Agricultural specialties

Cangzhou golden jujube

Golden jujube

Cangzhou red jujube is also called golden jujube, Cangxian County The junction of , Xianxian and Botou and its surroundings are the production areas of golden jujube. Among them, Botou City and Cuierzhuang in Cangxian County, located in the center of the production area, are the authentic representatives of Cangzhou red dates. The cultivation history of golden jujube in Wudi County dates back more than 2,300 years. Currently, millions of acres of jujube are intercropped with grains. Its quality and output rank first in the country, and it is known as the "No. 1 county of golden jujube in China".

The cultivation of jujube trees in Cangzhou has a long history. As early as the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, farmers had benefited from jujube trees. Dacheng, Cangxian, Hejian, Xianxian, Botou, Yanshan, Haixing and other counties are all places rich in jujube.

Botou Yali

Yali is a specialty of Cangzhou City, Hebei Province. Botou has the largest cultivation area, the earliest planting, and the best quality. It is named after it. It has been around since the 21st century. More than 2,000 years of cultivation history. In the past, the main distribution center for Botou Yali was at Tianjin Port. Therefore, it is exported as "Tianjin Yali". Botou Yali has a beautiful fruit shape, thin skin and thin flesh, crisp, tender and juicy, sweet and refreshing. The sugar content of pear is generally 10-13, and contains fruit acid, protein, fat, multiple vitamins, minerals and carbohydrates. Yali is also an excellent medicine. The registered trademark of Yali in Botou City is "Yujiao" brand.

Famous dishes

Sheep intestine soup

Cangzhou sheep intestine soup used to be called sheep intestines and haggis. Cangzhou is located in the east of the North China Plain, but it has the Mengcun Hui Autonomous County within its jurisdiction. The Hui nationality is a major ethnic group in this county, and the snacks here are mostly beef and mutton. Cangzhou Sheep Intestines is one of them. Sheep Intestines was a breakfast snack in Cangzhou City before liberation. Most of the people who patronized the Sheep Intestines stalls were strong men who sold their labor. Today, most of the customers who drink Sheep Intestines Soup are men.

Cangzhou winter vegetables

Winter vegetables

Cangzhou winter vegetables are a kind of local high-quality Chinese cabbage with thin legs, fine tendons and high sugar content. The old cabbage is removed. and green leaves, cut into small pieces about 1 cm wide and 1.2 cm long. After drying, mix with appropriate amount of refined salt and minced garlic, put in a jar and compact, seal firmly, and make it through natural fermentation for a long time. It is golden in color, fragrant in smell, slightly sweet in the mouth, salty and slightly spicy, and has high nutritional value. It is truly a specialty of Cangzhou.

According to the "Cangzhou County Chronicle", during the Kangxi period of the Qing Dynasty, there were dozens of winter vegetable workshops in and around the ancient city of Cangzhou, with prosperous business and sales at home and abroad. In 1936, Cangzhou winter vegetables won the Quality Product Award at the Commodity Expo held in Paris.

Other flavor foods include: fried tiger, hot pot chicken, braised lion head, shrimp paste, small fish chili sauce, donkey meat barbecue, Renqiu smoked fish, Hejian sesame flower brittle candy, salt mountain preserved egg, Baiyangdian preserved eggs, Nanpi steamed buns, Jiaohe pancakes, Wuqiao crispbreads, Suning sausages, Cangzhou Feng's sausages, etc.

In addition, Cangzhou also has "Iron Lion" liquor, "Yuhechun" liquor, Xianxian "Xianwang" liquor, Botou "Shilixiang" liquor, and Zhongjie Farm's "Wuguchun" liquor , wine, Yanshan "Qiantong" jujube wine, "Dongdu" old wine and other alcoholic drinks.