Guangzhou’s commemorative gifts or specialties

Guangzhou specialty

Xiguan chicken cake

It is said that this cake has a history of more than 100 years and is a famous specialty of Guangzhou.

Main ingredients: refined flour, peanuts, pork, etc. Reference price: 10 yuan/250 grams. Tips: Available at Guangbai and Guangzhou Wangfujing.

Wife cake

Wife cake, also known as winter antler cake, is an original creation of Guangzhou Lianxianglou. Main ingredients: flour, sesame seeds, coconut mash, winter melon mash. Reference price: 1 yuan/piece. Tips: Available at Lian Xiang Lou. Almond cake

Almond cake

Founded in 1918, it is named after its appearance that resembles almonds.

Main ingredients: mung bean powder, fresh eggs, almonds. Reference price: 4~7.5 yuan/200g. Tips: Available in Guangzhou Wangfujing and Guangbai.

Lard cake

Lard cake was originally named after its soft, smooth and moist meaning, and does not contain any trace of lard. Main ingredients: glucose, starch, peanuts. Reference price: 4.8~7.8 yuan/200g Tips: Available at Wangfujing and Guangbai in Guangzhou.

Shahe fragrant rice cake

This cake was already famous in southern Guangdong in the early Qing Dynasty. Main ingredients: fragrant rice flour, fresh eggs, peanuts, etc.

Reference price: 7.5 yuan/200 grams.

Tips: Available at Wangfujing and Guangbai in Guangzhou.

Conghua dried lychees

Can be eaten as fruit, made into soup with meat such as chicken, duck, goose, pig, etc., can also be made into porridge, soaked in wine, etc. Reference price: ranging from 15 yuan to 38 yuan per pack.

Point of sale: Guangbai Supermarket on the fourth floor.

Shawan Ginger Buried Milk

This food is well-known in Hong Kong and Macao, and has obtained the national patent invention certificate.

Main ingredients: buffalo milk, fresh ginger. Reference price: 16.90 yuan. Point of sale: Guangbai Supermarket on the fourth floor. The main ingredients of Shawan Ginger Milk and Double Skin Milk are: milk, fresh ginger, and white sugar. Reference price: 14.10 yuan.

Point of sale: Guangbai Supermarket on the fourth floor.

The following are fruits·

Guava

It is native to America and has been introduced to Guangzhou for more than 200 years. Mainly distributed in Haizhu District, Panyu and Zengcheng City and other places. Are there any varieties? Seed, early ripening day, palace pink, golden red, birth red, July ripening, etc. The fruits are mostly gourd-shaped, green or light yellow, refreshing and sweet, with a unique flavor. It can be eaten fresh or canned into canned pomegranate juice or soft-packaged drinks. The famous one is Datang guava.

·Carambola

Carambola, also known as "carambola" and "yangtao", has the scientific name "Wulianzi", and because the cross section looks like a five-pointed star, it is also called it abroad. For "star pear". It is one of the famous Lingnan fruits. The carambola fruit has a special shape, an emerald green and goose-yellow color, a film-thin skin, crispy and juicy flesh, and is sweet, sour and delicious. In addition to containing 10% of sugar, it is also rich in vitamins A and C. Its main varieties include "Juedu (flat-top) sweet carambola", "Jiandu (spire) sweet carambola" and "sour carambola". The most famous one is the star fruit produced in Huadi, Fangcun District.

Carambola is an evergreen small tree or shrub. The berries grow alternately throughout the year, but the ones that bloom in July and mature in the autumnal equinox are the best and have the highest yield. Around the Mid-Autumn Festival is the peak production period of carambola.

·Mango

Mango belongs to the genus Mangifera of the Anacardiaceae family and enjoys the reputation of "the king of tropical fruits". The mango tree is an evergreen tree with a height of 10-20 meters, a thick main root and a rounded crown. The fruit is spherical or kidney-shaped, light green or light yellow. Its pulp is juicy and sweet, and can be eaten fresh or made into preserved fruit or squeezed into mango juice. The main mango varieties in Guangzhou include purple-flowered mango, cinnamon mango, string mango, green-skinned mango, and soil mango. Among them, "Xia Mao Xiangmang" produced in Xiamao Village, Shijing Town, Baiyun District, is a high-quality mango variety well-known both at home and abroad. In addition to the soft and sweet flesh of "Xiamao Xiangmang", after peeling off the skin, the flesh is dry and easy to store and carry. It is said that summer grass and fragrant mango were introduced and planted from other places during the Kangxi period of the Qing Dynasty. Later, they were designated as tributes because of their high quality. Nowadays, there are only a few real brand-name fragrant mango trees, and the annual fruit harvest is only one thousand or hundreds of kilograms, which is extremely precious.

