Xitang has a flat terrain, dense rivers and a very quiet natural environment. Nine rivers meet in the town, dividing the town into eight plates, and many bridges connect the water towns together. In ancient times, it was called "Dragon Embracing Beads" and "Four Winds". There are many well-preserved buildings of Ming and Qing Dynasties in the ancient town area, which have high artistic and research value and have attracted the attention of experts and scholars who study ancient buildings at home and abroad. Bird's eye view of the town, the mist is like gauze, the powder walls on both sides are towering, and the tile houses are reflected. In the evening, the setting sun shines obliquely, the fishing boat sings late, the lights are bright and the wine is overflowing. The whole ancient water town is picturesque, and people are in it. Suddenly, Taoyuan Qiongyao, I don't know whether people are traveling in a world of pictorial or painting in my heart.

Xitang special

Gallery 1. Xitang veranda attracts Chinese and foreign tourists with its unique charm. Most of Xitang Street is paved with cloisters and sheds, so that merchants and pedestrians in the past have no worries about the rain. Some verandahs along the river also have back stools for people to rest. Corridors and sheds are mostly 2-2.5 meters wide wooden roofs, which are concentrated in Beizha Street and Nanzha Frame. Do you think this is a good idea? 000 meters, can shelter from the wind and rain. One of them is the most elegant and excellent, with two layers of carved patterns on the porch, which amazes visitors.

Bridge 2. Xitang, a water town, is quite distinctive among ancient towns in China, and is famous for its many bridges, lanes and corridors. Rivers and ports crisscross these towns, and rivers and bridges are densely covered. By 1998, the whole town has built bridges 104. Since the Song Dynasty, there have been Anren Bridge, Anjing Bridge, Anshan Bridge, Renren Bridge, Five Blessingg Bridge, Yongning Bridge and Qingning Bridge in Xitang 13. In Qing Dynasty, there were Wolong Bridge, Duchan Bridge and Laifeng Bridge. Most of these ancient bridges are single-hole or three-hole stone pillar wooden beam bridges. The bridge is exquisitely made and has been completely protected so far, which is of ornamental value. Since ancient times, it has been called "Wolong Ling Bo, Rainbow Flying Frame".

Three lanes. House Hutong is another characteristic landscape in the ancient town of xitang, which can reflect the character of Xitang people. Deep in the house, the winding path leads to a secluded place. I wonder how deep it is. At the end, it suddenly opened and opened a new world. The old houses in the town are long and deep, and some of them have three, five or seven entrances, where twenty or thirty families live, all of which are in and out.

Four houses. Xitang has mellow folk customs, prosperous market and beautiful scenery. Ancient houses, such as Zhongfutang and Xuezhai, and ancient temples, such as Qilaoye Temple, Tang Sheng, Mingyuan Xiyuan and Lu Fen Ginkgo, are all places to enjoy, which will lead to a Xitang story that blends with history.

5 Customs. The beautiful scenery and rich land in Xitang have bred a strong cultural atmosphere in the town, and residents like to raise birds and flowers. Xitang has a very active folk custom in history, including visiting the Confucian Temple, temple fairs, and temple fairs to protect grain and protect the country. These traditional customs are based on folk cultural activities, in the form of lion dancing, palace jumping, playing Xianglian, sending children to Qi Lin, sending Jin Yuanbao to the God of Wealth, stepping on a white boat and grabbing a sedan chair.

6 exhibition hall. In some ancient dwellings in Xitang, apart from the architectural culture and cultural relics value of the garden itself, it is a very interesting and potential tourist way to display historical relics in the house, or to display bamboo carvings, woodcuts and bricks collected by the owners, or to open the doors of halls and study rooms, to learn from tourists from all over the world, or to display rare books of ancient books and famous inscriptions with regional characteristics.

Xitangde special cuisine

"Steamed white silk fish" and "Land of Fish and Rice" Xitang are particularly rich in aquatic resources, with fish ponds scattered all over the place, among which Hu Fen is the most famous. Cultured white snakehead occupies a place in Xitang food spectrum because of its delicious meat and rich nutrition.

