Wu'an is located in the southern part of Hebei Province, at the eastern foot of Taihang Mountain, with an east diameter of 113°45′ to 114°22′, a north latitude of 36°28′ to 37°01′, and is adjacent to Handan in the east. City and Yongnian County, bounded by Zishan; to the south by Ci County and Fengfeng Mining Area, by Gushan, Tianjingzhai Mountain, and Nanda Nao; to the west by Shexian County and Shanxi Zuoquan County, bounded by Qingyang Mountain, Wanshou Mountain, and Qingya Mountain It is bounded by Xingtai Shahe City in the north and Motianling, Meigui Village and Huangmu Mountain, with a total area of ??1,806 square kilometers. Relying on the brand advantages of Cishan Culture, China's Hometown of Millet, and National Lean Pig Production Demonstration County, we have organized relevant leading enterprises to participate in various agricultural product trade fairs and exhibitions for many times, vigorously promoted and promoted agricultural products, and continuously improved the visibility and market influence of agricultural products. force. "Jingpin" brand walnut oil has passed the organic food certification. The off-season organic vegetables developed by Hejiacun have successfully connected with Hebei Qimei Company and registered the "Qimei" trademark. Dongsizhuang Village Wanle Vegetable Professional Cooperative's "Qingming" brand Six kinds of vegetables, including cucumbers and eggplants, have been recognized as "green foods" by the China Green Food Development Center. A series of modern economic terms such as brand, green, organic, and pollution-free have become hot words among farmers.
According to statistics, in 2012, there were 28 key leading enterprises in the city's industrial operations, achieving sales revenue of 2.285 billion yuan, driving 750,000 mountainous farmers on the road to becoming rich and increasing their incomes. The metallurgical industry is a pillar industry in Wu'an City. Wu'an currently has 18 steel companies with total assets of 46 billion yuan and 66,000 employees. Among them, 12 key steel companies are established as Hebei Xinwu'an Steel Group. It has various specifications and varieties such as medium and thick plates, medium and wide widths, high-speed wire rods, rebar, H-shaped steel, hot coil plates, cold-rolled sheets, spiral (straight seam) welded pipes, high-purity pig iron for casting, etc. In the future, in accordance with the requirements of "high-end, high-quality, specialization, and deep processing", we will focus on the development of high-tech, high-value-added products that are in short supply in the market, such as high-quality plates and strips, high-quality bars, special steel for machinery manufacturing, and special steel, and develop equipment manufacturing steel. New varieties, to build a modern steel city and a "Central Plains quality steel base" focusing on high-quality plates, construction steel, and steel for equipment manufacturing. Wu'an iron ore is low in sulfur and phosphorus and of high quality. Iron smelting has a long history, starting from the Warring States Period and flourishing in the Western Han Dynasty. In ancient times, there were 49 iron offices across the country, one of which was Wu'an. After the founding of New China, the metallurgical industry gradually recovered and developed. In the 1960s, the scale of "group mining and group smelting" became famous throughout the country. After the Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee, a large number of mining, mineral processing, and iron-making enterprises flourished, and now they have developed into a mining, dressing, smelting, casting, and rolling enterprise. Dragon's industrialized production pattern. There are 21 steel companies in the city, with total assets of 7.5 billion yuan and 50,000 employees. The ironmaking system has 39 blast furnaces of more than 100 cubic meters, with a total volume of 6,665 cubic meters and an annual production capacity of 8 million tons. The steelmaking system has 19 converters with a total nominal volume of 680 tons and an annual production capacity of 10 million tons. The steel rolling system has six rolling product production lines built or under construction, including 200,000 tons of stainless steel, 1.2 million tons of medium and thick plates, 1 million tons of medium and wide width plates, and 1.2 million tons of hot-rolled thin plates, with a total production capacity of 5.2 million tons. There are 17 foundry companies with an annual production capacity of 80,000 tons. In recent years, in accordance with the requirements of building ecological industries, Wu'an has increased pollution control in iron and steel enterprises. It has invested a total of 1.7 billion yuan and built 24 machine-made sintering machines and 14 blast furnace gas generating units. It has promoted the application of dust collection in front of the furnace, A number of energy-saving and pollution-control technologies such as oxygen-enriched coal injection, shaft furnace pelletizing, and converter gas recovery have achieved a win-win situation of "environmental protection and efficiency improvement". In 2003, the metallurgical industry produced 4.16 million tons of pig iron and 2.39 million tons of steel billets, accounting for 10.2% and 5.9% of Hebei Province's total output respectively.