·White olive

Zengcheng also produces white olive, which can be made into various cold fruit snacks, such as licorice olive, Huapi olive, osmanthus olive and sanitary olive which we like to eat on weekdays. It is made by salting, pickling with sugar, or adding spices and food colorings, etc., through a series of processes.

·Wulan

Wulan and white olive are collectively called olives and are a specialty of Zengcheng City.

Olivia is one of the "Four Treasures of Zengcheng" (the other three treasures are green lychees, silk seedlings, and jelly grass). Its whole body is full of treasures: olive meat can be used to make olive wedges and extract oil; It is used in dishes and is an excellent ingredient for snacks; olive seeds are the raw material for the famous olive carving craft, which has a history of more than 300 years. There are more than 30 varieties of black olives, among which Xishan, Yangjiao, Huangrou, Amanita, Sanfang and Youlanzi are the most famous.

·Banana in the sand

Banana is one of the four famous fruits in Lingnan. The number of cultivated fruits is second only to citrus, lychee and pineapple.

Banana cultivation in my country has a history of more than 2,000 years. In addition to Dongguan, Zhongshan, Xinhui and Shunde, Guangdong also has Panyu and the suburbs of Guangzhou.

Banana is a large perennial evergreen herbaceous fruit tree in the Musa family. Each banana plant buds and bears fruit once. Each banana plant bears more than ten combs, and each comb bears 10 to 15 fruits. Its pulp is soft, sweet and delicious, with a unique aroma. It has the effects of laxative, lowering blood pressure, and preventing hardening of blood vessels. Bananas are grown on the sandy soil of Panyu, and their fruits have a rich aroma. Among the famous fruits in Guangzhou, plantains are also in the banana category. In addition to bananas, Wanqingsha is also rich in plantains. Its "Red-billed Green Parrot Plantain" is one of the rare varieties of plantains. The banana fruit is golden in color with a green line on the edge. When ripe, the banana stem remains green and the top of the fruit is purple-red, hence the name.

·Tanzhou White Cane

Panyu City is rich in sugar cane and is known as the "Sugar City", and the white cane produced in Tanzhou Town is even more famous at home and abroad. Tanzhou white sugarcane is bluish-white in color, with thin skin and crispy flesh, rich juice, sweet taste, and low fiber. It can be eaten as fruit and has the effects of clearing away heat and detoxifying, producing body fluids and quenching thirst.

·Lingnan bonsai

Lingnan bonsai is a work of art that uses trees, rocks, etc. as materials, and is artistically processed and carefully cultivated to reproduce the natural look of Lingnan in the basin. Lingnan bonsai is one of the five major schools of bonsai art in my country. It has a unique style, is colorful, conforms to nature, is famous for its natural beauty, and has a strong interest in life.

The production of Lingnan bonsai mostly uses subtropical and tropical evergreen fine-leaved tree species. The varieties include Yuetong (Gurixiang), Quemei (sour), Fujian tea, mountain orange, elm, and comb flower (Shuiheng). branches), gypsophila, etc. Guangzhou people call these "tree heads".

Lingnan bonsai has various composition forms: single-stem large tree, double-stem, cliff, water shadow, multiple stems at one end, stone-attached, combined planting, etc. In addition to tree stump bonsai, there are also stone mountain bonsais. The stones in Shishan bonsai are mainly Yingshi, calcite, Shanhu stone, sandstone, etc., especially Yingshi from Yingde City. Yingshi is a specialty of Guangdong. Its stone has the characteristics of wrinkles, thinness and transparency. Lingnan bonsai has a broad foundation in Guangzhou. The art of Lingnan bonsai can be seen everywhere in the halls or balconies of residents' homes, in park corridors or on both sides of the road, and in the bonsai market in Qingping Market. It is worth mentioning that Guangzhou Xiyuan, located on the banks of Liuhua Lake, is known as the "Home of Bonsai". Many fine products representing the Lingnan style of bonsai are displayed here for visitors to view and purchase. In addition, many tourist attractions in Guangzhou have bonsai exhibitions and sales, such as Orchid Garden, Chen Clan Ancestral Hall, Guangzhou Cultural Park, Guangxiao Temple, South China Botanical Garden, etc. Famous garden restaurants in Guangzhou, such as Fuyuan, Beiyuan and Panxi Restaurants, are decorated with various bonsais in various poses, making the restaurants look more simple and elegant.

