I discovered the little treasure town that is not popular around Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai.

When mentioning Anhui, the first thing most people think of is Huangshan. As for other cities, there seems to be no concept. In fact, Anhui is really underestimated. The scenery and food of many cities here are not inferior to other popular tourist cities. There are many things worth exploring. Not long ago, I introduced you to the delicious Wuhu. This time I want to visit another treasure city - Xuancheng.

Most people may feel unfamiliar when they hear the name Xuancheng, but let me tell you, you have actually known Xuancheng for a long time. "We never get tired of seeing each other, only Jingting Mountain" and "Peach Blossom Pond is a thousand feet deep, not as deep as Wang Lun's gift of love to me." These two verses, which I have memorized since I was a child, mention "Jingting Mountain" and "Peach Blossom Pond". In Xuancheng.

Friends who have studied calligraphy should be more familiar with Xuancheng, because Jingxian County, the birthplace of Xuan brush and rice paper, and Jixi, the birthplace of Hui ink, both belong to Xuanzhou. The city is “the hometown of the Four Treasures of Chinese Studies”.

For outdoor enthusiasts, the Huihang Ancient Trail (which starts from Yuchuan Village, Jixi County, Xuancheng City, Anhui Province in the west and ends at Zhejitian Village, Lin'an City, Zhejiang Province in the east) is certainly not a favorite. strangeness. This ancient road, which is as famous as the Silk Road and the Ancient Tea-Horse Road, is a trade road traveled by generations of Huizhou people to traffic salt, tea, and mountain products. It is now also “one of the top 10 hiking routes in China”.

In addition, there are quite a few celebrities who came out of Xuancheng, such as Hu Xueyan, a representative figure of Huizhou merchants, and Mei Wending, the "number one celebrity in calculus" in the Qing Dynasty. , modern Chinese thinker Hu Shi... are all from Xuancheng. This may also be because Xuancheng has attached great importance to learning since ancient times, and this is the place with the most academies in Anhui.

Therefore, whether you are here for the natural scenery or Huizhou culture, Xuancheng is worth a visit. Of course, I am also very concerned about whether a city is delicious or not. Fortunately, Xuancheng did not disappoint me. Anhui cuisine, pasta and various snacks will definitely satisfy you.

I checked and it only takes 50 minutes to go to Xuancheng by high-speed rail from Hangzhou, and just over 2 hours by car. It is more suitable as a weekend destination. Without further ado, come with me to see the beautiful scenery and find delicious food in Xuancheng!

Traveling between ancient towns and mountains and rivers

Chaji Ancient Town

To be honest, I am People who are not very fond of ancient towns, because they always feel that ancient towns everywhere seem to have converged, with wholesale specialties sold in similar buildings, but Chaji Ancient Town is an exception. 80 Ming Dynasty buildings and 109 Qing Dynasty buildings have been preserved here, making it the largest existing Ming and Qing ancient village in my country.

The commercial atmosphere of Chaji Ancient Town is very light, but more of a life atmosphere. Quaint villages are built along the stream, and people are living their own lives. In the early morning, you may still see many old people washing clothes by the stream. Because of the beautiful scenery, many art lovers come here to sketch here every year.

Jingting Mountain

Jingting Mountain in "Jingting Mountain is the only place we never get tired of seeing each other" refers to here. The great poet Li Bai once visited this "Jiangnan Poetry Mountain" seven times.

Jingting Mountain is actually not very high. Even if you climb it slowly, it only takes an hour or two. But the scenery here is particularly beautiful, with tea gardens and bamboo forests all over the mountains.

When you reach the top of the mountain, you will find that there is no obstruction in front of you, and you can see the entire Xuancheng city at a glance. And this is especially suitable for watching the sunrise and sunset. If you want to watch it, remember to choose the right time.

Peach Blossom Pond

Peach Blossom Pond is not actually a "tan", but a section of Qingge River. If you come here, I think you can choose to take a bamboo raft rafting ride. If you encounter morning mist and mist, and you are on a bamboo raft, the mountains on both sides of the river are like ink paintings, "a thousand-foot pond is lighted by nine miles of smoke, and peach blossoms are like rain and willows are like cotton", you seem to be in a poem.

Moreover, Taohua Town, where Taohuatan is located, still retains more than 700 ancient buildings. It is pleasant to walk around such a real and vivid group of ancient residents in southern Anhui.

Longchuan Scenic Area

If you come to Longchuan, you mainly want to see the ancient villages and rapeseed flowers. When spring comes, the rapeseed flowers in the farmland south of the village bloom, blending in with the ancient village. It’s beautiful to take any photo of.

Although the ancient village is not big, the scenic spots inside are very famous. For example, Yishi Shangshufang is an authentic stone carving archway from the Ming Dynasty, which is considered the best stone carving in Huizhou style.

