Xiangtan City, referred to as Tan for short, is named "Liancheng" or "Tancheng" because it is rich in Xianglian. Together with Changsha and Zhuzhou, it is the central city of the national Changsha-Zhuzhou-Xiangtan urban agglomeration "two-oriented society" comprehensive reform pilot zone. What is the specialty of Xiangtan, Hunan? Let's have a look.

1. Xianglian:

Xiangtan has the reputation of "the hometown of Xianglian in China" and is a tribute of the royal family in past dynasties. "Village Sanlian" is famous at home and abroad, and it is a treasure in lotus. Xiangtan Xianglian's output accounts for 63.4% of the country, with excellent quality and annual turnover of about 65.438+0.2 billion yuan. At present, more than 4,000 people in this county are engaged in the cultivation, processing and trafficking of lotus seeds. The series products and deep processing of lotus seeds are also developing continuously. 65438-0992 According to the determination of China National Commodity Inspection Bureau, pure lotus meat contains 18 kinds of trace elements indispensable to human body, which is mild in nature and sweet in taste, and has the effects of lowering blood pressure, strengthening spleen and stomach, calming the heart and calming the nerves, moistening lung and clearing heart. Lotus plumule tastes bitter and cold, and has the functions of strengthening the heart, calming the nerves, clearing away heat and reducing fire, removing annoyance and diuresis. Xianglian is called "Ginseng" in the south of China.

2. Wick cake:

Wick cake is a traditional non-staple food specialty in Xiangtan. It is not only white and soft, sweet and spicy, cool and fragrant like a wick, but also can be ignited by fire, emitting pure osmanthus fragrance. And it takes 24 hours to open a box from the first to the last. ? Xiangtan has been making wick cakes for more than 400 years. According to legend, there lived a poor scholar named Yi Kui in Chen Zhong Township, Xiangtan County. Mother and son live together, and life is hard. Yi Kui is smart and studious. He is a scholar at the age of 17. He could have taken the exam the next year, but in order to take care of his sick mother, he gave up the opportunity three times in a row. At the age of 28, my mother said she would take him to the exam. After the exam, he hurried home and looked at it, stunned. It turned out that the old mother was unconscious with a wick in her mouth. Yi Kui was very sad and regretted leaving her mother. He was so anxious that he finally found some glutinous rice. He quickly ground the glutinous rice, put some sugar, steamed it into cakes, cut it into wick shapes and fed it to his mother one by one. Strange to say, after feeding, her mother opened her eyes and could speak soon. Yi Kui was very happy and told everyone. Soon, the good news came, and he got a juren exam. At this time, his mother was fully recovered, which was a double happiness. Since then, every household in Chen Zhong has learned to make this kind of cake. Its name is "Wick Cake". Later, the wick cake spread to the county town, and after scientific ingredients in the pastry workshop, repeated experiments and careful production, it became a valuable food in Xiangtan.

The wick cake is made of fine glutinous rice flour, sugar, lard, cinnamon and HongLing. 140 years ago, Xiangtan wick cake was rated as a first-class specialty at the National Famous Specialty Expo in Xianfeng period of Qing Dynasty. 19 15 Panama international commodity exhibition was well received by representatives of various countries; 1988 was awarded as "Famous Point" in Hunan Province in May. Since then, the quality of wick cake has been continuously improved, and refined pure cinnamon oil has been used to replace the cinnamon powder in the original formula, which makes the product more pure and has a stronger cinnamon flavor, and won the title of excellent product in Hunan Province.

3. Betel nut:

Betel nut can be used as medicine, which is warm and bitter. It is mainly used for treating diseases such as insect accumulation, food retention, abdominal distension, edema and beriberi. It is also a kind of fruit, especially in the life of Xiangtan people, which has a special position. Xiangtan people can entertain guests without cigarettes or tea in mutual guest appearances, as long as they offer a bite of betel nut, it is enough to show their sincerity. Children are still in infancy, and some parents will let their children suck some betel nuts, which can really be called "milk movement". Betel nut is the best business among street vendors. There are tens of thousands of betel nut stalls in the city. ? Eat areca, a native of Xiangtan, is very particular. The fresh fruit just picked is blue. Looks like duck eggs, slightly shorter. Boil it in water for about two hours to turn it into brown red, and then smoke it for seven days and seven nights to become dried fruit. This process is usually completed in the country of origin. After buying back the dried fruit, wash it with clear water, scald it with boiling water, spray a small amount of saccharin water, and store it for about 24 hours before eating. Before eating, cut the betel nut into two or four petals with a knife, and light the brine boiled with lime and maltose. Some people like to order a drop of cinnamon oil and chew it repeatedly in their mouths. Sweet and astringent, the aroma is overflowing, the more you chew, the more fragrant it is, and the aftertaste is long. A good betel nut can make people flush on their cheeks, make their whole body hot and dry, and even bring forth body fluids. No wonder Xiangtan people love eat areca so much.

