How many of Ningxia's 24 specialties do you know? Some you may not know

Ningxia is in China's northwest inland, where the landscape is very complex, both plateau, there are plains, there are also mountains, which also creates the diversity of Ningxia products. How much do you know about Ningxia's specialties? The first time I've seen this, I've seen a lot of it, and I've seen a lot of it in the past!

Yanchi Mutton

Yanchi Mutton is produced in Yanchi, Wuzhong City, Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region. The meat is tender, not nasty and not fishy, is recognized as high quality lamb. Muscle luster lubrication, red uniform, carcass surface is covered with a thin layer of white fat and uniform distribution, muscle fiber fine, triangular or wedge-shaped fat tail plump, lubricated, tail tip fine rounded up to the fly section, no nasty smell . Beach lamb lamb muscle fiber fine tender and juicy, easy to digest, and moderate fat content, tail shape was a long triangle, plump, lubricated. Beach lamb boiled broth clear and transparent, fat clusters on the surface, with the unique flavor of the beach lamb, flavor overflowing, there is a "house cooking meat outside the house incense" name.

Lingwu long jujube

Lingwu long jujube, Lingwu City, Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, unique varieties, cultivation history is long, excellent varieties, produced by the edible fruit flavor, crispy texture, juicy, white and green flesh, edible rate and high nutritional value. Approved as China National Geographical Indication Products. Size more neat; Lingwu long jujube fresh fruit flavor, texture crisp, juice, flesh white green, edible rate of 94.6%; functional food and high nutritional value. Contains a variety of nutrients beneficial to the human body. Containing a large amount of vitamin P, to keep the capillaries open, to prevent the increase in the brittleness of the blood vessel wall function, hypertension, atherosclerosis and other diseases have therapeutic effects, nutritious, wide range of uses, is beneficial to human health; made of fresh jujube wine jujube, the flavor of its sweet and unique for the Spring Festival when the goodies.

Helan screw cabbage

Helan screw cabbage is Ningxia Helan specialties, screw cabbage edible part of the underground tubers, it is crisp and tender meat, salted and sauced with a very tasty flavor, was rated as a pickle in the treasures. In addition, the screw cabbage also contains vitamins, minerals, choline and other rich nutrients, has a high nutritional value.

Helan inkstone

Helan inkstone is a characteristic traditional handicrafts. Produced in Ningxia Sapphire, the raw material is Helan stone. Helan stone has a uniform structure, fine texture, suitable for rigidity and flexibility, which is a very rare stone material. The Helan inkstone engraved with it has the advantages of generating ink, storing ink, protecting hair, and durability. The minerals that make up Helan stone are very fine, only a few tenths of a hair, and the mutual aggregation is particularly close. In this delicate base, evenly scattered with many hard quartz powder and iron mineral particles, they are like embedded in the Helan stone "carbide". Helan inkstone ink quickly, not stagnant, and durable, with the lid of the Helan inkstone as a sealer, known as " store ink over three days " reputation. With the world's first Duanshi flush. This advantage is loved by calligraphers and painters.

Zhongning wolfberry

Zhongning wolfberry original name Ningan wolfberry , ranked in the first of the five treasures of Ningxia, to the place of origin in the Zhongning County City Ningan Fort and named. Zhongning wolfberry is a family species of famous agricultural products, is the inheritance of China's long-term use of wild wolfberry traditional experience, in the Ningan Fort area of the special environment developed under the development of valuable Chinese medicinal herbs. Zhongning has been in 40 large and medium-sized cities across the country to establish "Zhongning wolfberry store" 181, in 136 large and medium-sized cities across the country to establish a solid sales channels and outlets of wolfberry, wolfberry fruit and its processed products are exported to more than 30 countries and regions. "Zhongning wolfberry" has become China's well-known trademark, and was named the country's most influential geographical indications, brand value of nearly 3 billion yuan, listed in the value of China's agricultural products, regional public brand value rankings of the 19th.

