Huaiyang is located in the Huaihai Plain, fertile land, mild climate, abundant rainfall, rich in produce, is known throughout the country as a large agricultural county, producing wheat, soybeans, peanuts, cotton, corn. Grain, cotton and oil production are among the highest in Henan Province, and animal husbandry is in the leading position in Henan Province, which is the top five counties in the country for oilseed production and the base for the production and export of goats, cauliflower, peanuts and garlic.
Industry is developing rapidly, and a complete industrial system has been established with plastics, textile, food, leather, medicine and chemical industry. Degradation of film, color cloth, PVC plastic pipe, 10,000 tons of saponin production base, Asia's largest PE pipe production line and other key industrial projects have been put into operation and formed the scale of production. West-East gas pipeline transit, and in the western part of the county openings, a number of "gas", "gas", "gas" project, is under construction.
Modern transportation routes lay a solid foundation for Huaiyang's development. Huaiyang east of Beijing-Kowloon, west of Beijing-Guangzhou, south of Luo Fu, north of Longhai, only 180 kilometers from Xinzheng International Airport. Nanluo, Daguang, Shangzhou, three highways and 106 National Highway through the territory, inter-provincial, inter-county and urban and rural highways in all directions. The completion of the Shahe Junction Project has made it possible for water transportation to enter the Huaihe River and the Yangtze River from the Shahe River and go straight to Nanjing and Shanghai. The county's electricity supply is programmable, and the telephone network connects urban and rural areas, as well as domestic and foreign countries.
Superior geographic location and natural environment, as well as rich cultural and tourism resources, make the ancient capital of Huaiyang contains huge business opportunities.
Huaiyang County is located in the east of Henan Province, in the belly of Zhoukou area. Geographic coordinates: latitude 33.20' to 34.00' North, longitude 114.38' to 115.04' East. It is 56 kilometers long from north to south, 40.6 kilometers wide from east to west, and 73 kilometers long from southeast to northwest, with a total area of 1,467.85 square kilometers. East and Luyi, Dancheng, Shenqiu three counties adjacent to the city of Luyi county 66 kilometers, Dancheng county 28 kilometers, Shenqiu county town, 57 kilometers of the town of Huaidian; West and Zhoukou city, Xihua county border, the city of Zhoukou 30 kilometers away from the city of Xihua county 39 kilometers; south of the Sha River and Xiangcheng, Shangshui two counties and cities, the city of Xiangcheng city 38 kilometers away from the town of Shuizhai, 36 kilometers of the city of Shangshui county; north and Taikang county border, the city of Taikang county 33 kilometers away from the city. Taikang County 33 kilometers away. County (Chengguan Hui town) from the provincial capital of Zhengzhou City 214 kilometers.
[edit]History and Culture
This place has a long history and splendid culture. Legend has it that Taihao Fuxi's all Wanqiu, the creation of the ancient civilization of the Chinese nation: the system of netting, teaching people to fish and hunt, the opening of the first river of animal husbandry; painting gossip, yin and yang, laying the foundation of Chinese classical philosophy; make soil loss, the system of qin and searches, the beginning of China's ancient music: set the family name, the system of marriage, the abolition of primitive society's group marriage customs; to the dragon record officer, called "dragon division". The Dragon Master". In its history, it has been the capital of China three times and a country three times. Sixty-five hundred years ago, the humanities ancestor Taihao Fuxi set up his capital here, creating the innate eight trigrams and the dragon totem, igniting the sacred fire of human civilization. 5000 years ago, Yandi Shennong built his capital here and called it Chen. He tasted all kinds of herbs and art grains, and started Chinese agriculture. More than 3,000 years ago, King Wu of the Zhou Dynasty conferred the title of Gui Man on Chen after Shun and established the State of Chen. Laozi, the founder of Taoism, was born in Bitter County, Chen, which is the birthplace of Taoist culture." Confucius, "the ancestor of the civil officials in the world, the teacher of emperors and kings", came to Chen three times, laying the ideological foundation for the formation of his Confucian doctrine.
