Reporter: Wang Nina
On Zhihu, there is a main question: "Curious, how did the children in the south feel like eating northeast rice for the first time?"
This question was viewed by 430,000 people, and there are hundreds of messages below.
A netizen named "fangl" said:
"My colleague Lao Li and I each served a plate of food and found a place to sit down. The sun shone in from the window. The rice was crystal clear and bright with a golden halo. Lao Li and I used chopsticks to deliver it to our mouths about the same time. I took a bite of rice and chewed it a few times, and I stopped at once, and looked at each other with Lao Li, eyes full of light."
At that moment, "fangl" felt that the food was not important at all. The rice was so delicious. This is the legendary Northeast rice!
Heilongjiang Rice Rice China News Agency reporter Wang Nina
Another Southern Child Paper called "Lue Lue Lue" described in detail the two experiences of being amazed by Northeast rice.
As a native southerner, "Slightly" has been reluctant to eat rice until his uncle went to the northeast for a walk, volunteered to carry back a 5 kg bag of northeast rice, completely rewriting his "stereotype" of rice. .
"My mother used it to cook. I'm afraid I used to eat fake rice. This rice has a super sticky texture. I only remember that I was so bored and ate three bowls of rice silently..."
Three bowls of rice?
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Tohoku Rice said it was very moved.
Under this question, "Kenny Bear", a culinary lover of literature and art, said that southern rice and northern rice actually have their own advantages, mainly because they are used properly.
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In order to make "a pot of good rice"
In order to have a good pot of rice, tens of millions of rice farmers in Heilongjiang in the northeast have been "researching" a small grain of rice for more than a hundred years, using their wisdom to the extreme.
At the 3rd China·Heilongjiang International Rice Festival, which opened on October 18th, I really saw the magnificence of "a piece of black soil, the world's granary".
A small grain of rice, Heilongjiang people grow duck rice, crab rice, catfish rice...
In spring, after transplanting seedlings, among the green young grass seedlings, lay down ducklings, button-sized young crabs, or catfish and small loach, so that they can live with the rice seedlings.
Duck paddy field in Heilongjiang Province Photo courtesy of Dongan Village, Yanshou County, Heilongjiang Province
"As soon as the seedlings take root, we put the loach fish in the rice fields, and the fish eat the weed roots in the rice fields. The fish are still swimming in the fields, making the water and the fields fertile." The loach rice of the Liangzi Cooperative of Suibin Farm in Heilongjiang Province is responsible People say.
In Heilongjiang, rice farmers have also developed rice fields on billions of years old volcanic rocks.
"The honeycomb-shaped volcanic rock is sprinkled with black soil, which is slate ground, and rice is planted. This way the rice has a lot of minerals and is very nutritious." said Chen Yujia, head of the Xuanwu Lake Rice Cooperative in Ning'an City, Heilongjiang Province.
Slate Rice Photo courtesy of Ning'an City, Heilongjiang Province
Duck rice, crab rice, catfish rice, loach rice, slate rice, grass charcoal rice... Heilongjiang people respect nature and grow all kinds of ecological rice, so that the Chinese can eat "a pot of good rice."
Modern agriculture, cool
Plant one millet in spring and harvest ten thousand seeds in autumn.
People in Heilongjiang have been exploring and working hard on growing rice.
Heilongjiang Province is the largest province for japonica rice production in my country, and the rice planting area is now the largest in the country.
In 2019, the planting area of japonica rice was 57.188 million mu and the output was 26.635 million tons, accounting for more than 12.7% of China's.
At the moment, the autumn harvest is busy.
Today, the scene of the autumn harvest in Heilongjiang is no longer the old way of farmers "facing the loess with their backs upside down", but the rumbling of the machines and the busy autumn harvest.
Daxing Farm Autumn Harvest Picture Courtesy of Daxing Farm, Heilongjiang Province
The rice fields in Heilongjiang, northern China, are mechanized from planting to harvesting.
This year, the Great Northern Wilderness in Heilongjiang gave birth to the world's first unmanned farm with over 10,000 mu.
Rice transplanters, tractors, harvesters, and high-tech agricultural machines are working in the rice fields. This is the picture of modern Chinese agriculture.
The vertical and horizontal terraces are so beautiful.
Overlooking the rice fields of Daxing Farm Photo courtesy of Daxing Farm, Heilongjiang Province
After the pictures of Heilongjiang's mechanized autumn harvest were posted online this year, all netizens were surprised and said: "This agriculture is cool!"
