Specialty Food

Meishan’s traditional food specialties and handicrafts include: Yameizi Style Sauce Pork, Renshou Heilongtan Whole Fish Banquet, Sesame Cake, Wangyang Town Ganba Beef, Twice-cooked Mutton, Twice-cooked Fish , Wengong loquat, Caojiali; Dongpo preserved egg; Dongpo elbow, Dongpo meat, Dongpo fish, longansu, Meishan navel orange and Guoyou Sansu wine from Dongpo District; Pengzu wine and sweet skin from Pengshan Duck, floating soup; Hongya’s Yayu, rattan pepper oil, Washan spring wine, Daoquan mountain green tea and various picnics; Qingshen’s Jiangtuan, Hanyang chicken, Zhongyan roasted whole lamb, Qingshen ponkan; Danling’s Frozen cake, Shiranui, Cao Baniang, Liu chicken, Daya loquat. ? Meishan

Meishan, a prefecture-level city in Sichuan Province, is located in the southwest of the Chengdu Plain in the Sichuan Basin and in the middle reaches of the Minjiang River.

Meishan borders Neijiang, Zigong, and Ziyang to the east, Leshan to the south, Ya'an to the west, and Chengdu to the north.

On June 10, 2000, the State Council officially approved the abolition of Meishan area and the establishment of Meishan City to manage Dongpo District, Pengshan District, Renshou County, Hongya County, Danling County and Qingshen County.

Meishan was called Meizhou in ancient times and was the seat of state and county more than 1,000 years ago.

During the two Song Dynasties, 886 people in Taiwan passed the Jinshi examination, known as the "Eight Hundred Jinshi" in history, and became the famous "Hometown of Jinshi" in Chinese history.

Meishan is also a key area in the middle section of the Chengdu-Leshan Golden Corridor and an important part of the "Chengdu Plain Economic Circle". It is a rural informatization pilot city under the National Spark Plan and a "Sichuan Province Manufacturing Industry A key city for information engineering.

As a national garden city, the city’s forest coverage rate reaches 45.7%, and the urban greening rate reaches 37%. Geographical location

Meishan is located in the Sichuan Basin, southwest of the Chengdu Plain. The edge is between 102.49′~104.30′ east longitude and 29.30′~30.16′ north latitude. It is located in the southwest of the Chengdu Plain, in the fan-shaped zone of the middle reaches of the Minjiang River and the lower reaches of the Qingyi River, and the middle section of the Chengdu-Leshan Golden Corridor.

Bordering Chengdu to the north, overlooking Leshan to the south, Ziyang to the east, and Ya'an to the west, it is the choke point and southern gate of the Chengdu Plain connecting southern Sichuan, southwest Sichuan, western Sichuan, and Yunnan.

Topography and Landforms

< p> The Minjiang River and the Qingyi River run through the territory, and both sides are dominated by plains and alluvial flat dams.

The two wings of Longquan Mountain in the east, and most of the areas in Danling, Pengshan and Hongya in the west are low mountains and hills. , the altitude is mostly between 500-800m, the Mesozoic red rock formations are widely distributed, the Danxia landform is developed, and the ecological environment is excellent.

Meishan City is surrounded by mountains and undulating hills. The terrain is higher in the west and lower in the east, with the highest altitude. 3522 meters, with a minimum altitude of 335 meters, and complex natural conditions

Climate characteristics

Meishan has alternating sea and land monsoons. It is controlled by the subtropical high pressure in the western Pacific in summer and cold weather from Northwest Asia and Mongolia in winter. The influence of air, coupled with annual changes in solar radiation, creates various climate types in the area.

Due to the influence of topography and topography, the annual average temperature tends to be higher in the east and lower in the west.

The annual average temperature in Renshou is 17.4°C, the highest in the city. The annual average temperature in Danleng is 16.6°C, the lowest in the city. The hottest months are July and August, with an average temperature of 25.4-26.3°C. The extreme maximum temperature is 38.6°C, and the coldest month is 1 Monthly, the average temperature is 6.2--6.8℃, and the extreme minimum temperature is--4.2℃.

The frost-free period is 302--314 days throughout the year.

The precipitation is abundant and the rainfall is distributed in time and space. Uneven.

The rainfall increases from northeast to southwest according to the region. The average annual rainfall is 983-1490mm. The average annual rainfall in Pengshan is the least 983mm and the maximum in Hongya is 1490mm.

May to September is the period of concentrated rainfall, accounting for about 85% of the total annual rainfall (the maximum daily rainfall in Hongya was 410.8 mm on July 28, 1996), which is the most common summer flood in the city. Important reasons. Tourism resources

Meishan has a long history and culture and many cultural relics.

Meishan, where the city *** is located, has a history of 1505 and is one of the famous Sansu cultures. In the township, there are 2 provincial-level cultural relics protection units such as Sansu Temple, and 36 city- and county-level cultural relics protection units; Pengshan has a history of 2,300 years and has famous historic sites such as Pengzu Mountain and the Eastern Han Dynasty Cliff Tombs Group in Jiangkou (provincial level). There are as many as 40 county-level cultural relics, and many precious cultural relics have been unearthed; Qingshen is the birthplace of Cancong, the first generation of Shu king, and has the famous Zhongyan Temple, the Pingqiang Small Three Gorges and the unique Chinese bamboo weaving art; Hongya Jian In the Sui Dynasty, there were many ancient buildings and residential towns, and the Taoist culture in Wawu Mountain has a long history: in addition, there are also stone sculptures such as Longhu Mountain in Danling and Niujiao Village in Renshou.

These rich and colorful cultural heritages are valuable assets for Meishan tourism.

In the distribution of cultural relics, there is a Minjiang Cultural Belt that has been inherited from ancient times to the present. It is the most distinctive development area and support point for Meishan’s cultural tourism.

Special delicacies

Meishan’s traditional gourmet specialties and handicrafts include: Yameizi style soy sauce meat, Renshou Heilongtan whole fish mat, sesame cake, Wangyang Town Ganba beef, twice-cooked mutton, twice-cooked fish, Wen Gong loquat, Caojia Pears; Dongpo preserved eggs;

Dongpo pork elbow, Dongpo meat, Dongpo fish, longan cake, Meishan navel orange and Guoyou Sansu wine in Dongpo District;

Peng Shan’s Pengzu wine, sweet-skinned duck, and floating soup; Hongya’s Yayu, vine pepper oil, Washan spring wine, Daoquan mountain green tea, and various picnics; Qingshen’s Jiangtuan, Hanyang chicken, Zhongyan roasted whole lamb, Qingshen ponkan; Danling frozen cake, Shiranui, Cao Baniang, Liu chicken, Daya loquat.