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1. History, celebrities

Yichang people and spirit, out of many celebrities, leaving a brilliant light in Chinese history.

Qu Yuan

China's earliest great poet, Chu Sanlu Dafu Qu Yuan is one of the world's four great cultural celebrities, Qu Yuan's hometown is Yichang zigui county. Qu Yuan was born at zigui in hubei province in 340 B.C. He wrote many brilliant fictions and poems in his life, and his "Li Sao" is full of patriotism and romanticism, which has a wide influence and a high position in the history of Chinese literature and world literature. 26 years old Qu Yuan was appointed as the left disciple of the state of chu, and he gained the trust of king Huai of chu. Later on, because his policy of governing the country offended the interests of Jin Shang and other powerful officials, Jin Shang and others repeatedly fed slanderous rumors to King Huai of Chu. King Huai believed him, and Qu Yuan was relegated to the post of the head of Sanlu, and was later banished twice. In 278 B.C., Qu Yuan, who was worried about his country, threw himself into the river and sank in anguish with his unfulfilled ideals.

Wang Zhaojun

Wang Zhaojun was one of the four great beauties of ancient China. Her name was Qiang Qiang, and her character Zhao Jun. During the Jin Dynasty, she was renamed Mingjun or Mingfei to avoid Sima Zhao's taboo. Zhaojun hometown (Mingfei Village) is today's Yichang City, Hubei Province, Xingshan County, Baoping Village, where many moving legends with the history of the most famous beauty of the inextricably linked.

When Emperor Yuan of the Han Dynasty, Zhaojun was chosen to enter the palace, after the first year of Ning (33 BC), the Xiongnu Hohanxie monarch entered the dynasty to seek peace, Zhaojun voluntarily invited to line, married the Xiongnu, for the goodwill and friendship between the peoples made a contribution. After entering the Xiongnu, she was called Ninghu Xiongnu (Empress). After the death of Hohanxie, Emperor Cheng ordered her to marry Fuzu Lei Shan Yu (the eldest son of Hohanxie's Dahuang Clan) instead of Hu Customs. Under her influence, her children and the people around her tried to maintain a good relationship with Han, so that "there was no barking of dogs in the past three generations, and the people did not have to do anything".

Yichang is also a rafting capital, and as a city with two world-class water projects, it is probably better known for the Three Gorges and Gezhouba Dam. But in recent years, with the rise of specialty tourism, Yichang has demonstrated its unique charm with a number of distinctive rafting resorts that have attracted countless visitors.

Yichang has more mountains and more water, which naturally forms a rich and colorful rafting place. There are fast-flowing, thrilling and rapid rafting, such as Gulongxi; there are also beautiful scenery and a combination of slow and rapid Jiuwanxi; and there are also unique, full of military bravado Yangjiaxi. In addition, Yichang also has many rivers and valleys suitable for rafting, such as Chai Bu Xi, Xiaofeng, Che Xi, Si Xi, and ancient Chao Yin Cave.

2. Tujia Bashan Dance

The Bashan Dance originated in Changyang Tujia Autonomous County in Yichang, which is known as the hometown of songs and dances, and it is a kind of folk dance developed and innovated on the basis of the Tujia's traditional folk song and dance, "Jumping Saerho".

The Bashan dance is a new type of mass self-indulgent collective dance that emerged in the 1980s. It is by the Tujia people enjoy the old folk "jumping funeral" activities, by Changyang Qin Fa Chi and other folk dance workers to collect and organize, reform and innovation and development. Once it was introduced, it was very popular. The old people regard it as a treasure, and the young people regard it as a favorite. It is like a gust of wind from the Tujia cottage blowing into the county, and even involved in the modern ballroom, and foreign "disco" "swing dance" to compete with the trend. People's Daily Overseas Edition wrote: "When many imported recreational dances are popular for a while, the Bashan Dance in the mountainous peaks has occupied so many simple hearts, this cultural landscape, bringing people a lot to think about, at least, it opens up, showing a unique aesthetic field.

3. Radish Dumplings

Radish dumplings are an authentic Yichang snack.

