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"Shaoxing Sanwu", also known as "Sanwu culture", this name has a long history. It is a product of the local characteristics of Shaoxing, specifically referred to the three Wu that is: dried vegetables, Wu felt hat, Wu Boat

1, dried vegetables - Wu Ganlei, also known as moldy dried vegetables, because of its black color is called Wu Ganlei. Generally with mustard, not yet moss cabbage and oilseed rape and other pickled and dried into the sun. This dish is delicious, eaten appetizing, summer soup with it to accompany the meal, but also the effect of summer heat prevention, it is said that many years of dried vegetables Chen effect is even better. U dry vegetables with light bamboo shoots, after processing, known as "dry vegetables bamboo shoots", also known as "bamboo shoots dry vegetables", with which the steamed pork, is a typical Shaoxing hometown dishes --- "Steamed pork with moldy dried vegetables" is a typical Shaoxing hometown dishes. Steamed pork with it is a typical Shaoxing hometown dish - "steamed pork with moldy dried vegetables", locally known as "dried vegetables adjacent to the pork". This dish meat blood red, oil and not greasy, vegetables containing meat oil, meat dipped in vegetables, the more steamed the more glutinous, the flavor is very fresh. It is rumored that this dish was first created by Xu Wenchang in the Ming Dynasty.

2, the felt hat - the hat because of the color black, rounded top, there is a rolled edge of the name. The raw material used is pure wool, dyeing, drying, trimming and other processes are more elaborate, the production process is more complex, has to go through more than thirty procedures. It has heat insulation, warmth, cold, rain, shade, when the cushion, to prevent trauma, moisture and other uses. In the past, small towns and rural men love to wear this cap on everyone's head, summer wear cool, winter wear hot, both as a straw hat, but also as a hat, can be worn throughout the year, so it has become a Shaoxing local characteristics of a living thing, but also become the people of Shaoxing a clear sign. Because of this, so in the past, such as your head felt hat out to Hangzhou, Shanghai and other places, people will say that the guest from Shaoxing. It has been used as a sign of the Shaoxing people, the old Shaoxing hat industry, mainly the production of felt hats "felt hat workshop", and each "felt hat workshop" are hung with a picture of a tiger with teeth and claws, as "grandmaster "The trademark of the woolen felt hat is also made of the tiger's teeth and claws. The logo of the felt hat is also a tiger. Why the felt hat workshop called the tiger for the master? According to legend, there was a hunter who tracked down a broken and wounded tiger and went straight to the tiger's den. In the tiger's den, he found that the tiger slept on a piece of soft, cake-like felt. Very strange, the original, it is the tiger usually drag to eat other beasts after the animal hair pad in the sleeping nest, by the tiger's body of the pressure of the roll, over time, will be pressed into the felt. So the hunter took this piece of felt home, washed and dried, slightly processed, as a hat to wear, not only warm in winter and cool in summer, and the wind does not move, the rain is not wet, wearing a very comfortable. Those who wish to be inspired by the wool as raw material for the production of felt, and then made of this felt "felt hat", actually get the Shaoxing local farmers, fishermen, mountain people love, a moment to become fashionable, so the felt hat workshops such as the spring, become a Shaoxing industry.

Now this felt hat workshop has been rare, but the old farmers, fishermen, mountain people are still very favorite wear.

3, black boat - this wooden boat hull is small, the canopy made of bamboo, sandwiched between bamboo Ruo, semi-circular, and with anthracite and tung oil painted black, the boat thus named.

The boat is a unique, nimble, water transportation, generally can accommodate four to six passengers. Its power is to rely on the boat boss (boatman) with a foot halter paddle, the boat's course is to use the paddle, or clamped under the armpit as a rudder to use, to control. When the boat is traveling, the captain of the boat with his feet and hands, the boat floats lightly on the lake. Shaoxing in addition to the small crow boat, there is a large crow boat (such a very small number of boats), the boat's hull carved with various patterns, patterns, carved on the bow of the image like a tiger's head of the animal prow (an ancient book said a bird). Pawhawk in the sea, the nature of the dragon, the dragon to see and avoid, so shipwrights carved its image on the bow, so that the dragon does not dare to haunt the boat can be reported safe. This big boat, tall, high canopy can accommodate people upright, cabin wide can put tables and chairs for people to play cards, banquets, theater, etc., the stern of the two sculls (there are four to eight commonly known as the four Tou head, eight Tou head), the speed is faster, for a few officials, rich families to visit, tomb sweeping, welcoming relatives, theater with.