The building materials industry is a pillar industry in Wu'an City. Wu'an has abundant limestone reserves and excellent texture, with proven geological reserves of 400 billion tons. It has unique resource advantages for the development of the building materials industry. The building materials industry started in the 1960s. After continuous transformation and development, an industrial chain has been formed with the cement industry as the leader, the stone, gravel, and lime mining and processing industry as the basis, and energy-saving bricks and new wall materials as the development direction. .
There are 33 cement companies in the city, each with a single plant size of more than 88,000 tons, total assets of 615 million yuan, 10,076 employees, and an annual designed production capacity of 4.54 million tons.
The coal industry is a pillar industry in Wuan City. Wu'an is rich in coal resources, with reserves reaching 2.3 billion tons, an annual output of 2.5 million tons of raw coal, and more than 10,000 employees. The number of coal mines in the city reached a maximum of 619. After rectification and management, there are now 116 coal mines. The main products are raw coal, lump coal and washed (clean) coal. In recent years, focusing on the deep processing of raw coal, 2 power plants, 5 coal washing plants, and 9 coking plants have been built, with an annual coke production capacity of 2.5 million tons. While supporting the steel industry, the coking industry has used coal tar to develop a series of coal chemical products such as light oil, anthracene, and naphthalene. Wu'an is located at the junction of Shanxi, Hebei and Henan provinces, with convenient transportation and a criss-crossing road network. Railway construction in Wu'an City began in 1941. There are 5 cross-border railways with a total length of 141.31 kilometers and 18 mixed passenger and cargo stations. National Highway 309 crosses Wu'an City from east to west, and Xingdu Highway passes from north to south, with a total mileage of 966 kilometers. Wu'an City operates various postal services, has a total installed telephone number of 125,000, 99,000 mobile users, and a penetration rate of 30.7 telephones per 100 people in urban and rural areas. Since the reform and opening up, the commerce industry has prospered, and new logistics industries such as logistics and distribution, chain operations, and e-commerce have developed vigorously. The total retail sales of consumer goods reached 2.61 billion yuan.
On October 12, 2010, the Handan-Wu Expressway connecting the main urban area of ??Handan City and Wu'an City was officially opened to traffic. The round trip between the main urban area of ??Handan City and Wu'an City only takes 30 minutes. It is understood that the Handan-Wuzhou Expressway starts from the west end of Renmin Road in Handan City, crosses the West Ring Road of Handan City, the Handan-Changchun Railway, the South-to-North Water Diversion Main Canal, goes down the Qinglan Expressway, and then crosses the Kangxi Ercheng Railway before crossing the Wu'an Outer Ring Road. , finally located at the intersection of South Ring Road and East Ring Road in Wu'an City, with a total length of 20.98 kilometers and an estimated investment of 1.066 billion yuan. The Cishan Cultural Site is located in Cishan Village, 18 kilometers southwest of Wu'an City. It dates back more than 7,500 years and is a product of the early Neolithic Age. Since 1972, more than 5,000 cultural relics have been unearthed, proving that China was the first country in the world to raise domestic chickens and grow millet and walnuts, which has extremely high historical value. Cishan Culture is an archaeological culture of China's Neolithic Age. It is a typical representative of China's primitive farming culture characterized by millet farming and settled life. It shows the spirit of human struggle to utilize nature and integrate with nature. Because it was first discovered in Wu'an Named after the Cishan site. According to scientific determination, it has a history of 10,300 years ago. Archaeological excavations began in 1976 and more than 5,000 pieces of pottery, stone, bone, and clam vessels were unearthed, as well as a large number of poultry, livestock, walnuts and other animal and plant specimens. About 100,000 kilograms of carbonized millet were also discovered. Cishan was recognized as one of the world's most important grains. The earliest birthplace of the crop, millet, is also the first place where Chinese poultry and Central Plains walnuts were discovered. The three major discoveries of crops "millet" (millet), domestic chickens and walnuts (walnuts) not only reflect the great contributions Cishan ancestors made to human survival and development in understanding, utilizing and transforming the natural process, but also rewrote the history of mankind. The history of millet agriculture, chicken domestication and walnut production areas in China and even the world. Daily utensils characterized by pottery flat-bottomed bowls and bird-head-shaped legs; farming and threshing tools characterized by stone axes, shovels, millstones, and grinding rods; grain cellars characterized by rectangular pits; pottery and stone tools Sacrificial relics characterized by "composition" constitute the unique and rich connotation of Cishan culture. Cishan culture is known as "Chinese treasure".
