Tianmu Lake "casserole fish head" was founded in Tianmu Lake Hotel in Jiangsu Province. After nearly 30 years' careful cooking in Zhu Shuncai, senior chef, Jiangsu Province, it is regarded as the best traditional dish in Jiangsu Province and has become a wonderful flower in China cuisine. Cooking the fish head of Tianmu Lake casserole uses the silver carp head naturally raised in Tianmu Lake, and the pure natural Tianmu Lake is the soup base, which is a unique cooking technology. Because the green vegetation around Tianmu Lake not only filters the water, but also the bottom of the lake is sandy rather than muddy, this unique natural environment makes Tianmu Lake clear, sweet and spotless, so the fish growing in it have no earthy smell. Therefore, "Tianmu Lake" casserole fish head is highly praised by the majority of food lovers for its excellent quality of "fresh but not fishy, fat but not greasy".
Changzhou specialty 2: Changzhou comb
Changzhou comb (comb for short) is one of the eight ancient hair accessories in China. Popular since the Southern and Northern Dynasties, it has a history of 1500 years. It was once called "palace comb".
Changzhou comb is made of natural materials, with exquisite workmanship and beautiful shape. Often used, it has the health care functions of relieving headache, treating insomnia, strengthening brain, hearing and improving eyesight. It is not only a necessity of life, but also a delicate and delicate craft appreciation.
Changzhou comb enjoys a good reputation at home and abroad. Over the past hundred years, he has won many international and domestic gold and silver awards, including Panama International Peace Exhibition Silver Award 19 15, Philadelphia Expo Gold Award 1926, Quality Product Silver Award 1979 and National Silver Award 9 1. Comb products are exported to Southeast Asia, Western Europe and Africa, enjoying a good reputation and being loved and welcomed by people from all walks of life at home and abroad.
Changzhou Specialty 3: Cloisonne Cloisonne Craft Painting
Cloisonne-called metal tire enamel and metal tire silk enamel in ancient times, is one of the most precious treasures in the treasure house of arts and crafts works all over the world.
Metal tire silk-pinching craft painting is a traditional manual silk-pinching process, which constructs a picture on the bottom of metal material. The main color and background color of the picture adopt modern new technology and color matching skills, and the picture is clear, novel, colorful, gorgeous, crystal clear and three-dimensional. Against the background, the theme is prominent and the meaning is more profound, giving people a refreshing feeling.
Changzhou Specialty 4: Brick Carved Screen
Brick screen engraving is a kind of seal cutting knife method, in the Ming and Qing dynasties, ancient bricks are engraved with Han tablet characters and Han painting images, and then matched with exquisite mahogany carved seat screens and hanging screens. Brick carving screen is light in weight, small in size, easy to carry and simple and elegant in appearance. This image not only has the strong masculinity of Han Dynasty inscriptions and stone reliefs, but also has the stone spirit of ancient inscriptions, which has high artistic value. The audience can feel the profoundness of culture and art in the Han Dynasty and enjoy the beauty.
Changzhou specialty 5: random needle embroidery
Initiated by Professor Yang Shouyu, a famous embroidery artist in China, it combines painting art with embroidery techniques, breaks the traditional framework of "closely connecting its needles and arranging its lines", uses needles instead of pens, lines instead of colors, and uses long and short intersecting lines to express the depth and breadth of objects. The work has a unique artistic effect, just like oil painting or photography similar to art.
Changzhou Specialty 6: Liu Qing Bamboo Carving
This is a traditional art, carving a layer of green clouds on the surface of bamboo. Bamboo carving artists skillfully use the skills of leaving the whole, leaving less, leaving more and leaving less in bamboo narrative, which makes the works show the characteristics of distinct layers, clear light and shade, clear shades and strong three-dimensional sense; Moreover, because the bamboo skin is yellow and the bamboo muscle is red, with the increase of age, the color contrast between the bamboo skin and the bamboo muscle is great, and the color of the bamboo muscle is gradually purple, just like the first ripe cherry and polished amber, which is pleasing to the eye and can't be put down.
Changzhou specialty 7: Tianning Temple Su Zhai
Tianning Temple has a historical tradition of vegetarianism. Pilgrims from all over the world come here for pilgrimage, and tourists also come to visit. They often like to eat here. First, while doing Buddhism, it is also a sincere wish to entertain relatives and friends and taste Buddhist vegetarian food to show the feeling of getting together. Secondly, it is a popular fashion to have a change of taste, or to have a family dinner or get together with relatives and friends. Especially in the hot summer, people are tired of meat and greasy food, but vegetarian food is mostly rare seaweed such as bean products, fresh vegetables and fruits, mushrooms, fungus, Nostoc flagelliforme, etc., cooked with sesame oil, which is light and delicious. In addition, the Buddha land is clean and solemn, and the environment is elegant. It is really a pleasure to visit several times a year to adjust the taste of life and satisfy your curiosity.