The radish dumplings are also called dumplings, but the ingredients and methods used to make them are very different from those of northern dumplings. While northern dumplings are made of flour, lean meat and vegetables, turnip dumplings are made of rice, soybeans and turnips. While northern dumplings are often boiled in water, turnip dumplings must be deep-fried in a frying pan or they will not take shape. So when you eat them, the dumplings are more crispy than the radish dumplings.　The best radish dumplings are made from freshly frosted radishes, which have a sweet flavor, are tender and have little residue, and have a good texture. In addition, good rice and full-grain soybeans should be used as raw materials. To make it, soak 90% of the rice and 10% of the soybeans for 5 hours, then grind them into pulp. Cut the radish into julienne strips, sprinkle with salt, green onion, pepper, coriander powder, monosodium glutamate and other seasonings, mix well and wait for use. Pour vegetable oil into a pot and boil it until it is 80% mature, then fry it. Before deep-frying, put a layer of batter in a special crescent-shaped iron spoon, and then put the radish shreds as filling, put it to fill the spoon, slightly thicker in the middle, slightly thinner on both sides, and then pour rice batter, and then put it into the frying pan and deep-fry it until it is golden, and then it is done. The deep-fried radish dumplings look like a crescent, and the outside is charred and the inside is tender, and the freshness, aroma, spiciness and hotness are very good. At the end of autumn, Yichang's most famous traditional snacks, turnip dumplings, are put out in the streets. A thin layer of rice batter is wrapped around tender radish shreds and deep-fried in a frying pan until golden brown and crispy, with the skin already melting into the filling. This snack has been a favorite of Yichang people for many years.

4. cold shrimp

cold shrimp produced in Yichang, Hubei, especially Zheng Xinji cold shrimp famous, very common in Sichuan and Shu area, is quite a characteristic of a snack, slippery and refreshing, soft and sweet.

Legend has it that a long time ago, a family of Peng's mother and son lived by the Three Gorges. One winter, heavy snow, the elderly mother was sick, very much want to eat a bite of the river shrimp. Upon hearing this, the son braved the cold and came to the river to fish shrimp for his mother. To the river only to find that the river has long been frozen, no matter how hard he can not open the ice. In a hurry, he simply undressed, lying on the ice with his body to melt the ice. Not long after, he passed out. In the dream, a white bearded old man said to him: you are not want shrimp? I teach you ...... young man suddenly woke up, flew home according to the old man's method of making small shrimp, bite by bite to feed his mother to drink, his mother miraculously woke up. Later, the small shrimp production method spread in folklore, people called "Peng Guihua cold shrimp" or "filial son cold shrimp".　Honor filial piety regardless of age, now cold shrimp has been integrated into the life of Sichuan people. Summer, many places in Sichuan have sold cold shrimp, people walk hot and tired, to a bowl of chilled cold shrimp, really painful. Usually sellers are not cheap, will be soup soup water Qi bowl side; full of a bowl, served in the hand, diners have to drink a big mouth before not to the soup to the body, but also to the seller of the appreciation of the craft, and the seller will look at you proudly savor his craftsmanship.

5. Yichang Local Proverbs

Yichang Local Proverbs is a string of pearls of wisdom wrapped in soil, it is in the language of simplicity, sparkling "Yichang side of the earth" of the splendor. It involves Yichang mountains and rivers scenery, customs and habits, legends, specialties and so on. Its creators are mostly "pedestrians". Which describes the mountains and rivers and scenery of those proverbs, commonly used hyperbole, to go to the characteristics of things, a few words can give people a generalized and specific impression. For example, describing the Three Gorges: "The Three Gorges is not as good as the Small Three Gorges, the Small Three Gorges is relying on the Big Three Gorges", "Flooded Monk (i.e., playing the Monk's Rock in the Gorge of the Soldier's Book of the Sword) Mouth, Immortals do not dare to go", "Green Beach, Leak Beach is not a beach, Kongling is the ghost gate", "Green Beach, Leak Beach is not a beach, Kongling is a ghost gate", "Nanjin pass three swirls is not good to recognize, Liantuo three swirls is not good to manage", "Raise a daughter do not marry to the family ping, backwater to split the brain shell shower"; describing the Qingjiang River: "Qingjiang River beaches are many water and evil, to pass nine bays and eighteen tuo. To pass nine bays and eighteen tuo", "seven difficult eight fish **** nine continents, seventy-two beaches Zichu"; describing the mountains and rivers of scenery: "Zhu Li Shan's cauldron, eight zhangya dun, Pu Ling's basket, Qin Jia Au's golden stick." "Yuanan a large area, Xingshan a line, Badong like a chicken coop," "Penny Ping look at the mountains do not walk the mountains," "seven miles of dry ditch eight miles of passes, ten miles of braided mountains with a melon." "Wudang far, Mingfeng risk, five fingers Lingguan the most spiritual", "Yuquan triple temple, three-star triple temple" and so on. Look at these proverbs, like looking at Ma Zhiyuan's landscape as a small picture, feel refreshing, and sometimes even have the feeling of being there.