The former sites of the Shanxi-Hebei-Shandong-Henan Central Bureau and the Shanxi-Hebei-Shandong-Henan Military Region are located in Yetao Village, Yetao Town, 25 kilometers west and south of Wu'an City. It is a modern revolutionary cultural relic. During the War of Liberation from October 1946 to April 1948, the Shanxi-Hebei-Shandong-Henan Central Bureau of the Communist Party of China, the Shanxi-Hebei-Shandong-Henan Military Region and some agencies of the Shanxi-Hebei-Shandong-Henan Border Region Government were stationed here.
Wuji Ancient City Wuji Ancient City is located 6.5 kilometers southwest of the city and 200 meters north of Wuji Village, Wuji Town, Wu'an City. It is the ruins of an ancient city from the War and Han Dynasty. The ancient city ruins are irregular rectangular, 889 meters long from east to west and 768 meters wide from north to south, covering an area of ??approximately 688,000 square meters. There is a moat ditch around the outside of the city, about 60 meters wide.
All four corners of the city wall exist, but most of the wall has not survived. Only nearly one-half of the wall has been preserved: the west wall is 740 meters long, 3 to 5 meters high, and 8 to 13 meters wide at the bottom; the north wall is 600 meters long. , 3 to 6 meters high and 8 to 13 meters wide; the east and south walls no longer exist and have become highways and country avenues. In the middle of the east, west, south and north city walls, there are gaps ranging from 10 to 50 meters wide (the southern gap is slightly to the west), where the city gates are located. The city wall is made of rammed earth, with clear ramming layers, about 7 to 14 centimeters thick, and a ramming pit with a diameter of 6 centimeters.
The ancient city of Yicheng is located in the west of Yicheng Village, Yicheng Town, 18 kilometers north-east of the city, with an east diameter of F114°17′, a north latitude of F36°53′, and an altitude of more than 200 meters. It is located in a relatively gentle hilly area. The ruins of the ancient city. The ancient city ruins are rectangular, 1,000 meters long from north to south, 600 meters wide from east to west, and cover an area of ??600,000 square meters. The terrain of the city site is relatively flat. It borders Yongnian County and Shahe City in the northeast, Nanhe River in the south, and Yicheng Village on the right. Villagers built and occupied the eastern half of the ancient city. The Yicheng-Xiandewang Coal Mine Highway passes through the middle of the ancient city, and the Shahe-Dulian Railway passes through the southern part of the ancient city. Basically no surface city walls remain, with only a section of the west city wall and a section of the south city wall remaining. The west city wall is 15 to 20 meters long, 4 meters wide, and has a remaining height of 3 meters. The south city wall is about 100 meters, 4 to 5 meters wide, and has a remaining height of about 10 meters. The rammed layers vary from 10, 13, and 14 centimeters. The city wall is made of rammed earth, and the cultural layer is 0.6 to 1.5 meters thick. The exposed relics on the ground are mostly corded tiles, tube tiles and muddy gray pottery pieces. The shapes of the visible utensils include pots, basins, plates, urns, etc. The southeast of the site is ancient Cemetery area. In 2010, two bronze lords from the Shang Dynasty were discovered in the brick factory in Zhaodian Village, Yicheng. It is now a provincial cultural relic protection unit in Hebei Province.
Wu'an City God Temple is located at the west end of Miaolu Street in the city. It is now a well-preserved and large-scale ancient building group in the city. The temple faces south and is a north-south central axis building. It was first built in the second year of Hongwu in the Ming Dynasty (1369), and was rebuilt in the Ming, Qing and Republic of China. The City God's Temple was originally large in scale, with a theater building, a main gate, two gates, a worship hall, a middle hall, and an apse, all built on the central axis. There is a wooden archway on the east side of the gate, and there are symmetrical Zaoli Pavilions, east and west wing rooms, bell and drum towers on both sides of the central axis of the second gate, covering a total area of ??more than 6,000 square meters. Now there are only three buildings including the worship hall, the middle hall and the apse, covering an area of ??more than 1,100 square meters. The only remaining worship hall, central hall and apse have been renovated many times over the generations, but they still maintain their original architectural layout, structure and form, and are of high historical value. In particular, the ink and light color murals of "City God on Patrol" and "Mountain Spirits and Water Monsters" from the early Qing Dynasty preserved in the middle hall are of high value. It is now the third batch of key cultural relics protection units in Hebei Province.
