Although Enshi is located between Chongqing and Wuhan and has a large number of melting pots, its climate is also diverse because of its complex terrain, mountains and valleys. There are countless tourists visiting Enshi every year, but do you know the best time to travel in Enshi? Is there anything delicious in Enshi? Come and have a look with Bian Xiao.

the best travel time in Enshi

April and May are the best tourist seasons in Enshi. Enshi Tujia and Miao Autonomous Prefecture has a monsoon mountain climate, with no heat in summer, cold and little fog in winter and abundant rainfall. Due to the complex terrain and great difference in altitude, the average altitude in Enshi Prefecture is about 1 meters, with the highest being more than 3 meters and the lowest being more than 6 meters. There is a saying among the people that "a low mountain is called a valley, and a high mountain surrounds the furnace", and "a hundred miles is different from the sky, and a hundred miles is different from the customs". The temperature decreases with the elevation, with the lowest in January and the highest in July.

tourist attractions in Enshi

Enshi Grand Canyon is located in Tunbao Township and Banqiao, Enshi City. It is a section of Qingjiang Grand Canyon, with a total length of 18 kilometers. Among them, Baili Cliff, Zhang Qian Waterfall, Aoxiao Mountain, Primitive Forest, Ancient Village and other beautiful scenery, as well as Okawabe, Dalongmen, Yunlong Waterfall, Qianshan Cliff, Mazhai Cliff, Chaoyangyan Tunnel, Cheba Reservoir and Luozhentian. Apart from river canyons, the biggest landscape feature is the typical and rich karst landforms on both sides of the Taiwan Strait: sinkholes, ground fissures, natural bridges, caves (more than 2), layers of peaks and cliffs overlooking the canyons. Professor Zhang, who has traveled to Europe and America, compared Qingjiang Grand Canyon with Colorado Grand Canyon in the United States. He said that the Colorado Grand Canyon and Qingjiang Grand Canyon are as spectacular as others. The middle section of Qingjiang River in 8 Li, from Enshi Tunpu to the Grand Canyon of the shogunate, is famous for its precipitous cliffs and dangerous peaks.

Enshi Transportation

Shitujia Miao Autonomous Prefecture is located in the southwest of Hubei Province, China, with convenient transportation. Enshi has its own civil airport, and tourists can fly to Enshi. The railway in Enshi has also been opened, and you can take trains from all over the country. But the most convenient way to Enshi is to take a long-distance bus, mostly from Wuhan, Chongqing and Yichang. Conditional tourists can also visit go on road trip.

airport: there is a civil airport in Enshi, which is 4.5 kilometers away from the urban area of Enshi. There are more than 2 flights to and from Wuhan, Yichang and Chongqing every week.

there are two flights from Enshi to Wuhan every day, and flights from Enshi to Guangzhou, Beijing, Haikou and Shanghai have been opened (with stopovers in Wuhan).

Enshi cuisine

Zhang Jie Zha

In Enshi, there are many ways to eat mixed slag, and Zhang Guan mixed slag is a typical hot pot with mixed slag. In fact, it contains some basic materials such as bean dregs, peanut dregs and minced meat, plus raw materials such as pork, beef or mutton to form various flavors. The nutritional collocation of compound slag is also very scientific. Protein in soybean is matched with vitamins and inorganic salts in radish vegetables to achieve the effect of reasonable diet.

production method: after the soybeans are washed and swelled with water, they are ground with water in a stone mill, boiled with strong fire, and then cut fresh radish leaves are added and boiled to make a pot of milky white and green residue.

Jia bacon

Tujia bacon is the main course that Tujia people usually put on the table to entertain guests. Good bacon should be kept in a ventilated place and can be kept for two to three years without deterioration. It is called "Bacon", also known as "Tujia Bacon" and "Enshi Bacon". Domestic bacon is brownish yellow in color, compact in meat quality, rich in aroma and unique in flavor. When eating, take the meat, scorch the skin on the fire, soak the skin in warm water, scrape and wash it for later use.

Production method:

1. Divide the pork into three to five Jin (or larger) pieces, which is convenient for seasoning, processing and storage;

2. Stir-fry the salt until it is yellow, add the pepper, stir-fry until fragrant, and take it out of the pot;

3. evenly spread the meat with warm salt, put it into the pot, with the bottom skin facing down and the top skin facing up, and arrange it neatly, and turn it over every 3~5 days. After 1 days, drain the water and hang it in the smoking room;

4. Smoke and bake with pine and cypress branches, walnut shells, peanut shells, orange peels and other firewood materials, and the meat will turn brownish red after one month.

Kang potato

Kang is an Enshi dialect, a cooking method other than frying and stewing, and a cooking method between frying and frying, with a small amount of edible oil. "Potato" is potato. As the saying goes, "potatoes on high mountains are potatoes on low mountains." That is to say, the potatoes on the mountain taste good, and the potatoes produced on the mountain in western Hubei are very popular with diners. After potatoes are cooked, they feel oily in your mouth and have a sweet feeling of baking.

Production method:

1. Peel potatoes, cut them into small pieces and boil them in water. Or put the potato pieces directly into the pot, stir-fry them in oil with slow fire, and add water when the potatoes are cooked.

2. add oil to the pot and simmer slowly until the potatoes are cooked.

3. Add the required ingredients, such as salt, minced garlic, cumin, black pepper, chopped green onion, sour radish, etc. And stir evenly.

Poplar bean curd

Poplar bean curd is mainly made of local high-quality soybeans, Longdongwan spring water and various natural spices, and is processed through more than ten unique processes, such as washing, soaking, grinding, filtering, pulping, boiling, smearing, pressing, roasting, marinating and sealing.

Zanguangjiao

It is made of local red pepper and corn flour (corn flour) in Enshi. Tujia people especially like to eat sour and spicy food. There is a folk saying that "if you don't eat sour and spicy food for three days, your heart will be scratched by a cat". Zanthoxylum bungeanum was invented under this background, and it has a long history in Enshi. Generally, after baking in the pot, Tujia bacon is fried or steamed as the bottom material of the buckle bowl. There are also steamed meat, the bottom material of braised meat, accompanying materials, and even corn paste made of it and corn flour, called "pepper paste".

production method:

wash red pepper, drain water, chop it into fine powder with a straw cutter, add salt and mix well, then add corn flour and mix well (some of them are mixed with spices such as pepper and orange peel). Put it in a clean jar, cover it with vegetable leaves, tie it firmly with bamboo slices, then pour it upside down in a basin and add water (called ascites).