Looking back a hundred years, the wheat straw fan in Ganyu County, Lianyungang City won the third prize at the Paris World Expo for its extraordinary ingenuity, which is completely beautiful. Straw crafts is one of the fist products of arts and crafts in Lianyungang. At present, there are tens of thousands of people engaged in straw weaving in Lianyungang.
People also use grass-willow mixed weaving, willow paper mixed weaving and willow porcelain structure to make high-end handicrafts such as baskets, flower pots, flower stands and craft decorations, which are sold well overseas because of their exquisite weaving.
Ge Fen
Lianyungang Pueraria lobata powder is made by collecting wild Pueraria lobata from Yuntai Mountain for mountain people, cleaning and mashing it, putting it into water, kneading and stirring it to precipitate starch, and drying it in the air. Ge Fen in Yuntai Mountain is white and delicate, with shining Venus, well-mixed warm water and boiled water, which makes people look forward to it.
Ge Fen in Yuntai Mountain contains puerarin, puerarin xylose, daidzein, daidzein -B- sitosterol and arachidonic acid. Has the effects of clearing away heat, lowering blood sugar, resolving phlegm and promoting fluid production, and can be used for treating vexation, thirst, laryngitis, etc. Pueraria lobata, Ge Fen, and Flos Puerariae Lobatae are also good anti-hangover drugs. For example, in Mirror Flower Edge, "Pueraria lobata is the best antidote to alcoholism, especially in Ge Fen ... only Yuntai Mountain in Haizhou is the best". Therefore, Ge Fen in Yuntai Mountain, a steel city, enjoys a high reputation and is regarded as a precious medicinal tonic, which is exported to all parts of the country.
bright red
Gold-inlaid jade bamboo is the treasure of bamboo, and its rarity lies in that on the tender yellow bamboo pole, a bright green shallow ditch is formed on each branch, and the position is staggered. At first glance, if gold bars are inlaid with pieces of jasper, they are elegant and lovely, so they are called "gold inlaid with jade and bamboo" in the chronicle of ancient Haizhou.
The gold-inlaid jade bamboos on Yuntai Mountain are widely distributed and flourish, with the most in Guo Hua, especially in Zhu Ping Temple near Sanyuan Palace. Therefore, in June of 1993, when China issued a set of "bamboo" special stamps, Yuntai Mountain was listed as the second of the four stamps. Soon, gold inlaid jade and bamboo stick tablets also reached the intersection of Zhu Ping Temple, becoming a unique scenery in Guo Hua.
Lianyungang bean jelly
The starch of beans or sweet potatoes is diluted into a paste by adding appropriate amount of water, and then condensed into a block after cooking, commonly known as "bean jelly". There are many kinds of bean jelly in Lianyungang, including pea powder, mung bean powder and sweet potato powder, which are refreshing and fragrant. The production of bean jelly has its own know-how, and it is often hidden from others. There are two ways to eat bean jelly: hot food and cold food. To eat it while it is hot, put the bean jelly in a hot pot, fry it a little, and take it out and cut it into pieces after there is a brown skin at the bottom. Eating cold means eating cold-inducing elements directly. Before eating, cut the bean jelly into blocks, or plane it into noodles, or leak it into the shape of "giant salamander" with a colander in advance, put it in clear water, take it out when eating, and add seasonings according to the taste of customers, such as soy sauce, vinegar, sesame oil, garlic paste, etc. People who like spicy food can also add some Chili sauce, which has a unique flavor. Eat jelly in summer to quench summer heat and quench thirst; Eating bean jelly mixed with pepper in winter can dispel the cold. It's a pity not to try bean jelly when you come to Lianyungang.
Lianyungang wickerwork factory
Wickerwork handicrafts in Lianyungang have a long history. According to Ganyu County's supplement, Tucheng Liuboro (a local wickerwork product) participated in the International Panama Competition in five years of the Republic of China and won the fourth prize. Wicker artists make wicker products in the cellar. People pull willows in the cellar to keep warm and damp-proof. Handicrafts are of good texture and are not easy to break.
Handicrafts woven with oriental wisdom and ingenuity have different shapes, which are both ornamental and practical. In particular, wickerwork shell carving flower crafts are exquisitely made and have unique ideas, which are favored by Chinese and foreign merchants. Today, Lianyungang wickerwork sells well in more than 30 countries and regions with its novelty, strangeness and ingenuity.
Crystal artware
Donghai County, Lianyungang City is the "hometown of crystal" in China. The crystals here are mainly white, and there are also colors such as smoke, tea, yellow, pink and purple. There are also hair-like "hair crystals", vegetation-like "vegetation crystals", and water bladder crystals with water droplets in them.
In addition to many ornamental stones in rock crystal, crystal products are also very famous, including mythical figures such as "Jingwei filling the sea" and "Pine Nuts Guanyin", as well as ornaments such as galloping horses and pioneering cows. There are crystal wine sets, glasses and other practical products, as well as crystal necklaces, corsages, rings and other decorations.