The Wu'an Relic Pagoda is located in the northeast corner of the intersection of Taxi Road and Yingbin Road in the urban area. It is in front of the current Wu'an Hotel and south of the original Miaojue Temple. It was built in the sixth year of Yuanyou in the Song Dynasty (1091) as the Miaojue Temple. Outbuildings. The pagoda was overhauled and repaired in the 38th year of Wanli in the Ming Dynasty (1464) and the 32nd year of Guangxu in the Qing Dynasty (1907).
The Wu'an Relic Pagoda is the oldest, best-preserved, and tallest ancient pagoda from the Song Dynasty in southern Hebei. Its construction techniques and overall shape are simple and unpretentious, well-proportioned, tall and beautiful, and its structure has been shaped over the past thousand years. The lack of major changes shows the superb ancient Chinese construction technology, the profound cultural heritage of Wu'an, and the importance Wu'an people attach to cultural relics. The Wu'an stupa has become a landmark building in Wu'an.
Confucian scholars and scholars have studied here in the past dynasties in Rushan, so it is named Rushan. According to legend, during the Three Kingdoms period, Cao Zijian often came here to enjoy the scenery. Looking at the faint green mountains in the distance and overlooking the green water, my thoughts flow and my masterpieces emerge one after another. Cao Zijian wrote a poem in seven steps and was extremely talented. He must have been inspired by the aura of Confucianism and left behind such an eternal classic as "Luo Shen Fu". There was once a cast bell in the temple on the mountain with the words "Cao Zijian's Reading Place" engraved on it. There is a spring at the foot of the mountain, which never dries up all year round and is clear and clear. It was built for Cao Zi to drink horses. Wu'an Nuo Opera
Folk art in Guyi Village, Wu'an City. According to legend, this folk activity began in the Ming Dynasty and is a large-scale folk art activity carried out during the Lantern Festival. The Nuo opera performed in Guyi Village focuses on "catching yellow ghosts". It is magnificent, mysterious and rich in content, changing the assertion that "there is no Nuo opera north of the Yangtze River".
Nuo cultural activities start from welcoming the gods on the fourteenth day of the first lunar month and end with sending off the gods on the seventeenth day of the first lunar month. They mainly include team drama (including face drama or mask drama), competition drama, floats, land boats, dragon dance, king's whip, martial arts, etc. The fifteenth day of the first lunar month The performance of "Catch Yellow Ghosts" was the climax.
Wu'an Pingdiao
Wu'an local opera is a unique local opera in the country. It is popular in Wu'an, Shexian, Cixian, Handan County, Yongnian, Quzhou, Daming, and Linzhang in Handan City, Hebei Province, Shahe, Xingtai, and Nangong in Xingtai City, as well as in northern Henan and southeastern Shanxi. There are more than 200 traditional plays, most of which are large-scale plays reflecting historical stories, myths, and folklore. The level adjustment skills are complete, and there are "four beams and eight pillars" and "twelve lines". The four beams refer to red face, black face, Danjiao and Xiaosheng. The twelve lines are four lives, four days, and four painted faces. The performance style is rough and bold, advocating stunts. The singing style belongs to the Bangzi style, with Ban tune and five tones. The main ban styles include Adagio, Erba ban, Er ban, Sanban, Duo ban, inverted three bang, etc. There are also a small number of miscellaneous tunes and minor tunes, such as [1] String bells], [Dried jujubes], etc. Representative plays include "Pan Slope" and "Xu Ce Running for the City".
Wu'an Luozi
Wu'an local opera is a unique local opera in the country. Usually performed on the same stage as Ping Tiao, the roles are relatively complete, mainly including Xiaodan, Qingyi, Xiaosheng, clown, and Laosheng. They lack painted faces and Wu Chou. Historically, the division of labor between Xiaosheng and Xiaodan operas was not strict, and they often performed concurrently with each other. There are few traditional programs, and the stage art costumes and props are relatively simple. The singing melody of Luozi Opera is simple, capable of both narration and lyricism. It uses the Wu'an dialect and has a strong local flavor in the Taihang Mountains. The representative plays are "Duanhua" and "Borrowing the Young Lady".