Heilongjiang rice is close to the best in the world
Why is Heilongjiang rice delicious?
Because here is the most fertile black land in the world.
There are only three black soils in the world, and Heilongjiang has such a black soil blessed by nature. In the black soil, the organic matter content is high, and the rice grown has a good taste.
Secondly, Heilongjiang's climate with large temperature difference between day and night makes each grain of rice here have more protein in the deposit, and the rice is more elastic and chewy.
Again, breeding, planting, and organic certification, the level of rice planting in Heilongjiang is high!
Xie Huaan, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and a researcher at the Fujian Academy of Agricultural Sciences, said: "The quality of Heilongjiang rice should be close to the best in the world."
No wonder, on October 18, at the "World Baimihui" held for the first time in the third China Heilongjiang International Rice Festival, Chinese and foreign guests tasted more than a dozen kinds of rice from different origins in Heilongjiang, and they all said "delicious".
At the International Rice Festival, foreign envoys were tasting Heilongjiang rice.
Photo by China News Agency reporter Lu Pin
"The rice here is delicious, especially Wuchang rice, which is fragrant and delicious," said Mironov, the representative of the Ministry of Agriculture of the Russian Federation in China.
No wonder that 726 rice from 8 countries participated in the blind tasting of international rice, but "Wuchang Rice" won the internationally renowned Koshihikari Rice and won three "champions" in the japonica rice category.
No wonder, the netizen on Zhihu said that after she grew up, she moved to a new home and bought "Daohuaxiang" rice from Wuchang City, Heilongjiang Province:
"The crystal clear rice grains, scattered in my little rice cooker, made a crisp sound, and there was a faint scent of rice on the hand holding the rice. After the rice was cooked in the pot for a while, good fellow, at the door of the kitchen You can smell the scent, the rice comes out, the oil is bright, and it emits wisps of heat. A mouth, wow, super amazing, the hot rice grains are glutinous, but not too soft, but a bit chewy , When chewing, there is a bit of QQ elasticity, and the slight sweetness fills the mouth... three more bowls!"
"Slightly" sighed and said, I didn't expect a dignified foodie to be conquered by a bowl of rice after trying countless delicacies.
This bowl of rice comes from Heilongjiang.
Longjiang rice attracts the attention of the world
From the avenue to the simplicity, there will be a long aftertaste.
Heilongjiang has grown rice to the extreme. Through the International Rice Festival, the world's eyes are now on here.
This year, the 3rd China Heilongjiang International Rice Festival highlights the international genes. Envoys from Japan, South Korea, Thailand, Pakistan, Russia, the Philippines, Vietnam, Indonesia and other countries in China will participate in the rice festival and taste Heilongjiang rice.
Photo by China News Agency reporter Lu Pin at the International Rice Festival
"Heilongjiang rice is delicious, everyone knows."
The Minister of Japan's Satake Co., Ltd. Kono Motobu said in a video link at the rice festival.
This year, at the International Rice Festival, the world's top rice experts "back-to-back" "blind tasting" activities, received 726 rice from Thailand, Japan, China and other 8 major rice-producing countries in the world, and applied to participate in the tasting.
After the deadline, the event received many samples.
The tasting at the annual International Rice Festival is like an industry benchmark, pointing out a direction for progress for rice farmers and rice enterprises.
"Enterprises have determined the breeding direction based on the standards of rice tasting. In the past, increasing production was the direction, and the future is the direction of high-quality eating... (Through the International Rice Festival) the development of China's rice industry, the brand influence is further enhanced, the taste is improving, marketing The quantity is increasing. The varieties and products awarded in the previous two sessions have a very good market share in the country." said Li Lianrui, deputy director of the Heilongjiang Provincial Department of Agriculture and Rural Affairs.
The International Rice Festival provides a good opportunity for Heilongjiang rice to go abroad and to the world.
Autumn harvest rice farmer Chen Zhiwei
A bowl of rice, the world's food.
"For many people in the world, rice is life."
Qu Dongyu, Director-General of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, spoke via video link at the opening ceremony of the International Rice Festival.
On the vast black ground, soft and glutinous white rice is grown, which is full of Min'an and Cathay Pacific.
Chinese food, Chinese rice bowl, Heilongjiang will be firm.