"Tongling White Ginger" is one of the eight treasures of Tongling and one of the most distinctive agricultural products in Tongling. In recent years, with the attention of party and government organizations at all levels in Tongling and the efforts of ginger farmers and processing enterprises, the scale of the base has expanded year by year, the output of white ginger has increased year by year, and the processed white ginger series products have poured into cities such as Shanghai and Beijing, and have also gone abroad and entered the world. "Tongling White Ginger" was also well-known in ancient times and was well-known in the south of the Yangtze River. According to the research of Mr. Gou Guo, an expert in the study of "-Ci Hua", the third volume and fifty-fourth chapter of the "-Ci Hua" engraved by Ding Yi in the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty, "A dish of sauce on the Datong ginger". This "Datong ginger" refers to the ginger produced in the Datong area of Tongling. According to folk legends, "Tongling White Ginger" was a tribute in the Song Dynasty. After Emperor Qianlong tasted "Tongling White Ginger" in the south of the Yangtze River, he designated it to be sent to the royal courtyard. The reason why "Tongling White Ginger" has a unique quality is the perfect combination of thousands of years of evolution of nature and the wisdom of generations of ginger farmers. Tongling has a history of more than 2,000 years of planting white ginger, with its own unique planting methods: deep digging and ridge building, cutting and sowing, building sheds for shade, hand-pulling during harvest, storing seeds in ginger pavilions, and germinating with stoves. These planting techniques are the result of generations of inheritance, accumulation, summary and innovation by ginger farmers. Information source: Anhui Provincial Intangible Cultural Heritage Protection Center Information source: Anhui Provincial Intangible Cultural Heritage Protection Center