Guangdong specialty products TOP Guangdong specialty products include black tea, the four famous fruits "banana, sugar cane, lychee, and pineapple", Cantonese embroidery, ivory carvings, Duan inkstones, ceramics, etc.

China is the hometown of lychees. As early as more than 2,000 years ago, there were records of lychee cultivation.

Today, there are still wild lychee forests in Hainan Island, which is clear evidence of its origin in China.

Since ancient times, lychee has been listed as a precious fruit and is known as the "King of Fruits".

In the Tang Dynasty (618-907), lychees were used as royal tribute.

Du Mu, a poet of the Tang Dynasty, wrote a poem: "Looking around Chang'an, there are piles of embroidery. Thousands of gates are opened on the top of the mountain. A red concubine rides on a horse and laughs. No one knows that it is lychees." It was written by Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty in order to make Yang Guifei eat fresh food.

Litchi is transported by Pegasus every year from thousands of miles away to Chang'an, resulting in the death of many people and horses.

It not only explains the value of lychees, but also reveals the luxurious life of feudal emperors.

China's lychees are mainly distributed in Guangdong, Guangxi, Fujian, Sichuan, Taiwan and other places in the south.

These areas are in the subtropics, with a warm and humid climate, and the soil is mostly alluvial soil and sandy loess, which is most suitable for the growth of lychees.

Especially in Guangdong, the cultivation area accounts for 70% of the country's total.

At present, there are more than 300 varieties of lychees in the world, and Guangdong Province in China has more than 170 varieties.

The lychee tree is an evergreen tree that grows slowly and has a large crown.

It usually blooms and bears fruit in early April and matures in June.

It takes about 10 years for a small tree to grow and bear fruit, and the fruiting period is about 30 years.

Lychee trees can be thousands of years old.

There is a "Song Jiaxiang" lychee tree in the Song Ancestral Hall in Putian County, Fujian. It is more than 1,300 years old and still blooms and bears fruit every year, showing a sense of vitality.

A large lychee tree can bear more than 1,000 kilograms of fruit every year, and even more can reach 3,000 kilograms.

The lychee skin has a scaly shape and is about 3 to 4 centimeters in diameter.

The skin is red and the flesh is white, and the flesh is like fat and translucent.

The most important thing about eating lychees is their freshness. The pulp is plump and juicy, melts in your mouth, and is sweet and refreshing.

In order to keep the "freshness", people deliberately bring some branches and leaves when picking lychees. Lychees without branches and leaves are called "liche", and their color and fragrance are slightly inferior.

In addition to being eaten fresh, lychees can also be dried into dried lychees, or canned and shipped for sale at home and abroad.

Because lychees contain a large amount of glucose, sucrose, vitamins, proteins, etc., they have certain curative effects on anemia, heart palpitations, insomnia, asthma, hernia pain and other diseases.

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----------------------------------Meizhou Specialty Top Gaopi Town, Dabu County, is famous for its high-quality ceramics and is known as "

The beauty of "White Jade City" has an annual output of more than 100 million pieces of various kinds of fine art porcelain, with more than a thousand designs and colors.

Traditional products include blue and white, green glaze, multicolored, thin-bodied porcelain, etc., which are sold well in more than 70 countries and regions.

Dried plum vegetables are a traditional dish of the Hakka people. They are grown in designated mountain villages with an elegant environment. They use fresh and tender vegetables as the main raw materials and are refined with traditional techniques.

It can be used as plum and vegetable braised pork, plum and vegetable steamed pork ribs, plum and vegetable soup and other meat condiments.

Pingyuan dried plum vegetables have long been famous, and their products sell well at home and abroad.

Colored three-dimensional wood carvings are traditional products of Xingning City Craft Factory. The colorful three-dimensional wood carving crafts such as "Golden Eagle", "Horned Eagle", "Peacock" and "Swan" have won the Bronze Award for Excellent Products from the Ministry of Light Industry.

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----------------------------------Guangzhou specialty TOP longan is a specialty fruit in Guangzhou and other regions.

The longan fruit has an orange-yellow round shape. Although the flesh is thinner than that of lychee, it is crystal clear and white. The juice is full and sweet as honey.

The shelled longan fruit is roasted and processed into dried longan, which is easy to store.

Dried longan (commonly known as longan meat) is a valuable tonic that appetizes, strengthens the spleen, and replenishes deficiency and improves intelligence.

The longan tree is a perennial evergreen tree with a very long lifespan and can continue to bear fruit for more than a hundred years.

Guangzhou colored porcelain is made by painting and gold tracing on various white porcelains, and then firing them at low temperature (700℃-800℃).

This kind of handicraft is exquisitely painted and elegant.

Because it was produced in Guangzhou, it was named "Guangcai".

Guangcai was sold abroad as early as the Kangxi period of the Qing Dynasty (1662-1723).

It inherits the traditional techniques of colored porcelain and other arts and crafts from the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644), and absorbs some Western painting techniques, gradually forming its own unique style with strong oriental artistic characteristics.

Colored porcelain patterns are mostly based on Chinese folk stories, classics, historical sites and modern life, and generally include characters, animals, flowers and birds, fish and insects, landscapes and pavilions.

The varieties include plates, bowls, coffee sets, tea sets, tableware and other daily necessities of various sizes as well as handicrafts such as vases.

Guangzhou Snake Feast is a flavor of Guangzhou. As early as more than 2,000 years ago, ancient Chinese people understood the principle of using snake medicine to treat diseases.

In the Tang Dynasty (618-907), venomous snakes were used to treat madness, and snake medicine could also be used to remove rheumatism, resolve phlegm and relieve cough, strengthen the stomach and relieve vomiting, etc.

Li Shizhen of the Ming Dynasty also praised the deliciousness of snake meat in his "Compendium of Materia Medica", which shows that the meat of venomous snakes is not poisonous.

There are several snake restaurants in Guangzhou, among which "Snake King Man" is the most famous.

The earliest owner of this snake restaurant was Wu Man.