Top 10 Specialties of Suzhou, Jiangsu
What are the specialties of Suzhou? This is the most important question for everyone who travels to Suzhou. Suzhou is a place of great talent, Suzhou in addition to the famous gardens and mountains, Suzhou food is also a masterpiece. The following is a travel network organized and collected by the top ten specialties of Jiangsu Suzhou inventory, for your reference.
1, Biluochun tea
Dongting Biluochun tea, Suzhou is a famous specialty, one of the top ten famous tea in China. According to the records, Biluochun tea as early as in the Sui and Tang dynasties that is renowned, so far has a history of more than a thousand years. Legend has it that Emperor Kangxi of the Qing Dynasty gave the name of Biluochun tea to his southern tour of Suzhou. Biluochun? Due to the unique geographical environment of Dongting Mountain, flowers bloom in all seasons, and tea trees are planted with fruit trees, so Bigelow Spring tea has a special flavor of flowers. Bigelow Spring tea production requirements are very high, the early spring period, the tea buds first hair, the tip of the bud part, that is? A flag and a gun? is not more than 2 centimeters when picked, after killing, baking and frying, kneading and a series of special technology processing and become. Tea is the world's top three beverages today. According to the U.S. Clinical Research Center, Dr. Crocker made cooling thirst test showed that Chinese tea than beer and cola can be more thirst-quenching. Moreover, tea contains ellagic acid, which can kill many kinds of germs. Recent medical discoveries, tea has anti-cancer function. Tea's main components theophylline (caffeine) and caffeine, with a refreshing and intellectual role, can stimulate the heart, dilate the coronary arteries, so the cardiovascular has a positive role in prevention and treatment. This theophyllin, the most abundant in fresh young tea. Suzhou Dongting Biluochun tea is all made from young buds. 0.5 kilograms (500g) Biluochun about 60,000? A flag and a gun? Therefore, it is also known as Bi Luochun as? Kung Fu Tea? The tea is also known as "Kung Fu Tea" and "New Blood Tea". New blood tea? Bi Luochun tea is characterized by: uniform strings, beautiful shape, curled like a snail, velvet all over the body, the color is like congealed fat, aroma, sweet aftertaste. Has always been regarded as a fine tea, tea market at home and abroad has a very high reputation.
2, Su embroidery
Su embroidery is one of the four great embroidery in China, it is known for its fine needlework, color and elegance. Su embroidery patterns beautiful, wide range of subjects, lively and dynamic techniques. Whether it's characters or landscapes, all of them reflect the delicate and long cultural connotation of the Jiangnan water town.
Suzhou is a cultural city with a history of more than 2,500 years, known as? The elegant and beautiful natural environment and profound humanistic connotation have nurtured a bright art pearl. The famous Suzhou embroidery is born here.
According to historical records, the artistic level of Suzhou embroidery reached its peak after the Song Dynasty. At that time, Suzhou is China's embroidery town: the splendid and colorful brocade, colorful floral line, for the development of Suzhou embroidery to create favorable conditions. Thus, it formed Suzhou? Every household had embroidery, every family had embroiderer? The local characteristics, in one side of the brocade can be embroidered on the five mountains, rivers and seas, cities, rows of formation and other patterns, and there are? Embroidery of all countries in a brocade? The word "embroidery" is "embroidery".
In the traditional Chinese embroidery, Suzhou embroidery is the best at absorbing the essence of other arts varieties, its patterns to pavilions, bridges and rivers as the theme, generally blue, green as the main color, reflecting the elegant, quiet effect. From figures, birds and flowers to landscapes, animals, from quiet as a child to move like a rabbit, Su embroidery presents the delicate and long humanistic connotation of the Jiangnan water town. These beautiful embroidery is in the thousands of years of history, by generations of embroiderers hand through the lead, hand to hand, stitch by stitch to create out.
Suzhou embroidery is characterized by fine elegance, fine, that is, it is very fine needlework, it can be split into one-tenth of a thread, one-twentieth of a thread, one-fortieth of a thread, then elegant, mainly reflected in the color, the color of elegance.
