When traveling to Ningxia, what are the special products that can be taken home and given away? Are there any distinctive cultural and creative products?

Lycium barbarum, alias Lycium barbarum fruit, white needle, and rice cloth. Belongs to solanaceae. Fruit, root bark and tender leaves can be used as traditional Chinese medicine. Mainly distributed in Ningxia, Inner Mongolia, Xinjiang and other places. Ningxia is the main producing area, especially the Lycium barbarum produced in Zhongning County of Ningxia has the best quality. It is the "red treasure" at the head of the "Five Treasures of Ningxia".

2, licorice

Lao Guo, sweet grass, Ural licorice, sweet root. Leguminosae and Glycyrrhiza are perennial herbs with strong roots and rhizomes, which are nourishing Chinese herbal medicines. A very good medicine for human body, the medicinal parts are roots and rhizomes. The medicinal root is cylindrical, with a length of 25 ~ 100 cm and a diameter of 0.6 ~ 3.5 cm. The skin is elastic and the surface is reddish brown or grayish brown.

3. Helan stone

Helan Stone, also known as Auspicious Stone and Bizi Stone, is the first of the five treasures in Ningxia. Helan stone is famous all over the world and is known as the "blue treasure" of Ningxia. Helan stone is produced on a cliff about 2600 meters from Helan Mountain in Ningxia. It is an "elf" formed by nature after hundreds of millions of years of tempering.

Helan stone was formed1300 million years ago due to crustal changes and sediment deposition, and belongs to water rock. The texture is even and delicate, elegant and shiny, blue and purple, naturally staggered, rigid and soft, and the sound of knocking.

4. Tan Yang Er Mao

Tan sheep is a descendant of Mongolian sheep. After nomadic migration, it breeds on the grass beaches on both sides of the Yellow River in Ningxia and becomes a unique and excellent fur sheep in the world. It is observed that Ningxia grassland is dry with little rain, rich in pasture, slightly alkaline in water quality and high in salinity.

This is the natural condition for raising Tan sheep. Ningxia Tan sheep meat is nutritious and tender. Delicious and delicious, it is a top-grade delicacy and is deeply loved by gourmets. Beach mutton is not only supplied to people of all ethnic groups in the region today, but also transported to other provinces and cities and exported to Arab countries.

5. Nostoc flagelliforme

It is widely distributed in arid and semi-arid areas of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, Gansu, Qinghai, Shaanxi and other provinces, with an annual rainfall of 80-250 mm and tertiary red soil as its parent material.