1. Yicheng salted duck is a famous food with unique flavor in Yicheng, Xiangyang. It is a national geographical indication protection product and a famous specialty food in Xiangyang. This dish is made of adult ducks with ancient snails, fish, shrimp and rice. Unique ingredients, 3-4 kg of adult ducks are fattened, pruned, depilated, refined, shaped, dried and frosted. The appearance is white and light yellow, the duck meat is plump and delicate, fat but not greasy, and the skin is thin and fresh.
2. Xiangyang yellow rice wine is one of the ancient yellow rice wines in China. Its yellow wine brewing technology is the best in the world and has a long-standing reputation. It is also a famous specialty wine in Xiangyang. Xiangyang yellow wine brewing has a long history. As early as the Three Kingdoms period, Zhuge Liang's wife Huang Yueying had already created "Maoluchun", which was rich in fragrance, sweet and delicious, and mellow in taste. Yellow rice wine contains a lot of protein, fat, thiamine and riboflavin, which has high nutritional value and is very suitable for the elderly.
3. Xiangyang kohlrabi, commonly known as pickles, was created when Zhuge Liang lived in seclusion in Xiangyang Longzhong. In the folk, it is called Zhuge Cai and Kongming Cai. It is a local specialty in Xiangzhou District, Xiangfan City, Hubei Province, one of the four pickles in China, and also one of the famous specialty foods in Xiangyang.
4. King Kong Crisp is a traditional snack in Xiangyang, Hubei Province, and also a famous pastry specialty in Xiangyang. Its main raw materials are flour, sugar, sesame oil and a little edible alkali. King Kong Crisp has been made for more than 200 years. The production method is to ferment flour, knead it into horseshoe-shaped cakes, and then bake it in a special oven for 4 hours. Its color is brown, crisp and non-sticky. After falling, it is "crisp" and people without teeth can eat it.
Other general situation of Xiangyang.
Xiangyang, formerly known as Xiangfan, is a prefecture-level city and sub-central city under the jurisdiction of Hubei Province approved by the State Council, a new industrial base in Hubei Province and a central city in northwest Hubei. Xiangyang * * * governs 3 municipal districts, 3 counties and 3 county-level cities, with a total area of 1.97 million square kilometers.
The earliest cultural relics in Xiangyang are mainly concentrated in the north bank of Hanshui River, including Baojiazhou, Jinjizui, Shanwan and other paleolithic sites. The method of making utensils mostly adopts direct single-sided attack, and the production characteristics are similar to those used by Lantian people in Shaanxi and Dingcun people in Shanxi. The age of this site is about 654.38 million+years ago in the middle or late Paleolithic period.