As the saying goes: ? A thousand lines? Painter's hand, embroidery should be a thousand needles and thousands of threads. Suzhou embroidery is known for its fine, its line color to more than a thousand, each color from light to deep more than ten kinds of points, a work sometimes up to one or two hundred kinds of colors. Therefore, generally small embroidery works to be embroidered 3 to 5 months, medium works to be embroidered a year, a large embroidery to be embroidered two or three years, and sometimes more than one person to complete the cooperation. Of course, this refined and made of Suzhou embroidery artwork is naturally the focus of people to treasure. 1915 in Panama International Exposition won the first prize of the Suzhou embroidery "Jesus", the price was as high as up to thirteen thousand U.S. dollars.
Nowadays, Suzhou embroidery is still the most important handmade artwork in Suzhou, and it is famous for its vivid and realistic texture, delicate and lively posture, and exquisite and detailed embroidery. As national gifts and exhibits, there have been seventy-nine times as gifts to the head of state level, in ninety-two countries and regions, known as the Pearl of the Orient. The deep alleys of the ancient city, the wonderful classical gardens, the lifelike Persian cats, and the rich and colorful peonies are also from Suzhou to the world.
3, Yangcheng Lake hairy crabs
Also known as gold claw crab. It is produced in Kunshan, Jiangsu Province. Crab body is not mud, commonly known as water crab, large fat, green shell white belly, golden claw yellow hair. Meat cream, ten limbs robust, placed on the glass plate can quickly crawl. Whenever the golden breeze, chrysanthemums bloom, it is the peak season of the golden claw crab on the market. Female crabs in September and male crabs in October of the lunar calendar have the best gonadal development. When cooked and congealed, the females become golden yellow and the males are like white jade, with a delicious flavor.
Yangcheng Lake clear water hairy crabs, large body fat, generally three heavy 500 grams, the larger only weigh more than 250 grams, the largest up to 500 grams, green back white belly gold claw yellow hair, ten limbs healthy, crab meat, rich in nutrients. Since ancient times, Yangcheng Lake hairy crabs, that is, countless diners to fall in love with, is renowned in China's brand-name products. Mrs. Tang Guoli, the wife of Zhang Taiyan, said in a poem: "It is not that Yangcheng Lake hairy crabs taste good. The crab taste is not good, why live in Suzhou in this life.
4, Dongting Biluochun tea
Biluochun tea produced in the Dongting East and West Mountain, buds, tender, fragrant, broth, flavor, is one of China's top ten famous tea.
Biluochun tea has a history of more than 1000 years. The earliest folk called? Dongting tea? Frightened people incense? Legend has it that a nun went to the mountains to swim in the spring, picked a few pieces of tea leaves, bubble tea after the strange aroma of the nose, off the mouth and said? Fragrant scared people? The local people will be called this tea? Scared people incense? Later, Emperor Kangxi's southern tour, touring Taihu Lake, Jiangsu Province, Eminent Song with? Scared people incense? Tribute, Kangxi tasted greatly appreciated, but that the name of the tea is less elegant, so the tea is produced in Dongting Dongshan Biluo Peak and renamed as? Biluochun?
Biluochun tea is characterized by tightly knotted, curled like a snail, white hair exposed, silver green hidden Cui, leaf buds young and tender, after the brewing of the tea flavor Xu Xu stretch, up and down, the tea water, silver and turquoise, fragrant, cool and sweet taste, fresh and fresh, as early as the end of the Tang Dynasty, Song Dynasty will be classified as tribute.
