Jincheng has many specialties, especially fruits. There are complete varieties of northern fruits such as apples, pears, grapes, persimmons, apricots, peaches, dates, etc. Marble: The marble produced in Lingchuan County is hard in texture, dense in structure, and mirror-like after polishing.
Glossy, colorful.
There are as many as 28 varieties, including rare green spotted jade, rare Venus ink jade, red cloud, sunset and white marble.
Hericium: The Hericium grows on the oak tree in the primeval forest under Shunwang Ping in Yangcheng Jianhe, Qinshui. It is large, fresh in color, meaty, delicious, nutritious, and good for nourishing.
Ganoderma lucidum: White, purple and yellow Ganoderma lucidum grow in the mountains of Yangcheng County.
Among them, the most precious white Ganoderma lucidum is shaped like a human body, with all five senses and hats and tassels, which is extremely rare.
Glaze products: They are traditional craft products in Yangcheng County. They are bright in color and last for a long time.
Ancient buildings in Beijing's Forbidden City, Ming Tombs and other places are under renovation, and Yangcheng colored glaze products are one of the sources of materials.
In recent years, with the advancement of pottery technology, pottery bodies have changed from coarse porcelain to fine porcelain, and the varieties have also increased, with various colors and exquisite craftsmanship.
Lingchuan Codonopsis pilosula: A famous Chinese medicinal material. Many ancient prescription records refer to Codonopsis pilosula, not Northeastern ginseng.
Shanxi fragrant fruit: fragrant fruit medicinal and spice tree species.
It is a deciduous tree, about 20 meters high.
The leaves are brown, and the branches are dense and tender, and can be bent like a bow or coiled like a snake.
It blooms in March and the fragrant fruits mature in September.
The fruit is green-yellow, with a diameter of 3 to 5 cm for small ones and 8 to 10 cm for large ones.
The taste is sour and slightly astringent, the fragrance fills the room, and it does not rot for several months.
Mainly distributed in Chengguan, Yangcheng County, Dongye, Hebei, Jialing and other towns, there are more than 170 plants, with an annual output of about 5,000 kilograms of fruit. Zezhou sweet persimmon: The suitable growing areas are mainly Yangcheng, Zezhou and Qin
The hilly areas and rocky mountainous areas below 1,100 meters above sea level in Shui, Gaoping, Lingchuan and other places mostly grow in the foothills.
Sweet persimmon has been cultivated in Jincheng for more than 400 years and is a traditional native berry fruit.
According to the "Yangcheng County Chronicle" recorded in the Tongzhi period of the Qing Dynasty: "There were no persimmons in the county in the old days. During the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty, the county magistrate Wang Liangchen of Xinzheng felt that the land was infertile and had few people and material resources, so he brought the seeds from his hometown and asked households to plant them.
It was a pain in the beginning, but later it was grafted into a forest, and the people benefited from it. "Persimmons have medicinal value.
According to the "Compendium of Materia Medica": "Persimmon is also the fruit that divides the spleen and stomach into blood. It tastes sweet and flat, and is astringent in nature. Therefore, it has the effect of strengthening the spleen and astringing the intestines, curing cough and stopping bleeding."
Modern medicine believes that persimmon has the effects of clearing away heat, moistening the intestines, lowering blood pressure, and has certain effects on hemorrhoid bleeding and constipation.
Zezhou Red Hawthorn: Produced in Jincheng, Shanxi Province.
Zezhou red hawthorn is the best hawthorn in the country. It tastes sour and sweet, and is large. It is called the "King of Hawthorn".
According to laboratory analysis, Zezhou red hawthorn contains 22% carbon compounds, 0.7% protein, 0.2% fat, 0.025% phosphorus, 0.0021% iron, and 0.085% calcium.
The iron and calcium content ranks first among fruits.
The total sugar content is 10.15%, the acid content is 4.93%, the total flavonoid content is 0.44%, and the vitamin C content is 91.3mg/100g, which is 17 times higher than that of apples.
In addition, it is also rich in carotene, riboflavin C, vitamin B2, niacin and other nutrients.
For medicinal use, it can be formulated into 49 kinds of Chinese patent medicines. It has the functions of clearing heat and detoxifying, dispersing stasis, resolving phlegm, refreshing, stopping bleeding, refreshing the brain, digesting and appetizing, lowering blood pressure, and has obvious effects on cardiovascular system diseases.
Recent studies have shown that Zezhou red hawthorn contains higher levels of the anti-cancer element vitexin.
Its leaves can extract "hawthorn flavonoids", which is the main water component of soothing drugs.