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>Gorge Pearl Soup
This dish is a delicious delicacy made according to the idea of the majestic scenery of the Xiling Gorge. Steamed eggs made of Xiling Gorge mountains peaks, vegetables for the peaks of the shrubs, the soup for the peaks of the rolling river, the fish paste made of balls for the pearl in the water. The image is realistic and poetic. It is fascinating to watch and fresh and refreshing to taste. This dish is included in one of the famous dishes in Hubei, included in the "Chinese recipe".
>Food Tips
The area from Huya Beach to Nanjin Pass produces fat fish, which is very tender, so a street of Yangtze River fat fish specializing in cooking fat fish has been formed near the picturesque Sanyou Cave, where you can get off at Peach Blossom Village by taking the No. 10 tourist line in Yichang.
Cuisine. Both the length of Sichuan and Hubei
Three Gorges of the Yangtze River, the fragrance of the food, where the cuisine is both Sichuan cuisine is good at utilizing the advantages of hot and spicy but not confined to hot and spicy, but also Hubei cuisine is good at cooking fish and steaming vegetables of the specialties; both the wild fun of the mountain villages and fields, and fish and rice water towns of the mellow. Just like the magic of the Three Gorges, the Three Gorges food can always give people food outside the reverie.
> white brake fat fish
This is a traditional dish, using the Yangtze River on the Tiger's Nose Beach to the Nanjin Pass area produced by the fat fish, and fat meat **** steamed, tender fish, fish soup fat, light dishes, the original juice and flavor, a person will recall the past. On this basis, it also produces hydrangea fat fish, peony pearl fat fish and other fancy colors.
>Gorge Pearl Soup
This dish is based on the Xiling Gorge mouth of the majestic scenery of the idea made of delicious dishes. Steamed eggs made of Xiling Gorge mountains peaks, vegetables for the peaks of the shrubs, the soup for the peaks of the rolling river, the fish paste made of balls for the pearl in the water. The image is realistic and poetic. It is fascinating to watch and fresh and refreshing to taste. This dish is included in one of the famous dishes in Hubei, included in the "Chinese recipe".
>Gourmet Tips
The area from Huya Beach to Nanjin Pass produces fat fish, which is very tender, so near the picturesque Sanyou Cave, a street of Yangtze River Fatty Fish has been formed that specializes in cooking fat fish, which can be reached by taking the No. 10 tourist line to Peach Blossom Village in Yichang.
Specialty. Bachu Charm Unique The vast and magical land of the Three Gorges of the Yangtze River has nurtured and produced a variety of things with strong local characteristics. These specialties are attracting tourists at home and even around the world with their unique charm.
>Three Gorges stone ------ unique ecological environment, a long history of stone cultural traditions, feeding the cultivation of the Three Gorges people and stone of the inexplicable love affair. Three Gorges stone produced in the Three Gorges Yichang to Zhijiang area, including Shennong Creek, Xiangxi and other river beds, riverbanks, the texture of the metamorphic rocks, sedimentary rocks and granite, exquisite body, elegant colors, a variety of varieties. The Three Gorges area to play with stone wind of the prevalence of stone, stone nerd, stone crazy people, collection, taste taste of high, has long been famous in China. Set ornamental value, economic value and collection value of the three gorges in one of the strange stone, is attracting thousands of people at home and abroad with the admiration and fervent pursuit of knowledge.
> Changyang grass weaving Changyang grass weaving is the new period of the Three Gorges craft of the oddball, its weaving process and patterns have a high cultural taste and appreciation of value, is with a strong Bachu characteristics of folk art. Grass weaving craft products are not only beautiful and generous, can add elegant colors to the living room, but also practical, with winter warmth, summer cool, breathable and other characteristics. One of the corn husk grass weaving craft products have car seat cushions, carpets, baskets, sundries and other four categories of more than six hundred varieties of colors.
>Shopping Tips ------ In Yichang, one of the major towns along the Three Gorges, the famous Xiling colored pottery is simple and elegant, ingenious; the Three Gorges stone texture composed of patterns like words, like paintings, far-reaching mood, but also exquisite. In the long history and culture of Jingzhou, its tourist shopping is mainly antique lacquer ware, Honghu feather fan, paper folding fan, etc. Figure: crying marriage
Folklore. A unique flavor
Folklore is one of the most relevant to the body, mind and life of the inherited culture, and along the Three Gorges of the Yangtze River, the unique folklore and the beautiful scenery of the Three Gorges complement each other, reflecting each other's interest.
