Chongqing is one of the four municipalities of the People's Republic of China*** and the State of China, located in southwest China. Abbreviated as Ba and Yu, also known as Bayu, Mountain City, Yudu, Qiaodu, Misty City, is a municipality directly under the central government of the People's Republic of China*** and the State, a national central city, a mega-city, the world's capital of hot springs, the upper reaches of the Yangtze River regional economic center, financial center, and innovation centers, political, cultural, scientific and technological, educational and artistic centers, and the State Council's positioning of the international metropolis. Comprehensive transportation hub of water, land and air type in central and western China.?
Features: The biggest feature of Chongqing cuisine is spicy and numbing, focusing on the numbness, which is also all attributed to the peppercorns. The overall taste is heavy (heavy oil, heavy spicy), spicy food is basically unavoidable.
Customs: The folk customs formed by Chongqing people over the centuries, such as paying homage to the New Year in Spring Festival, observing lanterns on the 15th day of the 15th month, paying homage to ancestors in Ching Ming Festival, enjoying the moon in Mid-Autumn Festival, as well as hanging wine fronts, catching up with temples, sitting on sedan chairs, flying kites, etc., are more or less the same as those of other regions in China. But since Chongqing has five Tujia and Miao autonomous counties, both warm and traditional ethnic groups have their own unique folk festivals.
Chongqing is known as "Yu" for short because of the ancient name of the Jialing River. In the first year of Chongning of the Northern Song Dynasty (1102), Chongqing was changed to Gongzhou. Southern Song Chunxi 16 years (1189 years) in the first month, Xiaozong's son Zhao Dun was first sealed King Gong, February that the throne for the Song Guangzong Emperor, known as the "Double Happiness", so the rise of Gongzhou Chongqing Province, Chongqing, and thus the name.