In ancient times, this has been the political, economic and cultural center of China. The first collection of poems in the history of Chinese literature, the Book of Songs, contained 10 songs called "Chen Feng". Throughout the ages, literati such as Cao Zhi, Li Bai, Li Shangyin, Zhang Jiuling, Su Shi, Su Zhe, Yan Shu, Fan Zhongyan and other literary giants have left behind hundreds of songs about Huaiyang. The county town is located in Chenchu Old Town, a famous historical and cultural city in Henan Province, which is situated in 10,000 mu Longhu Lake. Covering an area of 875 acres of Taihao Fuxi Mausoleum Temple stands on the north shore of Longhu Lake, the temple is lofty, brilliant, ranked the first of the eighteen famous mausoleums in the country. A mausoleum, a lake and an ancient city reflect each other, forming a 11 square kilometers of the Dragon Lake Scenic Spot, is at home and abroad Chinese children and grandchildren to find their roots and visit their ancestors, travel and tourism of the Holy Land.
The rich history and culture of Huaiyang has left a scattered number of scenic spots and monuments, of which 326 are historically traceable, including two national key cultural relics protection units. Taihao Fuxi Mausoleum Temple, China's first eighteen famous mausoleums, covering an area of 875 acres, large-scale, solemn, built in the Spring and Autumn Period, increase the system in the Sheng Tang Dynasty, perfected in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the years 3000 years, the emperor 51 times the royal sacrifice; Founding of the country for 50 years, the two prime ministers visit, dignified Premier Zhu Rongji, pious visit to the mausoleum after a change in the routine never inscribed, gladly inscribed "Xihuang The old capital" plaque. Folk rituals have lasted for thousands of years, and in early spring, farmers from hundreds of counties and cities in the five surrounding provinces gather for incense, averaging 200,000 people per day for a month; on the first and fifteenth day of each month of the lunar calendar, there are grand rituals. Taihao mausoleum ritual activities, as China's largest folk temple fair has been included in China's intangible cultural heritage. Pingliantai Ancient City is the only site in China where two generations of emperors (Taihao and Yandi) during the primitive society period have been recorded in the history books so far. Archaeological excavations have produced nine "China's best", including the excavation of ceramic drainpipes, advancing the history of China's urban construction to 4,700 years ago, the historians call it "the first city of Huaxia," known as "the most valuable archaeological excavations of the twentieth century". The most valuable archaeological excavation in the twentieth century. There are 47 cultural relics protection units above the county level, and the seat of Huaiyang County is the provincial-level famous historical and cultural city - Chen Chu Old City. The tomb of Liu Chong, the king of Chen during the Eastern Han Dynasty, is a large-scale and well-preserved masonry tomb that has been archaeologically excavated so far.
Area of more than 16,000 acres of Longhu, is China's largest inland lakes around the city, 6,500 years ago, Taihao Fuxi led the tribes from Gansu Tianshui along the Yellow River to the east, where the water to choose to live, thrive and nurture the great Chinese nation, so it can be said that the Longhu is the mother lake of the Chinese nation. There are many attractions in the lake, 16 unique humanities and natural landscapes in the country, forming the unique characteristics of the Central Plains Water City of "city in the lake, lake in the scenery, scenery in the city, people in the painting", known as the "Pearl of the Central Plains", "inland Wonders". This is a piece of water of history, culture, magic and spirit of the water, "Poetry? Chen Feng": the Pei of his zephyr, there are bushes and lotus. The poem "Chen Feng": "The Pei of His Ze", "There are cattails and Nymphaea" is a true description of the beauty of Longhu Lake 3,000 years ago. The beautiful and red lotus flowers here are the excellent populations left behind from the Shang and Zhou Dynasties; the dense growth of cattail reeds was once a delicacy to satisfy the hunger of Fu Zi, "Chen Cai"; and the unique white turtle turned the legend of Emperor Xi Huang, "Opening the sky with a single drawing" into history. The unique white turtle has turned the legend of Emperor Xi Huang's "one painting opens the sky" into a historical fact; every piece of blue water rippling here reflects the magnificent historical scroll of the Chinese nation for thousands of years. The fame of the eight scenic spots of Qitai spreads far and wide. The Shearer Park is known as "Huaiyang's only show" and "the world's wonders". Huaiyang Mud Dog is known as "real totem and living fossil". Folklore and myths abound.
