First tell you, downtown attractions, the old city Guangyue Tower, must go. Built in the Ming Dynasty Hongwu 7 years (1374), the entire main body of the building, there is not a single iron nail. Pure wood. Inside the enshrinement of Lu Ban, because Lu Ban is the originator of carpentry, and the main staircase, and is pure wood. There's also a Song Dynasty pagoda, which is very old. There is a legend, seems to seem to say that the old man guided the construction of Tai Shang Laojun. Then there is the Shan-Shaan Guild Hall, which epitomizes and bears witness to the commercial prosperity of Liaocheng in the Qing Dynasty. Hall was built in the Qing Dynasty Qianlong eight years (1743), is Shanxi, Shaanxi merchants for the "Sacrifice God and the United Sangzhi" capital construction, from the beginning to the completion of the **** lasted 66 years, consuming more than 92,000 silver two. Hall east-west length of 77 meters, 43 meters wide north-south, covers an area of 3311 square meters. The whole building including the door, over the floor, the theater, the building, the bell and drums two buildings, the north and south to see the building, Guandi Hall, Spring and Autumn Pavilion and other parts of the *** there are pavilions and pavilions more than 160, for the national key cultural relics protection units. In the country's existing guild hall, Liaocheng Shan-Shaanxi Guild Hall building area is not very large, but its exquisite architectural carvings and painting art is rare in the country.

On the top are the three major Chinese key protected cultural relics in the city! There is also the Qing Dynasty, the four major private libraries of the Haiyuange, in addition to the Yangtze River north of Liaocheng's layout is unique. Especially in the old city, surrounded by the lake, now the development of Liaocheng is very good, you can go to Dongchang Lake to walk around, Dongchang Lake is about 4.5 square kilometers large, five times larger than Daming Lake, and Dongchang Lake, and the ancient Canal, connected. Forming a river and lake connection, you can go to the Water City Pearl Theater. In the southwest side of Dongchang Lake. In addition, there are Cao Zhi's tomb in Dong'a, Jingyanggang in Yanggu, and Lion House. Linqing Ancient Canal Riverside seems to have a national minion, specific what name I forgot. Specialties: Jujube

1. Yanggu, Chiping and other counties of the traditional souvenirs, also known as smoked jujube, jiao jujube. It is made of cooked fresh jujubes, boiled, kiln-smoked and cooled. Only kiln smoked 1 process, to be repeated 3 times, lasted 6 days, by "three kiln six times water" can be. After the jujube is made, the color is purple and bright, the pattern is fine, with a special sweet flavor. It is recorded in the old county record: "Eup is the area that produces jujube. Smoked with fresh dates and fire, the operation is especially fine, and it is exported to the southern province, with tens of thousands of bags in a year, making a huge profit." The products are not only supplied locally, but also sold well in Hong Kong, Macao and Southeast Asia and other countries and regions. 2. Carved gourd

Carved gourd: also known as centipede gourd. It is a unique traditional handicraft, which flourished in the late Qing Dynasty. At that time, Liaocheng had a strong culture of raising centipedes, and the sales of centipede gourds were very large. Most of the villages that planted, made and sold gourds were concentrated in 3 places, namely, Chengguan, Yan Temple Town and Liangshui Town in Liaocheng. Carved gourd pattern exquisite, smooth knife, although expensive, but the demand exceeds supply. 1978, artists in the inheritance of traditional craft techniques based on bold innovation, the gourd cut into a variety of shapes, change the flat carving for the carving, so that the pattern of three-dimensional, to create a lot of distinctive new products, so that it becomes a good gift.

Liaocheng brushes

Liaocheng brushes: Liaocheng brushes have a long history, and there are more than 1,000 brush-making workers in the middle of Ming Dynasty. The first scholar of Qing Dynasty, Fu Yijian, who took the examination in Beijing, chose the best brushes in Liaocheng. Emperor Kangxi used Liaocheng brushes to write poems and inscribed a plaque for Guangyue Tower, which shows that Liaocheng brushes were famous at that time. There are more than 200 kinds of brushes produced in Liaocheng, with different sizes. According to the specifications, there is the largest brush, the "Grasping Brush", which can write 3-feet long characters, and there is also the fly-head small-case brush, which can write small, pea-like characters. According to the production of different raw materials can be divided into "sheep hair", "wolf hair", "both hair", "seven purple three sheep" and so on. Liaocheng brushes, in addition to a few pure sheep's hair regular pen, basically all along the Three Kingdoms period "Wei Yan method" production, after 72 procedures, the finished product. It is characterized by beautiful appearance, rigid and flexible, strong ink absorption, durability, with fine brushes unique "pointed, Qi, round, healthy" 4 virtue, is the best calligraphy and painting. 1955 was named the province's first product of its kind. It not only sells well at home, but also has been sold to Hong Kong and Japan through Qingdao, Shanghai, Guangzhou and other ports for 5 times. Famous calligraphers Shu Tong and Yang Xuan Ting have written many masterpieces with Liaocheng brushes. 5. Old Tofu

The famous food of Gaotang is also called tofu brain. It is made of fine, unique ingredients and has a distinctive flavor. Its characteristics are: tofu white and bright, tender and not loose, brine clear and not light, oil fragrant and not greasy; eating aroma, meat flavor and not fishy, spicy flavor and not choking. Old tofu is made from selected top quality soybeans. The soybeans are peeled and crushed, and then soaked in stored water (purified Yellow River water is the best) under sunlight. After the crushed soybeans have risen to their full strength, they are ground into pulp by a stone mill. After braking foam, over the package (dregs), into the pot boiled into soybean juice, after the temperature into the barrel or tank, point into the gypsum, sealed for 20 minutes that is into the tofu, add brine and oil and other ingredients can be eaten. For those who love spicy food, you can put in fried red chili peppers. There are also Lao Wangzhai donkey meat, Wudalang biscuits, plate tofu, eight batches of fruit, Liaocheng quack (especially in the town of Shazhen quack the best) Dong'a Gum, Guanxian duck pear, Linqing lion cat, Gaotang Juniper and so on.