What are the specialties and tourist attractions in Liaocheng?

First of all, you must go to the scenic spots in the city and the Guang Yue Building in the old city. Built in the seventh year of Hongwu in Ming Dynasty (1374), there is not a nail in the whole main building. Pure wood. Lu Ban is enshrined in it, because Lu Ban is the originator of carpenters, and the main staircase is made of pure wood. There is also a Song Dynasty iron tower, which is very old. There is a legend that it was built under the guidance of an old gentleman. Then the Shanshan Guild Hall is the epitome and witness of Liaocheng's commercial prosperity in the Qing Dynasty. The guild hall was built in the eighth year of Qing Qianlong (1743). It was built by Shanxi and Shaanxi businessmen for "worshiping God and participating in mulberry". It took 66 years from the beginning to the completion, and it cost more than 92,000 yuan. The main hall is 77 meters long from east to west and 43 meters wide from north to south, covering an area of 33 1 1 square meter. The whole building includes doors, buildings, theatres, mezzanine buildings, bell and drum floors, north and south watchtowers, Guandi Hall, Chunqiu Pavilion and other parts. * * * There are more than 65,438 pavilions, which are national key cultural relics protection units. . Among the existing clubs in China, the building area of Liaocheng Shanshan Club is not very large, but its exquisite architectural carving and painting art is rare in China.

These are the three major protected cultural relics in China! Haiyuange, one of the four private libraries in Qing Dynasty, and Liaocheng, north of the Yangtze River, are unique. Especially in the old city, surrounded by lakes, Liaocheng is developing very well now. You can visit dongchang lake. Dongchang lake is about 4.5 square kilometers, five times larger than Daming Lake, and dongchang lake is connected with the ancient canal. To form a river-lake connection, you can go to Shuicheng Pearl Theater. It's in the southwest of dongchang lake. In addition, there are Cao Zhiling in East Asia, Jingyanggang in Yanggu and Lion Building. There seems to be a national-level one along the ancient canal in Linqing, but I forget the specific name. Specialty: Jujube

1. Traditional local products of Yanggu, chiping and other counties, also known as smoked jujube and burnt jujube. It is made of cooked fresh jujube by boiling in water, kiln smoking and cooling. Only the 1 process of kiln fumigation will be repeated three times for six days, and it can only be done after "three times in the kiln and six times in water". After jujube is made, its color is deep purple and bright, its pattern is fine and it has a special sweetness. "Old County Records" records: "yi county is a jujube producing area. Smoked with fresh dates and fire, the operation is very fine, exported to southern provinces, with tens of thousands of bags every year, and the profit is great. " Products are not only supplied locally, but also sold well in Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan, Southeast Asia and other countries and regions. Carve gourd

Carving gourd: also known as gourd. Unique traditional handicrafts flourished in the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China. At that time, the atmosphere of raising Polygonum cuspidatum in Liaocheng was very prosperous, and the sales of Polygonum cuspidatum gourd were very large. Most villages that plant, produce and sell gourds are concentrated in Liaocheng Chengguan, Yansi Town and Liangshui Town. The carved gourd is beautifully designed and the knife work is smooth. Although it is expensive, it is in short supply. Since 1978, artists have made bold innovations on the basis of inheriting traditional techniques, cutting and combining gourds into various shapes, turning flat carving into general carving, making the patterns three-dimensional, creating many new products with their own characteristics and becoming excellent gifts.

Liaocheng writing brush

Liaocheng brush: Liaocheng brush manufacturing industry has a long history, and there were 1000 pen makers in the middle of Ming Dynasty. Fu Yijian, the first scholar in Qing Dynasty, went to Beijing to take the exam, and chose Liaocheng first-class brush. Emperor Kangxi once wrote poems with Liaocheng brush, and inscribed the plaque of "Shen Guangzhong" for Guangyue Building, which shows the fame of Liaocheng brush at that time. There are more than 200 kinds of brushes produced in Liaocheng, with different sizes. According to the specifications, there is a "grab pen" with the largest length, which can write 3 feet; There is also a small pen, which can write small beans. According to the different raw materials, it can be divided into "wool", "wolf hair", "double double brush" and "seven purple three sheep". Liaocheng brush, except for a few pure wool pens, was basically made by Wei Sheng method in the Three Kingdoms period, and it was completed after 72 processes. It is characterized by beautiful appearance, rigid and flexible combination, strong ink absorption and durability. It has the unique virtue of meticulous brushwork "sharp, neat, round and healthy" and is a good painting and calligraphy. 1955 was rated as the first of its kind in the whole province. Not only sold well in China, but also sold to Hong Kong, Japan and other places five times through Qingdao, Shanghai, Guangzhou and other ports. Famous calligraphers Shu Tong and Yang Xuanting wrote many excellent works with Liaocheng brush. 5. Old tofu

Gaotang famous food, also known as tofu brain. Fine production, unique ingredients and unique flavor. Its characteristics are: tofu is white and bright, tender but not loose, brine is clear but not light, oily but not greasy; The aroma of food is tangy, fleshy but not fishy, spicy but not choking. Old tofu is made of selected high-quality soybeans. Peel and crush soybeans, soak them in sun-exposed storage water (purified Yellow River water is the best), and grind them into slurry with a stone mill after they are full. Packaging after foaming (filtering residue), boiling in a pot to make bean juice, cooling, putting in a bucket or vat, adding gypsum, sealing for 20 minutes to make tofu, and adding ingredients such as halogen and oil to serve. If you like spicy food, you can add fried red pepper. There are also donkey meat from Laowangzhai, Wu Dalang sesame seed cake, branch tofu, eight batches of fruit, Liaocheng Guata (especially Shazhen Guata), Dong 'e Ejiao, guanxian Yali, Linqing Lion Cat, Gaotang Gualou and so on.