(1) Pingyao beef

Pingyao's famous specialty, a specially processed sauce beef, is found in almost every restaurant in Pingyao and can also be bought at roadside stalls. Pingyao beef is light in taste and color, tender and smooth in taste, but it seems to lack the real flavor of beef. If you want to buy some to take home, you can choose vacuum packaging. Guanyun brand has the best quality.

(2) Dried bean curd

Pingyao dried bean curd is delicious. Try it.

(3) Pingyao Wantuo

It is a traditional snack in Pingyao County, and it is also a good accompaniment to wine, with strong local characteristics. The bowl tray was created by Dong Xuan, a famous chef in Chengnanbao, Pingyao County, in the early years of Guangxu in Qing Dynasty, with a history of 65,438+000 years.

(4) Cao Jia drew his elbow.

The traditional famous food with the same name as Pingyao beef was elected to the court in the Qing Dynasty and praised by the tricky Empress Dowager Cixi.

(5) long yam

In Pingyao, the hometown of Changbai medicine, long yam naturally has a variety of ways to eat, such as frying, frying, steaming and boiling, but yam with honey juice is the most unique.

2. Introduction to Pingyao:

Pingyao County is a county under the jurisdiction of Jinzhong City, Shanxi Province. It is located in the middle reaches of the Yellow River in the north of China, southwest of Taiyuan Basin in the east of the Loess Plateau, and adjacent to Qixian, another famous national historical and cultural city. The county governs 5 towns and 9 townships. Tongpu Railway and Dayun Expressway run through the county. The economy is dominated by tourism and agriculture, mainly producing grain, cotton, Pingyao beef and lacquerware. Among them, Pingyao beef has a good reputation, and there are folk lyrics of "Pingyao beef Taikoo cake". Pingyao County is the second batch of famous historical and cultural cities in China. 1997 65438+On February 3rd, Pingyao Ancient City was listed as a world cultural heritage by UNESCO.

3. Tourist attractions:

Pingyao county is a treasure house of cultural relics and a tourist attraction. Places of interest are scattered all over the place.

National key cultural relics protection units include Pingyao ancient city wall, which was built in the Western Zhou Dynasty and rebuilt in the third year of Ming Hongwu (1370). There are 3000 battlements and 72 watchtowers on it, symbolizing 3000 disciples of Confucius and 72 sages. Magnificent, it ranks first among the four most intact ancient cities in China and one of the top ten tourist attractions in Shanxi Province. There is Shuanglin Temple (formerly known as Zhongdu Temple), which was rebuilt in the Northern Qi Dynasty. There are more than 2,000 colored sculptures here, most of which were left over from the Ming Dynasty. The big one is over a foot, and the small one is over a foot. It has a beautiful image and vivid charm. It is known as the "treasure house of oriental color plastic arts" for its exquisite color plastic arts, and is called "world treasure" and "truly unique treasure" by experts of UN-Habitat. There is China's precious Northern Han architecture Zhenguo Temple (formerly known as Jingcheng Temple). Wanfo Hall is one of the oldest existing wooden structures in China, and the ancient buildings in the temple are breathtaking. The painted sculptures in the temple are rare works of the five dynasties in the national temples, which have the style of the late Tang Dynasty and are extremely precious. There is Dacheng Hall, the only Confucius Temple in the Jin Dynasty. There are Cixiang Temple in Ji Guo Village rebuilt in the Jin Dynasty and the towering foot tower; There is a Taoist building, Qingxu Guan, which was rebuilt in the Yuan and Ming Dynasties. There is a "hanging beam and hanging column" with a strange structure. There is Gushi Tower, rebuilt in Qing Dynasty, occupying the city center; There is the Jinzhuang Confucian Temple, which was built in the Yuan Dynasty. There are four pairs and ten philosophers of Confucius and his disciples in the temple. There are "living fossils" in China's financial history, and the former site of Rishengchang Bank (now China Bank Museum), which is the first in China and the "Huitong World". Among the key cultural relics protection units at the county level, such as the Thousand Buddha Cliffs in the Northern Wei Dynasty, the Cliff Statues in Xigou, the Eastern Wei Dynasty and the Northern Qi Dynasty, the stone carvings of past dynasties, tower bridges, temples, residential shops, cultural relics and historical sites, and revolutionary memorial sites are all over the urban and rural areas, and the list is endless.