Nantong is adjacent to the Yellow Sea in the east, and there are hundreds of shallow-water shellfish, especially meretrix meretrix, on the 6.5438+0.3 million hectares of tidal flat, accounting for one third of China's exports.

Meretrix meretrix, nicknamed "the freshest in the world", belongs to gill and clam. Li Shizhen in the Ming Dynasty said: "Those who benefit more from all kinds of mussels are collectively called mussels, whose shells are white and purple, or whose shells have patterns, so they are called mussels or flower mussels." Mei, a poet in the Song Dynasty, once wrote a poem "Cheyue mussels sent to Hailing". When Emperor Qianlong of the Qing Dynasty went down to the south of the Yangtze River, he ate clam in Gusu, named it "the freshest in the world".

Meretrix meretrix, which lives in shallow water and low salinity beach, is hermaphrodite. Its gonads mature in June and July, and the sperm and eggs produced are fertilized and hatched in seawater. Three weeks later, the young mussels enter the bottom of the sand to live. It takes two or three years from young mussels to mature mussels. Young mussels move from the tide to the beach more than ten meters deep. Optimum water temperature 15-25 degrees. They feed on algae and plankton. When they grow up, they gradually migrate to the subtidal zone. Usually, the sand surface is bare. In winter, they will dive to the bottom of the sand for about twenty or thirty centimeters for the winter, but they have breathable pores.

The shell of Meretrix meretrix is like a colorful fan, with fresh meat and rich nutrition. It contains protein 10%, fat 1 1.2%, carbohydrate 2.5% and calcium, phosphorus and amino acids necessary for human body. It tastes fresh but not vulgar, and you can't get tired of eating it. Eating Meretrix meretrix can stimulate appetite, promote lactation, strengthen the body, and has the functions of clearing away heat and resolving phlegm, inducing diuresis and dispersing clam. Colorful roasters can be used as exquisite packaging boxes in clam oil, and can also be made into handicrafts in elegant halls.

There are many ways to eat clams, which can be quickly fried as the main course; Or as a side dish, full of color and flavor; 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 enjoys a good reputation at home and abroad.

People born and raised by the sea are used to eating now. After the mussel shells are washed, they are salted and washed with soju, sesame oil, soy sauce, vinegar, ginger and sugar, which becomes the best snack. However, strangers are too surprised to avoid it, but after a long time, they can't stand the temptation and are full of "heroism" of "only sacrificing more". I closed my eyes and swallowed a few mouthfuls. Suddenly I felt my eyes were wide open and I met you too late. The seaside people are also good at 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 while, open the lid and secrete fragrance, which will make your mouth water and your appetite greatly increase. This kind of sauce can be given to relatives and friends, and can also be used as a main course for coastal people to eat in the morning and evening when they work 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 rushed to the sea with iron planes on their shoulders and net bags in their hands, flocking to the sea where a Taurus appeared on this day. Some of them leaned on their shoulders with iron planers and dragged them back quickly. With the sound coming from the sand, they quickly hooked the clams into the net bag. Some people only step on clams with their feet. After stepping on the sand and mud on the beach, the clam naturally exposes the sand surface, and then picks it up one by one by hand and puts it into the net bag. People talk 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 brought Meretrix meretrix into the international market, and truly achieved "the best in the world". Take Rudong, a famous clam producing area in China, as an example. In addition to the natural Meretrix meretrix culture sea surface, the county has an artificial culture area of more than 500,000 mu and an annual export of more than 60 million tons, making it the largest Meretrix meretrix production base in China. In recent years, the tourism department of Nantong City has launched a special tourism activity of stepping on Meretrix meretrix, which has a beautiful name "Sea Disco", which is unique at home and abroad, integrating viewing, sports and flavor, attracting a large number of domestic and foreign tourists and becoming a beautiful landscape in the South Yellow Sea.