Wu’an Allegro
Wu’an Folk Art. It is a bright and eye-catching flower in the local literary and artistic garden. Its language is popular, humorous, vivid, lively and vivid. It has strong Wu'an local characteristics and farmers' life flavor. It is loved by the broad audience in Wu'an and even Handan. It was born in the early days of liberation and has a history of more than 50 years. It is in the form of a jingle, with twenty or thirty lines long and ten or eight short lines, accompanied by drums, bangzi, and small gongs, just like the counting board in Wu'an Luozi Opera, but the rhythm is more lively and clear than the counting board. Because the Wu'an dialect was used in the speech, it was named Wu'an Allegro. It started as a single person speaking, and later developed into a pair of people speaking to each other, which is called allegro. After that, it was compiled into an allegro with a storyline, like a short play, with multiple people speaking in different roles, and it was named allegro drama. From then on, Wu'an Allegro, Counterpart Allegro, Multi-mouth Allegro, Allegro with gongs and drums, and Allegro opera became popular forms of cultural and artistic speeches in Wu'an Street gatherings, festivals, and various cultural activities. Marriage In the old days, wedding etiquette and customs were quite complicated. In short, there were the following ceremonies:
1. Engagement. Through matchmaking. If the man and woman believe that their birthdays are compatible with each other, the man will agree on the bride price and the man's girdle and send four small gifts (bracelets, ribbons, etc.) to the woman's family, saying "respectfully ask for gold." The girl's family sent Nvgeng and four small gifts (pens, belts, etc.) back to the boy's family, saying, "I will obey my orders." This is the "letter", the formal engagement.
2. Send a seat. Before the wedding, the man sends fried sesame candy in a food box to the woman's family and the man's relatives and friends, so that everyone knows the wedding date.
3. Dowry. The day before the wedding (now often the same day), the woman's brothers will send the dowry to the groom's family. The girl's brother carries the key, and the boy's family has to pay "key money" before handing over the key.
4. Wedding. In the old days, there were two red and blue sedan chairs. Later, they changed to riding horses. They chose an auspicious day to go to the bride's house to marry. The clan leader accompanied the groom there, which was called "Pouring Cup". The groom wears a long hat and gown with gold flowers in his hat. Relatives of the bride wear red crosses for the groom. The bride's face is covered with red gauze, which is called "Hong Kong Red". The woman has several guests to see off. Generally, families use flags, banners, lanterns, gongs to clear the way, and winds and pipes to welcome people to the door. The rich used trumpeters to blow on the doors the night before, and the deacons used half dynasties to drive. When the sedan arrives in front of the door, use a red-hot ploughshare and pour vinegar around the sedan. Two women with good zodiac signs will carry the bride out. The ground is covered with red felt or colored cloth (the bride's feet are not allowed to touch the ground). A saddle and a horse are placed inside the door. There is a weaving tama and a mirror. The bride steps over the saddle tama and holds the mirror in her arms. The saddle symbolizes farming and weaving, and the mirror symbolizes reunion. Singing hymns at the same time. Hymns vary from place to place. One hymn says: "The saint who rode on the saddle and touched the tangerine stayed here, which is the origin of the Yellow Emperor in Xuanyuan."
The newlyweds hold the reunion mirror in their arms, and look at it like a demon traveling thousands of miles away. "When the bride enters, she scatters straw and sets off firecrackers, which is called "driving away evil spirits". There is also a hymn saying: "One scatters golden roosters to fly to the sky, and the other scatters green dragon grass to sleep in it." "Three scatters of white tigers leave the sedan, four scatters of five blessings and longevity, five scatters of five directions bring more good luck, and the couple will be reconciled for eternity." The groom drew his bow and arrows, worshiped heaven and earth, and then entered the bridal chamber. In the evening, the bridal chamber was occupied, sweeping the kang for the newlyweds, and the newlyweds drinking A glass of wine is handed over to the bride, and the bride drinks pimple soup (descendant soup) that night. The new daughter-in-law is guided around the house, adding coal to the stove and adding grass to the livestock, which means that the housewife's life has begun. The next day, relatives and friends treat the bride to a "hair-combing meal", and the mother-in-law takes the bride to visit the neighbors, which is called "paying respects". On the third day, I went to my parents’ home for a return visit, which was called “acknowledging relatives”. Afterwards, the groom takes the bride to visit the groom's relatives' homes, which is called "visiting relatives". Nine days later, the bride's family called her back, and her nickname was Jiuyin. "This is the end of the wedding. The etiquette of poor people is similar to this. Limited to the conditions, the ceremony and banquet are simple.
After the "May 4th" movement, civilized weddings gradually became popular in the intellectual circles. The officiant presided over the ceremony and invited relatives and friends. Those with high financial status witnessed the marriage. However, the ceremony continued until the founding of the People's Republic of China.