The Hu family ancestral hall built during the Jiajing period of the Ming Dynasty is the first ancestral hall in Jiangnan. The wood carvings in the ancestral hall are very fine. In addition to wood carvings, there are also stone carvings and brick carvings. The details of Huizhou architecture are worth spending half a day looking at.

China Rice Paper Cultural Park

If you want to know the secret of rice paper, why not come here. The "Three Zhang San Giant Xuan Paper" here once produced "Three Zhang San" giant rice paper, which is the largest handmade rice paper in the world. In the Chinese Rice Paper Museum inside, you can learn about the history and craftsmanship of rice paper.

The most experiential thing in the cultural park is the rice paper technology experience park, where you can see the production process of rice paper, from pulping to paper, all according to traditional techniques Operated by process. Of course, you can also experience the papermaking process yourself. It feels very fulfilling to have a piece of rice paper made by myself.

Hu Kaiwen Ink Factory

Hu Kaiwen was a master of ink making in the Qing Dynasty and can be regarded as a golden sign in the history of Chinese ink making. In the production workshop of the ink factory, you can see a series of complex processes such as refining tobacco, mixing materials, pestling, making ink, pressing molds, drying ink, filing edges, washing, and gold tracing.

It is such tedious pure handicrafts that have preserved the tradition, and time seems to have stood still here. You can also personally experience the patterns on the inkstone carving table and feel the charm of Hui ink.

Why are Anhui dishes and snacks so delicious?

Stinky mandarin fish

I remember when I was in school in Hefei, whenever I went to a restaurant to eat, the adults would order a stinky mandarin fish. At that time, I had no concept of Anhui cuisine. I only knew that although this fish smelled stinky, it was really delicious. !

Later I learned that stinky mandarin fish was actually developed by people from Jixi, Xuancheng who are very good at "eating stinky fish". The steps to make it are much more complicated than imagined. Fresh mandarin fish must be marinated for a week. When the fish smells bad but not smelly, fry it briefly in a pan. Pork slices and bamboo shoot slices are usually added and braised over low heat until the soup thickens.

The delicious smelly mandarin fish not only has a firm and elastic texture without fishiness, but also has a freshness beyond the fish itself. For those who are eating it for the first time, believe me, as long as you cross the threshold in your heart, the stinky mandarin fish will become really fragrant, and you can eat an extra bowl of rice with the stinky mandarin fish soup.

Recommended store:

Wansijiaochangcai The environment in the store is average, but the taste is outstanding. Xuancheng locals often go there to have a meal.

Grandma Lou’s Huizhou Farm Cuisine. The stinky mandarin fish is delicious and the portions of the dishes are generous.

It’s just that if there are few people, ordering will be a bit awkward. It’s best for four or five people to eat together.

Hu Shi Yipin Hotpot

To put it bluntly, Hu Shi Yipin Hotpot is a hodgepodge. There must be a layer of chicken, a layer of duck, and a layer of meat in the pot. , a layer of fried tofu, with radish and green vegetables at the bottom, garnished with some egg dumplings, and simmered in soup, so that the flavor of each layer of ingredients will gradually sink, and finally the fresh aroma of all the ingredients will be intertwined and merged into a One pot.

As the "spokesperson", Hu Shi often served this dish to his friends, even when he was ambassador. If you come to Xuancheng, you must try this "Anhui cuisine version of strong-flavor hot pot".

Recommended store:

Jiangnan Xiaoyuan The atmosphere and service in the store are very good. It is like eating at home. It is a very real restaurant.

Chinese Anhui Cuisine Cultural Exchange Center Restaurant If you want to eat Anhui cuisine, you can come here directly and finish your check-in. There is also an Anhui cuisine chef school next to the store.

Shuiyang Three Treasures

The three treasures in Shuiyang Three Treasures refer to Shuiyang dried seeds, duck feet and duck wings. I don’t know which chef had the idea to stew these three things together to make a pot. At first glance, it looks a bit like Tongxiang pot.

Dried seeds and duck wings are common, but duck feet buns are amazing. Each marinated duck foot must be wrapped with duck heart in the middle, and duck intestines must be wrapped around the outside. After some stewing, you can eat the gelatinous duck feet, firm duck heart and crispy duck intestines in one bite, and the more you chew, the more delicious it becomes.

Recommended stores:

See Chuiyan Private Kitchen near Jingting Mountain. The store environment is very good, the food is stable, and it is unlikely to make mistakes.

Spicy fans

@ Zhu is thin!

When outsiders see spicy vermicelli for the first time, they are somewhat confused. Isn’t this just casserole vermicelli? How delicious it can be. In fact, the key to Xuancheng spicy vermicelli lies in each family’s secret soup base. After simmering various vegetables with a secret soup base in a casserole for a certain period of time, add the vermicelli and simmer for a while, so that the vermicelli can be cooked soft and soak up the soup, which is really delicious!

If you want spicy vermicelli, you must also order some dried orchid seeds. Soak the delicious dried orchids in the soup, gently pull them into your mouth with your teeth, and they will even become juicy!

