Dingzhou Song Street Square three hundred words essay (fourth grade)

My hometown Linqing snacks

This rhythmic hawking sound, in the ancient city of Linqing in northwestern Shandong can be heard everywhere, the sound falls where a variety of flavorful snacks can be seen at random.

Linqing's flavor of the famous food, some have been taught for five or six generations, some have hundreds of years of history.

Linqing snacks, the formation of its historical origins. Linqing is the confluence of Zhangwei River, Ancient Canal and Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal. The brick tower built during the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty was the symbol of Linqing, and the ships and merchants that came along the canal at that time knew that Linqing was coming as long as they saw the tower.

The canal in the Ming and Qing dynasties, deep and fast-flowing, frequent businessmen and merchants, Linqing City, north of the river, "small Tianjin," said. This "Aotou Jie" place, was a thriving dock.

According to Linqing county records, "to the Yuan, the Ming capital of Yanjing, the national economy depends on the river transportation, Linqing in the Wenwei River basin, every session of the shipping period, the sail wall, such as forests, departmental goods mountain accumulation. The prosperity of the time can be seen.

From these preserved temples and old streets and lanes can be seen, the canal once brought prosperity and development to Linqing. So, Linqing different flavors of snacks, naturally, with the prosperity of the canal business and passed along the development.

Linqing in the past circulated a folk song, "Linqing has three treasures, dried melon, dried jujube, a thousand sheets of jacket." Among these "three treasures", two of them are food. Dried jujube, because of its crystal clear, jujube flavor, rich, tonic and beneficial to the gas, known far and wide, in 1985 in the national evaluation of similar products, was named the Ministry of Excellence products.