What are the local specialties of Nanjing?
Nanjing, the famous ancient capital of China in the Six Dynasties, is a city with a long history and profound cultural background. There are countless specialties here. Here, choose some of the most famous ones to introduce to you. First of all, the first one is Yuhuacha in Nanjing. Yuhua tea is one of the top ten famous teas in China. Produced in Yuhuatai, a suburb of Nanjing. Yuhua tea is a kind of tea similar to pine needles, and its appearance is bright green. In order to commemorate the unyielding revolutionary spirit of the revolutionary martyrs on Yuhuatai, the local people specially named the tea produced here as Yuhuacha. The picking season of Nanjing Yuhua Tea is to pick young leaves about three centimeters long around Grain Rain every spring. Then, local tea farmers manually complete many processes such as fixing, twisting, shaping, baking and frying. And then it can become the yuhua tea sold in the market now. This kind of tea has a good health care effect on human body, which can induce diuresis, relieve asthma, eliminate phlegm, regulate people's nervous system and inhibit the generation of irritability. Yuhua Tea not only has a good sales market in China, but also has been exported to Southeast Asian countries as early as 1960s. Another specialty of Nanjing is Nanjing Brocade. This brocade is one of the ancient silk handicrafts in China. Yunjin in Nanjing, Jin Song in Suzhou and Jin Shu in Sichuan are called the three famous brocade in China. Nanjing has a long history of brocade. According to records, tapestries appeared here during the Three Kingdoms period in ancient China. However, it was not until the Ming Dynasty that the production technology of this kind of brocade reached a relatively high level and created the unique jacquard characteristics of Nanjing Brocade. During the Qing Dynasty in China, the brocade products here were promoted to the whole country by Jiangning Weaving Department, which is headquartered in Nanjing. Today, people see that Nanjing brocade has various colors and uses, rather than simply making clothes. At the same time, brocade is also made into various handicrafts, backpacks and various household items. Many merchants in Nanjing attract tourists' attention for him, and specially design high-grade and exquisite gift boxes for different kinds of brocade. It is a good gift to give to tourists after purchase. Nanjing's gold foil is also a famous characteristic craft in China. Nanjing's gold foil production process benefited from the fact that it was once the most concentrated place for gold foil production in many dynasties. Because these gold foil products were used by the ancient royal family. Now gold foil is widely used, mainly in some high-end buildings, utensils and Buddha statues, playing a decorative role. In addition, it is said that these gold foils can also be used as medicine, which is an indispensable ingredient in some high-grade Chinese patent medicines. The earliest record of gold foil production in Nanjing appeared in the Southern and Northern Dynasties. The production of gold foil in Nanjing began in Yuan Dynasty, and the development of gold foil reached its peak in Ming and Qing Dynasties. This can be proved in the cultural relics unearthed in China. The gold foil craft in Nanjing is mainly spread in the folk villages around longtan town in the eastern suburb of Nanjing. Almost every household in longtan town has this kind of gold foil craft, and most of them have been handed down from their ancestors. Now longtan town is also the largest gold foil trading center in Nanjing. /p