What are the three best things about Tianjin?

Tianjin's Three Greatest Things are Mudman Zhang - colorful sculptures, Yang Liuqing - New Year paintings, and Kite Wei - kites.

1, Mud People Zhang - colorful sculpture

Mud People Zhang colorful sculpture is a kind of folk culture in Tianjin, famous for one of the traditional Han handicrafts. As a school of folk colorful sculpture circulating in the north, founded in the Daoguang period of the Qing Dynasty, is a Tianjin artist Zhang Mingshan in the mid-19th century to create the colorful clay artwork, is now the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage in Tianjin.

Colorful clay sculptures of Mud Man Zhang are recognized as one of the best in Tianjin, and have enjoyed a great reputation as early as during the Qianlong and Jiaqing periods of the Qing Dynasty. Mudman Zhang raised the traditional clay figure pinching to the level of round sculpture art, decorated with colors, props, and formed a unique style.

2, Yangliuqing - Nianhua

Yangliuqing Nianhua, full name "Yangliuqing woodblock Nianhua", belongs to the woodblock printing and painting products, is one of the famous Chinese folk woodblock Nianhua, and the Suzhou Peach Blossom Dock Nianhua, known as the " South Peach and North Willow". The name of Yangliuqing woodblock prints is also known as "Southern Peach and Northern Willow".

Yangliuqing New Year Painting was produced during the Chongzhen period of the Ming Dynasty in China, inheriting the tradition of Song and Yuan paintings, absorbing the forms of woodblock prints, arts and crafts, and theater stages of the Ming Dynasty, and adopting the method of combining woodblock overprinting and hand-painting to create a distinctive style that is vivid, joyful, auspicious, and rich in touching themes.

3, kite Wei - kite

Wei Yuantai learnt from his predecessors and innovated constantly, reformed on the basis of traditional kite craft, and formed the five unique artistic styles of changeable modeling, realistic painting, smooth flight, superb stunts and easy to carry, and his kite skills can be regarded as a one of a kind in Tianjin, a leader. The title of "Kite Wei" has also become famous in the neighborhood.

Weiyuantai also has a handful of masterpieces that have not been passed down, which few people outside know. Kite Wei's innovation there is a masterpiece called Pu taut. It is to take the bushes made of bowstring, resting on the kite to make a sound. This masterpiece only he can do, did not pass down.

Today, the kite Wei has endured more than 100 years of development, and under the inheritance and continuous innovation of Wei Shenxing, the second-generation heir of Wei Yuantai, Wei Yongchang and Wei Yongzhen, the third-generation heirs, and Wei Guoqiu, the fourth-generation heir, the number of kites has reached more than 1,000 varieties.

Tianjin traditional food three best

1, dog indifferent bun

Dog indifferent bun store was originally called Deju No. The owner's name is Gao Guiyou, whose father had him only in his forties, and in order to let him grow up in peace, he gave him a well-nurtured breast name, dog. His buns were very popular with his customers, and his business got hotter and busier, and the dog was often too busy to answer his customers.

People made fun of him, the dog sells buns, I do not care. After a long time, called the smooth mouth, it became the dog, instead of the owner's name and the original name of the baozi store to forget, directly called the dog indifferent to the baozi.

2, eighteen street sisal

The founder of eighteen street sisal is two brothers, Fan Guicai and Fan Guilin. In the present day Dagu South Road, each of the eighteen streets opened a twist store, one called "Gui Faxiang", one called "Gui Facheng".

Because of the good taste and characteristics of their twist, the people liked it very much. People mention where to buy the twist, will say it is in the eighteenth street to buy, over time, they called their twist "eighteen street twist".

3, ear-eye fried cake

In the city of Tianjin, outside the north gate on the street, there is a particularly narrow and curved hutong, like a person's ear as narrow and curved. At the mouth of this hutong, there was a fried cake store, which was named after the hutong, and was called Ear Eye Fried Cake Shop.

It is said that in the Guangxu period of the Qing Dynasty, a foreigner named Liu Wanchun opened a fried cake store named "Zengshengcheng" at the entrance of the Earhole Hutong to make a living. Later, his cakes became more and more popular, coupled with the close proximity of the ear-eye hutong, it has been rolling over the "ear-eye cakes" this name, but no one called the big name. The owner simply changed the name of the store to "ear-eye fried cake store".