After the founding of the People's Republic of China, the old wedding customs were gradually abandoned and moved towards civilized and simple weddings. Gradually increasing. But in recent years, especially in rural areas, some old and cumbersome customs have become popular again, such as asking for high betrothal gifts, meeting gifts, wedding ceremonies, sedan gifts, sedan gifts, etc. There are many names, and extravagance and waste are prevalent. It has become a difficulty in life, and there is a saying that "one family is happy and all the families are worried, the man is worried, the girl is worried, and relatives and friends are also worried."
Funeral customs include "the rich are buried rich, and the poor are poor." The old rituals are roughly as follows:
1. Cleanse the face of the deceased, change clothes, and prepare the coffin. The son prepares the coffin, and the clothes are prepared by the daughter.
2. The filial son goes to The family members and relatives and friends kowtow in mourning, and the lintels of the doors are covered with white paper. The funeral is presided over by the elders of the family.
3. The mourning tent is set up and the relatives and friends express their condolences. The filial son kowtows to express his gratitude when the coffin is closed. They stood around and shouted "hide the nails". Before the coffin was closed, the "descendants" (the filial son's grandfather's family) inspected the deceased's coffin, bedding, and clothing to see if they were appropriate. Some were picky and used excuses to make things difficult for the filial son, which is really a bad habit.
4. Monks and Taoist priests perform ashram to exalt the souls of the deceased.
5. Funerals are held for three, five, or seven days, and wealthy families have a "three-seven" day. (Twenty-one days) or longer. During the funeral, the filial son throws a clay pot, wears linen and wears mourning, and plays the "birth flag" (all white for the son, red and green for the grandson). , marching with trumpeters playing and setting off firecrackers, and then they were buried in the grave, counting from the day of death, they went to the grave and burned paper as a memorial every seven days until "Qiqi" (49 days). .
After the liberation, the funeral ceremony was simpler than before, and memorial services and cremations were carried out.
Children's customs: Women give birth, commonly known as "confinement". The placenta of the baby is buried underground in the house. Most people are taboo about entering the delivery room. Women must "sweep the bed" after one month to announce the good news: in the old days, the first child was born. Daxi, the female name is Xiaoxi, will bring the good news to her parents' house three days later with a food box filled with some food. For boys, put a book on the food box; for girls, put a flower on the food box to signify the full moon: the baby will be born in the first month. Relatives and friends from the natal family mainly come to celebrate the full moon, bringing food, children's clothes and money for the meeting, and having a dinner to congratulate each other. When the child turns one year old, the parents let the child hold books, knives, flowers, etc. to express the child's lifelong ambition. In the old days, this was a common practice among wealthy families.
Celebrating birthdays is commonly known as "birthday celebration". In the old days, old people would sit in the hall and hang birthday banners and couplets. , a picture of a birthday star, the juniors line up in front of the hall to kowtow to celebrate the birthday, and relatives and friends also bring food or money to congratulate them and eat noodles at the birthday banquet, called "longevity noodles". - Ordinary people, relatives and friends gather for dinner. To express congratulations.
After the founding of the People's Republic of China, the popularity of birthday celebrations decreased greatly. On birthdays, children's relatives and friends send them cakes and other gifts to congratulate them, some have dinner together, and some take "family photos" as a souvenir. Wu'an millet is a specialty of Wu'an City, Hebei Province. Wu'an is the hometown of millet in China.
Wu'an millet is produced in a nationally recognized harmless agricultural product production base. Wu'an millet is carefully processed from Wu'an millet as raw material without adding any additives.
Wu'an pulled noodles is a kind of pasta that is loved by local people in Wu'an. It has the characteristics of strong chewiness, softness and smoothness.
Donkey meat burrito Wu'an has a tradition of eating donkey meat since ancient times. Donkey meat is red in color, tender, soft and delicate, and contains less fat.
Wu'an stew is a home-cooked dish that is popular among the public It is also a dish that must be served in hotels and restaurants when entertaining guests. Rice is often eaten in every household.
Wu'an sesame candy is a unique New Year food that Wu'an people must have during the Chinese New Year (more commonly known as "ring" in North China). Traditionally, every household in Wu'an begins to make fried sesame candies when the New Year is approaching (that is, two or three days before the 23rd day of the twelfth lunar month). The quantity made at one time is enough for the whole family to eat the "dragon's head" on February 2nd. .