Qingyang City, Gansu Province, is bordered by Yan'an City, Shaanxi Province, to the east; Xianyang City, Shaanxi Province, and Pingliang City, Gansu Province, to the south; Yulin City, Shaanxi Province, and Yanchi County, Ningxia Province, to the north; and Guyuan City, Ningxia Province, to the west. Qingyang City belongs to the inland area of the middle reaches of the Yellow River. It lies between longitude 10620 to 10845 and latitude 3515 to 3710. East of the Meridian Ridge, north of the sheep circle mountains, west of the Liupan Mountains, east, west and north of the rise, the south-central part of the slow, so there is a "basin" called. Area between the east and west 208 kilometers, 207 kilometers from north to south

Qingyang City, Dongzhi, early victory, Gonghe and other 12 larger loess plateau, with a total area of 270,000 hectares, of which: an area of 90,000 hectares of Dongzhi plateau is the main crop production areas. There are 5 rivers in the city, namely, Malian River, Pu River, Hong River, Silang River and Hulu River, and 27 larger tributaries. The average annual total flow is 26.7 cubic meters per second, with a total runoff of 843 million cubic meters. The city's static groundwater reserves more 4.339 billion cubic meters, 37.14 million cubic meters of dynamic reserves.

Yellow cauliflower

By the Loess Plateau's unique climatic conditions and geographic environment, the yellow cauliflower produced in Qingyang light yellow or golden yellow color, fresh texture and no debris, the strip of body tight long and uniformly thick. Grab a pinch into a ball, feel soft and elastic, let go after each cauliflower and can quickly stretch. There is a refreshing fragrance, yellow cauliflower is commonly known as "golden needle vegetable", the scientific name of daylily, the ancient name of forgetfulness, belongs to the lily family, is a perennial herbaceous flower buds. Yellow cauliflower is fresh and tender, nutritious, rich in pollen, sugar, protein, vitamin C, calcium, fat, carotene, amino acids and other essential nutrients, the carotene it contains even more than a few times the tomato. The quality of the country's first, by the State Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation named "Northwest special gold needle", exported to Hong Kong, Southeast Asia, Japan, Europe and the United States.

Yellow cauliflower, the ancient name of "forget-me-not", "daylily", but also because of its flower buds are shaped like golden needles, also known as "golden needle". People love the beauty of cauliflower, but pay more attention to the rich nutritional value of cauliflower. It is determined that every 500 grams of dried flower buds, containing 3 grams of sugar, protein 70.5 mg, 2 grams of fat, calcium 23.5 mg, phosphorus 86.5 mg, 82.5 mg of iron, but also contains a variety of vitamins beneficial to the human body, so the yellow cauliflower and mushrooms, fungus, hairy vegetables with the people of Gansu as a famous dish. Gansu people often cauliflower and shredded meat, eggs, spinach fried into a favorite "muxi meat"; with cauliflower meat, simmering chicken, stewed duck, fried tofu, its taste delicious, unique flavor.

Buckwheat noodles

Buckwheat noodles is a unique local snack in Huanxian County, north of Qingyang. Huanxian abound in buckwheat, buckwheat quality, white color, after eating will not appear bloating. Eating method has? Noodles, chopped noodles and so on. Buckwheat chopped noodles for the practice of buckwheat and buckwheat first with alkaline water, soft and hard, and then continuous rubbing and kneading, rolling pin rolled into a thin sheet of dough, folded and placed on the board, hands holding a foot-long double-handled iron knife, the noodles directly into the pot, after cooking, fished into a bowl, poured with bashful broth, can be eaten. Authentic buckwheat chopped noodles taste great, is the people of Huanxian hospitality of the finest delicacies.

Huanxian is located in the northeastern corner of Gansu Province, bordering Tongxin and Yanchi in Ningxia and Dingbian County in Shaanxi, and belonging to Qingyang City in Gansu.

Huanxian is rich in buckwheat. Huanxian folk have a riddle: "fear of heat planted in the winter, and finally died of heat, fear of freezing planted in the summer, and finally froze to death," playing two crops, the former refers to winter wheat, the latter refers to buckwheat. The riddle states the basic characteristics of buckwheat. Buckwheat short growing season, frost intolerance, generally early summer sowing, maturity after a frost can be harvested, about after the white dew, as the so-called fear of freezing to freeze to death. Huanxian County, there is a saying: "buckwheat three pronged wheat tip, ten miles of customs are not general," the proverb is to describe the changes in regional customs, but the shape of the buckwheat fruits to delineate the perfect.

Oatmeal noodle soft

Oatmeal noodle soft is a unique flavor of the Huanxian snack. The production method is to put the oats into the pot of boiling water, cook three mature, fish out to dry, ground into noodles, stirred into a ball of water or cake steamed into the cage, out of the cage after a little cool, cut into thin slices, with condiments can be eaten. Because it is soft and tasty, it is quite well received by diners. Now, it is on the hall of elegance and star-rated restaurants, become a delicious dish for people to entertain guests.

