1. Dongtai Hair Embroidery

Hair Embroidery, also known as ink embroidery, originated in the popular period of Buddhism in the Tang Dynasty. Folk believers cut off their hair and embroidered it on silk or silk into Tathagata or Guanyin Bodhisattva. Burn incense and worship to show piety. Replacing silk thread with human hair is the wisdom and creation of working women in China. Because hair embroidery does not fade and deform, it has extremely high technical requirements and is rarely circulated.

The Oriental Statue embroidered in the Southern Song Dynasty and the Maitreya Buddha embroidered by Han Ximeng in the Ming Dynasty were collected as treasures in the London Museum in England and Zhengcang Hospital in Japan respectively. The only hair embroidery in Shanghai Museum, The Picture of Stopping the Piano and Waiting for the Moon, was also embroidered by Han Ximeng. By the Qing Dynasty, hair embroidery was on the verge of extinction. On the basis of inheriting the traditional craft, the embroidery artists in Dongtai Arts and Crafts Factory used the methods of rolling, winding, stitching, sleeving and virtual and real stitches, and used a variety of human hair, such as yellow, gray, ochre and white, and used the dark and light hair as the color line to color according to the picture, and combined painting and embroidery to create colored embroidery with ink in the ink.

2. Dongtai Watermelon

Watermelon produced in Dongtai City, Jiangsu Province is called "Dongtai Watermelon" (1 piece). In 28, Dongtai passed the evaluation organized by the Watermelon Professional Committee of China Horticultural Society and became the first "hometown of watermelons in China" in China. The trademark of "Dongtai Watermelon" has been registered by the State Trademark Office, which is the first to break through the blank of the certificate of origin of agricultural products and become the only melon product registered in a country with geographical indications in China.

"Dongtai Watermelon" has been planted for more than 8 years, and has formed its own flavor characteristics with its unique geographical location, superior soil conditions and rich planting experience. Texiaofeng, early spring Hongyu and other varieties, from fruit size, color to internal quality, all meet the market demand, and their products are very popular and sweet.

"Dongtai Watermelon" is a real pollution-free watermelon, green watermelon and organic watermelon. At present, most of "Dongtai Watermelon" in the supply market are small fruit watermelons, which generally weigh 1.5~2.KG, and have two types: crystal yellow pulp and bright red flesh, with extremely small seeds and light green-blue stripes on the skin.

3. Cocoons in Dongtai

The existing mulberry field in Dongtai covers an area of 16, mu, with an annual output of 2, tons of fresh cocoons and more than 2,9 tons of white silk. This year, 193, spring silkworms were released in Dongtai, accounting for a quarter of the whole province. With a specific quality, the mulberry garden in Dongtai covers an area of 16, mu, with an annual output of 416, tons of cocoons, ranking first in Jiangsu in terms of scale and cocoon quality. The cocoon output in Fu 'an Town of Dongtai City has been the national town (township) champion for 22 consecutive years.

Dongtai City has been successively rated as "China Cocoon and Silk Base", "National Advanced Collective for Popularizing Science, Benefiting Farmers and Revitalizing Villages", "National Rural Science Popularization Demonstration Base", "National Top 1 Agricultural Technology Association", "National Sericulture Standardization Demonstration Zone" and "National Sericulture Science and Technology Promotion Demonstration Base". Cultural allusions Fuan Town, Dongtai City, Jiangsu Province is located in the Suzhong Plain, on the coast of the Yellow Sea, at the junction of Yancheng and Nantong City, and is the radiation area of Shanghai Economic Zone.

4. Dongtai fish soup noodles

Dongtai traditional snacks have a history of more than 2 years. This white noodle soup is well-known for its extraordinary craftsmanship. It turned out that the chef used fresh crucian carp and eel bones as the main raw materials, supplemented by cooked lard, ginger onion, shrimp and other condiments, and carefully made it into soup. The white noodle soup made of this soup is thick as milk, dripping into beads, and the noodles are white and fine, fresh but not greasy. It is a pity that people who come to Dongtai don't eat fish noodle soup. In 1924, Dongtai fish noodle soup won the medal of Panama International Fair.

it is listed as China Snacks. Fish noodle soup, a specialty of Jiangsu province, is famous in Dongtai. The production of fish noodle soup is very special. First, the fish should be cut and cleaned without leaving residual blood. Boil the pot with lard to 8%, put the fish in the pot one after another, fry them, pick them up crisp, and don't burn them Add eel bones or pig bones to the fried fish, boil it with river water to get thick soup, remove the fishy smell with onion wine, filter the clear soup with a fine sieve, and add a little shrimp seeds to make noodle soup. Noodles are sliced with a white knife. Therefore, fish soup noodles are delicious.

5. Kitchen Broad Bean

Kitchen Broad Bean is a unique specialty of Xiazao Village, an feng, Dongtai City. It was listed as a "tribute" in the Ming and Qing Dynasties. This kind of broad bean is flat and round in grain shape, as big as a thumb, and slightly concave in the middle of the bean body, which looks like a cow's foot, and its common name is "flat cow's foot". Strangely, if the "Niujiaobian" is planted in another place, it will be separated from Xiazao Village by a ridge, but it will grow beyond recognition, either with small particles or bad taste. An tang, a temple in the

Temple, competed to choose "Niujiaobian" douban as the soup base. The soup was as white as milk and delicious. Li Chunfang Lai 'an Feng, a bachelor of Xinghua, studied under Wang Gen. Whenever green beans are listed, both teachers and students like to take food prizes. Later, when Li Chunfang became prime minister, he paid tribute to the emperor, and was praised.

From then on, "Xiazao Broad Bean" paid tribute every year, and also assigned to buy and transport green beans and dried beans for imperial meals. This bean was used in Ming and Qing dynasties. At that time, Xiazao Village became "Yudou Garden".