Specialty snacks in Huaiyang include Chenzhou Su Yizhong Roasted Chicken and Hu Spicy Soup.

1, Chenzhou Su Yizhong roast chicken

Huaiyang Beiguan Su Yizhong roast chicken store is a halal delicatessen that mainly operates roasted chicken, and also operates sheep's head, mutton, and tofu skin. Over the past decades, Mr. Su Yizhong has studied and learned from the famous food from all over the world, and created his own secret recipe, which has made Su's roasted chicken famous in the east of Henan Province.

2, hot and spicy soup

Zhu Mazi stewed meat hot and spicy soup, historically known as "Zhu family hot and spicy soup". Zhu Mazi stewed meat and spicy soup is characterized by thin and even, meat rotten as mud, hot and sour, delicious, fragrant. There is a saying that "drinking spicy soup, and then burping is still fragrant".

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Huaiyang's cultural characteristics - mud dog

Mud dog, also known as the mausoleum dog, is the general name of the Taihao Fuxi mausoleum mud toys. Because it is to commemorate the Fuxi Nuwa Tuan Tuyun create people and educate all things made, and Huaiyang Taihao Mausoleum is unique, so it is known as "the world's first dog".

The mud dog is made of silt, painted with black background, and then red, yellow, white, green and pink colors, painted with dot and line structure pattern, with the style of Chu lacquer culture, and like the rope pattern, chevron pattern, the ancient pottery painting method. It has a thick and simple shape, seems to be clumsy, ink bottom color painting, colorful but not vulgar. Each mud dog has a hole to blow, and the tone is thick.

The origin of the mud dog comes from the legend of Fuxi, Nuwa rolled earth to create man: Fuxi lived in the era, the population was very sparse, one day, the sky fell to the ground, the world is left with Fuxi, Nuwa brother and sister. In order to reproduce human beings, the siblings had to ask the heaven to make a match, and finally they became husband and wife. They were too slow to reproduce, so they made clay figures out of clay.

These clay figures, when dried in the sun, were able to walk, talk and become human beings. This story takes place in Huaiyang, which is why Huaiyang had the custom of kneading mud dogs in large quantities thousands of years ago.

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