[ made in Nantong]

※ A seafood treasure-Meretrix meretrix

Nantong is adjacent to the Yellow Sea in the east, and there are hundreds of shallow-water shellfish on the 13, hectares of tidal flat, especially Meretrix meretrix, which accounts for one third of China's export.

Meretrix meretrix is called "the freshest in the world", and belongs to the marine shellfish of both the class Gill and Clam. Li Shizhen said in the Ming Dynasty: "Those who have benefited more than others from all kinds of clams are collectively called clams, with white shells and purple lips, or with patterns on their shells, so they are called clams or flower clams." Mei Yaochen, a poet in the Song Dynasty, once wrote a poem "The chariot and the moon clam were sent from Hailing County". When Emperor Qianlong of Qing Dynasty went to the south of the Yangtze River, he ate Meretrix meretrix in Gusu and named it "the freshest in the world".

Meretrix meretrix, which lives on the beach with low salinity in shallow water, is hermaphroditic. Its gonad matures from June to July, and its sperm and eggs are fertilized and hatched in seawater. After three weeks, the young clam enters the sand bottom to inhabit. It takes two or three years from young clams to mature clams. Young clams move from the tide to the tidal flat with a depth of more than ten meters. The optimum water temperature is 15-25 degrees, and they feed on algae and plankton. When they grow up, they gradually migrate to the subtidal zone, often exposing the sand surface at ordinary times, and diving into the bottom of the sand for the winter in winter, but leaving pores for ventilation.

Meretrix meretrix has a colorful fan-shaped shell, and its meat is tender and rich in nutrition. It contains 1% of protein, 11.2% of fat, 2.5% of carbohydrates and calcium, phosphorus and amino acids necessary for human body. Its taste is fresh but not vulgar, and it is never tired of eating. Eating Meretrix meretrix can stimulate appetite, promote lactation and keep fit, and has the functions of clearing away heat, resolving phlegm, promoting diuresis and dispersing clams. The colorful Baker can be used as the exquisite packaging box of clam oil, and can also be made into handicrafts in the elegant hall.

There are many ways to eat Meretrix meretrix, which can be used as the main course to stir-fry quickly. Or as a side dish, color and taste; Or pickled with seasoning and eaten raw; Or chop it into paste and fry it into cakes. Especially in recent years, Rudong Pharmaceutical Factory has developed it into a fine powder with the title of "the best in the world", which is well-known at home and abroad.

People who were born and grew up by the sea are used to eating it now. After they wash clam shell, they marinate it with salt. When they wash it, they add soju, sesame oil, soy sauce, vinegar, ginger and white sugar to it, and it becomes the best appetizer. But strangers are all stunned and afraid to avoid it, but after a long time, they can't stand the temptation, and they are full of "heroic spirit" of "only sacrificing more". After closing my eyes and swallowing a few, I suddenly felt that my eyes were wide open and I met you late. The seaside people also have good skills in making clam sauce. Put the fresh clam in a jar or bottle, add salt, ginger, onion, wine and other condiments, seal the mouth, put it in a cool and ventilated place, and after a period of time, open the lid and secrete the fragrance, which will make your mouth water and increase your appetite. This sauce can be given to relatives and friends, or used as the main course for coastal people to eat in the morning and evening while working in the mainland. No wonder the homesickness of coastal people is so strong, which can be seen.

On the vast South Yellow Beach, with the ebb of the tide, some people rush to the sea with iron planers on their shoulders and net bags in their hands, and a golden bull emerges on this day. Some of them leaned on their shoulders with iron planers, dragged back quickly, and with the sound coming from the sand, they quickly hooked each clam into the net pocket. Some people only step on Meretrix meretrix with their feet. After stepping on the sand and mud on the beach, Meretrix meretrix naturally exposes the sand surface, and then picks it up into the net bag one by one by hand. People are talking while stepping on clams. Laughing, singing, full of poetry. Reform and opening up have brought new development opportunities and injected new "vitality" into the people of the South Yellow Sea. Nantong people have brought Meretrix meretrix into the international market, making it truly "the freshest in the world". Take Rudong, a famous clam producing area in China, as an example. In addition to the natural clam breeding sea surface, the county has an artificial breeding area of more than 5, mu and an annual export of more than 6 million tons, making it the largest clam production base in China. In recent years, the tourism department of Nantong City has launched stepping on Meretrix meretrix as a special tourism activity, with a beautiful name of "Disco at Sea", which is unique at home and abroad, integrating viewing, sports and flavor, and has attracted a large number of domestic and foreign tourists and become a beautiful landscape in the South Yellow Sea.