Huaiyang ancient name of Wanqiu, Chen, Chenzhou, a long history, is an ancient and magical place. According to China's famous geologist Li Siguang test: five hundred and seventy million years ago, most of China's territory is the case of the ocean, there is the ancient land of Huaiyang. More than 6500 years ago, Chinese humanities ancestor Taihao Fuxi built here, he set the family name, the system of marriage, knots, net netting, raising sacrifices, the rise of kitchen, painting gossip, the beginning of the Chinese civilization; he made dry, decorated with martial arts, united the four seas, the realization of the Chinese nation's first fusion, the synthesis of the characteristics of each tribe, the creation of a dragon totem, the Chinese nation began to call the "heirloom of the dragon! The Chinese nation began to be called "the descendants of the dragon". After the Yan Emperor Shennong succeeded the capital in the old ruins of Tai Hao, renamed Chen. Shennong tasted all kinds of herbs here, the art of five grains, leading the pioneers into the farming society. Therefore, Huaiyang is the birthplace of family name culture, farming culture, gossip culture and dragon totem, these valuable history and culture has become a source of self-esteem and self-confidence of the Chinese nation, a symbol of cohesion. Xia, Chen belongs to Yuzhou. Shang, for Yu Sui fiefdom. In the Western Zhou Dynasty, King Wu of the Zhou Dynasty conferred the descendant of Emperor Shun, Gui Man, to Chen, and married his daughter, Daji, to whom Gui Man built the state of Chen, and the city of Chen; taking the state as his family name, Gui Man, the Duke of Chen Hu, was the founder of the Chen surname, and the ancestor of the major surnames of Hu, Tian, Yao, Sun, and Yuan, and so on, and the same ancestor of Hu, Tian, Yao, Sun, and Yuan, and so forth, and so forth, and so forth, and so forth, and so forth, and so forth, and so forth, and so forth, and so forth, and so forth, and so on. Laozi, the founder of Taoism, was born in Bitter County of Chen. During the Warring States period, King Haxiang of Chu moved the capital to Chencheng, which lasted 38 years and was known as Ying Chen, so Huaiyang was also known as "the old city of Chen and Chu". During the Qin Dynasty, Chen County was first established here, and then Chen County was set up. In 196 B.C., the name was changed to Huaiyang because Chen was located in the north of Huai Shui River. In more than six thousand years of history, Huaiyang five times built the capital, four times the feudal state, the emperor, the emperor and the king, the feudal state, the county of unity, the north and south of the repeated jurisdiction, the state and the county, has always been the center of the Yuandong political, economic, cultural, until the Chinese people *** and the establishment of the country in 1953, the State Council withdrew the Huaiyang area, was changed to the county seat. So archaeologists say: China's history, a thousand years to see Beijing, three thousand years to see Xi'an, six thousand years to see Huaiyang.
Huaiyang is a place of great wealth and talent, and has been called the Feng Shui treasure of "opening up things for business" by successive emperors. Known as the world's civil ancestor, successive emperors and teachers of Confucius had three times to Chen, where he wrote books and lectured for four years, laying the ideological foundation for the formation of his Confucianism, leaving behind the "Chen Cai Jiegong" ancient story. The first collection of poems in the history of Chinese literature, the Book of Songs, contains ten songs of Chen Feng. Literary giants such as Cao Zhi, Li Bai, Li Shangyin, Zhang Jiuling, Su Shi, Su Zhe and others have left immortalized songs about Huaiyang here. The story of Bao Gong's release of grain in Chenzhou also took place here.
[Edit Paragraph]Economic and Social
In recent years, Huaiyang economic and social development has been a great deal of progress, in 2005 the province's county economic development in a comprehensive order, the county rose two places compared with 2003, the gross domestic product (GDP) for two consecutive years to maintain an increase of more than 12%, the entire fixed asset investment in 2004 increased by more than 30%, an increase of 7.6% in 2005, the total retail sales of consumer goods for two consecutive years to maintain an increase of 12%. The total retail sales of consumer goods increased by more than 11% for two consecutive years, the net income per capita of farmers increased by 46.4% in 2004, and still maintained a higher growth rate of 7.8% in 2005, the disposable income per capita of urban residents increased by more than 13% for two consecutive years, and the balance of residents' savings deposits increased by more than 17% for two consecutive years.
