First, Gansu cuisine

Gansu cuisine 1: Lanzhou beef noodles

Lanzhou ramen has blossomed all over the country. If someone asks Gansu what is delicious, Lanzhou beef noodles is definitely a good answer.

Gansu Cuisine 2: Sauced Meat in Senior Three

This is a traditional and famous Gansu cuisine, which is famous for its fresh meat, bright color, slightly transparent, neither fat nor greasy, and overflowing fragrance.

Gansu Cuisine 3: Grey beans

Grey beans are not to be missed. They are porridge-like food cooked with hemp peas. Its flavor is unique, and you will smile as long as you take a bite.

Gansu Cuisine 4: Sweet candied fruit

Sweet candied fruit is a kind of flavor snack made from highland barley, one of the cold-resistant and precocious grains in Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. There is a jingle among the masses: "Sweet and sweet, old people and dolls drool, one bowl and two bowls can appetize, and three bowls and four bowls can top the meal". When it is eaten, it is mixed with cold water and sugar, which tastes sweet and sour and has the effect of relieving summer heat.

Gansu cuisine 5: stuffed skin

stuffed skin can be said to be a special snack all over the country, but it has different flavors in Gansu.

Gansu Cuisine 6: Tianshui Guagua

Guagua is a special food in Tianshui area. Whether it's the severe winter with a sudden cold wind or the midsummer with a hot sun, there are always purple croakers for sale at stalls, and customers are constantly coming and going, and business is particularly prosperous.

Gansu cuisine 7: serous surface

If there is anything delicious in Gansu, serous surface is also worth a try. Slurry surface is a kind of noodle made by making soup with water and adding chopped green onion and sauerkraut. Tianshui urban and rural people like to eat pulp water very much.

Gansu cuisine 8: Zhang Chuan lamb

Zhang Chuan lamb is mainly produced in Guanshan forest area, with tender and pure meat and bright color, especially small-tailed Han sheep. Hand-grabbed mutton, stewed mutton and mutton in soup with mutton as the main raw material are delicious in Longshang.

2. Gansu

1. Gansu, referred to as Gan or Long for short, is located in the upper reaches of the Yellow River, with Lanzhou as its capital. Gansu is based on the initials of Ganzhou (now Zhangye) and Suzhou (now Jiuquan). Because Xixia once set up Gansu Military Division, Gansu Province was set up in Yuan Dynasty, referred to as Gansu; Because most of the province is in the west of Longshan Mountain (Liupan Mountain), and Longyou Road was set here in the Tang Dynasty, it is also called Longyan for short.

2. Geographical location

Gansu is located at 32 31 ′ ~ 42 57 ′ north latitude and 92 13 ′ ~ 118 46 ′ east longitude. It is located in the upper reaches of the Yellow River, connecting the Loess Plateau, Qinghai-Tibet Plateau and Inner Mongolia Plateau, with Shaanxi in the east, Bashu and Qinghai in the south, Xinjiang in the west and Inner Mongolia and Ningxia in the north. Northwest China leaves Mongolia and radiates to Central Asia. Gansu province winds more than 1,611 kilometers from east to west, covering an area of 453,711 square kilometers, accounting for 4.72% of China.

3. Climatic characteristics

The climate in different parts of Gansu is quite different, and the ecological environment is complex and diverse. Gansu is deeply located in the northwest inland, where the ocean warm and humid airflow is not easy to reach, and there are few opportunities for rain. Most areas have a dry climate and belong to a temperate monsoon climate with strong continental nature. Winter is cold and long, the boundary between spring and summer is not clear, summer is short, the temperature is high, and the temperature drops quickly in autumn. The annual average temperature in the province is between 1 ~ 16℃, with different altitudes, large temperature difference, abundant sunshine and large daily temperature difference.