Recommend a few products suitable for taking back to your family. These are all famous specialties of Shanxi.

1. Pingyao Beef

Pingyao Beef has long been famous, but its origin is unknown. It was well-known in the three Jin Dynasties during the Qing Dynasty. During the Jiaqing period of the Qing Dynasty, Lei Jinning, a local, and his descendants for three generations, had a prosperous Lei Beef restaurant on Wenmiao Street in Pingyao Beef City for more than a hundred years.

Pingyao beef has a unique traditional production process. From cattle slaughtering, raw meat cutting, pickling, pot cooking and other operating procedures and operating methods, to the use of salt, water and even the solar terms and seasons of processing, they are all very particular. The beef produced is ruddy in color, fresh and tender in texture, fat but not greasy, lean but not woody, mellow and delicious, rich in nutrients, and has the effect of nourishing the stomach and strengthening the spleen.

2. Shanxi mature vinegar

Old mature vinegar is produced in Qingxu County and has thousands of years of vinegar history and culture. The color of mature vinegar is reddish brown and its taste is mainly "soft, sour, sweet and fragrant". It is the first of the four famous vinegars in my country.

Features: Brown-red color, rich vinegar aroma, soft and palatable sour taste, sweet and mellow taste, can be cooked cold. The main ingredient is acetic acid and contains a variety of organic acids, amino acids, etc. It has the functions of increasing appetite, promoting digestion, relieving fishiness and greasiness, decomposing fat, preventing diseases and strengthening the body. It is a good product for health care and seasoning.

3. Qinzhou yellow millet

A kind of millet produced in Qin County, Shanxi Province (ancient name Qinzhou). This rice has excellent quality and unique characteristics. It is sweet, fragrant and very delicious. It is known as the "King of Millets" due to its high nutritional value. It is one of the four famous rice in my country.

Eating this rice regularly can treat weak spleen and stomach, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, etc. It also has the functions of nourishing yin, strengthening yang, clearing heat, and diuresis. It has certain preventive and inhibitory effects on hypertension, skin diseases, and inflammation. . People with kidney disease should eat it regularly, while those with spleen and stomach deficiency should eat it for a long time.

4. Jiaocheng Junzao?

Junzao has a unique shape, which is bottle-shaped or cylindrical with a thin top and a thick bottom. The color is dark red, the skin is thin and the flesh is thick, the stone is small and the fruit is large, crisp and sweet, and the pulp weight accounts for more than 95% of the total weight, so it is said that "eight people weigh one foot, ten people weigh one pound". This jujube tastes sweet and crisp, and is excellent when eaten raw or dried. Fresh dates contain 28.69% sugar, 0.45% acid, and are rich in vitamin C and other nutrients.