The city has a new look. The whole line through the total length of 28 kilometers of the second ring road, pulling out the 50 square kilometers of the urban framework, expanding the broad space of development of Huaiyang County. Comprehensive transformation of the old city, the development of the new city, the construction of the Hsi Huang Cultural Square, the basic restoration of the original appearance of the Tai Hao Mausoleum; landscaping, greening, brightening of the Longhu Scenic Area, opened up the inner lakes sightseeing boulevard, the construction of the outer lakes, so that the inner lakes are connected to each other, connected to the outer lakes, the Longhu Scenic Area to enhance the overall taste. Completed the 15-kilometer-long Longdu Road and the East Ring Road, South Ring Road, Progress North Street greening transformation, per capita green space area increased to 16.5 square meters. Improve the city water supply and natural gas pipeline network and other infrastructure, urban functions are further complete, the city greatly improved, clear water, smooth roads, green grass, flowers, daytime beauty, bright at night, the human environment is more benign.
In 2005, the province's tourism planning identified Huaiyang as the central city of the eastern part of the five major tourist areas and religious and cultural tourism group, and was named by the Provincial Civilization Committee, "the province's creation of civilized cities advanced city". Cultural tourism industry development and growth. Repair the painting Gua Terrace, string song stage and other attractions, demolition and removal of nearly 100,000 square meters of illegal structures, restored the Tai Hao Mausoleum 875 covers an area of restoration of some of the original ancient buildings. Successfully held the first Chinese family name culture festival, family name culture root-seeking tour activities and the annual "Xihuang hometown" ancestor meeting, creating a tourism development "spring ancestor meeting, autumn root-seeking tour" and a biennial Chinese family name culture festival new pattern, a strong promotion of the development of culture and tourism, enhance the quality of the tourism industry, and promote the development of cultural tourism.
In 2005, the number of tourists received exceeded one million, the ticket income exceeded ten million yuan, and the related income exceeded one hundred million yuan.
[Edit]Specialties
Su Yizhong Roasted Chicken Restaurant
Su Yizhong Roasted Chicken - Photo by Yang PuzhongThe Su Yizhong Roasted Chicken Restaurant in Beiguan of Huaiyang is a halal delicatessen that focuses on the operation of roasted chicken as well as sheep's head, lamb, and tofu skin. Over the past decades, Mr. Su Yizhong has studied and researched the famous food from all over the world, and created his own secret recipe, which has made Su's Roast Chicken famous in the east of Henan Province. At present, Mr. Su Yizhong roasted chicken is famous for its unique production, beautiful shape and color, rotten meat off the bone, and rich nutrition, and is favored by people from all walks of life, and everyone who tastes it claps his hands and praises it. Well-known painter Lan Tianye (Jiang Ziya's character in "The List of the Gods") praised it after tasting it, saying that Suyizhong roasted chicken meat is fresh and flavorful, Chenzhou's best. In 2006, Mr. Su Yizhong was appointed as the advisor of Halal food by the organizing committee of Henan TV "King of Kitchen" competition, and in 2007, Su Yizhong roasted chicken became the only restaurant in Huaiyang with the best meat and flavor, which is the best in Chenzhou. In 2007, Su Yizhong Roasted Chicken became the only restaurant in Huaiyang to be awarded the municipal "Civilized and Honest Merchant", and in 2009, it was awarded the "Consumer Trustworthy Unit" by the Propaganda Department of the Municipal Party Committee.
Mr. Su inherited the essence of traditional craftsmanship, in the selection of chickens, slaughtering, support type, cooking, soup, fire, etc., to find out a set of unique experience. He is strict in the selection of chickens, the choice of less than two years of woodchucks to ensure the quality of chicken meat; with a variety of valuable seasonings, by the vegetarian oil cooking and frying, refined production of roasted chicken, rich in protein, with five flavors, crispy, soft and rotten, salty and bland to taste, fat and not greasy, fragrant, white and tender meat characteristics.
Decades, Su Yizhong roast chicken always adhere to the traditional operating procedures, so the masses of its roast chicken has "out of the door a hundred paces away, the after-smell to stay in the mouth," the praise; often eaten can be received to open the stomach and spleen, warming and benefiting the qi, and the efficacy of the lift of the spirit. Today, Su Yizhong Roasted Chicken has become the best gift for people visiting friends and relatives in Huaiyang, and it has also become the first choice for tourists from home and abroad to visit Huaiyang.
