Changzhou has been a city with developed handicrafts since ancient times. Traditional handicrafts such as Changzhou comb grate, green bamboo carving, miniature carving, and random stitch embroidery all have strong local characteristics and artistic taste. The newly developed ostrich egg handicrafts, cloisonné craft paintings, and dinosaur series tourist souvenirs

Each has its own characteristics.

I believe those who are familiar with Changzhou will know that Changzhou’s dried radish, sesame candy and hemp cake are also popular in Shanghai. Fish heads, wind goose, white celery and other green and pollution-free foods from Tianmu Lake in Liyang are also popular in Shanghai.

In addition, Changdele meat floss and Chenfeng silk are also good gifts for relatives and friends.

Changzhou has large shopping malls such as the Shopping Center and New Century Department Store, as well as shopping malls specializing in tourist products such as Changzhou Arts and Crafts Mall and Bu Hengshun Comb Store.

There are tourist souvenir and tourist specialty shopping malls in the China Dinosaur Park and Tianmu Lake Tourist Resort, which can fully meet your shopping needs.

Dried radish, a native product. People who have been to Changzhou will say: "There is a strange thing in Changzhou. Dried radish is used as a side dish with wine." Authentic Changzhou dried radish is made from sweet and tender solid carrots produced in Xinzha, Ximenwai, Changzhou. It is washed and cut.

Strips, moderately dried, carefully marinated with unique seasonings.

Sesame candy, inch gold candy, gun tube candy, pouring slices series Nantang Changzhou sesame candy, inch gold candy, gun tube candy, pouring slices have a long history and unique flavor.

The materials are carefully selected and the production is exquisite.

It is required that the sesame seeds are fully covered without exposing the skin, and both ends are sealed so that the filling does not leak out.

The sugar layer is porous but not stiff, and the taste is sweet and crispy without sticking to the teeth. It is a good gift for home travel and as a gift to relatives and friends.

"Zhuqi" brand goose "Zhuqi" brand goose meat series products are made from local geese from real estate farmers. On the basis of inheriting traditional craftsmanship, they use the latest meat processing technology and are processed and refined through scientific methods.

The goose meat series products include more than 20 varieties in three categories: wind goose, sauce goose and salt water goose.

This series of products maintains the four major characteristics of traditional flavor goose: color, aroma, taste and shape. It is authentic and has endless aftertaste after eating.

Bamboo Shoots In the Nanshan area of ??Liyang, there are tens of thousands of acres of moso bamboo, which is the main base for producing large quantities of winter and spring bamboo shoots.

Peel off the shell of the bamboo shoots, and all the white and tender meat will be exposed. Cut it into pieces, strips, slices, and shreds. It is a popular food when cooked alone or mixed with meat and other condiments.

If spring bamboo shoots are boiled, dried and stored, they can be regarded as a good dish in summer and autumn.

Cress Liyang cress is of excellent quality. People eat its white and tender stems and leaves, which can be stir-fried with meat or vegetables. Among them, stir-fried celery and stir-fried celery are popular in winter and spring due to their complete color, aroma, taste and shape.

The popular seasonal dishes on the table are known as the best in Jiangnan cuisine.

Chestnut Liyang Nanshan chestnut's scientific name is "Pearl Chestnut". It is famous for its thin shell, large fruit, bright brown color and sweet taste.

Among them, the freshly grown chestnuts before the Mid-Autumn Festival are the best. Their skin is light yellow and crisp and tender when eaten raw. When cooked with ingredients, they become more fragrant, soft and palatable, and taste like osmanthus, so they are also called "osmanthus chestnuts".

Watermelon Liyang watermelon was already famous in the Qing Dynasty. By the 1950s, it was selling well on the Shanghai-Nanjing line.

"Sumi No. 1" and "Sumi No. 1" were introduced successively. Liyang watermelon has a thin skin, few seeds, sweet flesh and juicy juice. If you cut the watermelon with a kitchen knife, it will split into pairs as soon as the blade touches the skin. It is commonly known as "explosion melon".

Crabs The crabs from Changdang Lake have green backs and white bellies, and strong claws and strong claws.

After the Mid-Autumn Festival, it is large, yellow, fat, and delicate in texture, making it a good food on the table.

Craft products Comb grate The general name of comb grate is "comb", which is one of the eight major hair accessories in ancient my country.

A proverb goes: "Yangzhou Rouge Suzhou Flower, Changzhou's first comb and grate." Changzhou comb and grate began in the Jin Dynasty and has a history of more than 1,600 years. In the past, it was a treasure used by the palace.

Therefore, it is known as the "grate of the palace comb". It is a traditional handicraft and a "special product of Yanling".

Brick-engraved screen Brick-engraved screen is a kind of seal carving art that carves Chinese stele texts and Chinese painting images on ancient bricks from the Ming and Qing Dynasties, and then adds a seat screen and a hanging screen made of exquisite mahogany carvings.

The brick-engraved screen is light in weight, small in size, and easy to carry. Its appearance is simple and elegant. The image has the strong masculinity of Han Dynasty inscriptions and portrait stones, and the metal and stone atmosphere of ancient inscriptions. It has high artistic value.

Cloisonné Filigree Painting Cloisonné - In ancient times, it was called metal body enamelware.

Metal tire filigree painting uses traditional pure manual filigree technology to construct the picture on the bottom of the metal material. The main color and background color of the picture adopt modern new technology and color matching techniques. The picture is clear, novel, rich in color and has a strong three-dimensional effect.

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Random stitch embroidery Random stitch embroidery was founded in 1928 by Professor Yang Shouyu, cousin of my country's contemporary art master Mr. Liu Haisu, after years of exploration.

The acupuncture technique seems chaotic and irregular when viewed up close, but when viewed from a distance, it has a strong sense of three-dimensionality, lifelike and ready to be drawn out, and intricate and delicate.

Chinese Colorful Velvet Painting Chinese Colorful Velvet Painting is a new kind of arts and crafts in my country with strong local characteristics of the Chinese nation and folk. It was first created by Mr. Zong Baiyi of Changzhou Colorful Velvet Painting Research Institute in 1972.

This type of painting combines traditional crafts with modern materials and modern art. It uses materials with strong wool texture such as wool, acrylic, and nylon as colors, and uses various techniques such as scraping, combing, tearing, pasting, gluing, and stacking to integrate painting.

, relief, inlay and other techniques, the shape is unique, the image is vivid, the three-dimensional effect is strong, the color is rich, not easy to fade, the tone is elegant and suitable for the theme.

Liuqing Bamboo Carving Liuqing Bamboo Carving is commonly known as painting on bamboo skin with a knife. It is a precious traditional handicraft in Changzhou. Due to its high content of handicrafts and exquisite craftsmanship, it has been cherished by the court nobles in the past. It has won many national gold and silver awards in the art and crafts competition in the present day.

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