric varieties. Second, the site conditions are within the range of 500 ~ 1200 m above sea level, the soil type is yellow soil, the texture is sandy loam, the tillage layer is ≥ 30cm, the soil pH is 4.50 ~ 6.50, and the soil organic matter content is ≥ 1.8%. Third, cultivation management 1. Ginger: Ginger block ≥ 25g. 2. Sowing: planting at the end of February-March, ≤105,000 holes per hectare. The depth is 20 to 25 cm. 3. Fertilization: Apply high-quality organic fertilizer ≥7500kg/ha every year. 4. Field management: The thickness of the soil is 3~4cm. 5. Harvest: Harvest from November to February. 6. Environmental and safety requirements: The use of pesticides, fertilizers, etc. must comply with relevant national regulations and must not pollute the environment. Fourth, the quality characteristics 1. Sensory characteristics ginger block skin is light yellow, cut face golden, meaty dense, gingery rich, spicy and strong. 2. Physical and chemical indicators Item index Volatile oil / (ml / 100g) whole or flake ≥ 2.0 gingerol (mass fraction) /% ≥ 0.453. Safety and other quality technical requirements Product safety and other quality technical requirements must comply with relevant national regulations .

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Producers within the scope of Xilin Huojiang's production area may submit an application to the Xilin County Quality and Technical Supervision Bureau for the use of the \"Special Mark for Geographical Indication Products\", which shall be reviewed by the Quality and Technical Supervision Bureau of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region and reported to the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine for approval. The testing organization of Xilin Huojiang is selected by the Quality and Technical Supervision Bureau of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region in the testing institutions that meet the qualification requirements.