Ma Zi Zhu stewed meat and spicy soup
Ma Zi Zhu stewed meat and spicy soup, historically known as "Zhu family spicy soup". Pocky Zhu's name was Zhu Jinzhang, a native of Huaiyang City. His ancestors from the Song Dynasty in the north of the city began to operate in the west of the cross street hot and spicy soup. According to the legend, at the beginning of the establishment of Ming Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang, he passed by Huaiyang, hadn't eaten anything for a few days, and was so tired and exhausted that he fell down at the intersection of the North Cross Street, and was rescued by an old man surnamed Zhu, who offered a bowl of Hu Zhili Soup, and Zhu Yuanzhang drank it and immediately came to his senses, drinking three bowls of it in a row, and saying, "Good Soup, Good Soup!" After Zhu Yuanzhang became the throne, the Zhu old man called to the palace Royal Cuisine, specializing in soup. Since then, Zhu's Hu Hot Soup has become famous, and Zhu's family has been running this business since then. Zhu Ma Zi since the Republic of China from the hands of his father to do soup technology, and after some painstaking management, the creation of stewed meat and spicy soup, so, now called Zhu Ma Zi stewed meat and spicy soup.
Ju Mazi stewed meat and spicy soup is characterized by a uniform consistency, moderately sweet and salty, meat rotten as mud, sour and spicy, fragrant. There is a saying that "drinking hot and sour soup in the morning and burping in the evening is still fragrant". Foreign guests coming to Huaiyang and compatriots from Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan returning to Huaiyang to visit their relatives are all happy to drink "Zhu Ma Zi Hu Hot Soup".
Huayang Hundun
Huayang Hundun began in the early years of the Republic of China. At that time, the owner of the restaurant, Fan Hao De, was famous for his wontons and small dumplings. In order to create a brand, he traveled all over the world, absorbing the strengths of wontons from the north and the south, and combining them with the tastes of the people of Huaiyang, he created a flavorful snack with the local characteristics of Huaiyang.
Huaiyang wonton practice is: stewed chicken broth, under the meat stuffing noodle leaves, and then boiling rushed processed chicken wire, seaweed, squash, seaweed, vermicelli, kelp, small raw blanch pills, egg skins, and then add the appropriate amount of small milled oil, monosodium glutamate, vinegar, cooking wine, soy sauce, spices and other condiments. According to the season, you can also add cattail, cabbage, chives, cilantro, garlic, thorns and other fresh vegetables. Its flavor is delicious, clear and crisp, fragrant and not greasy.
The snack was once extinct in the "Cultural Revolution", and was restored in the city around 1980. It inherits the traditional craft of Huaiyang wonton and maintains the unique flavor of the local famous food. At present, in the night markets of the city, wonton stalls gather and are often full of customers.
Zhangjia Donkey Soup
Zhangjia Donkey Soup is made of donkey meat stewed in clear broth, the broth is clear, the meat is rotten but not greasy, the broth is white like milk, rich and appetizing, fragrant. The soup is rich and appetizing, and has a long aftertaste when eaten with food or served with wine. Since the Daoguang period of the Qing Dynasty to the beginning of the founding of the country, the donkey soup in the county were exclusively operated by the Zhang family. At that time, this soup was famous far and wide, no matter it was a dignitary, or a businessman, or even a countryman, they all thought it was a great pleasure to drink Zhang family donkey soup in Huaiyang County.
Additionally, Zhang's Donkey Soup also comes with "donkey white blood", which is the best of the best. The donkey's white blood is an ancestral skill of the Zhang family, processed and concocted from donkey's blood. The shape is like brain not brain, like egg not egg, white and tender, color and flavor. This food is rich in nutrients, can replenish vital energy, nourish the blood and tranquilize the mind, young and old alike, eaters say great.
Burning Pu Cai
Burning Pu Cai is a famous dish unique to Huaiyang, which is listed as one of the famous local dishes in Henan Province. It is made from the young stamens at the lower end of the bushel, which is a specialty of the city lake, and burned with condiments. It can be cooked alone or combined with meat, fish and eggs. There are some kinds of yakimono with shrimp, yakimono with egg yolk, and yakimono with sliced fish. Regardless of which kind of roasted cabbage, are white as jade, tender and fragrant, distinctive flavor. Every summer and fall season, all the restaurants in the county take the roasted bushels as the famous local dish of Huaiyang to solicit customers, and the hospitable people of Huaiyang often take the roasted bushels as the leading dish to entertain the guests.
