Hengshui has its own series of famous and excellent specialty products and brands, including Shenzhou Peach, Fucheng Pear, Wuyi Golden Jujubes, Anping Silk Mesh, Zaoqiang Fur, Laobaikan series of white wines, and the Jipai Inner Painting Snuff Bottles, Houdian Brushes, and Palace Gold Fish, which are renowned both at home and abroad and are represented by the master of crafts and arts Wang Xisan.
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Wuqiang Nianhua
Hebei New Year's Paintings are mainly concentrated in Wuqiang, Handan, Da Ming and Ninghe. Among them, Hengshui Wuqiang New Year Painting is the most representative, which is the best folk New Year Painting in China. It began in the Yuan Dynasty and flourished in the Qing Dynasty. It is characterized by large scale, high production and wide dissemination. Marketing more than a dozen provinces, municipalities and autonomous regions, mainly used to decorate the New Year festivals, festive atmosphere.
Hengshui brushes
Hengshui has been producing brushes since ancient times, and is known as the holy land of brushes. Its main production area, Houdian Brigade, is known to the world as the hometown of northern brushes.
Hengshui brushes are beautifully made and of high quality. Its nibs are made of carefully selected animal hairs with strong elasticity and toughness, such as yellow wolf tail, fragrant raccoon tail, and Nanshan hair. Therefore, the nib is characterized by toughness, flexibility, high ink content and durability. The pens are mostly made of Luohan bamboo, Fengzhu bamboo, Cephalotaxus bamboo, white-faced bamboo, purple bamboo, zebu bamboo, and precious mahogany wood in South China. The mouth and cap are mostly made of teeth, bones, horns, bamboo and wood carvings, assembled by inlay and marquetry techniques, which are very delicate and unique.
Hengshui brushes are rich in varieties and are loaded with exquisite sulfur. Only after the store brushes factory of the brigade created more than 170 new varieties of wind and clouds, water and moon, ancient jade, Haojian, snow swallows, larks, Miao Wen and so on. Some of them are carved in relief with a single dragon rod, two dragons playing with beads and a dragon playing with a phoenix, while others are carved with figures such as Mu Commander, Cowherd and Rhinoceros Head. Some of them are carved with famous poems that add magnificence to the literati.
Shenzhou Peach
The Zhou-Shen peach was once a tribute to emperors and harem concubines, and is the top fresh peach in China. Huge in size (about half a catty each), the fruit is beautifully shaped and brightly colored, with thin skin and fine flesh, and juice as sweet as honey. Bite like a bag of manna, refreshing, loved by consumers at home and abroad. Deep peach has red honey, white honey, nine treasure and so on more than a dozen varieties, including red honey, white honey is the best. The red peach, also known as the chief peach, is the real chief peach.
Hengshui Laobaijian
Hengshui Laobaijian is one of Hebei's famous local liquors, ranking first among the province's clear liquor. Hengshui Laobai Gan has enjoyed a good reputation since ancient times. In the Ming Dynasty, Hengshui liquor had the reputation of "three drunkenness with a partition wall" and "opening the altar with a hundred miles of fragrance". It is said that when the Hengshui wooden bridge was built during the Jiaqing period of the Ming Dynasty, there was a very famous Deyuan Yong Hotel in the city. The people who built the bridge often gathered here to drink, and after drinking, they all praised it, saying, "It's so clean and dry!" It was later named Lao Bai Gan. By old, I mean a long history; by white, I mean the clear quality of the wine; and by dry, I mean the high alcohol content, up to 67 degrees. It smells good, tastes sweet, and has an aftertaste after drinking.In 1934, it took part in the Panama Exposition, in 1948 it was exhibited in Hungary, and in 1952, it was sent to North Korea as one of the famous specialties of the motherland as a consolation gift.
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