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Yunnan Province--Eighteen Strange Things

The first strange thing about Yunnan is that eggs are bought on strings of grass.

The eggs are packed in such a way that they don't break easily, and they look like a strange work of art.

The second weirdest thing in Yunnan is that the cake is called bait.

Pounding and baking, smearing a little sauce is also particularly fragrant, this portable and delicious food called "bait block".

Yunnan third strange, three mosquitoes fried dishes.

The forest in the grass ditch, branches and leaves, raised mosquitoes extraordinary size.

Yunnan fourth strange, the stone grows outside the cloud sky.

Shilin scenery in the world, the world's best scenery, ghostly craftsmanship is unthinkable.

The fifth strange thing in Yunnan is that the straw hat is a pot cover.

Weaving a hat made of grass as a pot cover not only covers the tight, but also gives the food a fragrance.

The sixth strange thing about Yunnan is that they wear the same clothes in all seasons.

The constant temperature of the climate creates colorful clothes.

The seventh strange thing about Yunnan is that there are many old women who are good at farming.

The treacherous plateau has created hard-working and courageous people of all ethnic groups, with women being particularly capable.

The eighth strange thing about Yunnan is that the bamboo tube can be used as a water pipe.

This play is quite scientific, not only to maintain the mellow aroma of dry tobacco, but also water filtering other impurities, and the sound is very good, "gudong, gudong".

Yunnan's ninth monster, the pocket pony, has the ability.

The native animals here are small, but they can carry loads and climb mountains.

The tenth strange thing about Yunnan is that grasshoppers can be used as a drinking dish.

The grasshoppers are made into a delicacy, fried to a crisp and browned, and then bitten with an open mouth: "Ka-ching--".

Yunnan eleven strange, four seasons out of good vegetables.

The land is fertile and the climate is mild, so almost any vegetable can be produced at any time.

The twelfth strange thing about Yunnan is that good cigarettes are not sold.

Yunnanese people are proud of their first-class cigarettes, but they are also puzzled by the fact that they can't buy them at their own doorstep.

Yunnan thirteen strange, thatched grass sells well at home and abroad.

Everything in the mountains is a treasure, and reform and opening up has given them a new lease of life.

Yunnan fourteen strange, the train is not as fast as the car.

The high mountains and dangerous roads often make the modern transportation hard to use.

Yunnan fifteen strange, dolls go out with men.

It has become fashionable for men here to love their wives and children, and "model husbands and excellent fathers" abound on the streets.

Yunnan sixteen strange, caves can race with the fairyland.

The caves developed in recent years are bigger than one another and more beautiful than one another.

Seventeen weird things in Yunnan, everyone loves the bridge rice noodle.

The hot chicken soup with raw meat, raw vegetables and made of rice syrup constitutes the most famous flavor of Yunnan: a kind of "line", "over the bridge rice noodles".

Yunnan's eighteen monsters are flowers that bloom throughout the seasons.

The beautiful Yunnan, the border of the motherland, always blooming flowers to meet a brighter tomorrow!

Yunnan Province--handicrafts

Yunzi

Yunzi is Yunnan Gozi, is one of the "three treasures of Yunnan". Originally produced in yunnan yongchangfu (now baoshan), the ancient name "cloud flat", "cloud kiln child", "yongzi", etc. According to historical records, yongzi began in the tang and song dynasty, flourished in the ming and qing dynasty, for the celebrities of all times, loved by the high priests. The high priests loved, was a tribute to the royal family into the, "Yongzi of chess A world" reputation. Later passed to Kunming manufacturing, quality is more exquisite, and now the products are exported to Japan, South Korea, Singapore and other countries.

Yunzi's white roe is as white as jade, and the black roe is black through blue, with a hard texture. The color is beautiful and soft but not dazzling, the shape is simple and thick but not frivolous. When held in the hand and viewed in the light, the white discs are pale yellow and the black discs are surrounded by a turquoise halo. Placed flat on the board, it is a solemn black and white color. Pinched on the finger, it feels warm in winter and cool in summer, and it is a famous chess game in China and abroad.

Banna carpet

Banna carpet is Zhaotong carpet factory products, because of its carpet pattern to reflect the Xishuangbanna scenery and flavor as the main feature, so the name Banna carpet.

ZhaoTong is rich in sheep's wool, Zhaotong carpet factory to local high quality wool as raw material, carefully woven a rich national characteristics of the Banna carpet, the product has more than 100 varieties, the pattern of elephants, peacocks and other exotic birds and beasts, there are peonies, camellia and other exotic flowers and flowers. Colorful and colorful, excellent craftsmanship, the products are exported to Europe and the United States.

Tubipa

The word "tubipa" is a Dai word meaning hanging bag, usually called ethnic bag. Yunnan's Dai, Yi, Hani, Jingpo, Wa, Lisu and other ethnic groups have the habit and hobby of producing and using the tube pak. Among them, the Dai ethnic group has the longest history and the most exquisite production.

The tube of Pa is not only a necessity of daily life, but also an exquisite art and craft, for the young men and women of the Dai ethnic group, it is also a token of mutual expression of love and affection. If a young man receives the girl's heart and soul, hard work and wisdom of the tube when the Pa, is to get the message of love, the need to make their own gifts back to each other. From then on, the two are happy, until they form a beautiful marriage.

The tube is a kind of Dai brocade, from the initial hemp, cotton weaving development to the present silk, hand and cotton blending, it is exquisite, beautiful style, with a strong sense of life and national characteristics, not only for the border ethnic groups love, but also attracted the interest of tourists at home and abroad, and is increasingly becoming a sought-after souvenir of the tourists.