Gaijia Pot Helmet
Gaijia Pot Helmet was founded in the late Guangxu period of the Qing Dynasty by Gai Laodian of Gaizhuang in Huangji Township of the county, and was passed on to his son, Gai Changrong, for two successive generations. Its pot helmet no sulfur, no alkali, bun flavor sweet. The practice is: boiling water is used to scald the noodles to raise the fermentation, catch the noodles two to three times, on the bar to plunge the soft, and then repeatedly rubbed by hand to achieve a smooth and oily, the color is like snowballs. Made into a round cake (or semi-circular), paste against the side of the pot, the fire burned into a side of the white side of the burnt side, not moldy and not bad, out of the pot is the taste of delicious, burnt outside and inside the soft unique pot helmet.
Gaijia pot helmet has been loved by the world since its introduction, and in the 30s, it was already the top of the bun industry in Huaiyang and famous in the surrounding counties. Now, the business center is located in the east of South Cross Street in Chengguan, and the products are sold at 4:00 p.m. every day, and the demand exceeds the supply. Because of Huaiyang Gaijia pot helmet is known far and wide, so, during the years of Tai Hao mausoleum will be hundreds of miles around the incense, tourists more than to be able to bring back to the Gaijia pot helmet, the whole family * * * taste for the good fortune.
Fang Bu Bao Roasted Chicken/Fang Bu Bao Tofu Put
Fang Bu Bao Roasted Chicken name to come from the current Fang family elders breast name Bu Bu Bao, its roasted chicken production flavor flavor and not greasy, known far and wide, the production process as well as the ingredients are not known for the time being, the other kinds (such as Fuli set of roasted chicken) are not compared to the Fang Bu Bao. And its tofu put (thin tofu cut into strips and boiled) is made with this kind of roasted chicken production process and ingredients made. Huaiyang people go out for many days to come back must taste a mouthful of Fangbubu pouch roast chicken and Fangbubu pouch bean curd put, home banquets are essential to the banquet.
Now the address is in the main city - North Xiaoguan - Dongguan intersection west, south of the Red Flag Shopping Plaza.
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Yellow cauliflower-unique seven stamens, cauliflower in the best
Huaiyang yellow cauliflower unique seven stamens, cauliflower in the best Huaiyang yellow cauliflower vegetable strips rich and moist, golden yellow color, texture tendons and crisp, nutritious, tasty, but also a unique seven stamens, according to the survey in addition to Huaiyang outside of any area of cultivation of the According to the survey, the yellow cauliflower grown in any area except Huaiyang is six-pistil, even if the root system is moved from Huaiyang County, the yellow cauliflower is also six-pistil, which is the best of the yellow cauliflower. As early as in the Han Dynasty, it was famous throughout the country and became the tribute for pilgrimage. When Su Shi, a great writer of Song Dynasty, went to Chenzhou (Huaiyang was called Chenzhou in ancient times), he tasted yellow cauliflower in Huaiyang and wrote the ancient saying "There is no treasure and jade in the farmhouse, and the yellow cauliflower all over the place is a golden hairpin" in Su Po Pavilion in Chenzhou, giving it a very high praise. The people of Huaiyang were so proud of it that they renamed Huaiyang yellow cauliflower as "Golden Needle Cabbage". Huaiyang yellow cauliflower is a rare health product. According to "Compendium of Materia Medica", yellow cauliflower has the function of brain-health, intelligence, anti-aging, etc. When it comes to golden broccoli, there is an unusual story. It is said that the Qin Dynasty not years, Chen Sheng, Wu Guang led the peasant insurgents captured Chenzhou (present-day Huaiyang County, Henan Province) to build a capital of the king, the soldiers in the chaos, the vitality of the yellow cauliflower trampled out of shape, the local girl named Golden Needle, see this situation is very deplorable, so it is carefully managed to cultivate, and the results of the yellow cauliflower and resurrected from the dead. The trees grew up, full of intoxicating flowers. Later, people in honor of the golden needle girl, the yellow cauliflower named Golden Needle.
