The Name Cards of Fragrance
4 min readWhat are the flowers of blooming in dust and desolation like Do they have more fragrance Hetian rose was once regarded as the Damascus strain. However, after the gene identification and research, the experts made the conclusion that Hetian rose may belongs to the unique Tujue strain, closing to but even better than the Turkish rose. The Hetian rose, growing up in drought and sandstorms, is not halfpenny worse than the worlds’ most famous Damascus rose, Bulgarian rose, or France Douglas rose.
As we all know, the sand and dust weather in Hetian is very rampant, “Hetian people are bitter, eating half a kilo dust, not enough during the day, and make up at night”. However, it is just in such a place with the dominant hue of yellowish brown, the brightness of Hetian rose dazzles the eyes, and enchants your heart. The large rose gardens make the stunning cenery in the monotonous and solitude Taklimakan Desert.
In addition to the blooming roses in rose gardens of hundreds or thousands mu, there is a street famous for roses-Jiamai Street. Every May is the sale season of roses, and Jiamai Street will become the world of roses, with eyeful of showy colors, and fragrance pervading everywhere. Thousands of people engage in trading of roses at this folk trading center, some selling fresh roses, some making special sauce from roses, and more people from SMEs or of engaging in Uygur medicine are purchasing roses.
The planting of Hetian rose has a history of more than 2000 years. Hetian rose has always been the good company of people in Hetian for thousands of years. Almost all the Hetian people, especially the Uighur, plant roses, which have become the plants with the most local feature.
The flower sauce, with the principal raw material of roses, has many magical effects of nourishing the stomach and heart, soothing the nerves and nourishing the brain, managing Qi and activating blood. So Uygur takes it as the daily seasoning, a small plate of rose sauce a pot of herbal tea and a few naans will make a delicious breakfast. It can also be taken as kind of medicine, and Uygur medicine uses roses to treat the heart, lung, and stomach disease. Xinjiang is one of the world’s top four longevity areas, which is inseparable from the living habit of health care through diet therapy and nutrition.
The staff are picking roses in the rose garden It is just the “simple”application to make sauce, wine, and tea from roses, bath with them, or use them as medicine. Refine the essential oil will multiply the value of Hetian rose, for rose essential oil is the world’s most expensive essential oil, is called the “Queen of the essential oils”. Geran excellentiol and geraniol are the two main ingredients; the content of geran excellentiol in the rose essential oil made in China is 249.8 times of that of the Bulgarian Rose, and 124.9 times of that of the French rose, while the content of geraniol is 8.3 times of that of the Bulgarian Rose, and 5.6 times of that of the French rose. Hetian Rose is the only highland rose resource in the world.
Like the Hetian Rose, Ili Lavender is another name card of fragrance.
When talking about the Lavender, most of people will think of Provence in France.
In 1964, 60 lavender seeds sailed from Provence across the sea to the Ili river valley, and took root and sprout there. In 2011, the Ili Valley became the third lavender production area with its cultivated area of 30,000mu, was next only to Provence in France,and Hokkaido in Japan. The famous French perfumer Dr. Pierre. Ross believed that Ili would become the first lavender production area in the next five to ten years.
Ili Valley and Provence are located in the same latitude band, with a unique inverse temperate climate and water and fertilizer condition, which provides an ideal geographical environment for the large-scale cultivation of lavender. Today, the lavender industry has become the pillar industry of Ili. Those small flowers are made into packages of dried flowers exuding elegant aroma, and bottles of essential oil of noble quality, and are exported to all over the world.
In Huocheng County of Ili, the lavender production accounts for 97% of the whole country, and 95% of the lavender essential oil production. The lavender variety cultivated in Huocheng has been included in the world’s eight leading lavender varieties; therefore Huocheng has won a reputation of “China Lavender Center”.
The lavender planting base of Xinjiang Ili Tianyao Biotechnology Co., Ltd in Qingshui River Town, Huocheng County, has gained the organic certification of China quality inspection center. The company became the only company in China of producing organic lavender. The anxiety releasing princess lavender garden was the first lavender theme sightseeing garden in Xinjiang, and the first theme sightseeing industry garden area approved as the national AAA level scenic spot of the whole industry scene. The anxiety releasing princess museum is also the only lavender theme museum in China at present The unique geographical, light and heat resources in Xinjiang give birth to lots of aromatic plants of excellent quality. At present, there are more than 30 kinds of aromatic plants are commercially planted in Xinjiang, with the planting area of about 70,000 mu, making Xinjiang the largest aromatic plants cultivation base in western China, and the aromatic plants industry output value accounting for half of the daily chemical industry. In each harvest season, the fragrance exuding from rose, lavender, mint, rosemary, spearmint, Roman chamomile and other precious spices will pervade the country with the wind and even the world from Xinjiang.
