Most people may be unfamiliar with the name Xuancheng, but if you ask me, you already know Xuancheng. "I can never get tired of caring for each other, only Jingting Mountain" and "Peach Blossom Lake is deeper than thousands of feet, not as good as Wang Lun". Both Jingting Mountain and Taohuatan mentioned in these two poems memorized by heart since childhood are in Xuancheng.
Friends who have studied calligraphy should be more familiar with Xuancheng, because Xu Anbi and Jingxian, the birthplace of Xuan paper, and Jixi, the birthplace of Huimo, belong to Xuancheng, which is the "hometown of Four Treasures of the Study, China".
For outdoor enthusiasts, the ancient road between Huizhou and Hangzhou (from Yuchuan Village, Jixi County, Xuancheng City, Anhui Province in the west to Zhejitian Village, Lin 'an City, Zhejiang Province in the east) is certainly not strange. This ancient road, which is as famous as the Silk Road and the Tea-Horse Road, is a commercial road for Huizhou people to traffic salt, tea and mountain products for generations. Now it is also one of the "China 10 hiking routes".
In addition, there are many celebrities in Xuancheng, such as Hu Xueyan, a representative of Huizhou merchants, Mei Wending, the "first person in calendar calculation" in Qing Dynasty, and Hu Shi, a modern thinker in China ... all of them are from Xuancheng. This may also be because Xuancheng has always attached importance to learning and is the place with the largest number of academies in Anhui.
Therefore, Xuancheng is worth a visit, whether for natural scenery or Huizhou culture. Of course, I am also very concerned about whether a city is delicious or not. Fortunately, Xuancheng didn't let me down. Anhui cuisine, pasta and various snacks will definitely convince you.
I saw that it only takes 50 minutes to take the high-speed train from Hangzhou to Xuancheng, and it takes two hours to drive, which is more suitable for weekends. Not much to say, come with me to Xuancheng to see the beautiful scenery and find food!
Shuttle between ancient towns and mountains and rivers
Chaji ancient town
To be honest, I am a person who is not very interested in ancient towns, because I always feel that ancient towns all over the world seem to be converging, and wholesale specialties are sold in similar buildings, but Chaji ancient town is an exception. There are 80 buildings in Ming dynasty and 109 buildings in Qing dynasty, which is the largest existing ancient village in Ming and Qing dynasties in China.
The business atmosphere of Chaji ancient town is very weak, but it is more of a living atmosphere. The quaint village is built along the stream, and people live their own lives. In the morning, maybe you can see many old people washing clothes by the stream. Because of the beautiful scenery, many art lovers come here to sketch every year.
Jingting mountain
"Never tire of seeing each other, only Jingting Mountain" refers to this place. Li Bai, a great poet, has been to this "Jiangnan Poetry Mountain" seven times.
Jingting Mountain is actually not high. Even if you climb slowly, it only takes an hour or two. But the scenery here is particularly beautiful, with tea gardens and bamboo forests all over the mountain.
When you climb to the top of the mountain, you will find that there are no obstacles in front of you, and you can see the downtown area of Xuancheng at a glance. And this is especially suitable for watching sunrise and sunset. If you want to see it, remember to choose the right time.
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Taohuatan is actually not a "pond", but a section of Qingge River. If I come here, I think I can choose to go rafting. If you encounter morning fog, the fog fills the air, people are on a bamboo raft, and the mountains on both sides are like ink paintings. "thousands of feet is full of smoke, peach blossoms are like rain, willows are like cotton", as if in a poem.
Moreover, Taohua Town, where Taohuatan is located, still retains more than 700 ancient buildings. It is pleasant to walk in such a real and vivid ancient population in southern Anhui.
Longchuan scenic spot
If you come to Longchuan, you mainly see ancient villages and rape blossoms. As soon as spring comes, the rape flowers in the farmland in the south of the village will be in full bloom, and they will be integrated with the ancient village, so any shot will be very nice.
Although the ancient village is not big, the scenic spots inside are very famous. For example, Yi Shi Shangshufang is an authentic stone carving archway in Ming Dynasty, which is considered to be the best stone carving in Huizhou.
Hu's ancestral hall was built in Jiajing period of Ming Dynasty, and it is the first ancestral temple in the south of the Yangtze River. The wood carvings in the ancestral hall are very beautiful. In addition to wood carving, there are stone carving and brick carving. The details of this Huizhou architecture are worth seeing for half a day.
