landscape introduction

Zigong is surrounded by mountains and waters, with a beautiful and pleasant environment. It is famous as the "Millennium Salt Capital", "Dinosaur Town" and "Southern China Lamp City". Since 1986, Zigong has been identified as a national historical and cultural city and an open city, and "Ziliujing-Dinosaur Scenic Area" has been identified as a provincial-level scenic spot. Due to the way of transportation and sales of well salt in history and the topographic conditions in the middle and shallow hills, the urban layout with artesian wells and tribute wells as the main body interweaves with rolling mountains and winding rivers and streams, forming a "half-city, half-castle, half-tower" mountain city style integrating mountains, water and city. Even in the central area of the city, although the buildings are uneven and the streets are bustling, there are still mountains interspersed with clear water. Surrounded by green mountains and green waters, and under the shadow of hundreds of ancient banyan trees, you can still see all kinds of well-preserved salt industry fellow villagers and guild halls, as well as traditional blocks paved with stone slabs and wooden derricks with dozens of meters high-Lagerstroemia Cynanchum Bunge and Cinnamomum camphora are all over the city, flying red and inlaid with jade, which embellishes the salt more delicately, implicitly and elegantly.

the historical and cultural connotation with well salt culture as the main body is very rich. There are 88 cultural relics protection units in the city. Among them, Xiqin Hall and Yanhaijing, where [uel] Zigong Salt History Museum is located, are national key cultural relics protection units; Rongxian Giant Buddha and Fushun Confucian Temple are provincial key cultural relics protection units. Zigong dinosaur museum, one of the three largest dinosaur museums in the world, has been built in the famous Dashanpu dinosaur fossil site. The traditional Zigong Lantern Festival is famous at home and abroad, and the Lantern Museum has its own characteristics. Zigong Sichuan Opera is a sensation in the drama world. Famous local products such as Gong Fan, Tie Dye, Zigong Paper-cut and Bianzi Beef, which are known as the three unique folk crafts in Zigong, have enriched the historical and cultural connotation of the famous city. Many historical and cultural celebrities in recent and modern times have made the Millennium Salt more brilliant.

is famous for its unique lantern festival. All kinds of paper, silk and silk with different textures, colors and sizes are lamp materials in Zigong, as well as glass, medicine bottles, porcelain, silkworm cocoons, bamboo weaving, tie-dyed fabrics and other lamp-making raw materials with unique local customs and industry characteristics. Zigong Lantern Festival wins especially with a variety of lights and scenery. Various kinds of dragon lanterns, lantern lanterns, seat lanterns, series lanterns, craft lanterns, animal lanterns, figure lanterns, flower and bird lanterns, etc. are dazzling. Every lantern festival, there are thousands of lanterns in the landscape of the garden. There are scenery among the lanterns and lights in the scenery. The lights and scenery are intertwined, and the shape, color, light, sound and movement are organically integrated, and the levels are blurred and magnificent.

Historic sites and buildings

Introduction to a famous historical and cultural city

Zigong, located in the south of Sichuan Province, is the "land of the essence of Sichuan Province", with rich historical and cultural accumulation, unique humanistic landscape and natural landscape. With its unique style and charm, Li Zhuo is among the cities in China. It has the reputation of being a salt capital for thousands of years, and it is also known as the hometown of dinosaurs, and it also has the reputation of being a lamp city in the south of China. In 1986, Zigong was awarded as a national historical and cultural city by the State Council, and then it was successively approved as a provincial-level scenic spot, a national open city and a national health city.