Mud mud dog-true totem, living fossil
"Old Zhaigong, walk slowly, give the mud mud dog, your old man live to ninety-nine." Many people in Huaiyang and even around the eastern part of Henan still remember this song. Once upon a time, relying on the Tai Hao Mausoleum, within a radius of hundreds of miles, there was such an ancient custom: children along the way stopped adults rushing to the temple fair to ask for a mud dog, and sang such a long rhythmic song. Be asked for, in addition to quickly carry the mud dog scattered on the ground, so that the children to pick up, there is no choice, because that is a beautiful blessing, the local people believe that the mud dog to the children or friends and relatives can eliminate disasters and diseases, good luck and peace. Therefore, the visitors who come from the north to the south to catch the meeting, when they go back, they always bring some mud dogs. Huaiyang Specialty Huaiyang mud dog - real totem, living fossil "mud dog" is Huaiyang County, Taihao Fuxi Mausoleum mud toys in general, the local farmers with the yellow mud pinched, containing the blessing of the meaning of the rituals to avoid evil. In addition to dogs, it also has monkeys, sheep, birds and other 110 kinds of forms, rumored to have a history of more than 3,000 years, mud dog, also known as the "mausoleum dog", "dog", for Huaiyang Taihao Mausoleum is unique, known as "the world's first dog! It is known as "the first dog in the world". It is said that the "mud dog" is a "god dog" that guards the mausoleum temple for Fuxi and Nuwa, and it is quite sacred as it is given to friends and relatives to eliminate disasters and diseases. Mud dogs are made of rubber clay, dyed black for the whole body, and then dotted with red, yellow, white, green and peach colors to draw a variety of patterns consisting of arcs and curves, straight lines and dots, with childish and vivid lines and brilliant colors without losing their composure. Mud Dogs are simple and thick, with strange and bizarre shapes, and their themes include birds, animals, fish, insects and people, which can be described as all kinds of bizarre, each full of a kind of illusory transcendence and mystery, exuding a strong smell of the countryside and the fragrance of wildness. The mud dogs have holes for blowing, and the sound is long and bright, whimpering, as if telling a long-ago myth. Mud dogs are the unique folk cultural heritage of Huaiyang. Huaiyang mud dog design exquisite, elegant taste has a high artistic and archaeological value, was praised by experts as "real totem, living fossil" and "modern living cultural relics".
Huaiyang Pu Cai
Pu Cai is the young core of Pu Root after peeling off the hard skin. It has a long history. Legend has it that as early as during the Spring and Autumn Period, when Confucius traveled around the world and was trapped in Chen and Cai, he relied on the cattail to sustain his life for 7 days without food. Since then, Pu Cai has become a famous dish with unique flavor. Huaiyang Pu Cai has many characteristics: the lettuce is watery, white, bright, tender and crispy, nicknamed "Huaiyang Onion". The raw vegetables are sweet and crunchy, while the raw vegetables of Huaiyang Pu Cai are sweet and crunchy. Huaiyang bushes burn, fried, stewed, boiled each with its own characteristics, are the local flavor of Huaiyang a great, foreign travelers tasted after the endless praise, cited as strange.
Sophora goat
Sophora goat is one of China's goat breeds, Huaiyang is the center of the production area. It has a sturdy body, fine and uniform hair, fine and elastic cortex. Meat production performance is good, slaughter net meat rate of 38.9%. Meat is tender, small stink, is the skin and meat type of excellent varieties. Locust goat plate leather with thick leather, plate fine, good oil, good toughness, elasticity and other advantages, is the production of leather products at all levels of excellent materials, in the aviation industry also has certain uses. Samuel Hill goat plate leather in the international market called Hankou Road Samuel leather, very popular, exported to the United States, Britain, France, Germany, Spain, Italy and other dozen of countries and regions.
The cloth tiger
The cloth tiger is a kind of toy that has been widely circulated in the Chinese folk in ancient times, which has many varieties and is widely circulated, and is a kind of folk crafts with great local flavor. In the hearts of Chinese people, the tiger is a symbol of exorcism and disaster avoidance, peace and good luck, and it also protects wealth. It is a symbol of people's desire and pursuit of a better life, and therefore is still widely loved by people today. During the Dragon Boat Festival on the fifth day of the fifth month of the lunar calendar, it is popular to make cloth tigers for children, or use the male yellow in the children's forehead to draw a tiger face, meaning healthy, strong, brave. Cloth tigers in various forms, there are single-headed tiger, two-headed tiger, four-headed tiger, son and mother tiger, pillow tiger, set of tigers and so on. In Taihao Mausoleum, especially in the lunar calendar February 2 to March 3 of the Taihao Fuxi Mausoleum ancient temple, you can see a wide range of cloth tigers, single-headed tigers, double-headed tigers, straight lying tigers, toy tigers, pillow tigers, etc., in different forms, different sizes. These tigers are not the kind of ferocious beasts in the old forests of the mountains, but decorated and personified cloth toys. They look innocent and lively, childish and lovely, like a favorite child, although they are no longer the natural form of the tiger, but, when people see them still think tiger.