China Xuanzhi Cultural Park
If you want to know the mystery of rice paper, you might as well come here. The three-foot-three-giant propaganda workshop here once produced "three-foot-three-giant" giant rice paper, which is the largest handmade rice paper in the world. In China Xuan Paper Museum, you can learn about the history and technology of Xuan paper.
The strongest experience in the cultural park is the Xuan paper craft experience park, where you can see the production process of Xuan paper, from pulping to papermaking, which is operated according to the traditional technological process. Of course, you can also experience the process of copying paper yourself. It's a great sense of accomplishment to have a piece of rice paper made by yourself.
Hu Kaiwen molybdenum factory
Hu Kaiwen, a master of ink making in Qing Dynasty, is known as a golden signboard in the history of ink making in China. In the workshop of the ink factory, you can see a series of complicated processes such as cigarette refining, blending, pestle stamping, ink making, molding, ink drying, edge filing, water washing and gold tracing.
It is this tedious handmade skill that preserves the tradition, and time seems to have stopped here. You can also personally experience the patterns on the engraved inkstone and feel the charm of Huizhou ink.
Why do Anhui dishes and snacks smell so good?
Smelly mandarin fish
I remember when I was at school in Hefei, every time I went to a restaurant, adults would order a stinky mandarin fish. At that time, I had no idea about Anhui cuisine, except that the fish was smelly, but it was really delicious!
Later, I learned that the stinky mandarin fish was actually developed by Jixi people who are good at "eating stinky" in Xuancheng, and the steps to do it are much more complicated than expected. Fresh mandarin fish need to be pickled for a week. When the fish stinks, it will be slightly fried in the oil pan. Usually add pork slices, bamboo shoots and simmer until the soup is thick.
Delicious snakehead fish not only has a firm and elastic taste, but also has a fresh flavor beyond the fish itself. Friends who eat for the first time, believe me, as long as you cross the threshold of your heart, the smelly fish will become really fragrant, and you can eat an extra bowl of rice with the soup of the smelly fish.
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Si Wan's home-cooked food restaurant has an ordinary environment, but its taste is online. Xuancheng locals often go to eat.
The snakehead fish in Grandma Lou's Huizhou farm food is delicious, and the weight of the food is also sufficient. If there are few people, ordering food will be embarrassing. It is best for four or five people to eat together.
Hushi yipin Guo
Hu Shi's Yipin Pot is simply a hodgepodge. There must be a layer of chicken, a layer of duck, a layer of meat and a layer of oily tofu, radish and vegetables below, and some eggs, jiaozi and stew, so that the taste of each layer of ingredients will gradually sink, and finally all the ingredients will be intertwined and merged into a pot.
As a "spokesperson", Hu Shi often used this dish to entertain friends, even during his tenure as an ambassador. If you come to Xuancheng, you must try this kind of "Anhui version of Luzhou-flavor hot pot".
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The atmosphere and service of Jiangnan yard store are very good, just like going home for dinner, it is a real restaurant.
If you want to eat Anhui cuisine in the restaurant of China Anhui Cuisine Cultural Exchange Center, you can punch in directly. There is also a Huizhou cuisine chef school next to the store.
Shui yang San Bao
Shuiyang Sanbao refers to Shuiyang qianzi, Duck Foot Bag and Duck Wings. I wonder which chef's brain hole it is. I stewed these three things together and made a pot. At first glance, it seems a bit like Tongxiang pot.
Qianzi and duck wings are very common, but duck feet bag is amazing. Every salted duck's feet must be wrapped with duck heart in the middle and duck intestines in the outside. After some stewing, sticky duck feet, tight duck hearts and crispy duck intestines can be eaten in one bite, and the more you chew, the more fragrant it is.
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See also the smoke kitchen near Jingting Mountain. The environment in the shop is very good, the food is stable, and it is not easy to step on the thunder.
Spicy vermicelli
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Foreigners will be a little confused when they first see spicy fans. Isn't this casserole rice? How delicious can it be? In fact, the key to Xuancheng spicy fans lies in the secret soup base of each family. Boil all kinds of vegetables in a casserole with a secret soup base for a certain period of time, and then add vermicelli to stew for a while, so that vermicelli can cook and absorb the soup. It's really delicious!
