What are the specialties in Hangzhou that you can bring to your friends?

Introduction: Longjing tea leaves to the main place of origin in the West Lake Longjing Mountain and so named, the tea leaves shape flat, leaf smooth, green, neat. Because of its emerald green color, aroma, taste sweet and refreshing, shaped like a bird's tongue, has always been known as "color, aroma, taste, shape," of the "four best".

When tasting Longjing tea, it is appropriate to put a handful of tea leaves in a pure white porcelain cup, and then brewed with water from the Tiger Spring, only to see the cup floating up the leaf buds like a lotus heart, and then slowly sinking, and then sip slowly, people feel the flavor is infinite.

West Lake tea production has a history of more than a thousand years, but Longjing tea is famous in the Song Dynasty, Yuan Dynasty. Legend has it that Emperor Qianlong of the Qing dynasty south tour to Hangzhou, has been in Longjing tea, tea taste very sweet, inquired about the origin of Wang's Square Garden (in front of the old Longjing Hukong Temple), so praised Wang's Square Garden eighteen beads of tea for the "Imperial Tea", when the tea land is less than an acre, less than one kilogram of tea per year, tribute to the Imperial family as a precious commodity.

Longjing tea has always been "lion, dragon, cloud, tiger" for the top grade, that is, the origin of the name of the lion peak, Longjing, Yunqi, tiger run four places. Longjing tea every year in the "Qingming" before the beginning of the picking of the first tea, known as the "Mingqian tea", to its young buds bloom, as the heart of the lotus, so it is also known as "Lotus Heart", for the treasures in the "wonders". This tea needs more than four pounds of green leaves to fry a catty of dry tea. A skilled female tea picker, only one or two picks per day, which can be seen in its precious. In the "Gu Yu" before the picking of Longjing tea, called "Valley before the tea", also known as "two spring tea", at this time the bud handle has been issued a leaf, its leaves like a flag. Tea teeth slightly longer, its shape like a gun, so called "flag gun". To the summer, picking "three spring tea", at this time the tea bud development is larger, attached to the leaf two petals shaped like a bird's tongue, also known as "bird tongue". Four spring tea is picked about a month after the three spring tea, when the leaf has become a piece, and accompanied by tea stalks, known as stalks, the quality is not as good as the first three.

Name: Hangzhou silk

Introduction: Hangzhou silk has a long history, light and soft texture, beautiful colors, as early as the Han Dynasty, has been through the "Silk Road" exported abroad. Modern has developed to silk, satin, damask, Luo, brocade, spinning, velvet, crepe, silk and other categories of varieties.

Name: West Lake silk umbrellas

Introduction: West Lake silk umbrellas for the West Lake, one of the specialties. Hangzhou in ancient times, that is, to make umbrellas craft is famous far and near.

Thirties of this century, Hangzhou silk factory workers, with Hangzhou Fuyang produced light bamboo and Hangzhou silk, made the first West Lake silk umbrella, due to the shape of the exquisite, colorful, very popular, popular in the world, and become one of China's unique handicrafts.

In recent years, the West Lake Silk Umbrella's umbrella-making process continues to improve, the umbrella bone taken from Zhejiang's special light bamboo, moderate thickness, color and luster, the bamboo body is straight, allowing the sun exposure also does not bend deformation. A section of light bamboo tube is split into 32 or 36 thin strips, with another bone support, composed of umbrella bone, when closed, like a section of elegant round bamboo. The surface of the umbrella is made of silk fabric as thin as cloud wings with bright colors. Umbrella surface color variety, only dyeing there are more than twenty kinds, some scarlet as the morning sun, some blue as the sky, some green as blue water; or monochrome, or sets of colors, colorful. In the beautiful umbrella surface, and by brushing, spraying, painting a variety of processes, depicting the West Lake scenery, flowers, birds, landscapes and other patterns, icing on the cake, beautiful and generous.

Name: Tianzhu Chopsticks

Introduction: Tianzhu Chopsticks, made of fine bamboo from the Tianzhu Mountain area of the West Lake in Hangzhou, are famous both at home and abroad for their practicality, inexpensiveness, and richness in local characteristics.

As early as in the Spring and Autumn Period, farmers in the area of Tianzhu, West Lake, have been making bamboo chopsticks from local materials, which are used for eating, fine and suitable, and have a bamboo aroma, which has a long history. To the Qing Dynasty, Lingyin, Tianzhu area farmers will be nearby mountains of small bamboo cut into chopsticks, and inlaid with silver, as a commodity for sale, by the majority of visitors to the popularity of the famous Tianzhu chopsticks.

Nowadays, the production process of Tianzhu Chopsticks has been improved by making the chopsticks with slender solid bamboo, ironing on characters and paintings, such as landscapes, birds and flowers, and West Lake scenery, and the colors of red and white, and inlaid with silver, teeth, bones and beads, etc., for decoration.

Name: Hangzhou embroidery

Introduction: also known as Hangzhou embroidery, also known as ancient embroidery, originated in the Han Dynasty, to the Southern Song Dynasty for the heyday. At that time, the embroidery, a "court embroidery", a "folk embroidery", the former specializing in embroidery for the royal family, the inner court of all kinds of clothing; the latter embroidered official clothes, quilt, screens, wall hangings, and so on. Until the end of the Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the civilization, Hangzhou embroidery is still flourishing and not declining, the city's Houshi Street, Bijiefang, Tianshuiqiao area has nearly twenty embroidery workshops. As many as two to three hundred craftsmen specialized in embroidery.

