What is Zou Ping's characteristic culture?

Zouping's unique geographical environment has created a wide variety of local native products with high nutritional value, which are deeply loved by the masses and become delicious food in people's family life and a good gift for relatives and friends.

1, yam yam cultivation began in the Tang Dynasty, and the main producing area is Changshan Town, which has a history of 1300 years. It has always been famous for its high yield, high quality and high nutritional value, and is deeply loved by domestic and foreign merchants. It has been sold to the United States, Canada, the Netherlands, Southeast Asia, Hong Kong and Macau. Changshan yam is rich in nutrition and has a strong nourishing effect. The main ingredients are sugar, protein, vitamins and inorganic salts, which can be widely used as processing raw materials and nourishing Chinese medicine in high-grade food industry. Chinese yam is used as medicine, sweet and flat, nourishing, invigorating spleen and stomach, and tonifying kidney. The perennial planting area is 5000 mu, mainly distributed in Changshan, Li Shen and other towns, with an annual output of 800 tons.

2. Water Apricot The southern mountainous area of Zouping is rich in water apricots, and Zhanggaoshui apricot is the best. It is mainly produced in Daixi and Huangshan offices in Zhanggao, Hejia, Jiangjiadong and Dong Xi, with a history of more than 4,000 years. During the Yongzheng period of the Qing Dynasty, he paid tribute to the emperor. Zhang Gaoshui apricot is as big as a peach, and its single fruit weighs 70-80 grams, and the maximum weight can reach 120 grams. Its meat is thick and thin, orange-red, crisp and sweet, refreshing and delicious, and rich in nutrition. Among them, the contents of vitamin C and B 17 are the highest, which has obvious effects of moistening lung, relieving asthma, invigorating spleen and regulating stomach. The best varieties are "pomelo handle" and "Guanye noodles". The planting technology is high. Shan Nong uses various technologies such as plastic shed and grafting. The planting area is10.5 million mu, and the annual output is10.5 million Jin, which sells well all over the country.

3. Toona sinensis is abundant in Zouping Dong Xi, Qingyang, Huangshan and Daixi offices. Bonus buds and green buds. Red buds are thick and tender, and their leaves are shiny and red. Green shoots, yellow in blue, fresh and tender. Toona sinensis buds in Qingming Festival, commonly known as "yellow buds", are fresh, tender and delicious, with a unique fragrance. Tomb-Sweeping Day is the best place to pick Toona sinensis buds before and after, followed by Grain Rain. In the past, the production of Toona sinensis was mostly in the front yard of the house. Now farmers are planting it in a large area with new technology, with an annual output of 3 million kilograms.

4. Persimmon Zouping Persimmon mainly includes square persimmon, flat persimmon and round persimmon, with 17 varieties. Mainly distributed in Dong Xi, Qingyang, Daixi, Huangshan office and other mountainous and hilly areas, with an annual output of 4 million kilograms. Its nutritional value is high, with sugar content of 5-20%, protein content of 0.7%, fat content of 0. 1% and iodine content as high as 49.7 mg per 100 grams. It contains more vitamins and minerals than apples, pears, peaches and other fruits. Persimmons can be eaten fresh, sweet and delicious after astringency removal, and are rich in nutrition, and can be dried to make persimmons. Zouping persimmon is neat, big, thick, sweet and fragrant, and has many medicinal functions, so it is deeply loved by the masses.

Local culture

Zouping county's folk customs, folk crafts and folk culture are unique. A brief introduction is as follows:

folk art

High-grade mahogany handicrafts. With the improvement of people's material and spiritual living standards, Zouping Fuzheng Wood Crafts Factory has developed dozens of classic mahogany products, including precious Mazar stool, backrest boutique folding Mazar stool, mahogany silver inlaid Four Treasures of the Study, mahogany boutique pen holder, silver inlaid high-grade craft watch plate, mahogany silver inlaid celebrity calligraphy and painting, mahogany carved chopsticks, mahogany silver inlaid bird walking platform and so on. This is unique in China. Participated in China Patent Products Expo for many times and won the title of "Shandong Province"

(2) traditional literature and art

Folk art performances such as pistachios, stilts and dragon lanterns. This is a popular folk entertainment activity for thousands of years. Originated in Zhoucun, it gradually became popular in Changshan, zouping county and Qingyang. Pistil is a story of various dramatic characters set up with steel frames. It has a strange shape and is divided into single-layer and double-layer pistils. Stilts is an acrobatic dance with both feet on wooden stilts, which is one or two feet short and five or six feet high. There are also many forms of performance, such as carrying people on their shoulders, jumping on one leg, back bending and somersaulting. Dragon lanterns are popular all over the county, with bamboo joists, faucets, paper or silk decorations and paintings. The dragon is equipped with candles or colored lights and a manually operated wooden handle. There is a man dancing with hydrangeas and pearls, surrounded by colorful clouds. There are lion dances and other similar performances, but the dance methods and footwork are different. Most of these folk performances are accompanied by yangko teams, dry boats, running donkeys and gongs and drums, which add atmosphere to folk festivals, especially during the Spring Festival. Zou Ping's pistachios, dragon lanterns and lion dances have participated in Binzhou folk art performances for many times and won awards.