Yanchi yellow cauliflower

Produced in Yanchi, Wuzhong City, Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region. Yanchi yellow cauliflower than similar products flower length 1 ~ 2cm, petal fat, stripes clear, brownish yellow color, mouth umber, no oil, stripes long thick uniformity, rich flavor, eating fragrant, tender, smooth with fungus, straw mushrooms, high nutritive value, is regarded as a "seat on the treasures". Yanchi yellow cauliflower has a refreshingly clear aroma, fresh flavor and tender quality, rich in nutrition, protein content of 12.1%-12.6%, calcium content of 0.35%-0.41%, is the body's necessary nutrients. Yanchi yellow cauliflower is sweet and cool in nature, with haemostasis, anti-inflammatory, clearing heat, diuresis, digestion, eyesight, tranquility and other effects, can be used as a post-disease or post-partum tonic.

Dingbei Celery

Dingbei Celery is produced in Yinchuan City, Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region Helan. The lateral roots grow fast and developed, the leaf blade is erect, the petiole is long and fat, 3-4 cm wide, mostly crystal-like. Each 100 grams of celery contains water ≥ 94 grams, crude fiber ≤ 0.7 grams, vitamin C ≥ 6 mg. Its color is yellowish green, the flesh is tender, the taste is crispy, and the fiber content is less.In 2005, the village vegetable transportation and marketing large Duan Jinguo took the lead in establishing the Helan County Changxin Township celery production and marketing cooperative. Cooperative in the retail business on the basis of science and technology as the basis, market-oriented, the implementation of "unified seed supply, unified management, unified sales", a strong increase in the degree of organization of vegetable farmers into the market.

Yanchi buckwheat

Yanchi buckwheat produced in Yanchi, Wuzhong City, Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region. Buckwheat grain is brown or black trigonous. Its flavor is sweet and cool, containing a variety of vitamin P, protein, carbohydrates, iron, calcium, zinc and other minerals. Buckwheat live, buckwheat churn, cat's ears, buckwheat chopped noodles, etc. with their own pickled old pickles and Yanci Mudan sheep's mutton bacon, its unique flavor, smooth texture, as well as can quench the thirst of buckwheat noodles and other cold noodles so that buckwheat series of products by the Yanci and neighboring areas of the consumer's favorite, buckwheat itself has a lowering of blood lipids, prevention of venous sclerosis, improve cardiovascular function and so on. A variety of effects.

Concentric Jujubes

Concentric Jujubes are produced in the Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region Wang Tuan Town, Tongxin County, Wuzhong City, along the ditch . The concentric round jujube tree is strong, with a rounded crown, open posture, strong branching force, and strong dryness. The main trunk is gray-brown, longitudinal cracking of the skin. The cracks are shallow and easy to peel off. 1 to 2 year old branches are grayish brown. The lenticels are medium to large and dense. Grayish white, raised, with long spines. Date strands are plump, conical, with 1 to 6 date hangers, usually 2 to 3, with 9 to 18 leaves per hangers, and fruiting is concentrated in the middle, with leaves 65 mm long and 34 mm wide, and dark green leaves.

Liupanshan Gentiana

Liupanshan Gentiana (jiao,一声) is produced in the Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region Guyuan City, Lunde County. The plant is 40-60 cm tall, the main root is thick, conical, thick at the top and thin at the bottom, twisted and not straight, the surface has longitudinal twisted longitudinal wrinkles, 10-30 cm long, 1-3 cm in diameter, with a few branches, the surface of the brownish-yellow or grayish-yellow, the taste is bitter. The content of the leachate of Gentiana scabra in Liupanshan is 29.1-29.8%, and the content of gentian bitter glycosides is 4.1-4.6%. At present, artificial cultivation of Gentiana macrophylla carried out in Lund County, Ningxia has been basically successful, so that Ningxia will gradually have artificial cultivation of the herb to provide medicinal use; Gentiana macrophylla has antihypertensive, slow down the heart rate, anti-inflammatory and analgesic and other effects.

