Hunan has 11 Chinese time-honored brands
2024-03-04
Mendale
Hunan Mendale Hometextile Co., Ltd., established in 1956, integrates Hunan embroidery and intangible cultural heritage skills into its products to bring excellent traditional culture into households through bedding.
Guhan Chinese Medicine
The prescription of the exclusive traditional Chinese medicine variety “Guhan Health-keeping Extract” manufactured by Guhan Chinese Medicine Co., Ltd. is based on the ancient regimen unearthed in Mawangdui Han Tombs of Changsha. It is a national protected variety of traditional Chinese medicine and has won more than 30 honors, including China’s famous traditional Chinese medicine brand, Hunan’s famous brand product, and the Hunan provincial-level intangible cultural heritage item.
Changle Street Sweet Rice Wine
Changle Sweet Rice Wine has a long history, and its processing technic is included in the intangible cultural heritage list of Hunan Province. Changle Street Sweet Rice Wine is brewed with an ancient method and modern technology. There is a series of products such as boiled original-flavor sweet rice wine and brewed freeze-dried sweet rice wine.

Shisancun Pickled Food
The Shisancun pickled food workshop in Linxiang City of Yueyang City was established in 1922. There are more than 20 varieties including the beef and mushroom sauce, fermented bean curd, and the garlic and pepper sauce. In 2009, Shisancun Pickled Vegetables making skill was included in the provincial-level intangible cultural heritage list.

In order to restore the traditional technological process, Shisan Village has built the Shisancun Sauce Culture Expo Park and turned the production scenes, technological processes, and other industrial landscapes of pickled food making into tourism resources, attracting more than 200,000 tourists every year.
Xiangyi Fuzhuan Tea
Xiangyi Fuzhuan Tea
Yiyang Tea Factory Co., Ltd. is a Chinese time-honored enterprise specializing in the research, production, and sales of Fuzhuan tea. It is a national unit committed to the inheritance and protection of Fuzhuan tea making technique. It plays a big role in the drafting and formulation of national standards about Fuzhuan tea. Its main product Xiangyi Fuzhuan Tea is known as the “mysterious tea on the ancient Silk Road of China”.

Deshan Liquor Industry
Deshan Liquor Industry Co., Ltd. has successively developed a series of products such as Deshan Daqu, Dishuidong, and Yupin Deshan, which are widely favored in the market. It has also created liquor culture experience scenes and space, launched industry tourism routes with rich experience and strong interaction, and formed an innovative development model that culture and tourism advance the development of industry.
Jinjing Tea
Jinjing Hunan Tea Co., Ltd. is a national key leading enterprise in agricultural industrialization that integrates tea cultivation, processing, sales, scientific research, and cultural tourism, mainly producing green tea, black tea, etc. In 2016, Changsha (Jinjing) Green Tea making skill was included in the intangible cultural heritage list in Hunan Province.

Ye’s Ethnic Crafts
Ye’s Ethnic Crafts Co., Ltd. of Longshan County has a Tujia brocade training institute and has developed over 300 tourism products. Among them, the Tujia brocade work “Business Bag” won the gold medal at the Second China Ethnic Arts and Crafts Exhibition, and 4 Tujia brocade works are collected by the Hunan Provincial Museum of Arts and Crafts.

“Da” Socks
Hunan Shali Socks Industry Co., Ltd. has developed the ecological health series socks of “Da” brand, which have 184 patents and are popular in domestic and foreign markets. The company has also established the only socks museum in China called the Hunan Yiyang Daren Textile Industry Museum.

Childhood Food
Childhood Food mainly has peanuts, melon seeds, pistachios, almonds and other products. Medicinal herbals are added to products to make them more fragrant and more popular among consumers.
Beeboy
Beeboy, originating in 1889, mainly produces 7 series of green bee products, including honey, propolis, royal jelly, bee pollen, snack food, bee wine, and cosmetics.