What are the specialties of the Northwest?

1: Northwest Peasant Painting

Northwestern Peasant Painting is a kind of artwork born in the hands of farmers. It combines paper-cutting, murals, New Year pictures, embroidery and other folk arts, with bright red colors. Green, the composition is full and brief, the style is simple and rough, and the contents of the paintings are mostly people, animals, flowers and birds, etc.

Two: Imitation of Tang Sancai

Tang Sancai is a pottery popular in the Tang Dynasty. It has a long history, beautiful shape and bright color. Xi'an Art Ceramics Factory, Qianxian Arts and Crafts Factory, etc. used superb skills to imitate Tang Sancai. Many of the shapes are lifelike and the craftsmanship is exquisite, almost to the point of replicating the real ones.

Three: Pine flowers turn into eggs

“Bian eggs” are preserved eggs. Xixiang Songhuahuadan is named after the egg white skin that looks like a shadow of pine and cypress leaves. It has a history of more than 100 years. The production technology is unique and has a unique flavor. The texture of the finished product is transparent, with crystal pine flowers, suitable softness and hardness, fragrant but not greasy.

Four: Painted clay sculpture

Fengxiang colored sculpture is a kind of folk arts and crafts. Most of the clay sculptures have hollow round bodies, and there are also relief-style pendants. They are not only children's favorite toys, but also Shaanxi tourist souvenirs. It is characterized by rich and full shapes, vivid and humorous images, romantic outlines, full of exaggerated imagination, strong decorative meaning, "the beauty lies between similarity and dissimilarity", and has the artistic charm of "as intoxicating as mellow wine".

Five: Dali Peanuts

Dali Peanuts are a famous specialty of Shaanxi Province, mainly produced in Dali County in the eastern part of the Guanzhong Plain of Shaanxi Province. It is famous for its large pods, plump seeds, white peel, bright color, crispy and delicious taste, high oil yield, rich nutrition, easy storage and excellent quality. It is comparable to the nationally famous Shandong peanuts and Zhengzhou peanuts, and is an important domestic and export commodity in Shaanxi.

Six: Qianzhou Guokui

Qianzhou Guokui is shaped like a chrysanthemum and has a uniform fire color. Its skin is as thin as paper buns and has many fat layers. It can be broken into layers by hand and cut with a knife. suet. The more you chew, the more you chew, and the aftertaste is endless. It tastes crispy, smells good, is durable in storage, and has a long life. If you are wearing a Qianzhou pot helmet and are in the same car but sitting in a different seat, you will smell the steamed bun without seeing it.

Seven: Cured Donkey Meat

Cured donkey meat, a specialty of Fengxiang, was created in the same year of Qingxian and Xian. Fengxiang cured donkey meat is made from donkey leg meat. It is ruddy in color, fine in texture, crispy and delicious, with all five flavors, and you will never get tired of eating it. Since the Xianfeng period of the Qing Dynasty, it has been welcomed all over the world.

Eight: Chinese kiwifruit

Chinese kiwifruit is a unique vine fruit species in China. Compendium of Materia Medica records: "Its shape is like a pear, its color is like a peach, and macaques like to eat it, so it is named." Chinese kiwi fruit is oval in shape, as small as a walnut and as large as a goose egg. It has a brownish-green skin and green inner flesh. It has a sweet and sour fragrance and high nutritional value. It is known as the "King of Fruits"

Nine: Chenggu Citrus

Chenggu County in Hanzhong is the only eugenic land of "sweet and sour" citrus in the world. Chenggu mandarin oranges have a unique flavor of sweet but latent sourness, refreshing taste, and have an early maturity period. Autumn is the season when oranges mature, and the oranges you buy at this time are the freshest. You can also go to the orange gardens in Chenggu to pick oranges, which are cheap and delicious.

The generosity of the people of the northwest has been witnessed by the Chinese people. The specialties of the people of the northwest are also well-known to the people of the country, such as nostoc, wisteria, bracken, fungus, Lanzhou lily, day lily, and Gangu pepper. , Lanzhou peach, Linze red dates, Hexi Elaeagnus, sea buckthorn, Longnan kiwi, Longnan sweet persimmon, Tianshui Huaniu apple, winter pear, soft pear, Lanzhou honeydew melon, bitter water rose, alfalfa, Splendens splendens, astragalus, Minxian Angelica sinensis, desert cistanche, Cynomorium cynomorium, licorice, Ancestor hemp, Tan sheep and Tan Ermao fur, Longnan Chunhe Jinhui Daqu, Zhangye Nan wine, Bingzhou Qu wine, Hongchuan Tequ, Linxia rice wine, Jiuquan luminous cup, Tianshui carved lacquer , Lanzhou carved gourds, Tao inkstones, Lanzhou hookahs, etc.

Reference: Analysis of geographical factors in the formation of Lanzhou Ramen and dietary customs