Changzhou specialties

1, sesame sugar

Sesame sugar is Shandong Heze, Changzhou, Jiangsu and other places in the traditional point of view, there are bars, plate-shaped, milky white color, body bright crystal clear, sweet and crispy, pure and delicious taste, rich in nutrients, and has a stomach and smooth, cough and constipation and other roles, has a history of more than 200 years.

Sesame seed candy is crispy and delicious, green and nutritious, set of five grains (wheat, millet, rice, millet, sesame) of the essence of the multiple fermentation of handmade traditional leisure food, but also young and old people are suitable for health food.

2, Liyang Wind Goose

Liyang Wind Goose, a famous snack of Liyang in Jiangsu Province, is produced in the area of Daxi Reservoir in Tianmu Mountain, Liyang City, Jiangsu Province, and the raw material comes from the local grass goose. It is said to have been made by Wu Zixu, a great doctor of Wu State, who lived in Tianmu Lake, Liyang, at the end of Spring and Autumn Period, and has a history of more than 3,000 years, and it is said that Yi Yin, the prime minister of Shang Dynasty, who is the originator of Chinese cuisine, improved the goose's way of doing it, which has been passed down till now, and it is the must-have of the local farmers in Liyang for the Chinese New Year.

3, Nanshan chestnut

Nanshan chestnut is called pearl chestnut, which is mainly produced in Liyang City, Jiangsu Province. It is known for its thin shell, large fruit, brownish red color and sweet taste. Especially before the Mid-Autumn Festival of the newborn chestnuts for the best, its skin color yellowish, raw food crisp, with the addition of cooking is more fragrant and soft, taste like osmanthus fragrance, and therefore also known as osmanthus chestnuts.

4, Changzhou comb

Comb, also known as pectus, one of the eight ancient Chinese hair accessories. Changzhou City, Jiangsu Province, is a long history of local traditional handicrafts. Ancient women often inserted the exquisite grate in the bun as a hair accessory. Comb production is a superb traditional skills, with fine materials, the production process is quite elaborate. The main materials for making comb are bamboo, wood, animal bone and so on.

5, messy needle embroidery

Messy needle embroidery, also known as Zhenzhe embroidery, brocade embroidery, is a kind of Chinese embroidery craft suitable for embroidery appreciation. Founded in the 1930s, the founder was Yang Shouyu, a native of Changzhou, Jiangsu Province, the word Bingruo. He is a modern embroidery craftsman.

Because of its self-contained embroidery method, it is regarded as the fifth most famous embroidery in China today. Messy Needle Embroidery mainly adopts long and short cross lines, layering and adding colors to express the picture. The needlework is lively, the lines are smooth, the colors are rich, the sense of layering is strong, and the style is unique. She specializes in embroidering works of oil painting, photography and sketch scripts.

6, crab shells yellow

Crab shells yellow is a traditional snack in Changzhou, Jiangsu Province, commonly known as small hemp cake, often matched with hemp cake for gifts. The filling has four kinds of capers, green onion oil, sugar, oil bean paste. Its characteristics: shape like crab shells, golden color, more oil is not greasy, crispy and fluffy, sweet sugar filling, salty filling taste fresh.

Crab shell yellow practice mainly by three kinds, the sea school of the method of sweet and salty: sweet mainly sugar lard filling, there are also put rose, date paste, bean paste, what; salty to pork ding-based, sophisticated to add into the crabmeat, shrimp, a class of it.

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Changzhou, a prefecture-level city in Jiangsu Province, is located in the south of the Yangtze River, the heart of the Yangtze River Delta, is one of the central cities of the Yangtze River Delta region, the advanced manufacturing base and cultural and tourism city, an important part of the Yangtze River Economic Belt in Jiangsu Province, and Suzhou and Wuxi constitute the Suzhou-Wuxi-Changzhou metropolitan area.

Changzhou is a historical and cultural city with a history of more than 3200 years, once had the names of Yanling, Biling, Jinling, South Lanling, Wujin, etc. It was first changed to Changzhou in the ninth year of Kaihuang of the Sui Dynasty (589), and was set up as a city in 1949. The Changzhou section of the China Grand Canal was inscribed on the World Heritage List.

Changzhou is one of the birthplaces of the Yangtze River civilization and Wu culture, as well as the hometown of Qi Liang in the Southern Dynasty, and is known as the "key auxiliary of Wu". Changzhou territory scenic spots, historical monuments more, there are Chinese dinosaur park, play valley, spring and autumn drowning city and other theme parks and tianmu lake, nanshan, tahuwan, gehu lake and other natural scenic areas.

Reference:

. Baidu Encyclopedia-Changzhou