Baipu "Sanxiangzhai" dry tea

(short for Baipu dry tea)

Up to now, it has a history of more than 300 years and is a famous traditional local product in Nantong. "Baipu Tea Dried" is made of high-quality soybeans and various spices. It contains high-quality protein, vitamin B 1, B2, calcium, phosphorus, iron and so on, which are easily digested by human body. It also contains unsaturated fatty acids lacking in animal food, which can make up for the defects of animal dishes and is extremely beneficial to supplement human body and nutrition. Dry tea is delicious, fragrant, tough, beautiful in color, square and fine in shape, unique, economical and well-known, and deeply loved by the masses.

Nantong xiangtao sesame seed cake

It is made of sesame powder, sugar, fried rice flour and walnut kernel. Two pieces per catty, 50 pieces from top to bottom, each piece is golden in color, evenly inlaid with peaches, fragrant, sweet, loose and crisp. Dry eating, crisp and sweet, has a strong sesame flavor, soaked, fragrant, refreshing but not greasy, as well as sesame seeds, peach kernels and other raw materials, including protein 17.7% fat 15.8% and sucrose 37. 1%, which can be described as excellent in color, fragrance, taste and nutrition. Peach-embedded sesame seed cake is said to have a history of more than 100 years. At that time, a man named Xu and Song Fu in Tongzhou City opened a "Tai Ding" grocery store in the East Gate, which mainly produced tea, food and cakes, and also had shops in other places. Later, Xu Shi donated money to the Qing government and often presented exquisite refreshments. Only the peach-inlaid sesame seed cake made by Master Tong Gang is famous for its fine selection of materials, exquisite processing, delicious taste and distinctive features. Since then, Nantong "Tai Ding" sesame seed cake has been known as "official dim sum" and is famous all over the world. After the advent of shortbread, sesame cake and shortbread are comparable, and they are two famous specialties in Nantong, which have attracted more and more interest from Chinese and foreign people and overseas Chinese.

Xitingsu pancake

Formerly known as Long Fu Mao Baicui, it was first born in Guangxu period of Qing Dynasty, with a history of 100 years, and its origin is Xiting Town, Tongzhou City. Won the gold medal of' 95 International Food Expo. This kind of crisp cake is exquisite in material selection, fine in processing, unique in shape, distinct in layers, sweet and crisp, and rich in nutrition. It is a high-quality food for family consumption, travel and gifts to relatives and friends.

Shi gang ru fu

The product has Huang Liang color, delicious taste, mellow and refreshing taste, firm skin and tender meat. It has always been a traditional home cooking.

potted landscape

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

Rugao ham

Rugao ham production began in the early years of Xianfeng in Qing Dynasty, and it is as famous as Zhejiang Jinhua ham and Yunnan Xuanwei ham. It is one of the three famous legs in China. Rugao ham has thin skin and claws, rustling shape, bright red color and unique flavor. It is famous at home and abroad for its color, fragrance, taste, shape and "four wonders". It can be stored all year round. Cooking can be steaming, boiling, stewing, simmering, frying, stewing and burning. Generally, stew is better.

Rugao sausage

Shiruxiang sausage is Rugao sausage with a history of 100 years. Its products are well-known all over the country, and are rated as high-quality and famous products of the Ministry of Commerce and Jiangsu Province. Its characteristics are: neat strips, compact meat, bright color, moderate saltiness and sweetness, rich flavor, rich nutrition, tender and chewy meat, oily but not greasy fat, 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 Tongzhi period of Qing Dynasty, with a history of 100 years. In the late Qing Dynasty, he won the second prize of "Nanyang Persuasion Society". It can be compared with "Cantonese" sausage, and is called "Shi Ru" sausage. Rugao Meat Factory inherits and develops traditional techniques, carefully develops new recipes, and its product quality enjoys a good reputation at home and abroad. The "Rugao" sausage produced has been continuously rated as a famous product of the Ministry of Commerce since 1982, won the national silver award in 1985, won the gold medal in China Food Expo in 1988 and won the gold medal in Hong Kong International Food Expo in 1992.