Zigong is famous for its abundant well salt, and is known as the "salt capital". Its long history of extracting brine to make salt can be traced back to the Eastern Han Dynasty (76-88 AD) nearly two thousand years ago. During the reign of Emperor Wu of the Northern Zhou Dynasty (561-578 AD), Fushi County was established because of the rich salt well, and Gongjing Town was established because of Dagong Well. In the first year of Wude in Tang Dynasty (AD 618), the town was renamed Gongjing County because it was located in Rongzhou. In the third year of Xianfeng in Qing Dynasty (1853), Taiping Heavenly Kingdom captured Nanjing, and Huaiyan was blocked. Sichuan salt helps Chu, so that it can be transported and sold to the coastal market of Hunan, Hubei and Huaihe rivers. In 1973, the Anti-Japanese War started, sea salt stagnated, Sichuan salt rose, and it was necessary to set up a city again. On September 1, 1939, the artesian well and Gongjing, two fields in the history of Sichuan salt known as Furong Salt Field, were merged from Fushun and Rongxian to establish Zigong City under the provincial jurisdiction. Zigong's road of setting up towns, counties and cities due to salt is a typical road of urban development based on resource development. Zigong occupies an important position in the history of ancient science and technology, economic history and urban development in China.

Dashanpu dinosaur fossil site

Dashanpu dinosaur fossil site is located near Dashanpu Town, about 11 kilometers northeast of Zigong City, Sichuan Province. It is a site rich in Middle Jurassic dinosaurs and other vertebrate fossils 161 million years ago. It is the most important burial place of dinosaur fossils in China and one of the most important burial places of paleontology fossils in the world. The site was first discovered in 1972, first excavated in 1977, and a relatively complete sauropod dinosaur skeleton was obtained. In 1979, a large number of fossils were exposed due to infrastructure construction. From 1979 to 1984, three times of large-scale cleaning and excavation were organized, and tens of thousands of fossil bone specimens of more than 211 individuals of dinosaurs and other vertebrates were obtained within a range of about 2,811 square meters. Among them, 21 species of dinosaur fish, amphibians, turtles, crocodiles, pterosaurs and mammals-like reptiles have been studied and named. It is estimated that the entire fossil group is buried in a concentrated area of about 17,111 square meters, with more than one million fossil bones, and is known as the "dinosaur cemetery". In the mid-1981s, Zigong Dinosaur Museum, the first large-scale dinosaur site museum in China, was built on this site.

Dashanpu dinosaur fossil group site has the characteristics of huge fossil reserves, complete categories, concentrated burial and complete preservation. As a rare natural and historical heritage, the fossils it produces not only have important value for popular science education and tourism, but also fill the gap in the early-middle Jurassic dinosaur fossil materials in the history of dinosaur evolution, which is of great scientific value for studying the systematic evolution, physiological characteristics and living environment of dinosaurs and related ancient animals.

Dashanpu dinosaur fossil site is located next to Nei (Jiang)-Le (Shan) Highway, and Neijiang-Yi (Bin) expressway and Nei (Jiang)-Kun (Ming) Railway, which are connected with Chengdu, Chongqing, expressway and chengdu-chongqing railway respectively, also pass through here, with exits and railway stations. It is 212 kilometers away from Chengdu and 214 kilometers away from Chongqing, with convenient transportation. (Figures 15, 16 and 17 )

Golden Flower Alsophila Nature Reserve

Golden Flower Alsophila Nature Reserve is located in Jinhua Township, Rong County, Zigong City. Alsophila spinulosa is an ancient and rare plant, which belongs to one of Alsophila spinulosa, a subclass of True Tibet. Because it is woody, it is also called tree fern. It grew at the same time as dinosaurs and was one of the main foods of dinosaurs. The existing spinulosa spinulosa is an ancient relic that has not been destroyed by Quaternary glaciers and is called "living fossil of plants". It is listed as one of the eight rare plants under first-class protection in China. At present, there are more than 15,711 Alsophila spinulosa groups in Jinhua Alsophila Nature Reserve, which has strong ornamental value and is a very precious tourism resource in Zigong matching with dinosaur fossils. In addition, this area is covered with green peaks, dense ferns, fresh and simple primitive customs, hundreds of acres of forest resources, as well as the surrounding waterfalls, stalactites, shiren peaks, the first sight of the sky, the 18 holes of the Nine Bridges and the reservoirs located in between, surrounded by mountains and waters, rippling blue waves, which has now become a good place for tourism.