According to experts' research, crystal has the characteristics of clearing away heat, detoxifying and filtering harmful rays, so crystal necklaces and glasses are favored by people as health care decorations. Crystal is a symbol of purity, a good gift for friends and lovers, and is cherished by people.
Tang Gou liquor
"Nanguo Tanggou wine, ten spices open the altar", which is the praise of the ancients for Tanggou wine. Tanggou Daqu became famous in the late Ming Dynasty, and 19 15 won the silver prize in Leipzig International Expo. From 65438 to 0924, tanggou Daqu has been exported to Japan and Southeast Asia. Today, tanggou Winery is a large state-owned enterprise, producing 36 varieties of "tanggou" Daqu and snake nutrition and health care liquid series products in four series. Tanggou wine is colorless and transparent, with rich flavor, bittersweet and lasting aftertaste. Tanggou series wine won the national gold medal for 8 times, the silver prize for 15 times, and four products passed the national Fiona Fang mark certification. At the fourth national wine tasting, tanggou Tequ topped the crowd, ranking fifth, followed by four of the original eight famous wines. 1984 Tanggou wine was also selected by China's first Antarctic expedition and brought to the South Pole for drinking.
Uncle Wang has a drop of vinegar.
Wang Shu has a drop of vinegar, which was created by Wang Shu, a vinegar master in Qing Dynasty. It was first produced in the 14th year of Kangxi (1675). Vinegar is rich in fragrance and unique in flavor, and it became famous as soon as it came out. It has enjoyed a high reputation for more than 300 years.
Wang Shuyou's vinegar is mainly red sorghum, and the formula and production are very elegant. Vinegar is bright in color, not turbid, strong in acidity, sour but not greasy, and contains a variety of organic acids and higher alcohols. It has the unique effects of invigorating spleen, stimulating appetite, helping digestion, disinfection and sterilization, relaxing muscles and activating collaterals.
Haizhou once presented a drop of vinegar to Wang Shu, who tasted it and praised it as a "tribute". After hearing this, Yuan Mei, a famous writer, carefully inspected the famous vinegars all over the country, confirmed that "Banpu vinegar is the first" and wrote it into his masterpiece "Eating with the Garden". This book has been reprinted many times in China and Japan, which has far-reaching influence. Therefore, it left a much-told story that "Emperor Qianlong tasted vinegar, Yuan Caizi wrote masterpieces, and Wang Shu had signs".
Today, Wang Shuyou's Didi Ku factory, run by his first 1 1 descendant Wang Zongsui, has developed a series of products, such as hangover vinegar, ginger vinegar and health-care ester, which are sold well in more than ten provinces and cities, Taiwan Province Province and Hong Kong.
white jade
Magnolia grandiflora, an ornamental flower of deciduous trees, comes in white and purple. Magnolia is the most common port city.
Magnolia grandiflora, commonly known as' Winter jasmine' and' Wang Chunhua'. There are many and big flowers, beautiful and elegant, and the fragrance is overflowing. Lianyungang has the best king of magnolia in China: There are four magnolia trees around Dong Lei Yanfu Taoist Temple in Nan Yuntai Mountain, with a height of about 1 6.7m and a bust of nearly 3m, and a thin one of1m.. Three of them are over 800 years old and the other is over 200 years old. These four are not far apart, just like a magnolia royal family. Every flowering period, flowers with natural beauty will fill the branches of old trees, like clouds and snow, more poetic. Since 1985, whenever the Qingming Donglei Yulan Expo is held, people who climb mountains and enjoy flowers always flock to see the elegant demeanor of the Yulan family.
Wuyuncha
Wuyun tea is a specialty of Lianyungang with a long history and excellent quality.
According to Records of Food Goods in the History of Jin Dynasty, in March of the fourth year of Cheng 'an (1 199), a workshop was set up in Haizhou (now Lianyungang) to make new tea. In the 24th year of Guangxu in Qing Dynasty (1898), gentry such as Shen Yunpei and Song Zhizhi, who lived in China, raised funds to develop Yuntai Mountain, set up a "tree art company" to cultivate Wu Yun tea, and the tea they produced won the Nanyang Association Award.
In recent years, Wu Yun tea has made great progress. There are nearly 2,000 mu of tea gardens in the city, with an annual output of nearly100t of Wu Yun tea. The production process of Wuyun tea is scientific and standardized, and there are strict technical requirements from fresh leaf picking, enzyme fixation, rolling, shaping, drying to brewing. 1980, at the tea tasting in Jiangsu Province, it was ranked as the three famous teas in Jiangsu Province with Nanjing Yuhua Tea and Suzhou Biluochun because of its unique characteristics of tight rope, eyebrow shape, graceful front seedlings, moist green, lasting fragrance, fresh taste, clear soup color and even leaf bottom.
According to expert appraisal, Wuyun tea is rich in theophylline, tea tannin and vitamins. Drinking Wuyun tea can refresh and quench thirst, clear away heat and relieve summer heat, induce diuresis, reduce swelling, relieve boredom, lower blood pressure, eliminate fatigue and improve memory.