Picked flower embroidery

Picked flower embroidery is a traditional ethnic folk crafts, many ethnic minority women in Yunnan are good at this craft, in Kunming, Lunan Shilin, Dali and other scenic areas are sold.

Picked flowers in a variety of ways, there are single-sided picking, double-sided picking; there are plain picking, colorful silk picking; also in the same product on the picking and embroidery have to make up. Pick flower pattern has landscape figures, birds, flowers, insects and fish. After the portrayal of thousands of needle and thread, so that the curtains, handkerchiefs, tablecloths, satchels, clothes, tiger shoes, cat shoes, backpacks and other supplies added a lifelike decorations, people love, favored by Chinese and foreign tourists.

Spotted Copper Crafts

Spotted Copper Crafts is Yunnan's unique folk traditional crafts, so far on more than 300 years of history. Spotted copper craft production is complex and strict, using high-grade copper-based alloy raw materials, after casting molding, precision polishing, as well as complex post-processing production and into it "wonderful in the spot, the noble in the thick", maroon surface showing bizarre flashes, ink stone mottled, changes in subtle spots of flowers and unique, known as the crown of the metal crafts.

Yunnan bronze artifacts in the shape not only inherits and carries forward the traditional characteristics, but also draws on Yunnan bronze and the Central Plains bronze culture of artistic nourishment, and combined with modern sculpture and advanced technology, in full display of the characteristics of the mottled flower under the premise of a concise and refined decorative patterns, so that it reaches the perfection and unity of the art. At present, we have six categories of patinated copper products, including figures, animals, flowers, bottles and jars, stoves, wall decorations and utensils. Its thick and simple, elegant and rich, glittering artistic effect, people love to let go of their hands, really for the medium and high-grade furnishings to play with the craft of the best. In the Yunnan Hall of the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, Spotted Copper as the main display shows its timeless artistic charm. Yunnan spotted copper handicrafts many times in the international awards, and as a gift with foreign heads of state gifts, peacock vase, large rhinoceros, antique cattle, five-type furnace, peacock king, Rudraksha Buddha, etc. by the relevant departments of the state as a permanent collection of treasures.

Yunnan Province--Style Snacks

Steamboat Chicken

Yunnan Jianshui is a famous pottery township, its red clay pottery color is lovely, fine craftsmanship, red clay pottery, a bulk of the product is "steam pot". This "pot" is actually not a pot in the ordinary sense, it looks like a bowl and have a cover, uncovered a look, the center has a protruding round cavity through the bottom, such as the upper half of the hot pot. This round cavity is the mouth of the steam, pot, so that the food is heated, steamed. This steamer is a major invention of Yunnan cuisine, and steamer chicken is the most typical.

Steamboat chicken first circulated in the south of Yunnan, according to legend, is Lin'an Province (now Jianshui County) chef Yang Lei invented, become a famous dish in Yunnan. 1947 into Kunming, in the then-Fuzhao Street opened the first restaurant operating the steamboat chicken are prepared for this dish.

Bridge rice noodles

Yunnan snacks, such as "bridge rice noodles," the promotion of the most successful, and now north and south of the Yangtze River, are to see the high up its name, to the Yunnan flavor as a solicitation. But a lot of places over the bridge rice noodles, inevitably have orange born Huaibei regret, to eat authentic bridge rice noodles, or have to be in Yunnan.

To the people of Yunnan, not recommended to eat the first bridge rice noodles, and Kunming, large and small bridge rice noodles part-time or franchise stores, as many as hair, although not chain, at least has been a series of them often listed from five to one hundred dollars a set of bridge rice noodles to choose from, bridge rice noodles from snacks to meals, banquets and the development of the meaning of I do not know fortunate, unfortunate.

Though there are countless patterns of rice noodles, but its fundamental always lies in a soup. To strong hen, duck, tube bone soup, water and materials for six to one, must be more than 6 hours before good. Soup should be filtered, so that it is clear and thorough, filling the bowl to add monosodium glutamate, pepper, above pouring a layer of chicken and duck oil. When this soup is served, do not rush to taste, because there have long been unaware of people eager to drink soup was soup scalded lips and tongue esophagus jokes, be careful.

Yun leg

Yun leg is ranked among China's specialties have "three legs" of the name, not only marketed domestically, and in Southeast Asia and other places have a reputation.

Yun legs pay attention to the "four secret" method, forming a unique system. "Cutting secret" is to cut the leg when the knife skills, the pig hind leg cut into "pipa-style", the oil film must be removed clean. "Pickling secret" is to pay attention to the fresh pickled that is called "blood legs", although the night, will lose its delicious flavor. With Yunnan grinding black salt and Sichuan salt pickled into different flavors, the former colorful, the latter flavor. Salt is appropriate, cloud legs can be hidden for two or three years, its flavor from fragrant to sweet, extremely wonderful. "Hidden secret" is about preservation, while the aged legs should not be made to breathe. "Food secret" is to pay attention to a variety of eating methods, especially for the flavor effect is excellent.

The cloud leg marinated to its surface slightly green, in three parts with a large needle into the pull out after sniffing, to achieve the "three needle fragrance" that has been marinated successfully. At this time, cut open, bright red teeth white, color attractive, fragrant, food aftertaste.

Buckwheat pile

With flour-based, buckwheat made into the crust, color into the filling, baked. The finished product is golden in color, oval, soft and delicate, the population is melting, sweet and delicious.

Fresh Chrysanthemum Cake

On the basis of traditional Dian-style pastry, with chrysanthemum juice and fresh chrysanthemum flowers with seasoning, modeling like chrysanthemums and become. The finished product, shaped like a blooming yellow chrysanthemum, is cool and sweet, with a strong chrysanthemum flavor.