If you want to eat spicy vermicelli, Orchid qianzi must also order one. Qianzi is a delicious orchid. Soak it in soup, gently bite it into your mouth with your teeth, and even stir up juice!
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If you ask Xuancheng fans where to eat, they will probably recommend you to the Broadcasting Institute. The spicy vermicelli shop there can be said to be a fairy fight, and even the name of the shop is very interesting.
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A Qing's family has been making spicy strips for more than 90 years, and many Xuancheng people have grown from snacks to big ones.
Old Impression Fan's reputation shop, near the radio and television compound, heard that the boss has a bad temper.
Tian Koufu's spicy fans are the bearers of Xuancheng Spicy Fan Shop. The environment in the shop is very clean and the taste will be salty.
205 darou noodles
Friends who hear 205 faces for the first time may be a little confused. What does this 205 mean? In fact, it is precisely because there used to be a noodle restaurant in Dangtu section of National Highway 205, and its customers were mainly sports car drivers on the road, so the reputation of 205 Meat Noodles spread in southern Anhui.
A bowl of authentic pork noodles, the pork belly inside should be marinated first and then braised, and the heat must be controlled to ensure that it tastes like rotten. You said that such a piece of pork belly is not fragrant when used directly as topping!
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Master Ding's 205 old noodle restaurant has a good business, and there are long queues when it comes to meals. Its pork belly noodles and orchid qianzi are standard.
Dishes noodles
What is the side dish? You can understand noodle soup as a side dish buffet, which is a unique form of eating noodles in Xuancheng. Generally, after ordering a vegetarian noodle in Xuancheng noodle restaurant, the side dishes on the table can be added free of charge.
Innocent year
I thought it might be a side dish like mustard tuber, but I didn't expect this side dish to be both stir-fried and cold. My mother was afraid that you would be hungry, and made a big table of small dishes with various ingredients to coax you to eat.
Aunt Bao ge
So many side dishes are made to cover the smooth and wide noodles. Even if you have no appetite, you have no reason to refuse such a bowl of noodles.
Hey, eat and drink.
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Fat Auntie Spicy Noodles has been an old shop for decades, and many old customers have watched it change from a roadside stall to a shop today.
There are many choices of side dishes in the old noodle restaurant 0759. Residents living nearby often come to his house to ask for a bowl of side dishes for breakfast.
chow mein
Although there are fried noodles all over the country, for Xuancheng people, fried noodles in other cities are almost as interesting as Xuancheng. The fried noodles in Xuancheng should be steamed in a steamer before frying, and then fried with kelp, onions, vegetables and shredded pork, so that the fried noodles can be oily, crisp and crispy, with a pot atmosphere.
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I still remember my friend in Xuancheng said that I didn't know that not all fried noodles had kelp until I went to school in other places. For Xuancheng people, a kelp fried noodles and a large glass of red bean wine are signs of going home.
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Sanzi lined up in an alley in a fly restaurant, but the taste was absolutely convincing.
Shuangqiao old street fried noodles | an old shop for more than 20 years. Residents nearby know its home and will eat a bowl from time to time.
Ningguo Baba
I have to say that the word "Baba" is really amazing, and the understanding of it varies from place to place. The glutinous rice Baba that I used to eat in Enshi is a corn-like hair cake, and Ningguo Baba in Xuancheng is pie-like.
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Ningguo Baba can be said to be all-encompassing, including pickles, cowpeas, radishes, dried beans, bamboo shoots, pumpkins, leeks and even eggs. Of course, the most classic is meat stuffing with pickles.
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Just fried Ningguo Baba, if you eat it while it's hot, it's crispy and tough with oily stuffing. After eating one, you must want another one.
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In Xilin community, the Baba shop is usually open in the morning, but this one is still open after four o'clock in the afternoon, so residents who have difficulty getting up can eat it.
Chen Ji Ningguo Glasses The fat man's Baba skin is thin and stuffed, and the taste will be spicy.
There will be dried plums in the Baba at the north gate of Xiangyang New Village, which is more delicious.
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Recently, the rainy days in Hangzhou finally passed, and after the sun came out, my mood became much clearer. If it weren't for the epidemic, everyone would be planning an outing. I hope that after reading this introduction about Xuancheng, you will want to include Xuancheng in your weekend destination!
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