"Braised pork with mushrooms" Braised pork with mushrooms is a home-cooked dish in Xitang. It is simple to make, delicious and nutritious, and is deeply loved by people.

"Steamed eggs with cauliflower fish" Cauliflower fish, also known as pond carp, is a top-grade fish and a wild species, which is rare in the market. This fish is fresh and tender, loose but not scattered, and the soup is delicious and appetizing.

According to legend, Emperor Qianlong of the Qing Dynasty accidentally stabbed a water chestnut when he visited the South Lake in the south of the Yangtze River to eat it. He said, "Little water chestnut, if only there were no thorns." As soon as the emperor spoke, Nanhu Ridge stopped growing horns. Nanhu ling (commonly known as wonton ling) has the characteristics of hornless skin, smooth meat and fragrant mouth.

"Braised heart in oil" is almost a common dish in Xitang people's homes. Whenever golden rape blossoms fill the fields, farmers in almost every household begin to pickle cabbage. Every time I feel bad appetite, I will feel much better by stewing a bowl of Chinese cabbage.

"Wonton old duck pot" Wonton old duck pot is a local famous dish in Xitang. It is said that it was invented by the kiln who packed it. Because of the long working hours and high labor intensity, the kiln worker solved the problem on the spot and stewed the old duck in the kiln. But only duck was not enough to eat, so the kiln worker added wonton to the pot, which not only satisfied the hunger, but also supplemented the nutrition. Kill two birds with one stone, the old duck pot with wonton is in the hands of the kiln.

"Pills wrapped in shepherd's purse" is the first choice for Xitang farmers to try in early spring. This dish is characterized by golden color, fragrant smell, fresh and pure soup, fragrant teeth and cheeks, and better taste when served with local rice vinegar. Is suitable for all ages, rich in nutrition, full of pastoral flavor of the farmhouse cuisine.

As early as 2000 years ago, crabs appeared as food at the feast of our ancestors. Now, this rampant general has become a feast, which is the "crab feast".

Xitang water network is interlaced, and its source comes from Taihu Lake. Excellent water quality provides a good environment for the growth of wild fish. This kind of fish lives in groups along the river bank, hence its name. It's about an inch and a half long, flat and small, and will never grow up. The cooking methods of wild pomfret include braising, steaming and making soup. Among them, the most distinctive is salted pomfret.

The taste of "oil eel paste" varies with different cooking methods. Raw fried eel is soft and firm, braised and plump, cooked and rotten, soft and tender, fried and crisp. There are many recipes in Song's Health Care Department in Ming Dynasty and Diaoding Collection in Qing Dynasty.

"Sauce-flavored snails" snails are a common dish in Jiangnan water towns. The Xitang River is criss-crossed. Where there is water, there must be snails. Snails are generally eaten around Tomb-Sweeping Day, and it is said that eating Malantou can improve eyesight as well.

"Steamed double stink" is good or bad, both fragrant and smelly. Just like this stinky tofu, it not only loses its clean appearance after corruption. And its taste has also undergone qualitative changes. But the role of this thing between smell and fragrance is extremely uncertain. There is fragrance in the smell, and there is stink in the fragrance. The more smelly, the more fragrant it is.

Xitangde special snacks

1 malt cake.

That is, the long summer cake collapse is a seasonal snack of Xitang Millennium custom. Butyl malt cake is made of glutinous rice flour, black sesame, red bean, walnut kernel, white sugar and Chinese herbal medicines such as fennel and malt by traditional techniques. Butyl malt cake is soft, non-sticky and non-paste, with strong fennel flavor, which greatly increases appetite. It can help digestion, reduce blood fat and prolong life. It is a good gift for friends to respect the elderly.

Send a dragon's hoof.

