Three greats: donkey meat in Huaifu's haunted soup, pine eggs in Wuliyuan, and Wuzhi oil tea.
The four treasures are: yam, hyssop, dihuang and chrysanthemum.
1. Donkey Meat in Huaifu Soup
Donkey meat in Huaifu Soup is a specialty of Qinyang City, Jiaozuo City, Henan Province, and a National Geographical Indication product of China.
Legend has it that during the Ming and Qing Dynasties, when the people of Qinyang processed the donkey meat, they would quantitatively add water from deep wells in proportion to the "old soup", and then carefully choose more than 30 kinds of seasonings to be processed through special techniques, and finally made the donkey meat tender and fluffy, with delicate and salty texture, and beautiful color and flavor. Because of the donkey meat in the addition of a variety of spices in the old soup for cooking, simmering in the process of shape as the New Year's Spring Festival as lively boiling, coupled with the ancient Qinyang for the Huaiqing government, "Huaifu haunted soup donkey meat," which is famous for.
2, Wuzhi oil tea
Wuzhi oil tea is a colorful and flavorful traditional dishes, belonging to the Yu cuisine. It is named after Wuzhi County, Jiaozuo City, Henan Province. The Qin Dynasty called Ganmu cream soup, Han said cream soup cum shell tea, is China's long history of traditional specialties, tributes to the food. Wuzhi oil tea is a famous flavor of Henan snacks, produced in Wuzhi County, Henan Province and named. It is called tea, actually porridge.
3, Huai yam
Wai yam, specialties of Jiaozuo City, Henan Province, China's national geographic indications products.
The Qin and Han dynasties, "Shennong Ben Cao Jing" records: yam to Henan Huaiqing good. Jiaozuo was called Huaiqingfu in ancient times, with the Taihang Mountains in the north and the Yellow River in the south, the natural conditions are unique, and the "Four Great Chinese Medicines", namely, yam, diclofenac, chrysanthemum, and hyssop, are well known both at home and abroad. "Iron stick yam" for the treasures of yam in Huaiyao, because of its color brown red, quality firm powder foot, body thin body long, the appearance of the iron stick and the name, the main production area for the Wenxian.
4, hyssop
Hyssop is a specialty of Jiaozuo City, Henan Province, China's national geographic indications products. Huai Niuji, Amaranthaceae, is a perennial herbaceous plant. It is also known as mountain amaranth, the section of the vegetable, the cumulative name of the cow stem. The root is cylindrical, the stem is angular, the section is expanded, like the cow's knee, so it is called cow's knee. The main production in Henan Wenxian, Wuzhi, Boai, Qinyang and other places, formerly known as Huaiqingfu, for the "four big Huai medicine" one.
5, huaidihuang
Huaidihuang is a specialty of Jiaozuo City, Henan Province, and is a National Geographical Indication product of China. Dihuang is the rhizome of the ginseng plant Dihuang, a perennial herb. Plant height 20-30 cm, tuber fat fleshy yellow-brown, suitable for mild dry climate, to loose fertile soil is good, avoid heavy crops, many places in China can be planted. However, the most superior today only to Huai Di Huang for the top. Its characteristics are: oily, soft, thin skin, black-brown and glossy, slightly sweet taste, especially the cross-section of the chrysanthemum heart.