比起一年一熟的菠萝、春华秋实的荔枝、数月收获的甘薯，徐闻良姜可能是湛江所有特色农产品里，最「慢性子」的那一个。
Set beside pineapple, which fruits within a year, lychee, which follows the season, and sweet potato, which comes in months, galangal from Xuwen may be the slowest thing Zhanjiang grows.
徐闻良姜，埋进红土之后，要等上整整三到五年，才肯把积蓄的辛香一点点吐露出来。在湛江这片被称作「中国良姜之乡」的土地上，时间以另一种刻度被丈量：不是日月，而是春秋；不是收成，而是等待。
Once it is in the red earth it waits three to five years before it gives up the heat it has stored. On this ground, called the home of Chinese galangal, time is counted in years of waiting, not in a single harvest.
这份「慢」，恰恰是良姜最珍贵的品格。
That slowness is the point of the plant.
八百年底蕴Eight centuries under it
这份慢生长的特质，正是徐闻良姜最珍贵的产业底色。据《宋史》《广东通志》等史料记载，徐闻良姜的栽种与利用历史始于北宋，文脉农脉绵延千载。民国四年（1915年），良姜被广东巡按公署列为官府专卖品，足见其自古便是稀缺珍贵的特色物产。
The slowness is also the industry’s ground colour. The History of the Song and the Guangdong gazetteer put planting and use back to the Northern Song. In 1915 the provincial office listed it as a government monopoly, a sign it was already scarce.
八百余载岁月流转，雷州半岛百姓世代接续种养，与这方红土珍材的深厚羁绊从未断绝。如今，徐闻全县良姜种植面积约8万亩，占全国九成以上。2025年全县良姜收获面积达2万亩、产量3.08万吨。龙塘镇是核心产区，2024年，60多个自然村、3000多户村民种植良姜，面积达2.5万亩，主要种植品种有蜂窝姜、竹节姜、牛姜，产出的龙塘良姜在东南亚市场上素有「中国龙塘良姜」之称，远销中东、欧美等地。
People on the peninsula have kept planting it for more than eight hundred years. Xuwen now has about 80,000 mu, more than nine tenths of the national area. In 2025 the harvested area was 20,000 mu and output 30,800 tonnes. Longtang is the core: in 2024 more than 60 villages and 3,000 households grew 25,000 mu, mainly honeycomb, bamboo-joint, and ox galangal. On Southeast Asian markets it is known as China Longtang galangal, and it also goes to the Middle East, Europe, and America.
与常见食用姜不同，良姜药食同源，既能温胃散寒、消食止痛，被医药界称为「药用黄金」；又能作为「十三香」等调味料的重要原料，还广泛用于香水、日化等领域。得益于徐闻的温暖湿润气候和肥沃的红壤，徐闻良姜色泽金黄、香气浓郁、含粉率高于国内其他产区。
Unlike kitchen ginger, it is used as both medicine and food: it warms the stomach and eases pain, and pharmacies have called it medicinal gold. It is also a piece of spice mixes, and it goes into perfume and daily chemicals. The warm, wet climate and the red soil give it a gold colour, a strong scent, and a higher powder content than other Chinese regions.
2006年徐闻良姜获评国家地理标志保护产品，2019年徐闻县被认定为徐闻良姜广东省特色农产品优势区。
In 2006 it became a national geographical-indication product. In 2019 the county was named a Guangdong advantage zone for the crop.
从传统耕作到另一套种法From an old field to another way of growing
良姜的「慢」在种植端体现得尤为深刻。三到五年的生长期里，它静静蛰伏于红土之下，而科技的介入正让这份等待变得更加可控、更加高效。
The wait is sharpest in the field. For three to five years it sits under the soil. Tools have made that wait easier to manage.
