Shangqiu specialties what are the local specialties

Shangqiu specialties include: whistling soup, Shangqiu paper-cutting, Weizhuang sesame sugar, Hu celery, Peiqiao watermelon and so on.

1, whistle soup

The main raw material of whistle soup is millet. After grinding millet into pulp, with fresh chicken broth, suet, vermicelli, plus fennel, ginger, peppercorns, monosodium glutamate, salt and other boiled into. When eaten, in the bowl poured with the special beef essence whistle and chili oil, its flavor is delicious, not fishy and not nasty.

2, Shangqiu paper-cutting

Shangqiu paper-cutting is an ancient traditional folk art, has a long history, around the paper-cutting style is very different. Henan's paper-cutting development for the east and west of Henan two schools. West Henan paper cutting is mostly traditional paper cutting. East Yu paper cutting is mostly taken from the daily life of modern people, reflecting the folk customs and feelings, drawing on the shadow, clay sculpture, puppets, embroidery, folk printing and dyeing traditional crafts of nutrition.

3, Wei Zhuang hemp sugar

Weizhuang hemp sugar is Shangqiu City, Liangyuan District, Shuangbachi Town, the characteristics of the traditional famous points. So far there have been more than 200 years of production history, with sweet, fragrant, loose, crispy four major characteristics of the long-standing reputation. This jaggery adopts high-quality rice, sugar, sesame and malt as raw materials, distills the rice, adds the catalytic enzyme of sugar, squeezes out the sugar juice, boils, pulls and cuts, supplemented with sesame and white flour and becomes.

4, Hu celery

Hu celery so can be handed down for thousands of years, famous, because this place has a special fertile soil and water quality. There are year by year purification, rejuvenation of the optimization of seeds and cultivation techniques. It is small roots, large, crisp and refreshing, smooth stems, no silk, no dregs, known as the "celery king", "China's first celery".

5, Peiqiao watermelon

Peiqiao watermelon is Shangqiu City, Henan Province, Yongcheng City, Peiqiao Town's specialty. Yongcheng Peiqiao watermelon with fewer seeds, sandy flesh, thin skin and other advantages to occupy the vast market in Suzhou, Henan and Anhui.