※ Baipu "Sanxiangzhai" dried tea

(referred to as Baipu dried tea for short)

It has a history of more than 3 years, and it is a well-known traditional local specialty in Nantong. "Baipu Tea Dried" is made of high-quality soybeans and various spices. It contains high-quality protein which is easy to be digested by human body, vitamins B1, B2, calcium, phosphorus, iron, etc. It also contains unsaturated fatty acids which are lacking in animal food, which can make up for the defects of animal dishes and is extremely beneficial to supplement human body and nutrition. Dried tea is delicious, fragrant, tough, beautiful in color, square and thin in shape, unique, economical and well-known, and very popular among the masses.

※ Nantong peach-embedded sesame cake

is made of sesame powder, sugar, fried rice flour and walnut kernel. Two pieces per catty, each with 5 pieces up and down, each piece is golden in color, evenly inlaid with peaches, fragrant, sweet, loose and crisp. Dry eating, crisp and sweet, has a strong sesame fragrance, soaked in food, fragrant, refreshing but not greasy, and sesame, peach kernel and other raw materials, containing 17.7% protein 15.8% fat, 37.1% sucrose, can be described as color, fragrance, taste and rich nutrition. Peach-embedded sesame cakes are said to have a history of more than a hundred years. At that time, there was a man named Xu and Songfu in Tongzhou City, who set up a "Dingtai" grocery store in the east gate, mainly producing tea, food and cakes, and also had shops in other places. Later, Xu Shi donated an official to the Qing government, and often paid tribute to fine refreshments. Only the peach-inlaid sesame cake made by Master Tong Gang is famous for its fine selection of materials, exquisite processing, delicious taste and distinctive features. Since then, Nantong "Dingtai" sesame cake has been known as "official refreshment" and is famous all over the world. After the advent of crisp cakes, sesame cakes and crisp cakes are comparable, which are two famous specialty products in Nantong, attracting more and more interest from Chinese and foreign people and overseas Chinese.

※ Xiting Crispy

Formerly known as Fulong Maobaicui, it was first produced in Guangxu period of Qing Dynasty, with a history of more than 1 years, and its origin is Xiting Town, Tongzhou City. Won the gold medal at the 95 International Food Expo. This kind of crisp cake is exquisite in material selection, fine in processing, unique in shape, distinct in layers, sweet, crisp and nutritious. It is a high-quality food for family consumption, travel and gifts to relatives and friends.

※ Shigang Rufu

The product is Huang Liang in color, delicious in taste, mellow and refreshing, with tight outer skin and tender meat. It has always been a traditional home-cooked food.

※ bonsai

Nantong bonsai can be divided into Rupai bonsai and Tongpai bonsai. The remarkable feature of Nantong bonsai is that it is made of Podocarpus pinnatifida (commonly known as Podocarpus pinnatifida), which is a pattern of "two bends and a half", that is, the trunk climbs into two bends and a half, with three main branches on each bend, and each branch is tied into a flat piece like a cloud. It looks like a lion, dignified and steady, like a three-dimensional painting, which is deeply loved by the people.

※ Rugao Ham

Rugao Ham was produced in the early years of Xianfeng, Qing Dynasty, and it is as famous as Zhejiang Jinhua Ham and Yunnan Xuanwei Ham, and it is one of the three famous legs in China. Rugao ham is thin-skinned and thin-clawed, with a rustling shape, a red color and a unique flavor. It is famous at home and abroad for its color, fragrance, taste, shape and "four unique". It can be stored all the year round for four seasons. Cooking can be steaming, boiling, stewing, simmering, frying, stewing and burning. Generally, stewing and cooking are better.

※ Rugao sausage

Rushi sausage is Rugao sausage with a history of more than 1 years. Its products are well-known all over the country, and it has been rated as a high-quality and famous product by the Ministry of Commerce and Jiangsu Province. Its characteristics are: neat strips, tight meat quality, bright color, moderate saltiness and sweetness, rich flavor, rich nutrition, fine meat chewed but not old, fat meat oily but not greasy, which is deeply loved by the masses.

