Changqi Village () is a village in Anjiang () (formerly in the southeastern part of Longtian Township ()),

Hongjiang Hongjiang (), formerly Qianyang County () is a county-level city in Hunan, Hunan Province, China, it is under the administration of the prefecture-level city of Huaihua. Located on the southwest of the province and the south of Huaihua, the city ...

City,

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, which is located in the western part of

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Province,

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. it had a population of about 1,400. Most of the villagers share the same surname, Duan, and there is an

ancestral shrine An ancestral shrine, hall or temple ( or , vi, Nhà thờ họ; Chữ Hán: 家祠户), also called lineage temple, is a temple dedicated to deified ancestors and progenitors of surname lineages or families in the Chinese tradition. Ancestra ...

specifically for all the people surnamed Duan.

Agriculture

The village is the origin of what eventually became the Qianyang Bingtang

orange Orange most often refers to: *Orange (fruit), the fruit of the tree species '' Citrus'' × ''sinensis'' ** Orange blossom, its fragrant flower *Orange (colour), from the color of an orange, occurs between red and yellow in the visible spectrum * ...

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(黔阳冰糖橙), which is a famous product of Hongjiang. The predecessor of what was eventually cultivated into today's Qianyang Bingtang orange was discovered in the 1960s by Changqi village resident Duan Tianlong (段天郎).

References

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