Changzhou four major specialties

Changzhou's four specialties are sesame cake, crab shell yellow, pear cream sugar and sesame sugar.

Ma Gao is the favorite traditional food of Changzhou people. Crab shell yellow, commonly known as sesame cake, is often used as a gift with sesame cake. Pear paste sugar and sesame sugar are traditional names in Changzhou.

Changzhou sesame cake is a kind of box-shaped sesame cake with unique taste and flavor, and it is the favorite traditional food of Changzhou people. Crab shell yellow is a local snack in Changzhou, commonly known as Ma Xiao cake, which is often used as a gift with sesame cake. There are four kinds of fillings: shepherd's purse, onion oil, sugar and bright oil bean paste.

Sesame sugar is the traditional name of Changzhou, with strips and? Flat cylindrical, with a long history and unique flavor. According to legend, as early as the Tang Dynasty, the local people began to mix sugar and sesame seeds in caramelization to make a kind of hemp candy, called hemp candy.

Pear cream sugar is also the traditional name of Changzhou. The production technology of Changzhou pear candy has become an intangible cultural heritage in Jiangsu Province.

Introduction to Changzhou:

Changzhou, a prefecture-level city in Jiangsu Province, is an ancient cultural city with a history of more than 3,200 years. At the end of the Spring and Autumn Period (547 BC), Ji Zha, the fourth son of Wu Wang Shoumeng, was sealed as Yanling City, and since then, it has a history of more than 2,500 years, with accurate chronology and exact place names. There have been names such as Yanling, Piling, Pitan, Jinling, Changchun, Changzhou and Wujin.

Established in 1949. Changzhou is located in the south of the Yangtze River, on the shore of Taihu Lake, in the center of the Yangtze River Delta, across the sea from Shanghai and Nanjing, and forms Suzhou-Wuxi metropolitan area together. The city covers an area of 4373 square kilometers. Changzhou landform belongs to the high-sand plain where hills and plains coexist.

Tianmu Mountain in the south, Maoshan Mountain in the west, Ningzhen Mountain in the north, and vast plains and polder areas in the middle and east. The territory is slightly higher in the southwest and lower in the northeast, with a difference of about 2 meters.