4. Xiangtan soy sauce:

"When I get to Xiangtan, I won't go if I don't buy' Dragon Brand Soy Sauce'." This statement is not nonsense. Xiangtan is known as the "soy sauce kingdom". As early as 19 15, Xiangtan's "Dragon Brand Soy Sauce" won the "Panama International Expo Gold Award" together with Kweichow Moutai. Xiangtan Longpai soy sauce not only has the unique advantages of "bright color, strong sauce flavor, delicious taste, salty and sweet taste, no turbidity, no precipitation and no moldy floating film after long-term storage", but also contains more than 260 kinds of essential aroma components and amino acids, which is a top-grade nutritional product. Dragon brand soy sauce has a long history. There is not a person born in Xiangtan in the 1960s who didn't grow up eating dragon brand soy sauce. Xiangtan has a well-known slang, "Dragon brand soy sauce wick cake, you can pick girls". These are enough to prove the popularity and necessity of dragon brand soy sauce in Xiangtan people's daily life. As early as 100 years ago, the famous scholar and calligrapher in Qing Dynasty left a famous sentence, "Three meals make people live forever, and one drop can't be tasted".

Xiangtan sauce-making has a long history. According to Xiangtan County Records, as early as the early Qing Dynasty, there were sauce workshops in Xiangtan. The management of Xiangtan sauce garden originated from Xiangtan businessman Gong in the early years of Qing Qianlong. At that time, the soy sauce produced by Gong Qingxiangzhai wine sauce workshop was "thick juice, deep red color and warm fragrance", which was called "three unique colors and flavors". ? Xiangtan's Dragon Brand Soy Sauce, brewed with superior soybeans and flour by a unique traditional process, has the characteristics of delicious and fresh color, rich flavor, salty and sweet taste, no turbidity, no precipitation and no mildew after long-term storage. Wu Yuantai and Wu Hengtai Sauce Gardens, which pioneered the original soy sauce, are two century-old stores.

1956 after the public-private partnership, the three sauce gardens "Wuliang" and "Dafeng" merged into Xiangtan sauce factory, and the product trademark was "Dragon Brand", and "Dragon" officially became the symbol of Xiangtan soy sauce. From 1965 to 12, Longpai soy sauce was rated as high-quality soy sauce exported by five central and southern provinces. 1June, 978, won the first place in the national export soy sauce appraisal meeting; 198 1 year and 1985 won the national silver award twice. However, this is not the ultimate goal of Xiangtan sauce colleagues, who have already set their sights on the gold medal. Professor Ma Bi, who first responded to President Ye Jianying's "Nine Proposals" for Peaceful Reunification 1985 and resolutely returned from Taiwan Province Province, heard that soy sauce in his hometown had won silver twice and improvised a poem: "Every time a neighbor in Taipei is exposed to soy sauce, he will think of his hometown and see a silver medal when he returns. It is expected that the gold medal will shine even more. " Sure enough, "Kung Fu is at home",1988 65438+On February 27th, Xiangtan's Dragon Brand Soy Sauce finally won the gold medal in the first Food Expo. After winning the gold medal, Zhang, chairman of the All-China Federation of Returned Overseas Chinese, wrote an inscription to congratulate him: "The chef is delicious and depends on harmony."

Xiangtan Dragon Brand Soy Sauce is very fragrant all over the world because it is very particular about material selection, production and even storage. The main ingredients are black beans from Li He, soybeans from Jinghe River and goose beans from the upper reaches of Xiangjiang River, with high fat and protein content. Fujian crystalline salt is an auxiliary salt; The embryo cylinder adopts Soviet cylinder, which has thin cylinder body, fast heat transfer and long storage time. In the production, soaking seeds, cooking, stopping materials, fermenting, stepping on the cylinder, drying blanks and taking oil are seven steps in a sequence, which are closely linked, strictly operated and meticulous. In addition to producing soy sauce, there are original sauce, purple oil radish and purple oil ginger, which have always been welcomed by consumers. Especially purple oil ginger, has a long reputation. Made of high-quality tender ginger unearthed before the Millennium, it looks like a human palm, with broken stems without tendons, slender branches and short lotus mouth. After fine processing, it was finally soaked in dragon brand soy sauce. Delicious, salty and delicious, fragrant. It is a good product to stimulate appetite. ...

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