@ Zhu is very thin!

If you ask people in Xuancheng where to eat spicy vermicelli, there is a high probability that they will recommend you to go to Broadcasting Courtyard. The spicy vermicelli shop there can be said to be a fight between gods. Even the store name is interesting.

Recommended shop:

Aqing’s Restaurant This restaurant has been making spicy vermicelli since 1990. Many people in Xuancheng grew up eating spicy vermicelli.

Fans of Old Impression This is a well-established store with a good reputation, near the broadcasting compound. I heard that the boss has a bad temper.

Tim Kou Fu Spicy Vermicelli is the leader among the spicy vermicelli shops in Xuancheng. The environment in the store is very clean, but the taste is a bit salty.

205 Big Meat Noodles

Friends who heard 205 Big Meat Noodles for the first time may be a little confused. What does 205 mean? In fact, it is because there used to be a noodle shop in the Dangtu section of National Highway 205 that made delicious meat noodles. Its customers were mainly people who drive sports cars on the road. The reputation of 205 meat noodles spread in the southern Anhui area.

For a bowl of authentic big meat noodles, the pork belly inside must be marinated first and then braised, and the heat must be controlled well to ensure that it tastes rotten but not rotten. That kind of thing.

You think it would be delicious to use a piece of pork belly directly as toppings!

Recommended shop:

Master Ding 205 old noodle shop is doing very well. There is always a long queue at meal time. Its pork belly noodles + dried orchid seeds are standard. .

Side Cabbage Noodles

What are Side Cabbage Noodles? You can think of it as a side dish buffet noodle soup, which is a unique way of eating noodles in Xuancheng. Generally, after ordering a portion of plain noodles at a noodle shop in Xuancheng, which costs less than 10 yuan, you can add side dishes on the table for free.

@青白之年

Originally I thought it might be a side dish like pickled mustard, but I didn’t expect that this side dish can be either stir-fried or cold and braised. Mother, who was worried that you would be hungry, made a large table of side dishes with various ingredients to coax you to eat.

@宝婆aunt

With so many side dishes made into toppings and covered with chewy and smooth wide noodles, even if you no longer have an appetite, you won’t. Reason to reject such a bowl of side dish noodles.

@海ChiHujiu

Recommended shops:

Fat Aunt Spicy Noodles has been an old shop for decades. Many regular customers have watched it grow from What was a roadside stall then turned into a store today.

0759 Old Noodle House has a wide selection of side dishes. Residents who live nearby often come here to ask for a bowl of side dishes and noodles for breakfast.

Fried noodles

Although fried noodles are available all over the country, for Xuancheng people, the fried noodles in other cities are not as interesting as those in Xuancheng. Xuancheng's fried noodles must be steamed in a steamer before being stir-fried, and then stir-fried over high heat with kelp, onions, green vegetables and shredded pork, so that the stir-fried noodles can be oily, crispy and full of steam. .

@高大C

I still remember my friend from Xuancheng said that he learned that not all fried noodles contain kelp after he went to school in other places. A portion of fried noodles with kelp and a large glass of red bean fermented rice are a sign of home for Xuancheng people.

@ stubborn little banana

Recommended shops:

Sanzi Pai Dong is located in a small alley. The environment is like a fly restaurant, but the taste is absolutely convincing. .

Shuangqiao Old Street Fried Noodles | This is an old shop that has been open for more than 20 years. Residents nearby know it and go there to have a bowl from time to time.

Ningguo Baba

I have to say that the word "Baba" is really magical, and different places have different understandings of it. The corn-flavored rice cakes I ate in Enshi before were similar to corn-flavored cakes, while the Ningguo rice cakes in Xuancheng were shaped like pie.

@Zn小智

Ningguo Baba can be said to be all things, including pickles, cowpeas, radish, dried tofu, bamboo shoots, pumpkin, and leeks. ..... Everything can be stuffed, and you can even stuff it with eggs. Of course, the most classic one is stuffed with pickled vegetables and meat.

@niagnianecho

Freshly fried Ningguo Baba, if eaten while hot, the outer skin will be a little crispy but tough, plus The filling is oily and salty, and after finishing one, you definitely want to come back for another.

Recommended shop:

Xilin Community Baba Shop. Generally, the dada shop does business in the morning, but this one is still open after four o'clock in the afternoon. People who have difficulty getting up can eat here.

Chen Ji Ningguo’s Fatty Baba with Spectacles has a thin skin and lots of fillings, so the taste is a bit spicy.

Xiangyang Xincun North Gate Baba This restaurant also adds dried prunes to the rice cakes, giving it a richer texture.

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The recent rainy days in Hangzhou have finally passed. After the sun comes out, the mood becomes brighter. Quite a few. If it weren't for the epidemic, everyone would be planning an outing. I hope that after reading this introduction to Xuancheng, you will want to include Xuancheng in your weekend travel destination!

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