Yongcheng tourist attractions include Mangdang Mountain Tourist Area, Taiqiu Ecological Folk Culture Tourist Area, Shizhuang Culture and Art Village, and Riyue Lake Scenic Area.
Mangdangshan Tourist Area is located in Mangshan Town. It is a national 5A-level tourist attraction integrating landscape sightseeing, cultural appreciation, and ecological leisure.
The scenic area has obvious location advantages. Lianhuo Expressway and Jiqi Expressway pass through the area, and the Zhengzhou-Xu High-speed Railway Yongcheng North Station is only 3.5 kilometers away from the scenic area.
Taiqiu Ecological Folk Culture Tourism Scenic Area is located in Taiqiu Town and is a national 3A-level tourist attraction.
Taiqiu has a long history and splendid culture.
During the reign of Emperor Huan of the Han Dynasty, Chen Shi, the chief of Taiqiu, was an honest official. He transformed the people with virtue, practiced benevolent government, and managed the county well, and was praised by both the government and the public.
He was Wen Yuan and Fan Yi, who was admired by the world. He was known as "a generation of honest officials" and "a star of thousands of virtues", and was honored as "Chen Taiqiu".
People are named after places, and places are named after people, which has been passed down through the ages.
Yongcheng food recommendation is Xuehu beef fried buns, one of Yongcheng’s specialties and one of the most popular breakfast noodles in Yongcheng.
Xuehu beef fried buns are made with special refined flour, pure sesame oil, yellow beef, sweet potato vermicelli, four-season green vegetables, and eighteen Chinese medicinal materials to prepare the filling, and are fried in a steel pan. The filling is exposed at the top, thick on the top, and crispy on the bottom
Tender, delicious, and pleasantly fragrant.
Xuehu bean porridge is made from high-quality millet and soybeans, which are soaked in boiling water and then ground into a pulp with a small rotary grinder. The juice is then filtered several times and poured into an earth pot, and is simmered over slow fire with chopped wood.
The local water in Xue Lake is sweet and refreshing. The cooked bean porridge does not hang on the bowl or drains. When the lid is opened after cooking, the aroma fills the house.
After the bean porridge is cooked, it is served in a special earthenware jar. It is known as "thick but not sticky, full but not overflowing, sweet and delicious, warms the stomach and strengthens the kidneys". Local people enjoy drinking bean porridge.