Helanshan Dongluo Wine

"Helanshan Dongluo Wine" is a wine made from self-produced high-quality grapes in the eastern foothills of the Helanshan Mountains in the Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, which is made by virtue of the unique natural resources and the long tradition of winemaking as well as modernized business methods, By virtue of unique natural resources, long winemaking tradition and modernized operation and brewing technology, the wines produced in the Helan Mountains Donglu region are highly praised. White wines are nearly colorless, slightly yellow with green, light straw yellow, straw yellow, golden yellow. Red wines are dark purple, deep red, deep ruby red. The eastern foothills of the Helan Mountains are located in the world's "golden zone" of viticulture. It is located in the middle arid climate zone, belonging to the typical continental climate. Department of alluvial fan three terrace, the mother rock into the soil to alluvial sediment-based, very suitable for the growth of grapes.

Liupanshan Astragalus

Liupanshan Astragalus is Ningxia's Chinese herbal medicine, it is both edible value, with benefit qi and Yang, solid surface to stop sweating, diuresis and swelling efficacy. Local people make it into health products to sell, long-term consumption can prolong the life of cells, delay cell aging .

Yanchi licorice

Yanchi licorice is an herb from Ningxia, and it is also a herbal medicine. With its sweet and special flavor and heat-clearing and detoxifying effects, licorice can be used as a medicine, a tea, and a variety of oral and respiratory cleansers.

Yanchi Erhair Fur

Yanchi Erhair Fur is produced in Yanchi, Wuzhong City, Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region. Yanchi mudsheep two hair fur hair color white as jade, hair strands natural curved, hair fiber fine and soft, flower spike vivid and beautiful, can be vertical and horizontal inverted, such as undulating waves, snow falling, modeling light and moving, noble and generous. beach sheep lambs were born when the wool strand length of about 5.4cm, 30d after the birth of the wool strand length up to about 8cm. At this time, the hair strands are long and tight, made of fur clothing for a long time to wear the hair strands are not loose.

Braised Snacks

Braised Snacks is a traditional and famous snack, which is made all over Ningxia. It is also called braised plywood balls because plywood (sand) and balls are the two main ingredients of the snack. Preparation: mutton washed and chopped into puree, mixed into the egg, starch, minced green onion, minced ginger and other materials, made of meat filling will be made half of the meat filling flat on the egg skin, covered with a sheet of egg skin, compacted with a knife and cut into diamond-shaped blocks, into the frying pan fried golden brown and fish (commonly known as splints or sand), and the other half of the meat filling is squeezed by hand into a ball, but also under the frying pan fried. Braising, frying spoon into the lamb soup and splints, pills, spinach and other materials, boiling with starch thickening into a thin thickening.

Hair Cabbage

"Black Treasure" Hair Cabbage, harmonic "fortune", in plant taxonomy, belongs to the Orchidaceae, a kind of pearl algae. Growing in the desert, semi-desert areas, every spring and summer after the rain, this algae plants should be born.

Ningxia hairy vegetable filaments long and thin, black color, quality and purity. Harvested in late fall and early spring. The production process is to retrieve the impurities of the "hairy vegetables" picking, impurities, wetting and drying packaging. Fresh hairy vegetable is blue-green or brown, air-dried black, the form is like the Oriental woman's hair, so it is named. It is a high-grade food , and sea cucumber, fish maw, bird's nest, squid, monkey head, shark's fin, bear's paw collectively referred to as " Delicious Eight Treasures ", is the celebration of feasts and banquets are essential to the mountain treasures. The nutrition of hairy vegetables is very rich, and very easy to be absorbed by the human body. Its protein content of 20 times the egg, containing sugar, fat, calcium is also more, more rich in phosphorus, iron and other minerals. In medicine, there are help digestion, digestion, clear the stomach and intestines, lowering blood pressure and other functions, after surgery, the patient to eat hairy vegetables, but also can promote make the wound healing.

