Huangqiao Ancient Town is located in Huangqiao Town, Taixing City, Jiangsu Province.
Huangqiao Ancient Town is located in Taixing City, Taizhou City, Jiangsu Province, bordering on the Yangtze River, connected with Rugao and Jiangyan, is an important gateway between Central and Northern Jiangsu through Southern Jiangsu, and is one of the larger scale market towns in Central and Northern Jiangsu in history.
Huangqiao ancient town was founded in the Northern Song Dynasty during the reign of Emperor Shenzong Yuanfeng, historically known as the water hub of the "northern part of the Huaiyu, south of the river tide," is a historical and cultural ancient town, and so far retains more than 2,000 Ming and Qing dynasty buildings and a small number of Song dynasty buildings.
The town's folk style is simple, rustic and charming, it is the ideal place to remember the history, learn culture, and walk the children on weekends, and it is also one of the five most beautiful ancient towns in Taizhou.
Taixing specialties
1, Taixing white fruit
Taixing white fruit is a specialty of Taixing City, Jiangsu Province, is also China's national geographic indications products. Taixing city is known as the "hometown of ginkgo", ancient ginkgo, ginkgo planting number, ginkgo production, ginkgo quality are among the top of the country, enjoy the Chinese "ginkgo first city" reputation. Taixing City, Jiangsu Province, the ginkgo fruit with its large, varieties of good known as the "big Buddha finger".
2, Taixing peanuts
Taixing peanuts beautiful appearance, mainly two grains, medium-sized kernel size, bright color, sweet and crispy taste, rich in nutrients, can be directly eaten raw, you can also cook to do gourmet food, you can also be processed into edible oil - folk proverb has "Eat peanuts can be health, eat peanuts do not want to meat," said.
Reference: Baidu Encyclopedia - Huangqiao Ancient Town