Rugao sausage has a long history and is one of the famous varieties in China. Its production began in the Tongye period of Qing Dynasty and has a history of more than 1 years. In the late Qing Dynasty, he won the second prize of "Nanyang Persuasion Association". It can be compared with "Cantonese" sausage and is called "Rushi" sausage. Rugao Meat Factory inherits and develops the traditional technology, carefully develops the new formula, and the product quality enjoys a good reputation at home and abroad. The "Rugao" sausage has been continuously rated as a famous and special quality product of the Ministry of Commerce since 1982, won the National Silver Award in 1985, the Gold Award in China Food Expo in 1988 and the Gold Award in Hong Kong International Food Expo in 1992.

※ Rugao meat floss

The production of Rugao meat floss was founded in 1914 and was produced by Rugao Meat Joint Factory after the founding of the People's Republic of China. Originally "Taicang style" meat floss, due to continuous improvement of production technology and development of the best formula, Rugao meat floss has formed its own unique flavor. Since 1982, "Jinmei brand" dried meat floss has been continuously rated as a famous and special quality product of the Ministry of Commerce; In 1985, he won the gold medal of honor awarded by the International Cuisine Society and the Tourism and Tourism Committee in Paris, which was the first gold medal for meat food in China. In 1988, he won the gold medal in the first China Food Expo.

※ Lin Zichao Cake

Lin Zichao Cake was founded in the year of Renzi, Yongzheng, Qing Dynasty (AD 1732) and has a history of more than 2 years. It is a specialty of Jiangsu and a famous spot in northern Jiangsu, and it is famous in the north and south of the river. The book "Famous Dishes in Jiangsu" was introduced. Lin Zichao's cake is made of high-quality glutinous rice and polished round rice, mixed with white sugar, Jin Guihua, pine nuts and shredded red and green melons, laid with lotus leaves, made into round cake blanks, finely cut with knives and steamed with water. When it comes out of the cage, it doesn't stick to your hands, and its elasticity is like sponge. It is fragrant with rice, Gui Xiang and lotus, refreshing, fragrant but not turbid, sweet but not greasy, soft and refreshing, and pure in flavor. It is not only a delicious snack, but also an excellent gift for friends and relatives.

※ Rugao radish

The white radish planted by Rugao people has a history of at least thousands of years. According to legend, in the Taihe period of the Tang Dynasty (827- 836), monks from Dinghui Temple in Rugao had planted radish as an offering and gave it to the donor, which was called Cai Zi, and its seeds were called Cai Zi for medicinal purposes. Later, it gradually spread among the people and was widely planted. Rugao County Records, edited in 175 by Qing Qianlong, said: "Radish, a famous vegetable bowl, has two kinds, red and white, which can be planted at all seasons, but the last autumn is good, and the armor can be used for food. Those who have little soil are sweet and crisp, and those who have barren soil are hard and spicy." Nowadays, there are few carrots planted, and only a few are listed around Duanyang Festival, mainly white carrots.

※ Dong Tang

Dong Tang was made by Dong Xiaowan, my concubine who was a patriotic celebrity in Rugao in the late Ming Dynasty, so it was called Dong Tang. It is characterized by easy entrance, crisp and sweet taste, long aftertaste and rich nutrition. It has been well-known in Xian Yi for more than 3 years.

※ Menthol

Mint products with mint as raw material are important raw materials for medicine and health, daily chemical industry and food industry. The white bear brand menthol produced by Nantong Mint Oil Factory has been overwhelming the natural or synthetic menthol in Brazil, the United States, Japan and other countries with stable quality for many years, thus winning the national product gold award in succession.

※ Wang's Bao Akamaru

product is a traditional pediatric medicine handed down by the famous doctor Wang in Nantong. It is made of authentic medicinal materials selected by Nantong Pharmaceutical General Factory and specially supervised by Professor Wang Mianzhi, the successor of the secret recipe. It is specially used to treat infantile malnutrition, cold and fever, phlegm syncope, cough and phlegm, anorexia, vomiting and diarrhea, constipation and other symptoms. Since 1983, it has won the National Silver Award continuously. It is sold in all pharmacies in the city.

※ Jidesheng snake tablets

The products are made according to the secret recipe of snake doctor Ji Desheng, and produced by Nantong Pharmaceutical General Factory, which is a national silver medal product. It is sold in all pharmacies in the city. The medicine is specially used for treating poisoning caused by bites of Agkistrodon halys, cobras and Agkistrodon acutus, and swelling and pain caused by bites of poisonous insects such as scorpions and centipedes.

※ The canned anchovy

product is a famous brand product produced by Nantong Canning Factory, which won the first place in the national quality appraisal and sold well in Hong Kong, Australia, the United States and other places. This canned fish is full, uniform in size, neatly arranged, bright in color, fragrant and nutritious, and it is a good accompaniment.