According to legend, there was a rich man named Jia in Xitang in Ming Dynasty, who had been married for a long time and had no children. Later, a man instructed to do good deeds and build roads and bridges so that everyone could stop by the bridge when building the bridge. The rich businessman also gave birth to a child that year, so the bridge was named "Songzi Laifeng Bridge". After the renovation, sit in Xitang, a thousand-year-old town, facing south. The rich businessman held a grand banquet when celebrating his son's birthday. There was a main course at the banquet, namely hoof. Everyone named it "Send Dragon Feet" to celebrate. Since then, this dish has been used as the main course of family reunion all over Fiona Fang, which means early birth and auspicious reunion. Send a dragon's hoof High-quality pork leg meat, with dozens of ancestral condiments, is cooked, steamed, simmered and simmered repeatedly. The meat is crisp, tender and boneless, fat but not greasy, and delicious.

3 steamed meat with lotus leaf powder.

It is a traditional dish of ancient town, with various flavors. It is made of appropriate pork belly, spiced fried rice noodles, bean curd skin and fresh lotus leaves, with seasonings such as clove, star anise, soy sauce and sweet noodle sauce. This dish has a unique flavor, crisp and waxy meat, fragrant but not greasy. It can be used as a snack and wine, and can give full play to the pharmacological effects of lotus leaf in relieving summer heat, removing blood stasis and stopping bleeding.

4 Days One Side of Xia Di

Noodles are the staple food of northerners, and the method is generally simple and pure. For southerners, especially in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, noodles are usually snacks for a change, so special attention is paid to the collocation of accessories, and many things are often added, such as belly slices, shredded eel, beef and so on. To make more fabrics with rich flavor and nutrition. Xitang people are notoriously particular about making noodles. Noodles should be cooked in two pots at the same time, one pot cooks noodles and the other pot fries accessories. The auxiliary materials commonly used by Xitang people are belly slices, shredded eel and homemade fried fish. Put the cooked noodles in another pot, add water to the belly slices and shredded eel, and cook together for 2-3 minutes. After the noodles are cooked, the soup is delicious and the noodles somersault.

Five spiced beans

Every year, broad beans are dried after listing, such as dried tangerine peel, pepper, cooking wine, salt, fennel and so on. Take it together with sun-dried broad beans, so that the taste can quickly and completely enter the beans, then take it out, roll it with licorice powder, and then put it in a large pot to fry it until it is 70% to 80% dry, thus making crispy and delicious spiced beans and becoming a dessert after tea.

6 yellow rice wine

Xitang people have always loved to drink some yellow rice wine, so there have been many large and small yellow rice wine workshops in Xitang history. Jiashan Winery is the largest single yellow rice wine producer in China, located in the north of Tangxi Town. The factory strictly controls the quality, and produces more than 20 varieties of Hu Fen series, such as carved flowers, good wine and yellow wine, which have mild, mellow and unique tastes and become the best products for modern people to exchange feelings and give gifts to relatives and friends.

7 bazhen eight treasure cake

Bazhen cake is refined from eight kinds of medicinal materials, such as yam, Poria, Euryale euryales, rice kernels, wheat teeth, lentils, lotus seeds and hawthorn, with high-quality glutinous rice flour and white sugar. This kind of cake is green, black and crisp. It was very popular at first because it can eliminate malnutrition in children. Later, because of its exquisite selection of materials, fine processing, sweet taste and spleen and stomach benefits, it became a famous spot in the south of the Yangtze River and enjoyed a high reputation for more than 100 years.

8 Xitang Zongzi

Zongzi in Xitang has many flavors, including fresh meat, bean paste, lard and red beans. Although Zongzi is a snack in many places, Xitang Zongzi is more fragrant and glutinous because of its good rice quality, sufficient materials and tight binding, and has become one of the traditional tourism products in small towns.

Red on June 9

June Red refers to the river crabs produced in the summer of June in the lunar calendar. The crab of "June Red" is only as big as an egg. The crab meat is tender, the crab fat is dripping with oil, and the shell is thin. When steamed in clear water, it is dark red, hence the name. There is also a saying in Hangjiahu called "No matter how poor you are, don't forget June Red", which is a praise for the "June Red" river crab.