·Guangzhou Wood Carving

Wood carving is a type of Guangzhou carving, known for its exquisite craftsmanship. Wood carving is divided into two categories: architectural decoration and furniture carving. Architectural carvings are mostly made of stick wood, including hall flower couches, doors and windows, screens, sacred tables, etc. For example, the screens, beams, columns, doors and windows in the Chen Clan Ancestral Hall Guangdong Folk Arts and Crafts Museum all reflect the characteristics of Guangzhou wood carving craftsmanship. Furniture carvings are most famous for mahogany furniture and stick wooden boxes.

Take mahogany furniture as an example. It inherits my country's traditional carving technology and wooden structure technology. It has the characteristics of simple and elegant shape, fine carving, smooth polishing, bright paint, solid structure and durability. It is a high-end practical art for oriental halls. .

Mahogany is divided into two categories: acid wood and rosewood. Mahogany furniture is made using the stick method, without nails. There are three main types of carving: relief (convex pattern), through pattern (through pattern) and carved line and sunken pattern (concave pattern). Mahogany furniture also has vases, bottle holders, and palace lantern chip craft products, which are customarily called "mahogany small pieces". The nine-dragon bed made of mahogany craftsmanship is one of the representative works of innovative products in recent years. Its carving design is unique and the nine dragons carved on the backrest look like they are about to come out.

·Guangzhou jade carving

The craft was formed in the middle and late Tang Dynasty and has a history of more than 1,000 years. Its jade carving crafts are mainly divided into two categories: jade jewelry and jade carving ornaments. Jade jewelry is made of precious Burmese jade material, and has now formed three categories of products: naked body pieces, flowers and plants, and jade bracelets. Jade carvings are mostly made of precious jade materials such as Burmese jade, Xinjiang white jade, Shanhu, malachite, water gallbladder, cricket jade, and Xinyi jade. Jade carvings mainly include figures, flowers, birds and beasts, bottles and jars, as well as unique high-end crafts such as jade balls, flower flights, pagodas, and plain furnaces. In particular, the jade ball has a unique concept, with a large ball inside a small ball, uniform thickness, free rotation layer by layer, and carved with exquisite linings of landscapes, flowers, figures, fish, insects, flowers and birds, making the image extremely lifelike and vivid. At present, the jade carving balls have been carved to 20 layers, forming a ball carving system. Guangzhou Nanfang Jade Carving Craft Factory is a manufacturer specializing in the production of various jade carving products.

·Guangzhou Ivory Carving

This craft began in the Jin Dynasty and has a history of more than 2,000 years. Guangzhou's ivory carving products mainly include figures, ornaments, landscape bonsai, flowers, birds and insects, and the Four Treasures of the Study. Its traditional famous products include dental balls, dental tendons, vases, etc., among which dental balls are the most famous. In terms of carving techniques, Guangzhou ivory carvings are mainly divided into two categories: round carvings and through carvings: round carvings are used to make solid, three-dimensional crafts, such as figures, animals, mountain and rock scenery, etc.; through carvings are used to make flowers, vases, flower towers, etc. Crab pots, tooth balls and other transparent and exquisite varieties. Daxin Road Guangzhou Ivory Craft Factory is one of the well-known ivory carving manufacturers at home and abroad, enjoying a high reputation at home and abroad.

·Guangcai

Guangcai is the abbreviation of Guangzhou Colored Porcelain, also known as Guangzhou Zhijin Colored Porcelain. It is a kind of painted and fired white porcelain vessels. Most of the handicrafts with strong oriental characteristics adopt Chinese brocade patterns and are famous for their bright and gorgeous colors. They are a unique variety of my country's scroll-colored porcelain.

Guangzhou colored porcelain began with Guangzhou tricolor in the Ming Dynasty, developed into five colors in the Qing Dynasty, and gradually formed a unique artistic style during the Qianlong period. It has a history of more than 300 years.

Guangcai is famous for its gorgeous colors, rigorous composition and fine painting. Craftsmen weave gold threads on the pure white porcelain, just like thousands of gold threads woven on gemstones, giving people a sense of grace and luxury. The porcelain bodies used in the production of Guangcai mainly come from major porcelain areas in Jiangxi, Hunan and Guangdong. Guangcai has more than 20 colors such as red, aqua, green, Hechun, brilliant black, and double yellow. It adopts various painting techniques such as weaving, filling, dyeing, washing, tracing, stacking, carving, and brushing. A beautiful pattern is drawn on it, and then it is put into an electric kiln and fired at a high temperature of about 800°C.