In order to adapt to economic development, improve consumption patterns, promote tourism, enrich food culture, and enhance the self-supporting ability of temples, Tianning Temple resumed the opening of "Ruyi Su Zhai Guan" 1988. The temple site is located on the east side of the mountain gate, which has both the simplicity and solemnity of the temple architecture and the style of modern decoration. A pair of columns in the museum are fascinating: "Jin Yu Dian, Xi Jing Qing Zhai. Relax in the blessed land, prolong life and add meals here. " A poem written by Qian Xiaoshan, a famous calligrapher and poet of Yi nationality, is refreshing to read, with a harmonious scene, neat antithesis and appreciation of monks and customs. The restaurant in the museum can be divided and separated, and can accommodate more than 100 people at the same time. Vegetarianism can be divided into court vegetarian, folk vegetarian and Buddhist vegetarian. Palace vegetarianism is a vegetarian meal during the banquet of ancient emperors. Many varieties of modern folk vegetarian dishes and Buddhist vegetarian dishes are among the famous dishes. Most of the chefs here are trained in Shanghai Jade Buddha Temple and Zhenjiang Jinshan Temple Vegetarian Restaurant, and they can cook more than 40 kinds of traditional Buddhist vegetarian dishes and Changzhou local cuisine. The vegetarian restaurant here has Buddhist colors, such as "Buddha shines brightly", with golden millet as the main symbol of Buddha's light. The dish is surrounded by green and tender Chinese cabbage, ochre mushroom and yellow almond, which are colorful, soft and delicious at the entrance and fragrant. There are also various dishes such as "Longevity", "Lucky Fortune", "Congratulation on Getting Rich" and "Harvest of Grains" to celebrate good luck and happiness. Elaborate ingots, bergamot, peaches and peaches are all beautiful in color, fragrance and shape. They are regarded as exquisite "handicrafts" and are deeply loved by Chinese and foreign guests.
Changzhou specialty 8: money dishes
Wuta cuisine, a traditional specialty of Changzhou. Because its vegetables are flaky like money, its plants are green and full of vitality, so it is customarily called "money vegetables". I hope the four seasons will be smooth and good luck. In the past, the person in charge of the vegetarian canteen hosted by Tianning Temple studied hard when people could still eat this kind of "money dish" in hot summer, and took "money dish" as his specialty. They are separated from taoyuan village (now Taoyuan New Village) by a river. There is a "gentleman's agreement" that there is no need to sign a contract-every year in the cold winter, several thousand kilograms of Wuta cuisine should be provided for the temple, washed and dried by the cook, and stored in a large container filled with more than half of the "seven stone jars" of soybean oil, so that Wuta cuisine will not be allowed to "breathe", and it will be taken out for pilgrims to do Buddhism in the temple in rainy days, or to entertain guests to eat vegetarian fast as a rare and famous dish. In the hot summer of the "summer shortage" season, there are not many leafy vegetables, but you can eat "money vegetables", which is cool and refreshing, which naturally reminds people of Bai Xuehao's winter scene and makes them feel cool and interesting.
Changzhou specialty 9: silver noodles
Silver silk noodles are a special variety in Changzhou with a history of more than 30 years. The ingredients are exquisite, the operation procedure is strict, and the noodles are delicate, white as silver, soft and smooth, tough and not sticky. It is one of the collection varieties of China snacks.
Changzhou specialty 10: sesame cake
During the Xianfeng period of Qing Dynasty, it was created by Wang Changsheng, a pastry chef of Changle Tea House next to Renqiao, with a history of 140 years. Its characteristics: golden color, crisp and soft, thin and crisp skin, sweet and mellow stuffing, fresh and salty stuffing, fragrant onion, fat but not greasy. 1983, as one of the snacks collected in China, was rated as a special food in Jiangsu province. 1985 was awarded the title of city quality product.
Changzhou specialty 1 1: Maojian addition
It is said that when Emperor Qianlong went to the south of the Yangtze River and asked about Liyang's local specialties, the university student Shi Yizhi once replied, "Mao Jian is full of flowers and melons." It can be seen that Maojian bonus is one of the traditional local products of Liyang. In recent six years, Maojian has been producing bonuses. Huahongshu's hometown is on Dongdongting Mountain near Taihu Lake. There are beautiful lakes and mountains, rich in fruit trees, "Dongshan loquat" and "Xishan bayberry", and Bonus is one of the products.
Changzhou Specialty 12: South Style Matang
South-style sesame candy series products are the traditional local products of Changzhou. The main varieties are sesame candy, inch gold candy, potato candy, peanut candy, and poured slices. Sesame candy is bright in color, sweet, fragrant, loose and crisp. At 1984, it was rated as a quality food in Jiangsu province. Cunjin sugar, also known as Dongtang, has the characteristics of fragrance, sweetness, looseness and crispness, and was rated as a quality food in Jiangsu Province on 1985. Pour-cut food is one of Changzhou people's favorite foods for a long time, with the characteristics of fragrance, sweetness, looseness and crispness. 65438-0985 was rated as quality food in Jiangsu Province.