I am familiar with the name of Chaozhou because I opened a high-density Chaozhou beef hotpot restaurant in Beijing. Chaozhou is in the east of Guangdong Province, next to Fujian. Together with the neighboring Jieyang, Shantou and * * *, it forms the "Chaoshan" area. The town is not big, about half of Guangzhou, and a Hanjiang River runs through the city and flows into the sea. There is also Hanshan next to Hanjiang River, which is named after Han Yu. When I came to Chaozhou, it was early summer, the heat wave was rolling, and there was almost no temperature difference between morning and evening. The humid air is accompanied by the fragrance of plumeria, which tastes like some tourist cities in Southeast Asia. I'm here on business for only two days. Some local colleagues took a stroll to eat, and their footprints were mainly in the ancient city.

The first sentence I learned in Chaozhou dialect is "Jia Dad", which means drinking tea. Tea culture is popular here. It is said that every household will have a sea of tea. When friends and customers come, they can talk while drinking, but it can cover up the embarrassment of occasional silence. When I walked around the streets, all kinds of merchants selling clothes, mobile phones, stationery and vegetables also put a table of tea sea. This kind of mix and match does not seem to be inconsistent in the atmosphere of the market. Buying and selling is not righteous, and entering the door is a guest.

Chaozhou's characteristic tea is called Phoenix Dan Cong, and its name is full of poetry. Interestingly, the cities I visited recently all had their own tea varieties, Biluochun in Suzhou and Longjing in Hangzhou. I didn't know anything about tea, but when I arrived in the local city, I tasted it. Remembering the taste was a bit of a memory for this city.

There are also some herbal tea shops along the street in Chaozhou. The signs list all kinds of symptoms, corresponding to different styles of herbal tea, which seems to cure all diseases. I bought a cup for clearing away heat and relieving cough, and the clerk will ask me in detail whether I cough during the day or at night. The price is not cheap, a small cup is more than 2, with a strong Chinese medicine flavor. It was clearly called herbal tea, but it was very hot and I drank a sweat.

Chaozhou is full of this word, and I don't know its meaning at first. In fact, it is a variety of rice, noodles, and other processed foods. At most, it should be a beef offal kway teow, which is very similar to rice noodles. People here love to eat, and they are good at eating. The friends from Guangzhou, the capital of food, are willing to admit defeat. She said in a circle of friends that she arrived in Chaozhou, and Chaozhou's friends replied to the full screen of dishes. Please repeat after it, and leave your saliva silently.

Beijing's instant-boiled mutton brings sheep to the extreme, and Chaoshan's beef hot pot specializes in playing with various parts of cattle. Snowflake meat is put in a colander, up and down four or five times, and the meat is still bloodshot, so it melts in the mouth. The colander can be placed on the soup to keep warm. While eating, local friends joked that "no cow can leave Chaozhou alive"

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guangji bridge in the daytime is one of the four ancient bridges. due to the limitation of ancient bridge repair technology, the middle of the bridge is connected by boat, which is used for people to pass when connected. When disconnected, it plays the role of flood discharge and navigation. Praised by Mao Yisheng as "the earliest open-close bridge in the world", the Guangji Bridge at night is online celebrity, Tik Tok, with colorful lights shining on the bridge and changing with the beat of music. There are also lights on the Hanshan Mountain behind. Guangji Bridge is really a good marketing case and a business card of Chaozhou. It not only has historical stories, but also caters to the visual preferences of modern young people, giving the ancient bridge a second spring.

It is said that the West is a marine civilization, more individualistic, and pays more attention to rules and integrity, while the East is an agricultural civilization, more collective and more conservative. Chaozhou people should be regarded as an organic combination of the two, which is open to adventure and has a rich tradition. Because it is close to the sea and meets the increasingly dense population, Chaoshan people took the "red-headed boat" to the outside world very early. Among the more than 5 million Chinese living overseas, more than one-fifth are Chaozhou people. chaozhou people occupies a quarter of the wealth in the list of the richest Chinese in the world, and nearly 3 of the top 1 Chinese are from Chaoshan. About 7% of the assets in 11 Southeast Asian countries are in the hands of Chinese, and chaozhou people accounts for about half of them. Therefore, Chaoshan people can confidently say:

Mr. Li Ka-shing is the most famous Chaoshan businessman, and he mainly donated money to repair Guangji Bridge.

When you go to a city with a little history, you will visit the ancient city and feel the life of the old local residents. The appearance of big cities is always the same, with food, clothing, housing and transportation basically unified and chained, drinking Starbucks coffee, visiting wanda plaza, living in Evergrande's house and eating the Golden Arch. In this environment, only the ancient city may find the original unique life style of the local people.

Walking in the alley of the ancient city in the morning, electric bicycles pass by one by one, and the sound of horns makes it difficult to sleep late. There are all kinds of vegetables, freshly killed fish and fruits with unknown names on the food stalls. I found the breakfast stall with the most people, bought a spring roll, and squatted on the street to eat.

Shuttling through Jiadi Lane, I happened to walk into a Chaozhou Folk House Museum. I got tickets for 8 yuan. On the first floor, I introduced some Chaozhou customs, Chaozhou dialect, Kung Fu tea, letters from Chaozhou merchants, Chaozhou music and drama. On the second floor, I was the training base for Chaozhou embroidery, and a group of gray-haired old people were doing embroidery. I don't know whether it's a hobby or a living. The fourth floor overlooks the whole Chaozhou ancient city, with a good view. Nearby, there are layers of old roofs, and in the distance, the tall buildings in the new city overlap with the mountains.

The tastes of ancient cities in different places are very similar, from the hutongs in Beijing, the small bridges and flowing water in Suzhou, and the Kazanqi dwellings in Yili, with a strong flavor of life, which is revealed from the front of the house to the outside of the small streets. It seems that the old objects in every corner have a story waiting for you to discover, but unlike a museum where people can watch through glass, they are still alive.

I don't know which boss has such good imagination and execution. K-songs and foot-kneading are integrated into a new category. There is more than one "K-song foot massage" in Chaozhou. Unfortunately, due to time reasons, there is no time to experience it. But the sour picture is already in my mind. I lie down on the couch with Mike in my hand and my feet in boiling water. A stream of heat flows down my legs to my head, and I feel it. The man clicks "Love when I die" and the girl clicks "Qinghai-Tibet Plateau". Seeing that I can't get on the high notes, the masseur slams Yongquan point, and everything is so perfect.

Travel is a game of finding differences and finding similarities.

there is insight in difference, and insight in the same.

each has his own fun.