Rugao rousong

Rugao meat floss production was founded in 19 14, and was produced by Rugao Meat Joint Factory after the founding of the People's Republic of China. Rugao meat floss was originally a "Taicang style" meat floss. Due to the continuous improvement of production technology and the development of the best formula, it formed its own unique flavor. Since 1982, "Jinmei brand" meat floss has been continuously rated as a famous and excellent product of the Ministry of Commerce; 1985 was awarded the honorary gold medal by the Paris International Culinary Institute and the Tourism and Tourism Commission, which was the first gold medal for meat food in China. 1988 won the gold medal in the first China Food Expo.

tall

Lin Zichao bakery was founded in Yongzheng period of Qing Dynasty (A.D. 1732) and has a history of more than 200 years. It is a specialty of Jiangsu and a famous spot in northern Jiangsu, which is famous in the north and south of the country. This paper introduces the book Jiangsu Famous Cuisine. Lin Zichao's cakes are made of high-quality glutinous rice and japonica rice, with white sugar, Jin Guihua, pine nuts and shredded red and green melons, covered with lotus leaves, made into round cakes, finely cut with a knife and steamed with water. When it comes out of the cage, it won't stick to your hand, and its elasticity is like a sponge. There are rice fragrance, Gui Xiang fragrance and lotus fragrance, which are refreshing, fragrant but not turbid, sweet but not greasy, soft and refreshing, and pure in taste. It is not only a delicious snack, but also an excellent gift for friends and relatives.

Rugao radish

Rugao white radish has a history of at least thousands of years. According to legend, during the Taihe period of the Tang Dynasty (827- 836), monks in Dinghui Temple in Rugao planted radishes as offerings and gave them to donors, which were called rapeseed, and their seeds were called rapeseed as medicine. Later, it gradually spread among the people and was widely planted. "Rugao County Records" compiled by Qing Gan Long Gengwu (1750) records: "Radish, a famous dish, has two kinds of red and white, which can be planted in all seasons, only the last autumn is good, and A is edible. Those with little soil are sweet and crisp, and those with poor soil are hard and spicy. " Carrots are rarely planted now, and few are listed before and after Duanyang Festival, mainly white carrots.

Dongtang

Dong Tang was made by the concubine of Rugao patriotic celebrity Dong Xiaowan who ventured across the border 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 a history of more than 300 years in Xian Yi.

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 overwhelmed 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 medal continuously.

Wangshibao Akamaru

This product is the ancestral pediatric medicine of Nantong famous family doctor Wang. Developed by Nantong Pharmaceutical General Factory, the secret recipe is exclusively supervised by Professor Wang Mianzhi. It is specially used for treating infantile galactorrhea, cold and fever, phlegm syncope, asthma and cough, anorexia, vomiting and diarrhea, constipation, etc. Since 1983, it has won the national silver award continuously. All pharmacies in this city sell them.

Jidesheng snake tablets

This product is made according to the secret recipe of Ji Desheng, a snake doctor, and produced by Nantong Pharmaceutical Factory. It is a national silver award product. All pharmacies in this city sell them. The medicine is specially used for treating bite poisoning caused by Agkistrodon halys, cobras and Agkistrodon acutus, and swelling and pain caused by poisonous insect bites such as scorpions and centipedes.

Canned anchovies

This 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, Macau and the United States. This canned fish is full, uniform in size, neatly arranged, bright in color, rich in flavor and rich in nutrition, and it is a good seasoning.

A blue cloth with a white pattern

China folk traditional craft printing and dyeing products, known as medicinal patch in the Song Dynasty and flower watering cloth in the Ming Dynasty, are said to have been invented by Jiading-Guixing. Nantong is the main producing area of blue calico in China, and homespun and natural bluegrass are farmers' daily routine, so the blue calico dyeing workshops in Qianzhuang Houfang were 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 pattern of blue calico is simple, beautiful and auspicious, with birds and animals, flowers and trees and myths and legends as the themes, such as: Five Blessingg (bat) holding longevity, Qing Ji Youyou (fish), lion rolling hydrangea, carp yue longmen and so on. Nowadays, blue printed cloth has developed from single-sided printing to double-sided printing, from monochrome to multicolor, 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 calico door curtain, wall hanging, tablecloth, shoes and hats, handbags, toys and other handicrafts, especially blue calico fashion, which has become a beautiful landscape of the city.

