Lichuan City belongs to Ba culture area and Wuling Mountain area, belongs to Hubei administratively, and is close to Sichuan and Chongqing culturally. At the same time, it is influenced by Hunan and Hubei provinces. The Han people live together with Tujia and Miao people, and their diet has both spicy characteristics in Sichuan and Chongqing and fresh and spicy styles in Hunan.

Lichuan has always taken the sightseeing and summer vacation in the scenic spots such as Tenglong Cave, Yumuzhai, Dashuijing Ancient Buildings, Xingdoushan Nature Reserve, Longchuan Water Town and Qiyue Mountain, which is the first cave in the world, as the leader in developing the tertiary industry, but the local food culture and folk customs in Lichuan are also very interesting.

Brasenia schreberi: brasenia schreberi. Also known as leek, horseshoe and lake vegetables, it is a perennial aquatic herb. Delicious and tender, it is one of the precious vegetables. Water shield is rich in colloid protein, carbohydrate, fat, vitamins and minerals. Eating water shield often has the health care function of both medicine and food, which is in line with the concept of homology of traditional Chinese medicine and food in the Yellow Emperor. Fobaoshan in Lichuan is one of the original places of water shield. Compared with the water shield in Hangzhou West Lake, Fobaoshan is original in ecology and unpolluted, and its water shield quality is better.

Bai Yang dried beancurd: produced in Ba Town, Bai Yang City, Lichuan City, Bai Yang dried beancurd is mainly made of high-quality local soybeans, Longdongwan spring water and several natural spices, and is processed through more than ten unique processes such as washing, soaking, grinding, filtering, boiling, dressing, squeezing, baking, marinating and sealing. In the whole production process of Bai Yang dried bean curd, its particularity is that gypsum and any other chemicals are not used, and the secret lies in the local spring water and traditional technology. There is a saying that there is no authentic Bai Yang dried bean curd without this water, which is a must in the bean curd making industry. Now enterprises in Lichuan use modern industrial means to produce, package and sell, which is not as good as dried bean curd originated in Bai Yang Village.

Ghost Tofu: Tofu made of turtledove leaves, also known as "God Tofu" and "Guanyin Tofu".

fried bacon with roots: food made by grinding the roots of certain trees into powder, which is called "roots"

There are also many delicacies such as duck with sea pepper noodles, Gege, Ma Yuan, mung bean powder, Lichuan bean jelly, kidney bean chicken, Lichuan konjac duck and so on.