Dalian specialty

Shell carving artware

Dalian is surrounded by mountains and seas and has a pleasant climate. Excellent shell carving is indispensable. You can buy a few exquisite and beautiful handicrafts made of ordinary scallops and conchs and put them on the table as decorations or gifts for friends and relatives when you go home. You can also buy shell carvings carefully crafted with rare and precious shells as your home collection, depending on your preference. There are many kinds of shell carvings in Dalian, which are dazzling. There are precious large-scale shell carvings with unique ingenuity, and there are also several small ornaments worn together by exquisite shells, but no matter how big or small, each shell carving has a taste.

red cherry

Hongguang cherry is a new cherry variety with early maturity and big fruit, which was bred by Dalian Academy of Agricultural Sciences in 1960s with the world-famous middle-late maturing variety "Nanong" and "Topaz" with good flavor and quality. It fills the blank of cherry breeding in China and reaches the international advanced level in early maturity and fruiting.

Fenghuangtao

Phoenix peach is a new variety of yellow peach, which is suitable for processing into irrigation products. The natural hybrid seedlings of "Zaoshengjin" were bred by Dalian Academy of Agricultural Sciences in 1960s. After years of cultivation and breeding. Excellent agronomic characters, strong fragrance and excellent quality, which surpass the famous brand products of "Dimen" in the United States and "Wu Can" in Japan, and have the advanced level of similar canned yellow peaches in the world.

Bone chicken

Bone chicken, egg and meat dual-purpose local fine breed chicken. Made in zhuanghe city. It is formed by breeding on the basis of hybridization between Shandong Shouguang chicken and Zhuanghe native chicken. It has the characteristics of big body, big egg, fragrant meat and strong adaptability. The average number of eggs laid each year is 160.5, and the weight of eggs is 63.7 grams, that of roosters is 3.0 kilograms, and that of hens is 2.4 kilograms. There are 1 more than ten thousand big bone chickens in the city.

a kind of sea cucumber

Stichopus japonicus, a kind of sea cucumber. Dalian is the main producing area of Stichopus japonicus in China. Because of its high nutritional value, it is a specialty for entertaining Chinese and foreign VIPs. Mainly distributed in the Yellow Sea and Bohai Sea. As a precious seafood, sea cucumber is listed as one of the "Eight Treasures". "Compendium of Materia Medica" records: "The sea cucumber produced in Liaodong is black and brown in color and tender and prickly in meat, which is called Liaoshen or Sea Cucumber. Its quality is excellent, its medicinal properties are sweet and non-toxic. It has the effects of tonifying kidney yin, promoting blood circulation and dredging veins, and treating dysentery and ulcers. " Because its medicinal properties are warm and tonic, it is rich in enemy ginseng, so it is named sea cucumber.

Purple sea urchin

Purple sea urchin, commonly known as stinging pot. Dalian is the main producing area of purple sea urchin in China, and its output accounts for more than 95% of the national similar output. Its body is spherical, 6-8 cm in diameter and 3-5 cm in height. Large spines are hard and sharp, with dark purple spines, and live in rocks, algae clusters or cracks in low tide areas. The gonad of purple sea urchin is rich in nutrition, which not only has high economic value, but also has medicinal value. It is an effective drug for preventing cardiovascular diseases and other diseases. Bonin can be extracted from it and has the effect of inhibiting the growth of cancer cells.

abalone

Dalian is the main producing area of Haliotis discus hannai in China. Haliotis discus hannai is commonly known as Haliotis diversicolor and abalone. It is a high-quality variety in the Bauhinia family and is known as the crown of seafood. The abalone resources in Dalian account for more than 70% of the country. Haliotis discus hannai is a benthic animal, which likes to live in the rocky reef zone with high water transparency and rich nutrition at the bottom. It has the characteristics of staying during the day and coming out at night. The staple food is brown algae and green algae. Its nutritional value is very high. Meat is a famous delicacy and its shell is called concha Haliotidis. Traditional Chinese medicine can clear away heat and improve eyesight. Dalian is the earliest area in China to develop artificial abalone breeding and production.