Cordyceps militaris ushers in a new era of ecological health

On May 27, the third annual Anji Cicada Flower Harvest Season and Anji Cicada Flower Health Cuisine Cooking Competition, jointly organized by the Anji County Culture, Radio, Television, Tourism and Sports Bureau, the Anji County General Trade Union, and the Anji County Baofu Town People's Government, was officially held at the Anji Hao Yisheng Cicada Flower Industry Technology Innovation Center.
The health cuisine cooking competition at the event attracted many famous chefs. 34 chefs used cicada flower as the core ingredient, incorporating local specialties such as Anji bamboo shoots and white tea, to create dishes that combine the medicinal effects and artistic beauty. The day also included an industry summit forum, cicada flower cultivation and harvesting experiences, and a special food experience store award ceremony. At the cultivation laboratory, guests experienced the growth secrets and new cultivation techniques of cicada flowers. At the industry summit forum, guests engaged in cross-border dialogues on topics such as the extraction of active ingredients from cicada flowers, the development of medicinal value, and standardized production, jointly exploring the new blue ocean of the "cicada flower economy".
"Cicada flower" is undoubtedly the star of this event. It is understood that wild cicada flowers grow in bamboo forests and are a precious medicinal herb with high medicinal value, known as the "treasure of the bamboo forest." Anji is one of the famous wild cicada flower producing areas in China. The Hao Yisheng Cicada Flower Industry Technology Innovation Center, which hosted the event, was established in 2023. This institution fully integrates traditional precious medicinal herbs with modern technology to develop a series of cicada flower products with high technological content. While solving the problem of unstable quality of cicada flower products, it also innovates process technology to meet the needs of market consumers.

Since 2023, the Hao Yisheng Cicada Flower Industry Technology Innovation Center has continuously hosted three cicada flower harvest season events. The first cicada flower harvest season, themed "Discovering the Value of Cicada Flower, Promoting Rural Revitalization," showcased the precious potential of this natural treasure for the first time. In 2024, the second cicada flower harvest season further deepened the integration of production, education, and research, pushing the cicada flower industry to a new level. This year's cicada flower harvest season is a continuation of the achievements of the previous two seasons and is a key step for the Anji cicada flower industry to move towards scale, standardization, and branding.

"We selected the best quality strains as the energy source for our artificial cultivation of cicada flowers. Only good mountains and water can produce good cicada flowers, which is why we chose to cultivate the cicada flower industry in Anji Baofu." Zhang Quan, head of the Hao Yisheng Cicada Flower Industry Technology Innovation Center, said that the cicada flower strain "Hao Yisheng No. 1" selected by the innovation center has been preserved at the National Germplasm Resource Center, and the Hao Yisheng cicada flower project has also won honors such as the 2023 Huzhou Nan Taihu Elite Plan Class A project and the Huzhou 2024 first batch of major agricultural projects.
With the support of technology, the "treasure of the bamboo forest" has become a new industry for enriching the people. "Currently, the Cicada Flower Innovation Center is promoting a "company + village collective + farmer" cooperation model. Through technical training, order agriculture, and brand joint ventures, it builds a sustainable industrial chain to help rural revitalization." A relevant forestry official from Baofu Town introduced that the company is currently using idle resources and assets in Baofu Town's Jingxi Village to promote the implementation and transformation of cicada flower artificial cultivation technology, forming supporting processing and sales, and increasing the village's collective economy by 250,000 yuan annually.
Anji cicada flowers bloom, bringing natural health. The small cicada flower has opened up a new ecological and healthy industry, a tribute to nature's gifts, and a vivid practice of technology empowering rural revitalization. In the future, technology companies represented by Hao Yisheng Biology will continue to attract high-level talents to promote technological innovation in the cicada flower industry, contributing to the creation of the Anji cicada flower brand and achieving high-quality development of the Anji cicada flower industry.