The top ten specialties of Jiangsu include Biluochun, Yangcheng Lake hairy crabs, Nanjing salted duck, Taicang meat floss, Yuhua tea, Su embroidery, Yun brocade, Zhangjiagang Phoenix peach, new taro, and Baihua wine.
Among them, Biluochun has a slender appearance, full of fine hairs, and green pekoe. After brewing into tea, it has a bright green color, a fragrant and rich taste, and a sweet aftertaste after drinking.
Biluochun: Biluochun, also known as Dongting Biluochun tea, is one of the top ten famous teas in China. It is a green tea produced in Dongting Mountain of Taihu Lake in Suzhou City, Jiangsu Province. Biluochun tea has a special floral fragrance.
Due to the unique geographical environment of Dongting Mountain, flowers bloom all year round, and tea trees and fruit trees are interplanted, so Biluochun tea has a special floral fragrance.
Biluochun has a slender appearance, covered with fine hairs, and green pekoe; after brewing into tea, the color is green and bright, the taste is fragrant and rich, and there is a sweet aftertaste after drinking.
People praised: "copper wire strips, spiral shape, hairy, floral and fruity, fresh and refreshing."
The unique floral and fruity aroma of Dongting Biluo is mainly due to the fact that it grows in orchards and is nourished by the unique water and soil of Dongting.
Other Biluochun has no fresh and fruity aroma, only earthy and green leaf aroma.
Yangcheng Lake hairy crab: Yangcheng Lake hairy crab, also known as golden claw crab, is produced in Yangcheng Lake, Suzhou.
The body of the crab does not stick to mud, and is commonly known as clear water crab. It has a large and fat body, a green shell and a white belly, and golden claws and yellow hair.
The meat is creamy and the limbs are strong and strong. It can crawl quickly when placed on a glass plate.
Whenever the golden breeze blows coolly and the chrysanthemums bloom, it is the peak season for golden claw crabs to be on the market.
Female crabs in September of the lunar calendar and male crabs in October have the best gonad development.
When cooked and condensed, the female ones become golden yellow and the male ones are like white jade. They taste delicious and are famous brand products in China.
Yangcheng Lake crab has always been known as the best crab.
This is related to the special ecological environment of Yangcheng Lake.
The water area is hundreds of miles in radius, with rippling blue waves. The water quality is as clear as a mirror, the water is shallow and the bottom is hard. The aquatic plants are abundant, the area is wide and the climate is suitable. It is the most ideal Crystal Palace for crabs to settle and grow.
Therefore, the shape and meat quality of Yangcheng Lake crabs are greatly unique among the crab family.
Nanjing Salted Duck: Salted duck is a famous specialty of Nanjing. It has a long-standing reputation and has a history of more than a thousand years.
Nanjing salted duck can be made all year round. The marinating and re-brining period is short. It is made and sold now. Buy it and eat it now. It should not be stored for a long time.
The duck skin is white and the meat is tender, fat but not greasy, fragrant and delicious, and has the characteristics of fragrant, crispy and tender.
The salted duck around the Mid-Autumn Festival every year has the best color and taste because the duck is made during the season when the osmanthus is in bloom, so it is famously known as: osmanthus duck.
"Baimen Cookbook" records: "In the August period of Jinling, salted duck is the most famous, and everyone thinks that the meat has the fragrance of osmanthus." Osmanthus duck is "clear and refreshing, and you won't get tired of eating it for a long time." It is a good drink to drink.
It seems to have become a secular etiquette in Nanjing to go out on the street to buy a bowl of salted duck during festivals or when visitors come to your home on weekdays.
Taicang meat floss: Taicang meat floss is a treasure among the traditional special foods of the Han people in Taicang City, Jiangsu Province. It is known as "Taicang meat floss" as a unique Chinese food. It is very famous and is well known to women and children.
Making breakfast and preparing cold dishes are commonplace on ordinary people's dining tables.
When you sip the silky floss into your mouth, it gradually melts in your mouth without the help of your teeth. A unique salty and sweet flavor lingers between your teeth and cheeks for a long time.
Yuhua Tea: Yuhua Tea is a specialty of Nanjing and one of the top ten famous teas in the country.
It has a round green shape, tight and straight cords, tall and straight branches, and white hair, just like pine needles, symbolizing the unyielding and everlasting heroic image of the revolutionary martyrs, so it is named Yuhua Tea.
Yuhua tea is mainly grown in the suburbs of Nanjing. There are strict requirements in raw material selection and process operation. Before Grain Rain, young leaves with a length of 2.5 to 3 cm, one bud and one leaf, are picked and undergo four steps of fixing, rolling, shaping and roasting.
The whole process is done by hand.
Yuhua tea has good color, aroma, taste and shape. After brewing, the tea color is green and clear, the aroma is elegant, the taste is mellow, and the aftertaste is sweet. It has the functions of quenching thirst and refreshing the mind, digesting and diuretic, treating asthma, removing phlegm, and relieving irritability and greasiness. Su embroidery: Su embroidery is one of the four famous embroideries in my country. It is famous for its fine stitching and elegant colors.
Su embroidery has beautiful patterns, a wide range of themes, and lively and agile techniques.
Whether it is characters or landscapes, they all reflect the delicate and long-lasting cultural connotation of Jiangnan Water Town.
Suzhou is a famous cultural city with a history of more than 2,500 years and is known as "Paradise on Earth".
The elegant and beautiful natural environment and profound humanistic connotation have given birth to dazzling artistic pearls.
Suzhou embroidery, which is famous at home and abroad, is here.
According to historical records, the artistic level of Su embroidery reached its peak after the Song Dynasty.
At that time, Suzhou was the hometown of brocade in my country: the gorgeous brocade and colorful floral threads created favorable conditions for the development of Suzhou embroidery.
This has formed the local characteristics of Suzhou that "every household has embroidery and every family has embroiderers".
Yunjin: Nanjing Yunjin is a traditional jacquard silk handicraft in Nanjing.
The materials used are exquisite, the weavers are fine, and the patterns are elegant and colorful, just like the colorful clouds in the sky, so it is called "Yunjin".
It is as famous as the Song brocade in Suzhou and the Shu brocade in Sichuan, and is also known as the three most famous brocades in my country.
The history of Nanjing brocade production can be traced back to the Three Kingdoms period. During the Ming Dynasty, the brocade weaving technology became increasingly mature and perfected, forming the local characteristics of Nanjing silk jacquard brocade.
During the Qing Dynasty, there was the "Jiangning Weaving Department" in Nanjing, and brocade weaving was at its peak. The brocades produced during this period were of various varieties, with solemn patterns and brilliant colors, representing the highest achievement of Nanjing's brocade weaving technology.