The blue waves, the beautiful scenery of the Jian Rats on the water, you can often see a leaf of flat boats, such as a fish in the Ran Ran swim. And driving the boat boatman, sitting in the stern, back leaning against a vertical board, left armpit clamped a paddle, split the water steady manipulation of the direction of the two feet a bend a stretched stirrups "paddle". At the same time, in the very narrow side of the boat, put a dish back to the fragrant beans and other dishes, the right hand holding a small wine pot, sip a mouthful of rice wine, chewing a tube of fragrant beans, leisurely, tread water. This is the famous Shaoxing foot rowing boat.

Foreign tourists, a mention of the foot rowing boat, will not hesitate to say that he "black boat" to. Because the foot rowing boat is relatively rare in the country, and because the foot rowing boat is usually the crow's nest, so the two will be one. In fact, the Shaoxing custom, where the canopy of the boat, boat, port boat, cargo ship, passenger boat, foot rowing boat, hand-cranked boat, collectively known as the crow's nest boat. And with the white canopy of the night boat, sandalwood boat, small shuttle fly, etc., is called the white boat.

Shaoxing rivers are scattered, lakes and chess cloth, known as the water countryside, known as the "Venice of the East" reputation, Shaoxing people go out to meet the river, lifting the foot to use the boat. So as a means of transportation boat, many types, specifications vary, black boat, white boat, only to the canopy as a difference and said just.

Shaoxing boats, in addition to simple agricultural boats, most of the bow carved out of the "chi dragons", according to the study, this is the same shape as the dragon's head of the gods, is one of the dragon's nine sons, good at ruling the wind and waves, can make the wind and waves of the aquatic fear.

Shaoxing boat canopy, used to use thin bamboo poles bent into an arch, generally a canopy with three arches, bamboo wire for the bottom, surface, the center of the bamboo clamped to the two sides and up and down, clamped to the flat bamboo pieces, tied with lead wire. The size of the canopy is based on the size of the boat; the number of canopies is based on the length of the boat, five, seven, nine, eleven and so on. One of the fixed called fixed canopy, activity is convenient for passengers up and down, enjoy the scenery along the way. Canopy more tung oil, pig's blood, black powder decoction into "black oil", coated in the canopy on the outside, to prevent rain leakage, which is the canopy, with this canopy is the canopy boat, including foot rowing boats, port boats, opera boats, etc., if the light cooked tung oil coated in the canopy, the color is "bamboo scorn yellow ", compared with the black crow's feet, is the white boat, such as night boats, sandalwood boats, night port boats, etc. are mostly white. According to evidence, the white-topped boat is mostly sailing at night, in the black paint on the water, easy to identify, conducive to safe driving. Such as sandalwood ship, mostly night sailing in the Gulf when the wind is high, loaded with dozens of tons of goods, riding the tide and the wind, can only use the white canopy is easy to be across the ship to see. Night sailing ship, night port ship with a white canopy of the reason is also here.

Shaoxing port boat, in the old days is the main means of transportation, in order to people for the purpose. Therefore, not only along the way through the "passenger port" as a matter of course, docking, hitchhiking, that is, the deserted Fanfan, field, bridge, shore, at any time, there are guests greetings, but also at any time to stop hitchhiking. Therefore, the general sailing is slow, coupled with the cabin is not big, sitting guests and the same in the left and right two benches, so it is a good occasion to talk about the world. If you run into one or two talkative people who have traveled all over the world, it will be more full of laughter. Some boat mind (boatman), such as Lu Xun "storm" in the seven jin, will also be rocking the boat while talking about the urban and rural anecdotes heard. What a certain village a store king married daughter, dowry hair twenty-four big ship, what a certain village a family grandfather "picking ash", son and daughter-in-law to fight the divorce and so on. Night boat is a long-distance transportation ship sailing at night, because of the passenger and cargo transportation, the guests have to sleep at night, so it is always a six-cabin white-topped ship. The cabin has a full set of boards, male guests sleep in the front, center cabin, female guests sleep in the back cabin, all bunks. The shipowner rents out bedding and mats. Night boat generally hangs a boat light on the mast, the light is written on the book "Xixing - Shaoxing night flight" and other words. Boatmen in addition to sculling, playing the Penny, where there is a fiber road are acting as a fiber back, Shaoxing night boat at its peak there are more than a dozen routes east and west, such as the western line of Shaoxing to Xiaoshan, Xixing, Wen Jiayan, Kanshan, Tangtou (Gua Li), Linpu, Yiqiao, the eastern line to Baiguan, Cao'e, Dongguan, Tangpu, Whistle gold and so on, are off the boat in the evening, the daybreak to reach their destinations. Because of the night boat capacity, long time, and in the evening, the guests talk about the world more will have sufficient conditions. All sorts of social anecdotes, officialdom and even court secrets, strange and absurd legends can be exchanged in the night boat, the Ming Dynasty Zhang Dai's 〈Night Boat〉, which originated from this to determine the name of the book.