The oats poured into a pot of boiling water steamed into three, out of the pot to dry, ground into powder, kneaded with water into a pancake steamed, out of the pot a little cooler, cut into thin strips or slices, similar to the jade noodles, fine soft and soft, generally cold food. Originally out of the northern part of Huanxian County, now popular inside and outside the city, especially for diabetic patients.

Qingyang soil warm pot

Qingyang people love to eat warm pot, winter family sitting around the warm pot, feel especially warm. And it's always a favorite.

To say that the best warm pot or sand warm pot, do out of the flavor is delicious. Good pot should also be equipped with good materials, Longdong warm pot with materials are all home cooking: white radish slices, with fungus, cauliflower, bean sprouts, vermicelli (also shall be locally produced taro vermicelli, not fans), mushrooms, tofu (is the local farmers do brine old tofu, pay attention to tofu hardness rather than the pursuit of tenderness), carrots, cabbages, etc., but the pot surface should be used in the face with high-grade dishes to cover the face, that is, the five-flower meat, meatballs, crispy pork (with the meat filling with egg whites and seasonings). meat stuffing with egg whites and seasonings mixed and steamed can be eaten directly similar to the current lunch meat or ham meat), stewed chicken, beef, etc..

First of all, cut the white radish into thin slices and boil them in boiling water, then remove them and let them cool. Then pour a little oil in a frying pan, and when the oil is hot, pour the cooled carrots into the pan and stir-fry, then pour in the prepared soup (chicken soup or pork soup can be), two or three minutes after the stewed carrots served in a warm pot. Add sliced tofu, meatballs, crispy pork, vermicelli, cabbage, fungus, cauliflower and mushrooms to the warm pot. After these ingredients in the warm pot concentrated yard, on top of the cut meat slices in an orderly manner (meat slices of the practice is: skinned pork boiled eight mature, out, frying in a frying pan, until the color of the meat skin changes, out of the meat on the skin coated with sugar, and then cooked with the previous broth. The meat cooked in this way has a golden skin, and even the fat meat is fat but not greasy, and melts in your mouth), stewed chicken, beef, etc. Then pour in some more stock so that the broth slightly covers the meat. At this point it's time to put the copper lid on the warming pot. In the warming pot in the center of the stove into the burning charcoal (such as charcoal, coal can also be), the warming pot in the bellows next to the bellows, pulling the bellows, a short while in the warming pot of broth on the boiling, then open the lid and then sprinkled with shredded garlic cloves, the aroma of boiling came to the nostrils, the whole family sitting in a circle can be opened to eat.

Roasted chicken

Zhenyuan roasted chicken is a specialty of Zhenyuan County, Qingyang City, Gansu Province. Zhenyuan Roast Chicken is a stewed chicken meat that has been dehairing and decontaminating, stewed in a long-stored brine soup, and added with a variety of seasonings, and then stewed and brined to a rotten state of the chicken, which is very good in taste and color, and is quite famous in Zhenyuan's flavorful snacks.

Roasted chicken, is the hairless and dirty chicken, stewed in the long-stored brine, add a variety of seasonings, stewed brine rotten and cooked from the taste is very good, its color is very fresh, in the town of the original flavor of snacks is quite famous.

Republic of China period, Zhenyuan County, Guo Jiaxuer's chicken do the best. Later than Guo Jiaxuer Zhang Shengjie, later on, replaced, became the county's most influential roast chicken big. Legend has it that before this, Zhang Shengjie just started 1 meat, because business is not good, can not buy a few during the day, and had to hawking to the middle of the night to sell out. So, it got a "Zhang midnight" nickname. Later, Guo Jiaxuer passed away, he became the leading goose in the town of Zhenyuan selling roasted chicken, still have to sell until midnight. However, at this time, "Zhang midnight" is not sold out during the day, but the supply exceeds the demand, to the middle of the night, or to deal with the endless stream of customers, "Zhang Midnight" from the derogatory and commendation, has been used to his industry stop. Today, although Zhang Midnight is no longer alive, his nephew has inherited his uncle's craft and has become a leader in Zhenyuan's traditional roasted chicken.

Qingyang is China's second-largest energy resource city after Yulin in Shaanxi Province. Gansu's largest crude oil production base, the birthplace of the Changqing Oilfield, 100,000 oil workers stationed in 1970 in Changqingqiao Town, Ning County, Qingyang City, kicked off the prelude to the Longdong Petroleum War, 28 years later, the headquarters of the Changqing Oilfield in August 1998 from Qingyang City, Qingcheng County (formerly Qingyang County), the overall relocation of the city of Xi'an, Shaanxi Province, of which the city of Qingyang, in 2013, the crude oil production reached 6.59 million tons.