1, silk.
Known as the "Silk House", Hangzhou has always occupied an important position in China's traditional silk weaving industry. The silk fabric unearthed in Liangzhu 4,700 years ago has revealed the long history of Hangzhou silk. The poem of Bai Juyi, a great poet in the Tang Dynasty, "Silk sleeves weave silk to boast persimmon, and Qingqi sells wine while pear blossoms" also shows the high standard of Hangzhou silk at that time. The silk villages in the old Qinghe Square witnessed the prosperity of silk economy.
2. Hangfan.
Hangfan is a famous traditional handicraft in Hangzhou, Zhejiang. Hangzhou is a famous city producing folding fans in China, and it has been called "Hangzhou Elegant Fan" since ancient times. In the Southern Song Dynasty, many famous fan makers and painters traveled south with the royal family of the Northern Song Dynasty and gathered in Lin 'an (now Hangzhou). In the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the development of Hangzhou fans was even more prosperous. At that time, Hangzhou fans were as famous as silk and tea, and were called "three wonders of Hangzhou production". At present, Hangzhou fan is the most famous one produced by "Wang Xingji".
3. West Lake Longjing
West Lake Longjing is a green tea, one of the top ten famous teas in China. Produced in the mountains around Longjing Village, West Lake, Hangzhou City, Zhejiang Province, hence its name. With a history of 1200 years? . Super West Lake Longjing Tea is flat, smooth and straight, with light green and smooth color, fresh and high aroma, fresh and sweet taste and tender leaves. When Qing Qianlong visited the West Lake in Hangzhou, he praised the Longjing tea of the West Lake and named eighteen tea trees in front of Hugong Temple under Shifeng Mountain as "Imperial Tea".
4. West Lake lotus root starch.
West Lake lotus root starch has a unique flavor and is rich in nutrition. The area from Genshanmen in Hangzhou to Yuhang County is the main producing area of West Lake lotus root starch, especially in Tangqi three village, which used to provide "tribute powder" for the royal family. Lotus root is the underground stem of lotus, which is made of lotus root powder by special processing. It is thin and smooth, and its color is white and red. The brewed lotus root starch is crystal clear, tastes mellow, has the effects of stimulating appetite, nourishing blood and benefiting qi, and is very suitable for babies, the elderly and patients.
Hangzhou, the capital of Zhejiang Province, is located in the southeast coast of China, the northern part of Zhejiang Province, the lower reaches of Qiantang River and the southern end of the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal. It is the political, economic, cultural, educational, transportation and financial center of Zhejiang Province, one of the central cities of the Yangtze River Delta urban agglomeration, the core city around Hangzhou Bay, and the node city of the Ning Hang eco-economic belt in the Yangtze River Delta. One of the important e-commerce centers in China.
Hangzhou has a history of more than 2,200 years since the establishment of the county government in the Qin Dynasty. It was once the capital of Wu Yueguo and the Southern Song Dynasty. Because of its beautiful scenery, it is known as "paradise on earth". Thanks to the convenience of the Beijing-Hangzhou Canal and trading ports, as well as its own developed silk and grain industries, Hangzhou was once an important commercial distribution center in history. Since the new century, driven by high-tech enterprises such as Alibaba, Internet economy has become a new economic growth point in Hangzhou.
There are many cultural relics in Hangzhou, and there are a lot of natural and cultural landscape relics in and around the West Lake. Among them, the main representative unique cultures are West Lake culture, Liangzhu culture, silk culture and tea culture, and many stories and legends handed down have become the representatives of Hangzhou culture.