food culture

Zigong salt dishes are divided into three branches: salt merchants' dishes, salt workers' dishes and guild hall dishes, with spicy taste, spicy taste and sweet and sour taste as three categories. Yanbang cuisine is characterized by its thick, heavy and rich flavor. Pay most attention to and pay attention to seasoning. In addition to the tradition of "all kinds of dishes and various cooking techniques", Sichuan cuisine has the characteristics of "thick, fragrant, spicy and exciting". Salt dishes make good use of pepper and ginger, with wide and heavy materials, fine selection of materials, frying, stir-frying, burning and frying, which is unique; Boiling, stewing, frying and frying have their own rules. He is especially good at boiling and living, forming a distinctive flavor and taste different from other cuisines.

In the past, the salt gang cuisine was unique in Sichuan cuisine, and it was a leader in Xiaohe gang. Highly praised by dignitaries and sages; The eater is in love and the listener is in admiration. From salt capital to Chengdu, from Rongcheng to Beijing, it has a long history and word of mouth, and has become a well-known brand in the catering industry.

In the course of its development for more than 211 years, Zigong Salt Help Cuisine has emerged generations of famous chefs and culinary masters. In the late Qing Dynasty, Li Qiongpu, a salt merchant, wrote Qiongpu Recipe, which recorded the cooking tips of all kinds of salt dishes, but it has been lost. A crispy duck cooked by Dong Junkang, a famous chef at the Geneva International Conference, fell over movie master Chaplin; In the middle of last century, Master Chen Jianmin introduced salt-helped dishes to Japanese upper class. Liu Xilu's bean curd has become a delicacy appreciated by refined customs in Japan. Zeng Shugen, who invented fireside beef, Fan Ji 'an, who boiled beef to the extreme, pioneered the leaf palm plate of cow's hoof and bear's paw, Lin Qingyun, who is famous for cooking fish with no sauce, Li Huanzhang, who is good at shark's fin and sea cucumber feast, Liu Yigong, who is famous for eating rabbits with a strong flavor, and Huang Sanpang, who was surprised by a "great satisfaction" and incorporated into Sichuan Hotel, are all salt dishes. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, Fan Dechong, Li Shaoguang, Ni Shaoyun and Chen Dezhang, who are known as the four donkey kong, and Zou Qingyun, who are called "five golden flowers", have made important contributions to the inheritance and development of salt-helped dishes.

In its evolution and development, Zigong catering and Yanbang cuisine have gradually formed a number of well-known restaurants that make the audience greedy and satisfy their appetite. Such as Tiandeyuan, Lumingchun, Jinguyuan, Kuaiyuan, Haoyuan, Yiyuan, Diaohuanglou, Wharf, Liufen Restaurant, Jiang Chun, Wenxingyuan, Xinjin Cuisine Club and Minjiang Hotel. With the passage of time, it has formed a time-honored brand with long-lasting reputation. Since the reform and opening up, Zigong catering industry has made great progress. Famous restaurants with salt dishes as the main connotation have not only been passed down from generation to generation, but also a number of new famous restaurants have emerged. The "Jinfu salt dishes" are famous in Beijing. In the leisure city of Chengdu, Chengdu people who can eat and taste well also appreciate the dishes of "Yanfu family", "Shu Jiang Chun" and "Axi" in Zigong. In Zigong, "Salt Merchants' Cuisine", "Private Cuisine", "Yandu Club Cuisine", "Southern State Banquet", "Southern Sichuan Banquet", "Jiang Chun in Sichuan", "Axi", "Liufen Restaurant" and "descendants of salt gangs" are all praised by consumers, and their business is growing day by day.

