Maanshan specialties: Henshan red melon seeds
Henshan red melon seeds is a specialty of Henshan County, Maanshan City, Anhui Province. Henshan red melon seeds, also known as red hit melon seeds, color deep red, uniform size, thin shell meat thick, unique flavor, is an important export product of the county, by Hong Kong, Macao compatriots and Southeast Asia.
Maanshan specialty two: Hengwangshan rice wine
History is long, the earliest can be traced back to the Jin, Tang Dynasty. According to historical records, the present-day Hengwangshan Rice Wine originated during the Xianfeng period of the Qing Dynasty. Hengwangshan Rice Wine is brewed in the ancient method, and the brewing technique of Hengwangshan Rice Wine was announced by the Maanshan Municipal Government as the fourth batch of municipal intangible cultural heritage protection list in 2013.
Maanshan Specialty 3: Maanshan Turquoise
Turquoise, also known as Turkish Jade, is an aqueous copper-aluminum-phosphate mineral with the technical name of turquoise, which is one of the oldest jades, and the rare treasure "He's Jade" in the Spring and Autumn Period was carved from turquoise. Its characteristic blue luster represents warmth and life, and is synonymous with good fortune, eternity and success.
Maanshan specialty four: Taihu Mountain antler
Taihu Mountain antler is a specialty of Taihu Mountain in Henshan County, Maanshan City, Anhui Province, originating from Taihu Mountain deer farm. Deer antler is a valuable medicinal material, with the function of replenishing the arteries, assisting kidney yang, generating essence, and strengthening the muscles and bones. Divided into plum blossom deer antler and horse deer antler.
Plum blossom antler, also known as yellow hair antler, flower antler, most of the 1 to 2 branches; horse antler, also known as green hair antler, thicker, more branches. Deer antler is a valuable traditional Chinese medicine, sweet, salty, warm, non-toxic.
Maanshan specialties five: Huangchi pickles
Huangchi pickles produced in Huangchi Town, Dangtu County, the local rich and fresh produce coupled with the people's long-standing custom of making pickles makes Huangchi pickles produced by the near and far, has a wide range of consumer groups in East China. The pickles here are made with fresh ingredients, sophisticated techniques and unique flavors, making them an excellent accompaniment to meals.
Particularly worth mentioning is the prevalence of cilantro in this area, it is used after the drying of shredded cabbage with chili powder, sesame and a variety of spices mixed pickled, placed in the altar over the years, when you eat, served in a small dish, drizzled with sesame oil, a chewing feel mellow and thick flavor, slightly spicy in the taste of freshness straight to the root of the tongue, and other people can not bear to swallow. It is a perfect match for sipping tea.
Maanshan specialty six: Henshan green tea
The county has 1,000 hectares of tea gardens, most of which are distributed in the hilly hinterland of Zhaoguan, Cangshan two. Mountain forest coverage of more than 95%, year-round cloud, sunshine, tea, forest complement each other, the unique climatic conditions to form the unique natural quality of Hanshan tea.
Historical tea "Zhaoguan Cuishu" won the first China Agricultural Expo in 1992 silver medal. "Henglong Cuimei" tea with its strong aroma, taste, color and shape, won the 1996 China Agricultural Exposition Gold Medal. In order to meet the market development needs, Henshan County is embarking on the development of new green tea, organic tea, in order to meet the higher demand of consumers.
Maanshan Specialty 7: Yuncao Wine
Yuncao, known as Polygonum State in ancient times, used to be the first town of Henshan County, Anhui Province, with a history of more than 1,000 years since it was founded in the late Eastern Han Dynasty. Although the brewing of wine in the area of Yuncao appeared as early as the late Neolithic period, it really developed on a large scale in the Three Kingdoms period at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty. After the Red Cliff War, although the three kingdoms of Wei, Shu and Wu were in a position of power, Cao Cao was not willing to stay in the north, but still had the ambition of annexing the affluent south of the Yangtze River and unifying the world.
From 208 to 216 A.D., Cao Wei and Sun Wu fought repeatedly along the shore of Chaohu Lake. During these eight years, the Jiuyunchun brewing technology from the north was brought to the Dongguan area with Cao's army, and spread to the people with the large-scale military brewing activities. After Cao's army retreated, its brewing technology was inherited and developed by the people of Dongguan and passed down from generation to generation.
Maanshan specialty eight: velvet rust painting
Velvet rust painting, Anhui Mountain County, Lin Tou Town, traditional handicrafts, for the Go Chang and family stunts, is now open family velvet embroidery painting crafts factory. Drawing on the techniques of Chinese painting, oil painting, silk cotton, bird feathers as raw materials, adding color rendering, and then according to the requirements of the picture pasted on top of the plate, the embroidered people and things in realistic form, but also colorful, vivid, three-dimensional sense is very strong." Double cats offer flowers", "double cats play fish", "wild boat no one boat from the cross" and other works.
Maanshan specialties nine: cloth sticker painting
It is made of coarse cloth as raw material, with bags of dyes directly high-temperature dyeing made of various colors, cut and pasted by skilled women. Named by the Ministry of Culture as the "National Modern Folk Art Painting Township" Yanchuan County, located in the hinterland of the Loess Plateau, is located east of Yan'an on the banks of the Yellow River, by the Ordos Grassland and the influence of the Mongolian and Chinese folk art interpenetration of the traditional folk art has a unique charm.
Yanchuan people in the local traditional folk paper-cutting, embroidery, murals, cloth paste craft, based on life, from local materials, using different colors, different textures, different shapes of cloth, through the cloth sewing and patching cloth decorative handicrafts, to create a picture with a sense of relief of the cloth paste painting. The so-called cloth sewing, is a large area of collage, including paste block, sewing, mosaic and splicing; the so-called patch, is a small area of flower pattern embellishment, that is, in a piece of base cloth on the paste, sewing, set on the cloth with a cloth pattern on the cloth piece.