The top ten specialties you can take with you in Zhejiang are Chaoshan plums, Ding Sheng cake, Lin'an pecans, Xiaoshan dried radish, Xue Shui Yun green tea, Xihu silk umbrellas, Jingshan tea, Xihu lotus root powder, Xihu Longjing, and Hangzhou silk.
1, Chaoshan plum
Chaoshan plum is a specialty of Yuhang. There are also rare ancient plums such as Tang Plum and Song Plum. Plum flowers solitary or two single Qiqi out, the first leaves open, white or light red, with a clear fragrance. The drupe is spherical and green in color. In addition to fresh food, it can also be made into plum, Chenpi plum and jam, etc., which are exported to Southeast Asian countries, Hong Kong and Macao.
2, Ding Sheng cake
Ding Sheng cake is a traditional pastry in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, belonging to Jiangsu and Zhejiang pastry; its color is light red, fluffy and glutinous, with sweet bean paste flavor. Legend has it that it was made by the people of Suzhou during the Southern Song Dynasty to inspire the soldiers of Han Shizhong's Hanjia Army to go to war, with the word "Ding Sheng" on the cake, and then it was called "Ding Sheng Cake".
3, Lin'an hickory
Lin'an hickory is known at home and abroad for its excellent quality of round, thin shells, full kernels, crispy and delicious. China's pecans are mainly produced in the junction of Zhejiang and Anhui Changhua mountainous area. Anhui Ningguo, Lin'an is the main origin of Chinese hickory, hickory cultivation and utilization has a history of more than 500 years.
4, Xiaoshan dried radish
Xiaoshan dried radish is the outstanding representative of Jiangnan sauce pickling technology. It is made by dehydrating radish through traditional technique for 300 days. Its flavor is fragrant and crisp.
5, Xueshuiyun green tea
Xueshuiyun green tea is produced in Tonglu County, Zhejiang Province, the new Hopewell Township of Paradise Peak, Xueshuiyun, is a green tea. The territory of heaven peak, snowy mountain peaks along the mountain peaks, the main peak of dragon saliva top, the tip of the mountain, the altitude of 900 meters above sea level, so the tea has the metaphor of the deep mountains.
6, West Lake silk umbrellas
West Lake silk umbrellas, known as the West Lake bamboo silk umbrellas, Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, the unique characteristics of the traditional handicrafts, one of the West Lake specialties. Founded in the early 1930s. Shape dexterity, bright colors, both can be shielded from the sun, but also as a decorative object, with practicality and art in one, it is known as the flower of the West Lake of the beauty of the name.
7, Jingshan tea
Jingshan tea, Hangzhou City, Zhejiang Province, Yuhang District specialty, China's national geographic indications products. Jingshan tea leaves are tender in appearance, green and green in color, with clear aroma, tender green and bright soup color, and tender and fresh taste.
8, West Lake Lotus Root Vermicelli
West Lake Lotus Root Vermicelli is a famous specialty of Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province. Its unique flavor, rich in nutrients, in the old days is to provide tribute powder for the royal family. Lotus root is the stem of lotus flower under the ground, and the lotus root powder made by special processing is in the form of thin slice with fine and smooth texture.
9, West Lake Longjing
West Lake Longjing is one of China's top ten famous tea, is a green tea, which is produced in Hangzhou City, Zhejiang Province, West Lake Longjing village in the mountains around, and so named, with a history of more than 1200 years. When Qianlong visited the West Lake in Hangzhou, he praised the West Lake Longjing tea and made the eighteen tea trees in front of the Hu Gong Temple under the Shifeng Mountain the imperial tea.
10, Hangzhou silk
Hangzhou silk, light and soft, beautiful colors, in China's traditional silk weaving industry occupies an important position. Four thousand seven hundred years ago, Liangzhu excavated silk fabrics have revealed the long history of Hangzhou silk.