5, Suzhou dried tofu
produced in Suzhou, Jiangsu Province. It is made from fresh round soybeans, and is prepared, removed, soaked, ground, shaken, boiled, solidified, pressed, molded, fried, brined, cooled, and packaged as a finished product. In the process, according to the characteristics of the product and temperature changes, strictly control the soaking time of soybeans. In winter, it is best to have nine percent of soybean concave, and seven percent in summer. According to the number of daily output, sub-barrels, time soaking, soaking and maturity after rinsing, and then add water milling. Soybean paste into a semi-paste, add water for separation, before and after **** divided into four times, three times for cold pulp separation, one time for hot pulp separation. Requirements for the first pulp dry, two pulp clear, three pulp net. Soybean milk cooking using a one-time steam flip type cooking pulp, three open three retreat, so that the soybean milk is fully and evenly heated. Strictly control the concentration and temperature of soymilk during coagulation, and add appropriate amount of natural salt brine as coagulant according to the concentration and temperature. The white billet is made through the processes of pointing flower, rising cylinder, turning cylinder, pumping water, pressing and pressing. Its softness and hardness are moderate, and its structure is strict and elastic. After slicing, the billet is deep-fried in oil pots with different temperatures, which expands first and then finalizes the shape. After frying, the billet is golden in color and has a certain skin layer and looseness. Then steam cooking, the first high-pressure billet cooked soft, and then gradually add a variety of auxiliary materials and natural spices, low-pressure steaming, glue collection, that is, rising pot, out of the pot, cooling and become. The marinade dried tofu in the feast is often used as cold dishes platter, and for the streets and alleys of the flavorful snacks.
6, Taihu Lake hairy crab
Taihu Lake crab is one of China's famous freshwater crab. The meat is tender, flavorful, yellow fat fat, has been known as the crab in the treasures. The first thing you need to do is to get your hands on some of the best crabs in the world. That is to say, September to eat female crabs (after the cold dew), October to choose male crabs (around winter), when they are extremely rich in nutritional value components.
Taihu Lake crab has reproductive back to the characteristics of the river and sea junction reproduction, freshwater growth and fertilization, Taihu Lake crab body shape is large, green back white belly, yellow hair golden hooks, fully comparable to Yangcheng Lake hairy crab. Taihu Lake crab general net weight of 200-250 grams or so, delicate meat, nutritious, rich in protein, fat, calcium, phosphorus, iron, vitamin A, riboflavin, thiamin and so on. The medicinal value is very high, can disperse the blood, soothe the tendons and bones, detoxification, crab claws also have the function of catalyzing the birth of the next child. ? Autumn end of Jiangnan crab is fat? After the mid-autumn, Taihu Lake crab gonadal maturity, it is a good time to enjoy chrysanthemum crab, traditionally eat crab has? Nine female and ten male? The custom of eating crabs has always been to have nine females and ten males. At this time of the Taihu Lake crabs, oil enough meat tight, cooked female shell was orange-red? Crab roe? and the male shells are translucent milky white? Crab paste? According to the Qing Dynasty's "Qing Jia Lu", there is a custom of deep-frying crabs in the Taihu Lake area. Lake crabs on the tide on the fish trap, fishermen caught, stretched into the city, residents buy to feed each other bestowal, or banquet guests with wine. There are nine females and ten males said, said September group umbilical cord good, October pointed umbilical cord good also? Crab taste on the table all flavors fade? That is to say, after eating crab and then eat any other dishes, will feel like chewing wax generally tasteless. Eating Taihu crabs is not only a good taste, but also a kind of artistic enjoyment, for which the literati have been reciting poems, writing and painting a lot through the ages. Cao Xueqin, in Dream of the Red Chamber, describes the bustling scene of eating crabs and reciting poems in the Grand View Garden: ? Holding a chela, I like the coolness of gui yin, splashing vinegar and pounding ginger, wanting to be crazy?
7, Zhenhu embroidery
Zhenhu embroidery, refers to Jiangsu Province, Suzhou High-tech Zone Zhenhu street production of embroidery products. Zhenhu is? The birthplace of Suzhou embroidery. The birthplace of Figure 1 Zhenhu embroidery place, on behalf of the? The Zhenhu Embroidery is the birthplace of the Suzhou Embroidery. Compared with Hunan embroidery, Shu embroidery and Guangdong embroidery, Zhenhu embroidery has the characteristics of "fine, fine, elegant and clean". Fine, detailed, elegant and clean. Zhenhu embroidery is characterized by exquisite embroidery work, varied needlework and rich images. Zhenhu embroidery not only from the creativity, types, stitching and other aspects of the continuous innovation, and from the original birds and animals, flowers and plants to the current landscape scenery, portraits, etc., the technology and artistic expression of the product have made a major breakthrough, the works of the international and China's domestic large-scale display exhibitions and competitions, won numerous awards.