※ Blue printed cloth

China folk traditional craft printing and dyeing products were called medicinal patch cloth in the Song Dynasty and flower watering cloth in the Ming Dynasty, and it is said that they were invented by Jiading-Gui Xing. Nantong is the main producing area of blue calico in China, and homespun and natural bluegrass are common things for farmers, so the blue calico dyeing workshops in Qianzhuang Houfang once spread all over rural market towns. Blue calico is mainly used to make daily clothes, quilts, mosquito nets, pillowcases, wrapping cloth and so on. The patterns of blue calico are simple, beautiful and auspicious, and most of them are based on animals and birds, flowers, trees and myths and legends, such as: Five Blessingg (bat) holding longevity, Jiqing Youyou (fish), lion rolling hydrangea, carp jumping over the dragon gate, etc. Nowadays, the blue printed fabric has developed from single-sided printing to double-sided printing, from monochrome to multi-color, from small cloth to wide cloth, from homespun to fine cotton grey cloth and cotton-linen blended cloth. There are more and more varieties of colors, such as blue printed door curtains, wall hangings, tablecloths, shoes and hats, handbags, toys and other handicrafts, especially blue printed cloth fashion, which has become a beautiful landscape in the city.

※ Tie-dyeing

Tie-dyeing is an ancient handicraft, which first appeared in Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, prevailed in the Tang Dynasty, and was banned by Emperor Renzong of the Northern Song Dynasty because of the extravagance and labor of tie-dyeing clothes. In the early 197s, Nantong first resumed tie-dyeing production, and continued to innovate, making tie-dyeing techniques more perfect. Tie-dyeing can be divided into two categories: tying and sewing. Tie-tying is also called caviar. It uses thread to wrap around and tie four knots on a small point with a large grain of rice in sequence, which requires high technology and the product is full of three-dimensional and elasticity. Sewing and twisting is to use needle and thread to walk through according to the designed pattern and shape, draw tight and dye, the decorative pattern is lively and generous, and the charm is vivid and natural. Tie-dyed products are rich and varied, including fashion, ties, scarves, handbags and other daily necessities, as well as precious handicrafts such as kimonos, belts and wall hangings. There are both silk products and cotton and linen fabrics.

※ Crocheting clothes

One of Nantong's traditional handmade products, it has a reputation as an oriental treasure. Collusion techniques originated from the fishing net collusion of coastal women in ancient times, and later colluded with simple daily necessities such as children's socks, hair covers and tobacco bag covers. Now, various techniques such as hooking, embroidery, inlaying, mending and stitching are integrated, and people, landscapes, flowers, feathers and various patterns can collude. The crochet and pattern are delicate and beautiful, with strong three-dimensional sense, which not only has the solemnity and elegance of traditional crafts, but also has the magnificence and elegance of modern art. At present, tens of thousands of women in Hai 'an and Rudong are engaged in needle knitting. Hai 'an Meile brand crochet clothes have provincial and ministerial quality product certificates and sell well in more than ten countries and regions such as Japan and the United States.

※ Embroidery

In p>1914, Shen Shou, a famous embroidery artist, came to Laitong to hold a workshop on needlework, which trained a large number of embroidery artists for Nantong. Nantong embroidery inherits the excellent tradition of Shen Shou's imitation embroidery, and is famous for its portrait embroidery, which has the characteristics of both form and spirit, vivid skin color, even and fine needle movement, bright and flat embroidery surface and so on. Nantong Institute of Arts and Crafts has also created a new embroidery product, New Splendid, on the basis of ancient folk stippling and embroidery, which is more decorative and practical when combined with modern drawings. The Wan Li Map of the Great Wall made by the Institute for Beijing Great Wall Hotel has become an important scene of the hotel.

※ Baipu yellow rice wine

Baipu yellow rice wine has a history of thousands of years and is known as "liquid bread". Baipu yellow rice wine is brewed with pure rice, with unique technology and the essence of Millennium brewing, which is rich in more than 2 kinds of amino acids and trace elements indispensable to human body. The essential function of human body is as high as 255 mg in 8 amino acids yellow rice wine ingested from food. Its alcohol content is low, and it can strengthen the spirit and wake up the spirit, relax the muscles and promote blood circulation, protect the spleen and strengthen the body. "Shuiminglou" brand Baipu yellow rice wine is a high-quality product in Jiangsu Province, which is mainly protected and exported inspection-free products. Zenghuo