Ningxia lamb wine

Ningxia lamb wine production history of up to a thousand years, the information can be traced back to the Tang Dynasty. Ningxia lamb wine to Ningxia Lingwu specific real estate lamb (Ningxia two hair fur products), Ningxia wolfberry, Lingwu long red dates and other raw materials brewed, amber-colored, sweet, slightly spicy, no sheep taste, high medicinal value, as a medicinal wine as early as Li Shizhen's Compendium of Materia Medica recorded, the Yongzheng emperor's imperial approval "In Ningxia out of a lamb wine, when someone into the year, now there are twenty years to stop its not into it, I love to drink him, looking for some to send, do not have to enter more than one, not enough to use the time and then send the will, do not go over a hundred bottles, the special secret metaphor." Proof that this wine was once the royal tribute wine. Ningxia lamb wine is the lamb and jujube, wolfberry and other raw materials after pretreatment and mix with glutinous rice, the use of malt liquor saccharification artificially controlled natural fermentation method brewed, alcohol between 28 ° ~ 35 °. The brewing technique of this wine is very strict, mainly including the process of making wine, opening the rake, squeezing the wine, filling the altar with post-fermentation, blending, decocting the wine, and filling the altar with aged wine.

Desert "oil fragrance"

This delicious pasta is the Hui local people for many years inherited an old craft, through a variety of techniques to create a delicious pasta, ideal for eating in the desert. This kind of environment to eat, and when you first arrive here, by the wind on the ridge, a fierce bite of oil fragrance you will be able to appreciate the wonderful taste.

八宝茶

This and our mainland see eight treasures congee but has the same wonder, but ate so many days is to taste a lot of different desert style to, which uses red dates, jujube, cinnamon, tea, sesame, rock sugar, wolfberry and walnut as the main ingredients, Ningxia, China.

Hand-held mutton

Ningxia's mutton is famously delicious, here to eat mutton in a different way, what tools do not use directly on the hand-held eating, and the production of mutton here craft is also very in place.

Xiji potatoes

Xiji is located in the western foothills of the Liupan Mountains, Loess Plateau hinterland, surrounded by high mountains and steep ranges, changing the latitudinal distribution of temperatures, temperatures lower than the surrounding areas, the average annual temperature of 5.3 ℃, high altitude, cool climate, day and night temperature difference, plenty of sunshine; the soil to the set of loess, gray-brown soil is dominated by soil texture, loose, good permeability, and the soil is very good. The soil is mainly yellowish soil and gray-brown soil, with loose texture, good permeability, deep tillage layer, rich in potassium, adapting to the plant growth and tuber formation of potato. "Xiji potatoes" have shallow bud eyes, regular potato shape, smooth skin, red skin and yellow flesh. When cooking, the aroma overflows, the texture is fragrant and smooth, the flavor is unique, the texture is better, should not be broken.

South Long Beach Jujubes

It has anti- allergic reactions, liver protection, increase muscle strength, sedative, hypnotic and antihypertensive effect.

Zhongwei City, cultivated jujube long history, the Qing Dynasty Qianlong years, the then county governor of Zhongwei Huang Enxi in his "Zhongwei Bamboo Branch Lyrics," wrote, "pro string to leave each other with love, every year the fruit of the fall into a happy. Yongkang wine jujube even bottle delivery, steamed jujube jujube garden has long been famous", in the "spring line miscellaneous aria" wrote "spring line slow bridle with buckskin horse, all the way to see the mountains to the jujube garden", a true depiction of more than 200 years ago, Wei-Ning plain cultivation of jujube trees and jujube processing of the prosperity of the scene.

Sand onion

Sand onion is a specialty of Northwest China and one of the specialties of Ningxia, growing in the Gobi and desert fringe at high altitude, and after picking and rinsing, some fine sand is deposited in the basin, which is slightly spicy in flavor, and so it is called sand onion. It can be used to make a variety of dishes, and also has some medicinal value. Cold after the flavorful, can be accompanied by meals and wine.

Ningxia rice

Ningxia rice has been in the ranks of the tribute rice. When Kangxi visited Ningxia, he ordered it to be the main food of the banquet, known as "Shuofang Tribute Rice". Ningxia rice is not only abundant, and the quality of the " grain round, color clean, oily, flavorful " four characteristics, protein, fat content is particularly high. With its steamed rice, white as fat, grain crystal, sticky but not greasy, oily and fragrant, and the famous Tianjin " small station rice " can be comparable.