There are seven painting processes in Guangcai: line tracing, color filling, gold weaving, green filling, color fighting, gold engraving, and flower burning. Guangcai's pattern designs include figures, flowers, birds, insects, fish, landscapes, etc. Guangcai's products are mainly divided into three categories: display art porcelain, daily-use appreciation porcelain, and craft porcelain. There are more than 500 varieties and more than 2,000 styles of craft porcelain in Guangcai.

·Revel embroidery

Revel embroidery is mainly based on embroidery paintings. Its representative work, the large-scale embroidery painting "Peacock and Bauhinia", is hanging in the Guangdong Hall of the Great Hall of the People in Beijing.

Gold and silver thread embroidery is to coil gold and silver threads into patterns and then fix them with wool threads. Some also use cotton strips to pad the main patterns such as dragons and phoenixes to make them stand out and dazzling. The animals are lifelike and vivid, among which the golden dragon wind gown and skirt are long-lasting export products.

Common bead embroidery products include paintings, handbags, clothing, Wangyi shoes, belts, etc., which are of great practical and artistic value. Machine embroidery is a method of using sewing machines instead of manual embroidery. The products are mostly pillowcases, bedspreads, tablecloths and other daily necessities. Among them, the machine-embroidered "Female Python Skirt" won the "Excellent New Product Award" in the China Arts and Crafts Hundred Flowers Award.

·Guangxiu

Guangxiu, also called Yue embroidery, is the collective name for folk embroidery handicrafts in Guangzhou and neighboring Nanhai, Panyu, Shunde and other places. It is similar to Su embroidery, Hunan embroidery and Shu embroidery. Collectively known as China's Four Famous Embroideries, "Birds Paying Attention to the Phoenix" and double-sided embroidery "Goldfish" are his representative works.

Guangzhou embroidery has a production history of more than 2,000 years. It is said that it was founded by the Li people in ancient times and originated from the same source as the Li people's brocade. Guangzhou embroidery is famous for its full composition, rich colors, expressive style, clear texture and changeable stitching techniques.

The varieties of Guangzhou embroidery include clothing, daily necessities, decorations, appreciation paintings, costumes, etc. Generally speaking, Guangzhou embroidery can be divided into four categories: velvet embroidery, gold and silver thread embroidery (i.e. plate gold embroidery, commonly known as nail gold), bead embroidery and machine embroidery.

Now, Guangzhou Embroidery Craft Factory, Zhonghua Costume Craft Factory, Guangzhou Machine Embroidery Factory, etc. are the main professional manufacturers of Guangzhou embroidery. With the development of Guangzhou embroidery today, the varieties are increasing, such as embroidery, brocade, drawn yarn, machine embroidery, embroidery, brocade embroidery, bead embroidery, hand-knitting and other categories. In particular, bead embroidery shoes and bead embroidery evening dresses are quite competitive in the international market, and their products are exported to more than 50 countries and regions in Europe, the United States, Australia, and Asia.

·Shikia Longan

Longan, also known as longan, is a perennial evergreen tree that blooms in spring and bears fruit in summer. The fruit is spherical, with a light yellow or brown shell, white and transparent flesh, juicy and sweet. It is one of the best fruits in Lingnan. The longan in the shell can also be processed and baked into dried longan (i.e. longan meat), which is a medicinal material with sedative and nourishing functions.

Longan is native to China and has a cultivation history of more than 2,000 years. Nowadays, longan is widely grown in Baiyun District, Haizhu District, Zengcheng, Panyu and Huadu City of Guangzhou. Its varieties include Wuyuan, Shixia and Shuiyan. , rice-shaped eyes, round eyes, etc., among which the Shixiao longan produced in Xiaozhou Village, Xinmarsh Town, Haizhu District is the most famous.

Shixia longan has large fruits, high yield, and is sweet with a taste of honey. Legend has it that "Shikia" originally meant "stone clamp". The earliest longan tree grew from the cracks in the big rocks. Because the roots were caught by the big rocks, they had to drill into the deep soil layer. The roots absorbed the underground water. "Jingqi", the longan fruit produced is particularly delicious.

·Papaya

Also known as papaya, also known as Wanshou fruit, it is one of the four famous fruits in Lingnan and is known as the "Wonderful King of Lingnan Fruits".

Papaya is native to Mexico and was introduced to my country in the 17th century. It is now cultivated throughout Guangdong, with the highest concentration in the suburbs of Guangzhou.