History
Zhenhu embroidery, originating from the dress, has a history of more than 2000 years. As a cultural symbol, Zhenhu Figure 2 Zhenhu embroidery products
. Embroidery has been used to distinguish between nobility and rank, and become a symbol of wealth, status and power, and has gone through three historical development processes: folk embroidery, boudoir embroidery and court embroidery. 2005, Zhenhu embroidery became the first batch of important parts of embroidery listed in the National Intangible Cultural Heritage Protection List. 1998 and 2000, Zhenhu was named by Jiangsu Province and the Ministry of Culture as the Embroidery? Hometown of Folk Art? In 2010, Zhenhu was named the National Cultural Industry Demonstration Base by the Ministry of Culture. In 2010, Zhenhu was named a National Cultural Industry Demonstration Base by the Ministry of Culture.
Industrial Development
The development of Zhenhu's economy is dominated by tertiary industries such as embroidery and garments. Most of the embroidery is produced in Zhenhu Figure 3 A street of embroidery in Zhenhu, Suzhou.
In 1998, Zhenhu built a special embroidery street integrating the functions of production, sales and tourism, with a length of about 1,700 meters, attracting more than 300 embroidery operators, which made Zhenhu's embroidery products form a "cluster effect". Clustering effect? In 2005, the embroidery street *** received embroidery tourism shopping number reached 186,000 people, many of them are from France, Britain, South Korea, New Zealand, Singapore, Japan, Taiwan and other countries and regions of the cultural tours and short-term study groups, embroidery has become Zhenhu a very attractive tourism business card. At the same time, Zhenhu has become the embroidery production base and sales distribution center, embroidery products are sold in large and medium-sized cities across the country, and exported to Japan, South Korea, Southeast Asia, Europe and the United States and other developed countries and regions.... As of 2006, Zhenhu embroidery practitioners amounted to 11,000 people, accounting for two-thirds of the total labor force in Zhenhu. Among them, there are more than 8,000 embroiderers; more than 3,000 people are engaged in the sales of embroidery, design, mounting, frame production, transportation, and fabric and thread supply, etc. In 2005, the annual sales of Zhenhu embroidery products reached 498 million yuan. Zhenhu embroidery in the inheritance of the essence of the art of Su embroidery at the same time, incorporating other embroidery and art concepts, techniques, and continue to innovate, some embroidery as a gift to foreign dignitaries....
Geographical Indication Product Protection
In 2010, the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine (AQSIQ) of the People's Republic of China (PRC) decided to implement the national protection of Zhenhu embroidery as a geographical indication product.
Scope of protection
The scope of protection of Zhenhu Embroidery Geographical Indication Product is the administrative area under the jurisdiction of Zhenhu Street, Suzhou New District, Jiangsu Province, China.
Use of the special mark
The scope of protection of Zhenhu Embroidery Geographical Indication Product is the administrative area under the jurisdiction of Zhenhu Street, Suzhou New District, Jiangsu Province.
8. Shuangfeng Mutton Noodle
Shuangfeng Mutton Noodle (also known as: Shuangfeng Fatty Mutton Noodle) is one of the specialties of Taicang's catering culture and is famous for its crispy, thick, fragrant, and fat. Legend has it that more than a hundred years ago, a master named Meng opened a noodle shop in Xishizui, an ancient town of Shuangfeng with a history of more than 1600 years. Because of his meat cooking, soup boiling and noodle making, he made the noodles famous. Shuangfeng Meng's Mutton Noodles? reputation, known far and near, become a local winter specialties famous food.