tie-dye

Tie-dyeing is an ancient handicraft, which was first seen in Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties and prevailed in the Tang Dynasty. In the Northern Song Dynasty, Renzong banned it because of its extravagance and labor, which made the tie-dyeing process once lost. In the early 1970s, 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 method and sewing method. Bow tie is also called caviar. It uses thread to wind and tie four knots in turn on a small point as big as a grain of rice, which has high technical requirements and the product is full of three-dimensional sense and elasticity. Stitching and twisting is to use needle and thread to walk through the designed patterns and shapes, and to draw tight and dye them. The patterns are 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.

Crochet coat

Nantong, one of the traditional handmade products, has the reputation of oriental treasure. Collusion originated from the fishing net collusion of ancient coastal women, and then colluded with simple daily necessities such as children's socks, hair covers and cigarette case covers. Now, various techniques such as hooking, embroidery, embedding, mending and sewing are integrated, and figures, landscapes, flowers, feathers and various patterns can be hooked. The crochet and pattern are exquisite and beautiful, with a strong three-dimensional sense. They have both the solemnity and elegance of traditional crafts and the magnificence and elegance of modern art. At present, there are tens of thousands of women engaged in knitting in Hai 'an and Rudong. Haian Lemei brand crochet garments have won provincial and ministerial quality product certificates and are sold well in more than ten countries and regions such as Japan and the United States.

embroidery

19 14, Shen Shou, a famous embroidery artist, came to Laitong to hold a female embroidery workshop, which trained a large number of embroidery artists for Nantong. Nantong embroidery inherits Shen Shou's excellent tradition of imitating embroidery, and is famous for its portrait embroidery, which has the characteristics of both form and spirit, vivid skin color, even and delicate needle movement, bright and flat embroidery surface and so on. Nantong University 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 map of Wan Li Great Wall made by the institute for Beijing Great Wall Hotel has become an important landscape 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, which has a unique technology and inherits the essence of Millennium brewing, and is rich in more than 20 kinds of amino acids and trace elements indispensable to human body. The essential function of human body is as high as 2550 mg in 8 kinds of amino acids yellow rice wine ingested from food. Its alcohol content is low, it can strengthen the mind, relax muscles and tendons, 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 from inspection for export. He has won the gold medal of Tokyo International Food Expo 1993 and Beijing International Food and Processing Technology Expo 1995. Rutong Baipu yellow rice wine is a famous brand product in Nantong, a key protected product, a famous brand product in Jiangsu Province, and a product that users are satisfied with. Baipu yellow rice wine is now sold well in more than 0 provinces and cities nationwide, and some of them are exported, which is favored by consumers.

Nantong kite

Nantong is one of the four major kite producing areas in China. Nantong kite has preserved the ancient characteristics of "the string is blue and the sky is kite" and is famous for its unique acoustic effect. They are divided into two groups, North and South, and the modeling kites are in the north. Nantong kites, commonly known as "Banharriers", are mostly "seven stars" to "nineteen stars" with flat hexagon or hexagonal deformation, and the size is generally more than one meter. The largest kite is four or five meters high and needs to be transported by truck. The banyan tree is covered with whistles of different sizes, and the extra-large whistles at the lower part are made of gourd, bamboo, ginkgo, longan, table tennis and other materials. The surface of the kite is painted with folk paintings such as myths and legends, and the lower part is tied with two tail ropes tens of meters long. An exquisite board kite is a precious folk handicraft, which has been treasured by local people and passed down from generation to generation. The harrier needs a lot of people to pull it to fly. After liftoff, the big whistle, the middle whistle and the small whistle issued low, medium and high notes respectively, and the five tones were harmonious, pleasing to the ear and elegant as an "air symphony".