Baoding's specialties include Mancheng strawberries, donkey meat barbecue, Baiyangdian leather eggs, Tangxian jujubes, Baiyunzhang buns, Baiyangdian reed weavings, Liu Lingdrunken, Dacigu scented oil, Gaobeidian shredded bean curd, white meat hooded barbecue, and iron balls.

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Baoding, anciently known as Shanggu, Baozhou, and Baofu, and also known as the Boot City because of its boot-like city, is located in the center of Hebei Province, at the eastern foothills of the Taihang Mountains, and is the center of the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region

Baoding and Beijing together, Baoding's name from the "defense of the metropolis, stabilizing the world", has always been the capital of the capital city and the "south gate"; there is a "northern control of the three passes, the south of the nine provinces, the gui and auxiliary important land, the capital of the South Ping Han". Qing Dynasty, Baoding for the capital of Zhili Province, is the residence of the Governor of Zhili, since 1669 to 1968, three hundred years, for the political, economic, cultural and military center of Hebei, as well as the regional political center of China, after the establishment of new China is also twice for the capital of Hebei Province.