Many friends in Changshu may have been there. So, do you know any specialties in Changshu? It doesn't matter if I don't know. Let me introduce you. I hope it helps you.

yangcheng lake hairy crab

Yangcheng Lake hairy crabs, also known as golden claw crabs, are produced in Yangcheng Lake, Suzhou. Commonly known as Qingshui hairy crab, it is big and fat, with a green shell and a white belly and yellow hair with golden claws. The meat is greasy, ten limbs are vigorous, and it can crawl quickly on the glass plate. Every time the golden wind sends a cool breeze and chrysanthemums are in full bloom, it is the peak season for golden claw crabs to go on the market. The female crab and the male crab 10 in September of the lunar calendar have the best gonad development. Cooked and condensed, the female is golden yellow, the male is like white jade, and it tastes delicious. It is a famous brand product in China.

According to Compendium of Materia Medica, crabs have the functions of relaxing muscles and activating collaterals, benefiting qi and regulating stomach, promoting digestion and dredging collaterals, and clearing away heat and removing blood stasis.

osmanthus wine

Osmanthus fragrans is a famous wine in the south of the Yangtze River. It is brewed by Changshu Wang Si Restaurant according to the local sugar liquor (Changshu traditional old liquor) through technological reform. Osmanthus fragrans wine is brewed with spring water from the "hollow pool" of Xiaofu Temple in Qiliang Ancient Temple. Spring water is bitter and sweet, rich in minerals, high in alcohol content and strong in expansion. The wine brewed with this water is particularly mellow. Adding the Millennium-old "sugar osmanthus" into the wine, osmanthus wine is amber in color, mellow in quality, slightly sweet in mouth, quite distinctive and has a long brewing history. At present, there are Guilin brand, WISCO brand and Hui Gui wine.

Yushan green tea

Yushan, Changshu, Jiangsu Province, which is "ten miles and a half into the city", is not only beautiful and picturesque, but also rich in green, cool, fragrant and nourishing famous tea: Yushan green tea. On the top of Yushan Mountain, there is a mountain. There are many strange stones on the mountain, which are shaped like the blade of an axe. This is called Jianmen, and the surrounding mountains are very flat and full of tea trees. Facing the blue lake, the air is pure. Before and after the Grain Rain every year, tea trees grow buds, which are picked in time and carefully baked to make high-grade green tea. Therefore, it is also called Jianmen green tea, and Yushan tea is famous for its roasted green. 1965, in the national green tea appraisal, Yushan first-class fried green won the second place, and later ranked among the best in the quality appraisal of the whole province and Suzhou.

Duck blood glutinous

Duck blood glutinous rice is a specialty of Changshu, with purple rice skin, reddish beige, long grains and fragrant smell. It is planted at the foot of Yushan Mountain and ripened with spring water. The yield is very small and extremely rare. As a tribute, it is a famous local specialty of Changshu. Rich in nutrition, with crude protein content of 13.3%, containing biological pyrrole, which has the effects of strengthening the body and enriching the blood. It is a nutritional tonic and is often used as porridge for pregnant women and the infirm.

Duck blood glutinous rice is rich in protein and trace elements, and has the effects of nourishing yin and blood. People regard blood glutinous rice as a tonic, and it is used as a gift for relatives and friends and as a raw material for preparing dishes. Hotels often use it to cook traditional dishes. Won the grand prize in the 1922 rice selection and was included in the international cookbook. 1962 was selected to participate in the World Expo, and 1973 participated in the Beijing National Agricultural Exhibition.

Wang Si Restaurant and Mountain View Garden, two famous time-honored brands, are mainly made of blood glutinous rice and white glutinous rice, supplemented by sugar osmanthus, candied dates, white sugar and lard. On the basis of folk skills, they created a kind of "blood glutinous rice" with a unique sense of export, which is the most authentic. It has a history of 100 years and is very famous in Jiangnan.

Beggar's chicken

According to legend, a long time ago, a man named Huazi went to a village in Changshu County (now Changshu City) and begged for food along the way. One day, he happened to get a chicken and wanted to kill it for cooking, but there was neither cooker nor seasoning. He came to the foot of Yushan Mountain, killed the chicken, took out its internal organs, coated it with yellow mud and firewood, simmered the coated chicken in the fire, peeled off the mud shell when it was cooked, and removed the chicken feathers and mud shell together to reveal the chicken. /kloc-More than 0/00 years ago, the "Mountain View Garden" restaurant in Yushan Resort in the northwest of Changshu County, according to this legend, went to the rough and refined, and made this chicken.

Changshu beggar chicken, also known as braised chicken, is a traditional famous dish of Jiangsu Han nationality and belongs to Jiangsu cuisine. Produced in Changshu, Jiangsu, China. Changshu beggar chicken is brownish red in color, oily and bright, fresh and fragrant, full of chicken flavor, crisp and tender, rich in nutrition and unique in flavor.

When eating this dish, open the mud shell, the house is full of fragrance, the entrance is crisp and tender, and the flavor is unique. It tastes better with chopped green onion and sweet noodle sauce.

red bayberry

Baoyan Yangmei is a specialty of Yushan Town, Changshu City, Suzhou City, Jiangsu Province. Baoyan Myrica rubra juice is rich, moderately sweet and sour, sweet in taste, rich in sugar and ascorbic acid, and has high nutritional value. Fruit is not only fresh food, but also one of the main raw materials in fruit processing industry.

Baoyan Bay in Yushan, facing the back of the lake, is a good place to produce bayberry. According to historical records, the history of planting Myrica rubra in Baoyan Bay at the southern foot of Yushan can be traced back to more than 900 years ago. As of June 2007, there were 170 ancient bayberry trees in Yangmeilin, Baoyan Ecological Sightseeing Park in Changshu City.

Baoyan has original varieties of Myrica rubra such as mantis seeds and crystals 13. In the 1990s, water chestnut seeds, plum seeds and white bayberry were introduced from Yuyao, Zhejiang, and fine varieties of bayberry such as big leaves and thin stems were introduced from Dongshan, Wuxian. After long-term improvement, there are 16 varieties such as Xiaotianshan, Lotus Leaf Plate, Foxglove, Old Garlic, Dayexiti, Xiaoyexi, Dongkui, Taohong, Zaohong, Mantis Seed and Crystal. Different from other varieties, such as black red, purple red, peach red and light red, the background color of crystal bayberry is "glass white" with red dots on it, which is the most distinctive variety in the local area.

Baoyan Myrica rubra juice is rich, moderately sweet and sour, sweet and rich in sugar and ascorbic acid. The fruit acid contained in Baoyan Yangmei can not only stimulate appetite, promote fluid production, help digestion and relieve summer heat, but also prevent sugar in the body from being converted into fat and help to lose weight.

For many years, Yangmei Festival has been held in Baoyan Ecological Sightseeing Park in June and July every year, and tourists gather.

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