Shuangfeng mutton noodles so stand out in the many mutton noodles, there is a set of secret traditions: first of all, the purchase of goat breeds, the store is concerned about the purchase of large body thin skin and tender meat? Taicang goat? The first is to buy goat breed, the shop is to buy big body thin skin tender meat, Taicang goat, to castrate the ram and just adult female goat for the top choice. Second, pay attention to slaughter, must be repeatedly washed. Third, the bottom of the pan with a disk of shelled new straw core grass to prevent scorched pan; pan around the full plug white radish, to remove the stink. Fourth, after slaughtering the meat into gear down the pot, the older meat in the lower layer, the tender meat in the upper layer, and then add condiments, simmering over a gentle fire. The noodle soup is boiled with the original soup of the cooking sheep, and it should be boiled so that it is thick and not cloudy, oily and not greasy before it is used. The noodles are made by hand and are commonly known as "jumping noodles". Jumping Noodles
Shuangfeng Lamb Noodles selects Taicang goats to eat all kinds of grass and grow, unlike pigs, chickens, ducks, etc. to eat hormone-containing added feed, so it is known as the "green food". Green Food? Plus, while savoring Shuangfeng Mutton Noodle, you can also appreciate and feel the ? Sheep Culture The unique connotation, so favored by customers.
9, new hair taro
New hair taro is a specialty of Taicang City, Suzhou City, Jiangsu Province. New hair fragrant seed taro is a famous local varieties, with its pure flavor, glutinous texture, excellent quality features, by Shanghai, Zhejiang and Jiangsu and other domestic markets.
Xinmao taro is Taicang's traditional agricultural products, by the new Mao district farmers through the improvement of local varieties, systematic selection and breeding of ? New Mao? Fragrant seed taro is a famous local varieties, with its pure flavor, glutinous texture, excellent quality characteristics, by Shanghai, Zhejiang and Jiangsu and other domestic markets.
Taro nutritional value is very high, containing a variety of nutrients, mainly rich in carbohydrates, 17.5 grams of starch per 100 grams, 2.2 grams of protein, higher than the average vegetable, and thus taro can be food, but also can be done as a vegetable, it is suitable for young and old nourishment, autumn complementary vegetarian treasure. Taro is also rich in protein, calcium, iron, vitamin C, vitamin B1, vitamin B2 and other ingredients. The motherland medicine, taro sweet, pungent, flat, into the intestines, stomach, with the benefit of the stomach, wide intestines, tonic in the benefit of the liver and kidneys, and add the essence of the marrow and other effects. To assist in the treatment of dry stools, goiter, mastitis, acute arthritis and other conditions have a certain role.
Taro practices are many, salty and sweet, boiled, steamed, simmered, baked, roasted, burned, fried, braised can be. It should be noted that taro is a kind of temperament stubborn plant, he is? Oil and salt do not enter? , cooking, in not yet burned through before, remember not to seasoning, otherwise, no matter add salt or sugar, will make taro premature absorption of seasoning, and not easy to crisp, even more hard.
Taro is a rhizome, containing more sugar, the skin is more hard and thicker, suitable for storage in a cool place, put into the refrigerator is more prone to bad or sprouting. The best preservation time is about a week.
10, Zhenhu Su embroidery
Specific qualities
Zhenhu, the ancient name of Xihua, is located in the West Taihu Lake connected to the light blessing. It is the main birthplace of Suzhou embroidery, with its beautiful mountains and clear water, and its spirit of wisdom and empowerment. For thousands of years, Zhenhu embroidery has led the way with its unique refinement, finesse, elegance, cleanliness and curiosity. Every family has an embroidery bandage, and every household has an embroiderer. is a true reflection of Zhenhu.
Zhenhu, the ancient name of Xihua, is located in the West Taihu Lake and Guangfu connected. Here, the mountains and beautiful water, the spirit of wisdom and empowerment, is the main birthplace of Suzhou embroidery. For thousands of years, Zhenhu embroidery has led the way with its unique refinement, finesse, elegance, cleanliness and curiosity. Every family has an embroidery bandage, and every household has an embroiderer. Zhenhu is a true depiction. An area of 20 square kilometers, the population of less than 20,000 lakeside town, there are more than 8,000 embroiderers (including more than 400 with junior, middle and senior titles of arts and craftsmen), directly or indirectly engaged in the embroidery industry industry personnel has been more than 10,000 people, but also created more than a number of national level embroidery craftsmen. July 8, 2000, Zhenhu was named by the Ministry of Culture? Chinese folk (embroidery) art township?
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