Longquan City is a county-level city under the jurisdiction of Zhejiang Province, which is managed by Lishui City. Located at the junction of Zhejiang, Fujian and Jiangxi provinces in the southwest of Zhejiang Province, it borders Yunhe County and Jingning She Autonomous County in the east, qingyuan county in the south, Suichang County and Songyang County in the north and Pucheng County in Nanping City, Fujian Province in the west. It is the main channel for Zhejiang Province to enter Jiangxi and Fujian.

Longquan City is the capital of celadon, the state of sword, the birthplace of mushroom cultivation in the world and the first township of Ganoderma lucidum in China. Longquan sword is known as the best sword. Longquan celadon began in the Three Kingdoms and the Jin Dynasty, and Ge Kiln was one of the five famous kilns in the Song Dynasty. In 2009, Longquan celadon traditional firing technology was selected into the representative list of human intangible cultural heritage.

With a forest coverage rate of 84.2%, the city is a national health city, a national ecological demonstration zone, a national forest city, an ecological city in Zhejiang Province, and a garden city in Zhejiang Province, and is known as "Good Longquan" in ten counties of Chuzhou.

Longquan local specialty

1, Longquan celadon

Longquan celadon firing technology was listed in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage list in 2006, and was officially selected into the world intangible cultural heritage protection list in 2009. The traditional firing technology of Longquan celadon includes raw material crushing, elutriation, stale and mud refining; Forming, air drying, blank cutting, decoration, plain firing, glazing, box loading and kiln loading; Finally, it was burned with firewood in the dragon kiln.

2. Longquan shiitake mushroom

Longquan is one of the cradles of Lentinus edodes in the world, with superior natural conditions. The produced Lentinus edodes and substitute Lentinus edodes have excellent texture, round mushroom shape, pure color, strong aroma and delicious taste.

3. Longquan Ganoderma lucidum

Longquan Ganoderma lucidum, a Chinese herbal medicine, is a specialty of Longquan City, Zhejiang Province. Longquan Ganoderma lucidum has a round flower shape, dense texture, large proportion, good background color and good commercialization.

The above contents refer to Baidu Encyclopedia-Longquan City.