Write a 1,000-word essay about my hometown

My hometown is in Yixing City, on the shore of the beautiful Taihu Lake. It is located at the junction of Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Anhui provinces, in the southeastern hilly area, facing Taihu Lake in the east. It is a bright pearl on the west bank of Taihu Lake. Yixing has a long history, rich products, outstanding people, and pleasant climate. It is a rare Feng Shui treasure land. Yixing is known as the "ancient capital of pottery, the world of caves, the oasis of tea, and the ocean of bamboo".

Yixing ceramics has a long history. As far back as the Neolithic Age, our ancestors began to make pottery. Purple clay, celadon, uniform pottery, and beautiful painted pottery are known as the "Five Golden Flowers" of ceramics. Especially the finished purple sand products are a wonder among ceramics. They are famous at home and abroad for their unique clay texture, shape and simple natural beauty.

Yixing is a nationally renowned Taihu Lake scenic spot, an outstanding tourist city in China, and a national garden city. There are many karst caves in the southern mountainous area with strange scenery. More than 80 of them have been discovered, and 5 of them have been developed and opened, including Shanjuan Cave, Zhanggong Cave, Muchu Cave, Xishi Cave and Taiji Cave. Among them, Shanjuan Cave and Zhanggong Cave were opened to the public in 1934. The cave world is full of interesting things. There are dry caves and water caves. The water caves can be used for boats. The caves have a constant temperature and are warm in winter and cool in summer. The brown milkstone emits a strange light under the light, and the naturally formed pictographic stone birds and animals are as graceful as life. The world in the cave is like a dream. There are holes in the caves, big holes within small holes, the holes are connected, but the holes are different. The cave is integrated with the surrounding beautiful scenery, and it really feels like stepping into a fairyland.

Our country is the hometown of tea, and Yixing is also one of the main tea producing areas, with a planting area of ??5,000 hectares and an annual output of 6,359 tons of tea. In spring, the mountains and fields are green and green, and the tea-picking girls are like gods in the green floating in the ocean.

Yixing’s tea culture plays an important role in Zisha culture, or in other words, tea culture is an indispensable chapter in Zisha culture. The poet Lu Tong boasted: "The emperor must taste Yangxian tea, and the grass will not dare to bloom first." Water is the mother of tea, and utensils are the father of tea. Good tea must be brewed with good water, and it must be served with good utensils. Yixing has purple clay pots, Yangxian tea, and mountain spring water. The three are combined. A perfect match made in heaven and earth has created today's excellent tea culture.

Yixing is also the main producing area of ??moso bamboo. Moso bamboo covers an area of ??12,000 hectares and has a total stock volume of 36 million branches. It is mainly distributed in the southern mountainous area. Looking into the distance, the densely packed bamboos are like covering the mountains with a thick green quilt. A breeze blows, and the bamboos sway, like waves, continuously undulating, making a "sand" sound, and the birds The chirping of the people and the gurgling sound of the creek are like a sweet symphony.

Yixing not only has beautiful scenery, but also has many unique snacks and specialties. In addition to the famous pottery, tea, and moso bamboo, there are also Heqiao tofu that is dry but salty; Fresh white fish, white shrimp, and whitebait are delicious and nutritious; lilies in Du District are known as the "ginseng of Taihu Lake"; chestnuts, bamboo shoots, and ginkgo (gingko) are abundant in hilly and mountainous areas; and there are also unique local specialties such as black rice and bird black rice. Shiny, glutinous rice is delicious and fragrant. The specialties of the mountainous areas are day needles, mountain mushrooms, pheasants, hares, and other mountain delicacies.

Our hometown - Yixing is a good place to live. We Yixing people are hospitable. We hope that our friends will come to my hometown - Yixing to live, travel, invest and be guests.