In the evolution of salt-help dishes, a large number of well-known dishes have been accumulated, which are loved by everyone, and some of them have spread like wildfire, and they have been included in the Sichuan cuisine and put on tables in different places. There are more than 111 representative dishes of salt-help dishes. Here are only some of them:

1. Fireside beef

2. Boiled beef

3. Chrysanthemum beef

4. Steamed beef with powder (or beef steamer)

5. Braised beef with drill

6. Hot yellow throat

7. Cow peas (also known as straw sandals, That is, beef tendon)

8. Cattle's hoof and bear's paw

9. Palm plate beef

11. Golden silk beef

11. Cowpea beef

12. Hot beef omasum

13. Fine-inlaid mung bean sprouts

14. Stir-fried crow's feet

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17. Rock carp with scallion sauce

18. Braised fish

19. Silver carp with cauliflower

21. Crucian carp with sauerkraut

21. Crispy fish in Rongxian

22. Misgurnus anguillicaudatus

23. Steamed fish with Zhao Hua powder

24. Ziyu

31. Heaven and earth are satisfied

32. Salt Merchants Nine Dishes

33. Rock bandit chicken

34. Rice smoked chicken

35. Pickled garlic chicken

36. Steamed moon mother and son chicken

37. Braised boy chicken

38. Sichuan style pork

45. Crispy crispy pork

46. Sichuan style pork with scallion

47. Cleverly stewed with three spices (pork mouth, pork ears and pork tail are cooked by the method of Sichuan style pork frying)

48. Cow Buddha bakes elbows

49. Single knife meeting (beef feast made with all parts of yellow cattle) < p

52. Eat the rabbit cold with strong flavor

53. Golden Flower Mutton Soup

54. Fried with salt

55. Wind radish and hoof flower soup

56. Ants climb the tree

57. Shredded pork with sauce

58. Gujing bacon

59. Preserved eggs. Hand-washing residue in Minjiang River

67. Huang's boiled meat

68. Mushroom liver cream soup

69. Golden hook chicken brain flower

71. Broken meat with winter bamboo shoots

71. Niulanwan dried bean curd

72. Nongtuan daughter dishes

73. Hot and sour dishes

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in the Sichuan cuisine series, many fine products and treasures are related to the development of well salt. According to the records of Sichuan Scenery, the famous dish "boiled beef" in Sichuan cuisine was born in the production of Zigong salt industry. As early as the Ming and Qing Dynasties, Zigong Salt Field used cattle as the power cart to draw brine. With the increase of salt wells and the increase of car bodies, there were more and more cattle, which remained at around 31,111 heads all the year round in Guangxu period of Qing Dynasty. With the sick and retired cattle needing to be slaughtered, there were more and more beef foods in Zigong Salt Field, which became more and more flavor, including boiled beef, fireside beef, chrysanthemum beef hot pot, hot yellow throat, cow head and oxtail soup. Boiled beef has become a very popular dish in Sichuan cuisine. Its origin is that Zigong salt workers eliminated the meat of cattle in those days, and cooked it with salt, pepper noodles and pepper noodles as seasoning and water. Although the method is simple, the meat tastes delicious. After long-term cooking practice by famous chefs, it gradually became a famous Sichuan dish with strong mala Tang flavor. Beef and lean pork can be used as seasoning. Do not stir-fry with fire, but focus on the soup. When cooking, the fire is strong and the water is wide, but it should not be too long. When the meat slices turn white, add red oil, pepper noodles, pepper noodles, soy sauce, pepper noodles, ginger rice, monosodium glutamate and water bean powder. Its deep color and strong flavor, fresh and smooth meat slices, extremely refreshing, this dish is suitable for all seasons. Zigong boiled beef is usually served with vegetable moss or lettuce, sliced into thin slices, and served with celery and coriander.

Fireside beef is a special food in Zigong. In other places, there are similar "Dengying beef", but Fireside beef is good at its own unique characteristics. Its swordsmanship is wonderful, as thin as paper, with a long fragrance and great taste, and it is very suitable for dinner with wine. It is famous all over the country for its fine selection of materials, unique preparation method and delicious taste. The raw material of fireside beef can only be the so-called "drill beef" on the hind legs of cattle. When making, use polar rhinoceros.