Hangzhou embroidery is concerned about needlework, mainly flat embroidery, embroidery, embroidery, embroidery, sticking damask embroidery, borrowing the bottom embroidery, hair embroidery, bead embroidery, charcoal embroidery, point embroidery, knitting embroidery, net embroidery, yarn embroidery and so on. There are many varieties of embroidery, especially Panjin embroidery, Baojin embroidery, silver thread embroidery and colorful silk embroidery, which are famous in the world. The gold embroidery is brilliant and elegant; the gold embroidery is layered and contrasting; the silver thread embroidery is simple and elegant, plain but not vulgar; the colorful thread embroidery is fine and colorful, and the image is lively.

Hangzhou embroidery in the embroidery technology, absorption and integration of the four famous embroidery of Suzhou, Hunan, Shu, Guangdong, the embroidery method varied, forming its own unique style. The design of Hangzhou embroidery is mostly based on the traditional patterns of dragon, phoenix, unicorn, bat, peacock, peony, Baoxiang flower, longevity peach, Ruyi, hundred knots, bagua, West Lake scenery and other traditional patterns which are popular among the people. The use of exaggeration and deformation in decoration is a major feature of Hangzhou embroidery.

Hangzhou White Chrysanthemum

Name: Hangzhou White Chrysanthemum

Introduction: It is also known as Xiao Tang Huang and Xiao Bai Ju. It is also known as Chu chrysanthemum and Hao chrysanthemum in Anhui Province and Deng chrysanthemum in Henan Province as the famous chrysanthemum for tea.

Hangzhou chrysanthemum has a long history of cultivation, and "Hangzhou White Tribute Chrysanthemum" has been mentioned together with "Longjing Famous Tea". In addition to tea, chrysanthemum is also used for medicinal purposes. According to the Qing Dynasty's "Materia Medica from the New", "Chrysanthemum flower ...... produced by Hangzhou is good, with yellow and white two kinds. The single petal with sweet flavor is good for medicine, tea, brewing and pillow." The traditional custom of Zhejiang is "yellow chrysanthemum is used in medicine, and white chrysanthemum is used in tea." Yellow chrysanthemum is listed as one of the eight major Chinese medicinal herbs in Zhejiang. According to medical analysis, chrysanthemum contains chrysanthemum glycosides, purines, amino acids and trace vitamins. It is slightly cold in nature and sweet and bitter in taste. It has the effect of dispersing wind and clearing heat, clearing lung and eyesight and detoxifying and anti-inflammatory, and can cure hypertension, migraine and acute conjunctivitis.

Hangbaichrysanthemum tea, slightly sweet and fragrant, is a good product. It can also be used to make dishes, which are fragrant and delicious.

Name: West Lake Lotus Root Powder

Introduction: West Lake Lotus Root Powder is a famous product of Hangzhou. But it is not produced in the West Lake, but mainly produced in Hangzhou Burgundy Mountain Gate to Yuhang County Tangqi area. In Yuhang County, Zhanqiao Township, Sanjia Village produced the most famous lotus root noodles, so it is also known as "Sanjia Village Lotus Root Noodles".

The lotus root grown here is characterized by small holes, thick flesh and sweet taste, and the processed lotus root powder is in the form of thin slices with a white and red color, and a little bit of it is twisted between two fingers to show flesh red, while the lotus root powder produced elsewhere is white, which is the easiest way to identify the lotus root powder in Sanjiacun. Three village planted lotus root has a pointed white lotus, wild white lotus, firewood lotus, red lotus and other more than 10 varieties, to pointed white lotus processing root powder best, each quintal of fresh lotus root can be made of 10 kg of lotus root powder. It is processed through the process of washing lotus root, grinding lotus root, filtering, precipitation, drying and so on. Due to the strict selection of materials, processing, lotus root powder quality is better.

West Lake lotus root powder after brewing, crystal transparent, fragrant, fragrant and delicious, not only can fill hunger, but also a good tonic. It contains starch, glucose, protein, but also contains calcium, iron, phosphorus, and a variety of vitamins, both easy to digest, but also to generate fluids, clearing heat, appetizers, tonic lungs, nourishing Yin, nourishing the efficacy of blood. At present, West Lake Lotus Root Powder has become a precious product for entertaining guests and gifting friends and relatives, which is sold well throughout the country and exported to Southeast Asian countries, Hong Kong and Macao.

Name: Wang Xingji Fan

Introduction: With silk, tea and known as "Hangzhou's three best". Wang Xingji fan shop, founded in 1875, the founder of the Wang Xingzhai, ancestors engaged in the fan industry, the production of fans with excellent selection of materials, exquisite workmanship and famous, the first high-grade black paper fan was listed as "tribute fan".

Wang Sing Kee fans are especially famous for the sandalwood fan with a clear fragrance and the black paper fan that can keep out the rain and the sun, which has a full Chinese flavor.

Name: Zhang Xiaoquan Scissors

Introduction: A traditional product with even steel inlay, clear steel, fine sharpening, and sharp blades, which became famous in the 17th century.

Name: Changhua small walnuts

Introduction: Changhua hickory produced in Hangzhou Lin'an Changhua area, high yield, good quality, crispy and tasty, high nutritional value, has the function of replenishment of blood, replenishment of qi and phlegm, and can also cure back pain.