>Crying marriage In the Three Gorges folk, especially in the Ba people (Tujia) life customs, crying marriage is undoubtedly the most characteristic of a marriage ceremony. The process of crying for marriage is first to be married to the girl alone cry, the night before the wedding, the girl's girlfriends and relatives six sisters gathered together, sitting around a room, take turns to cry about. The content of the weeping gradually evolved into a tune with a certain key and rhythm, which became the "Song of Weeping Marriage". The songs are simple, natural and sincere, with obvious characteristics of the Three Gorges. The Tujia people also take the ability to sing the wedding song as a measure of a woman's talent and virtue.
>Strange footstools Residents on both sides of the Three Gorges take advantage of the rocky trees of the Gorges River to build rooms and live in the mountains, stacked on top of each other, as if they were placed in a landscape painting. Especially in the precipitous river, the ancient Ba people built a strange "footstools", anciently known as the "dry appendage", based on the mountains and water. Yang Shengan, a famous writer and scholar of the Ming Dynasty, once sang a song in the Bamboo Branch Lyrics: "Kui Prefecture City, West of Baidi, with pavilions and staircases in every house. Winter snow comes down to less than the ground, and spring water is born with the trees." Today, if you take a riverboat tour of the Three Gorges of the Yangtze River, you can still see the depths of the Gorges that a peculiar footstools.
>Folk Tips
If you want to see authentic Three Gorges folk performances you can go to the Three Gorges Chesi Folk Excursion Area, which is located in Tucheng Township of Yichang's Duanjun District, featuring folk culture and idyllic scenery. In the scenic area you can enjoy the folk songs and dances, ancient workshop performances, where the majestic peaks and rocks, strange caves and waterfalls and other landscapes can be seen everywhere, the ancient workshops and Tua residential intermingling, natural landscape and human resources blending of water and milk.
The scenic area is 18 kilometers away from the center of Yichang city, which can be reached by National Highway 318, and along the Tusan Highway to the north can be reached to the Three Gorges Stone Forest, Shipai, Huangniuyan and other excursion areas.
Photo: Daxi culture site
Archaeology. Culture as Splendid as Stars
The Three Gorges area of the Yangtze River, as a unique geographic and cultural unit in China, is in the transition zone between the Chengdu Plain Cultural Circle and the Middle Yangtze River Plain Cultural Circle, with a long history of civilization and a complex, varied and mysterious cultural pattern. From the 1950s onwards, the relevant cultural relics units jointly organized archaeological survey team on the three gorges for a more comprehensive investigation and excavation, opened the prelude to the understanding of the cultural nature of ancient sites in this area.
> 50's named Daxi culture
1959 Sichuan Yangtze River Basin Cultural Relics Protection Committee Cultural Relics and Archaeology Team of Wushan Daxi site conducted two excavations, cleaned up 75 burials, unearthed a number of important relics of local characteristics, since then there is a "Daxi culture" name.
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>In the 70's, the first recognition of the Banguo tip
In 1972, archaeologists on the Three Gorges area Fuling Xiaotianxi Warring States Cemetery excavations, **** unearthed more than 200 pieces of bronzes and ceramics. With this excavation, archaeologists recognized that the cemetery area might be the early mausoleum area of the Ba royal family. The study of the ancient Ba political, economic, military, cultural and so on, from now on there is extremely important physical information.
>Digging out a general history of Sichuan in the 1990s
In 1997, archaeologists carried out salvage excavations at the Zhongba site in Zhongxian County and unearthed a large number of cultural relics. According to the stratum and relics, relics analysis, cultural layer accumulation can be divided into 11 phases, the furthest can be extended to 5000 years ago in the late Neolithic period, followed by the Xia, Shang, Western Zhou, Spring and Autumn, the Warring States period of five connected to each other, the relationship between the close, there is a clear relationship between the successor. Further on, there are the remains of the Western Han Dynasty, the Southern Dynasty, the Tang Dynasty, the Song Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty and the Qing Dynasty. It can be said that the site of the Middle Dam is the epitome of the 5000 years of history of the Three Gorges region and witnesses, is a hidden in the underground Sichuan general history.