在田间地头，徐闻与中国热科院深度合作，针对良姜种植特性研发了一系列实用机械装备。茎秆粉碎还田机让收获后的秸秆就地还田，培肥地力；联合收获机则实现了挖掘、分离、收集一体化作业。这些机械装备的应用，实现人工节省95%以上，生产效率提高50倍，让延续了八百年的传统耕作方式迎来质的飞跃。
Xuwen has worked with the tropical academy on machines fitted to the crop. One shreds the stems and returns them to the soil. A combine digs, separates, and collects in one pass. The machines cut labour by more than 95 percent and raise efficiency about fiftyfold.
从种苗选育到田间管理，从精准施肥到病虫害绿色防控，科技的力量正贯穿良姜种植的全过程。传统的「靠天吃饭」正逐步让位于标准化、规范化的现代种植体系，良姜的品质和产量都得到了更坚实的保障。
From seedlings to the field, from fertiliser to pest control, the work is becoming a system rather than a bet on the weather. Quality and yield sit on firmer ground.
从原料到一条更长的链From a raw material to a longer chain
如果说种植端的科技赋能是「固本」，那么精深加工与品牌打造才是真正的「强链」。
Machines in the field steady the base. Processing and a name are what lengthen the chain.
广东丰硒良姜有限公司是徐闻良姜产业现代化转型的标杆企业。作为国内第一家专业从事良姜现代化加工的企业，丰硒良姜与热科院联合成立「高良姜科技创新中心」，设计建成了国内第一条可实现周年生产的高良姜标准化无硫加工生产线，年加工优质姜片3000吨以上。
Guangdong Fengxi Galangal is the marker firm in that shift. It was the first in the country to process the crop on modern lines. With the academy it set up a research centre and built the first sulphur-free line that can run all year, handling more than 3,000 tonnes of good slices.
十多年来，徐闻良姜深加工领域持续深耕，产品矩阵不断丰富。以良姜温茶、良姜速溶茶、良姜压片糖果为代表的一系列高附加值产品相继问世，让良姜从传统单一的「药材」「调料」形象，蝶变为涵盖精油、保健品、速溶茶、咀嚼片等多元化健康产品的综合性产业。
For more than ten years the processed range has widened: warming tea, instant tea, pressed sweets, and with them oil, health products, and chewable tablets. The old labels — a medicine, a spice — no longer cover it.
作为湛江热带特色农业的亮丽名片，徐闻良姜产业已初步形成种植、加工、销售、文旅全链条格局，全产业链年总产值超30亿元。2024年，徐闻良姜入选湛江首批「湛品」品牌，在湛江农业品牌矩阵中占据重要一席。2025年，徐闻县实施农业品牌精品培育计划，重点打造菠萝、良姜、生蚝三大百亿级产业集群，良姜被写入政府工作报告，成为湛江重点打造的百亿级产业之一。
Planting, processing, sales, and visits now sit on one chain, with an annual output value above RMB 3 billion. In 2024 it joined the first list of Zhanpin brands. In 2025 the county’s plan named pineapple, galangal, and oyster as three clusters aimed at RMB 10 billion, and galangal was written into the government work report.
越慢的东西，越不容易被看见，却也越不会缺席——它不会出现在秋日果盘的 C 位，也很少被游客装进伴手礼的提袋。但每一口醇厚的川味火锅里，每一贴温胃散寒的汤药中，每一瓶远渡重洋的香料瓶内，都有它的身影。徐闻良姜走过的每一步，都扎实得像它的根茎一样，深扎进红土里，不急不躁。
The slow thing is easy to miss. It is not the centre of an autumn fruit plate, and tourists rarely take it home as a gift. It is in a Sichuan hotpot, in a warming prescription, in a jar of spice that has crossed an ocean. Each step it has taken sits in the red earth the way the rhizome does: deep, and not in a hurry.
9月22日至24日，湛江奥体中心，第一届湛江热带农产品促消费活动将如期举行，徐闻良姜会带着这缕穿越千年的辛香，与你邂逅。
From 22 to 24 September, at the Olympic centre, it was to meet people with a scent that has already crossed a thousand years.