What are the specialty wines of Xi’an?

1. Xifeng Wine

Xifeng Wine is a specialty of Fengxiang County, Shaanxi Province, and a national geographical indication product of China. Xifeng wine, known as Qin wine and Liulin wine in ancient times, is a local traditional wine produced in Liulin Town, Fengxiang County, Baoji City, Shaanxi Province, the hometown of Fengjiu. It is one of the four famous wines in China. It began in the Yin and Shang Dynasties and flourished in the Tang and Song Dynasties. It has a history of more than 3,000 years and has many allusions such as Su Shi's chanting of wine.

2. Xi'an Huanggui Chou Liquor

Xi'an Huang Guichou Liquor began in the Shang and Zhou dynasties and has a history of more than 3,000 years. Its characteristics are: shape like milk, color as white as jade, thick and mellow juice, sweet and delicious. The alcohol content is only about 0.5-1. It looks like the fermented fermented rice juice that everyone loves in Jiangsu and Zhejiang areas, or the glutinous rice soup topped with egg drop as a street snack. It is not as clear as ordinary wine.

3. Xi'an Choujiu

Xi'an Choujiu is not wine but is better than wine. It is made from glutinous rice and distiller's yeast, and is made by adding fragrant yellow cinnamon. The juice is thick, mellow, sweet and palatable, with an alcohol content of about 15. Because people added the traditional Chinese medicine Huang Gui to the wine, which gave the wine the aroma of Huang Gui, hence the name "Huang Gui Chou Wine". According to legend, the "drunken concubine" drank Xi'an thick wine, so it is also called "the imperial concubine's thick wine".

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Xi'an specialty snacks:

1. Dumpling Banquet

The Dumpling Banquet is a famous snack banquet in Xi'an. It was successfully developed based on the study of Tang Dynasty and traditional Chinese dumplings. The Xi'an Dumpling Banquet got its name mainly because this kind of banquet consists of various kinds of dumplings.

2. Calabash head

Calabash head is a unique snack in Xi'an. It is similar to mutton steamed buns, that is, they are both steamed buns, but the main raw material is not mutton, but It's pig intestines. The main ingredients are pig intestines, pig tripes and fat intestines, after removing the fishy smell, adding condiments and boiling them into soup, and then using the soup to cook steamed buns.

3. Guokui

Guokui is a traditional pasta snack that is popular among urban and rural residents in the Guanzhong area of ??Shaanxi. Guokui originated as a gift from grandma to her grandson He Miyue, and later developed into a flavored convenience food.

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