Taihu Township is located on the south bank of Taihu Lake, with a mild climate, abundant rainfall, sufficient sunlight, and fertile soil, especially the local yellow sand and hard soil, which has good air and water permeability, and is most suitable for the growth of lilies.

The main lily varieties grown here are curliculata, which has always been known as the "King of Lilies" and is sold well all over the country and exported to foreign countries.

Lily is a perennial herbaceous plant. Its edible part is a large underground bulb composed of more than 100 fleshy scales, hence the name "lily".

Due to the suitable climate and soil conditions here, the lilies produced are fat, nutritious, fragrant and slightly bitter.

It is not only a high-grade nourishing food, crispy, sweet and fragrant when cooked, cool and refreshing when cooked, it is a valuable drink to relieve the heat in summer; it is also an important Chinese medicinal material.

Taihu lily, known as "Taihu ginseng", is a precious food.

The delicious taste of Gaocheng Pork Pork has been passed down by people for hundreds of years. It is by no means as simple as relying on the old soup of "ancestral secret recipe".

Pig mother-in-law pork is actually a stewed dish. The preparation method is to slaughter and wash the old sows that cannot give birth to piglets, then chop them into 6 large pieces, cook them in a pot, and add fennel, ginger, cinnamon, and grass sugar at the right time while the heat is on.

, rice wine and other condiments, of which 2 to 3 kilograms are used to cook a pig's rice wine. Finally, bright red (food coloring) is added, and the white meat gradually turns red from light to dark, and the aroma that wafts out becomes stronger and stronger.

The cooking time is usually one day. When the pot is lifted, the delicious and unique meat aroma will spread everywhere.

Gaocheng Pork Pork has two major characteristics: fragrant color and sandy taste.

As the name suggests, "Sexiang" refers to the aroma of Gaocheng Pork Pork; "Weisha" refers to the crispy but not greasy skin of Gaocheng Pork Pork, giving people a smooth feeling.

When you go to Yixing or Gaocheng Ancient Town, you will see many people selling meat along the street. They often use lotus leaves picked from the lotus ponds along the lake, washed and dried, and used as packaging for pig mother-in-law meat.

The locals are very fond of pork belly meat. Children will help pick lotus leaves in summer and exchange it for pork belly meat with their parents when they go home.

Small crispy candy is a common seasonal tea snack, and Xushe's small crispy candy in Yixing is one of the famous brand tea snacks.

It is said that in the sixth year of Tongzhi in the Qing Dynasty, the fame of the small crispy candies produced by Yuhe Tainan Store in Xushe Town, Yixing spread to the palace. Emperor Zaichun once sent a special eunuch to Yixing to purchase Xushe small crispy candies, which were listed as "tribute"

From then on, Xushe's small crispy candy became famous all over the country, and its business grew day by day.

Before liberation, Shanghai Yongan Company and other companies set up special sales counters.

The sugar is made of fine white sugar, shelled sesame seeds, special syrup, fine flour and other raw materials, and is carefully prepared through more than ten processes such as roasting, crumbling and crisping.

It has the characteristics of fragrant, sweet, crisp and refreshing, so it has always been praised by people, especially the elderly.

During the Jiaqing period of the Qing Dynasty, the Wu family was in decline. Later, the Taiping Rebellion rose, wars broke out one after another, and the people had no food to satisfy their hunger.

After the Taiping Army entered Fangzhuang, some soldiers stayed at the old man's great-grandfather's house.

The Taiping Army did not harm the common people, and their transactions were fair, and they even helped the Wu family with farm work.

My great-grandfather was very grateful. He raised more than ten goats at home, so he slaughtered two goats, cooked them and gave them to the soldiers.

Grandpa had a skill in cooking. He knew that mutton has a strong smell, but all things complement each other, so he used the infiltration and steaming method of radishes and other root vegetables to make the mutton crispy and delicious, oily but not greasy.

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The soldiers were full of praise after eating, and paid to buy all the goats in his family. They asked the great grandfather to kill and cook them and then gave them to the soldiers in other military camps.

For a time, all the soldiers were competing to buy them, and there were no goats at home. Grandpa bought other people's goats, cooked them, and sold them to the Taiping Army.

Rich folk often buy his mutton to have a taste of it.

The fame of Wu's mutton spread. Later, my grandfather opened a mutton shop, and other people in the same village also opened mutton shops one after another.

When you go to Yixing, you might as well go to Fangzhuang. This is an ancient town that should not be forgotten. Too many stories happened here.

When you arrive at Fangzhuang, you might as well try Fangzhuang's mutton. Maybe you haven't even entered Fangzhuang, but the fragrance of Fangzhuang's mutton has already spread for ten miles.