In 2024, the "Orange King" of Chen Village in Shunde will be releasedOn January 10, the 2024 Chencun New Year Tangerine Creation Competition came to an end, and after selection, the 2024 Chencun "Orange King" and a number of award-winning works were announced one after another. Among them, this year's "Orange King" was planted by Liang Guanglin and Liang Guangrong together, and it is a plant about 3 percent tall8 meters of cinnabar oranges.
New Year orange is the auspicious tree of the Chinese Spring Festival. In Guangdong, "placing New Year's flowers and oranges" is a Spring Festival custom of every household. Chen Village, the "Millennium Flower Township", has a history of more than 1,000 years of tangerine planting, and nearly 8 adult oranges in the country are produced here, which is the largest tangerine planting base in the country. In 2018, "Chencun Niantang" was certified by the national brand and became an agricultural product protected by the registration and protection of national geographical indications.
More than 100 outstanding works were received in the 2024 Chen Cun Tangerine Creation Competition, and a total of 50 works participated in the competition after the preliminary selection. In the works, there are not only traditional modeling tangerines with excellent quality, but also a number of fresh-cut orange floral works and landscaping potted plants with innovative modeling and aesthetic interest. After careful and meticulous evaluation by the jury, the 2024 Chen Cun "Orange King" and a number of award-winning works were finally selected.
Among them, this year's "Orange King" was planted by Liang Guanglin and Liang Guangrong together, and it is a pot with a diameter of 12 meters of cinnabar orange, crown width of about 2 meters, height of about 38 meters, the fruit color is ruddy, the leaves are green, the orange fruit is evenly distributed, the color is red and shiny, the shape is natural and straight, and the fruit maturity is uniform.
It is reported that the planting scale of tangerines in Chencun town is about 7,000 acres, with an annual output value of 300 million yuan, and more than 5,000 orange farmers are engaged in tangerine planting. This competition is also an important measure for Chencun Town to promote the high-quality development of agriculture under the goal of building a "provincial model central town with beautiful cities and strong rural areas" around the "Millions and Millions" project. Chen Cun insists on holding the New Year Tangerine Culture Week every year, building a technical exchange platform for New Year tangerine practitioners, promoting the improvement of the skills of New Year tangerine growers, promoting the improvement of the quality and aesthetics of New Year orange products, and further promoting the improvement of the added value of agricultural products and the integration of agriculture, culture and tourism.
The Spring Festival is approaching, it is the time when the New Year oranges are popular, Lu Jingchu, president of the Chencun New Year Tangerine Association, introduced: "Because the epidemic has passed for three years, flower markets have also been opened in various places, and this year's sales are better than in previous years, and the sales have been sold all over the country, mainly in the Pearl River Delta region, Hainan and Fujian provinces, and some are exported to Southeast Asian countries." So far, 8 to 9 percent of the tangerines have been reserved. In addition, due to the increase in planting costs, the ** of this year's tangerines is also higher than in previous years. ”
According to reports, the winning works of the 2024 Chencun New Year Tangerine Creation Competition are being exhibited in the Xianchong New Year Tangerine Cultural Exhibition Hall. The 2024 Chencun "Orange King" will be auctioned at Chencun Flower World on January 31, when the 40th Chencun Spring Festival Flower Market will also be officially opened.
Written by: Nandu reporter Chen Feilong, Ding Yunyuan, correspondent Chen Shuzhong, Chen Jianxin.
*: Nandu reporter Chen Binying.
Part**, provided by Chen Cun Propaganda Office.