According to written records, the planting history of Guangchang White Lotus has been 1300 years, and actually lotus has been planted.

History can be traced back to earlier times, but there is no text to test. 1995 Guangchang county was named as "the hometown of concentric An Baili in China" at the "First Naming Conference of China's Top 100 Specialty Homes" held in the Great Hall of the People in March.

Guangchang has been called "Lianxiang" since ancient times. According to textual research, the nickname of "Lianxiang" in Guangchang came from this: in the first year of Shaoding in the Southern Song Dynasty (A.D. 1228), the county magistrate Xie Juezhi built the "Lianxiang Hall" next to Bailianchi. According to legend, on June 24th of the lunar calendar, Grandfather County invited rural literati to sit in a pavilion with unique shapes and mountains and rivers, and enjoy the scenery of the lotus field through the leaking window to express their feelings. There is a poem to prove that "a thousand lotus flowers are three feet of water, and a bright moon and a half pavilion phoenix". After "Lianxiangtang", it was widely circulated among the people and passed down through the ages. "Xiang" and "Xiang" are homophonic in folk spoken language, and later generations called Guangchang "Lianxiang". Since 1930s, there have been newspapers and magazines calling Guangchang "Lianxiang", among which the most authoritative book is China's Economic Capital, Famous Town and Famous News (edited by Ma Hong, China Development Press). During the period of 1994, Guangchang County won the title of "Hometown of China White Lotus" at the naming meeting of local famous products.

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