Papaya is an evergreen softwood tree of the Papaya family, and is known as one of the "three major herbaceous fruit trees in the tropics" along with bananas and pineapples. The better varieties produced in Guangzhou include Lingnan variety, Suizhonghong, Thai red meat, etc. The quality of Lingnan variety is the best. The fruit is oblong and plump in shape, has thick flesh and few seeds, and has the fragrance of osmanthus. Papaya fruit is huge, weighing one to two kilograms, and the largest one can reach six to seven kilograms. The fruit is eaten fresh, has a delicious taste and is rich in nutrients; it can also be stewed. Papaya stewed with rock sugar can clear the heart and moisturize the lungs, and treat laryngitis and other diseases; immature papaya can be candied and eaten as vegetable soup, or it can be made into "salty and sour" Papaya" etc.

·Candy Pineapple

"Candy Pineapple" is a species of Sarawak. The Sarawak variety is also known as "Hawaii". The fruit weighs two to three kilograms and has large and shallow eyes. It can be eaten after peeling. Its fruit shape is correct, the pulp is smooth and juicy, and the sweetness and sourness are moderate. It is an excellent variety for fresh eating and canning. Among the "candy pineapples", the "Huangdeng pineapple" produced in Huangdeng Village, Huangpu District, Guangzhou is the best. It is famous for its large flesh, thick flesh, juiciness, sweetness like honey, and unusual aroma.

·Zengcheng Hanging Green

The outer shell of "Zengcheng Hanging Green" is red with green, 40% slightly green and 60% red. Each lychee is surrounded by a green line, and the flesh is white and crystal clear. It is sweet and refreshing, has a lingering fragrance and unique flavor.

The Gualv tree currently living in the Gualv Garden in Zengcheng Licheng Town is the ancestor of the Gualv lychee variety. It is more than 400 years old and more than five meters tall. It has successfully cultivated several generations of Gualv descendants.* **More than one hundred plants are planted in several villages in Zengcheng.

·Pineapple

Originally known as pineapple, it is native to Brazil and was introduced to China in the 16th century. There are many varieties and it is one of the four famous fruits in Lingnan.

Pineapple is a perennial evergreen herbaceous plant of the Bromeliaceae family. Each plant only bears one fruit in the center. The fruit is cylindrical in shape and is composed of many ovaries and flower rachis. It is a compound fruit. The pineapple peel has numerous flower parts (commonly known as fruit eyes or pineapple chickens), which are hard and thorny and must be peeled and dug out before eating.

Pineapples have three fruiting periods a year, and the best quality is between June and August. For fresh consumption, fruits with fresh color, correct shape, firm body and 80% ripeness are suitable. There are three common varieties of pineapple: Shenwan, Bali and Sarawak. Among them, the "sugar heart pineapple" carefully cultivated by Guangzhou fruit farmers in recent years is the best.

·Tangerines

Tangerines, tangerines, lemons, oranges and tangerines are a major category of fruits. Mandarin orange is one of the famous fruits in Guangzhou and is widely cultivated in Guangzhou. As early as the Southern Dynasties in the fifth century, there were many orange and pomelo orchards in Guangzhou. Today's American mandarin oranges were indirectly introduced from Europe to Guangzhou sweet oranges.

Tangerine orange is an evergreen shrub or small tree with white flowers in late spring, summer and autumn. The fruit is oblate, red or orange-yellow, and tastes sweet and sour. It is abundant in my country and has a cultivation history of more than 4,000 years. The main excellent varieties of citrus in Guangzhou include: dark orange, banana orange, jian orange, big red orange, Sihui orange, satsuma orange, Niannan, Xinhui sweet orange, etc. Guangzhou people call them: tall orange, light orange, flat orange, which vividly illustrates the appearance of orange, tangerine and mandarin orange. Among them, the Luogang dark willow sweet orange produced in Luogang Town, Baiyun District is the most famous.

·Lychee

Lychee, known as the "King of Fruits", is abundant in Conghua and Zengcheng cities of Guangzhou and several suburban areas in the city. Its fruit shape is unique, its color is pleasing to the eye, its pulp is like curdled fat, and it is sweet and rich. Excellent varieties include Nuomi Ci, Feizixiao, Gualv, etc. Huaizhi has the largest number, accounting for about 70 to 80% of the total output. Lychee is a rare subtropical fruit and one of the four famous fruits in Lingnan. It is native to southern my country and has a cultivation history of more than 2,000 years. At present, there are more than 100 varieties of lychees in Liconghua in my country, and there are more than 60 varieties in Guangzhou alone.

Mom and dad can buy some Shahe fragrant rice cakes, which are delicious and easy to digest

Uncle and aunt can give you some lychees and something else

Brothers are actually the most casual You can taste it yourself and buy some if you want to taste it.

Female friends, the Wife Cake Bar may develop into -.- Ahem, it’s all men who don’t explain

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