Macheng, which belongs to Hubei Province, is a county-level city managed by Huanggang City. It is located in the northeast of Hubei Province, the north of Huanggang City, the south foot of Dabie Mountain on the north bank of the middle reaches of the Yangtze River, and the junction of Hubei, Henan and Anhui provinces.
Macheng has a long history and is named after Ma Gu, the immortal. In the eighteenth year of Emperor Kai of Sui Dynasty (AD 598), Macheng County was established, and in 1986, it was withdrawn from the county to establish a city. Macheng is a famous old revolutionary base area; This is one of the cradles of the "Jute Uprising", where the Gongsi Army and the Gong28th Army were founded. It is a famous Soviet area and an important base during War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression and the Liberation War. Out of Wang Shusheng, Xu Youshi, Chen Zaidao and other 36 Republic generals, known as "the first township of national generals"; It is also one of the "eight birthplaces of immigrants" in ancient China.
Macheng has many nutritious specialties.
Macheng tea mainly includes three series of products: Guishan Yanqing, Sanfeng Maojian and Hushanwu. Macheng "three series" tea has unique flavor and characteristics because of different tea gardens.
Wild camellia oil is a unique traditional edible vegetable oil in China. It can be seen that people use camellia oleifera fruit to extract oil. The main components of tea oil are unsaturated fatty acids, mainly oleic acid, linoleic acid and linolenic acid. The ratio of linoleic acid to linolenic acid is appropriate, and the content of unsaturated fatty acids is as high as 95%.
Wild Ge Fen, with a long history of homology of medicine and food, is made from pueraria lobata, which has been wild for many years in the deep forest of Guifeng Mountain, combined with traditional folk crafts and modern science and technology. According to modern scientific tests, this product contains trace elements such as zinc, iron, calcium, vitamin B 1, B2 and various amino acids.