Qinhuangdao Specialties Qinhuangdao is close to the Bohai Bay, and its specialties are mainly seafood: iron plate crabs, scallops, sea locusts, barracuda, cuttlefish, hairtail, squid, conch, hairy clams and other shellfish varieties. Gathering the essence of Bohai Bay seafood products. The handicrafts include all kinds of pearl jewelry: door curtains, necklaces, pearl pendants, shell piles, shell carvings, artificial amber, brick carvings and other handicrafts, all of which are very local. There is also a kind of decoration made by local people using flat snails (a kind of snail that shines on the seabed), which is a combination of local specialties and handmade art. Qinhuangdao also has many local famous and high-quality specialties. Such as Jingdong chestnuts, Shimen walnuts, sunflower apples, Changli honey pears, rose grapes, Nandaji peaches, small foreign pears, bitter almonds and other dried and fresh fruits. In addition, there are Yuanyu wine, Chunxue beer, old meat, Beidaihe ham sausage and other local famous products. Crab: It is the main seafood on the seashore. There are many types, especially swimming crab, which is characterized by its larger size, long and flat body, and light cyan color. It is also known locally as "big sea crab". In spring, female crabs are fatter; in autumn, especially late autumn, sea crabs are larger and fatter, and can weigh up to about one pound. Sea crab has a high protein content and is a delicious food suitable for all ages. There are many ways to process and eat it. Usually, it is steamed with water and can be eaten. Cooked crabs should not be stored for a long time; one day is appropriate. If you want to eat them again, just steam them and add a little vinegar, minced garlic, and minced ginger to enhance the flavor, which will make them more palatable. Since the opening of tourism in Beidaihe, Chinese and foreign tourists who enjoy sea crabs have formed a series of pedigrees: smoked crab lumps, grilled crab lids, Bohai whole crabs, steamed sea crabs, etc. "Iron plate crab": It is a small crab unique to Beidaihe. It is specially designed to burrow in the sand. It has a slender body and two small circles on the two corners, which resembles two eyes. The meat tastes fresh and moist, has a large amount of crab roe, and is rich in fat. It refreshes the spleen and stomach when eaten. Generally, restaurants mainly serve braised and stewed dishes. Sea cucumbers: belong to the echinoderm family and have many species. The sea cucumbers in Weihai belong to the sea cucumber species. There are more than 20 kinds of edible sea cucumbers in my country, among which the sea cucumbers from Beidaihe are of the highest quality. The sea cucumber body is nearly cylindrical, with blunt ends at both ends, a flat ventral surface with dense tube feet, and spines on the back, mostly gray-black or yellow-brown. The adult body is 20-40 cm long. There are many rocks along the coast of Beidaihe, dense seaweed, and abundant humus debris on the seabed. Therefore, the sea cucumbers produced are large in size, with thick spines, thick meat, and are tender and delicious. Sea cucumber is delicious and not greasy after eating. It is one of the eight treasures in the sea. It has been a treasure at banquets for hundreds of years. Sea cucumber has high nutritional value, rich in protein and sugar, and contains no cholesterol. It is an ideal nourishing product. Prawns: The coast of Beidaihe River is a place for shrimps to migrate, breed and inhabit, so it has unique fishing and breeding conditions. The annual output is more than 20,000 tons. The body color of the fresh prawns is green with a hint of blue, and they are exquisite and translucent. When ripe, the whole body turns orange-red, like a coral sculpture. The color is bright and pleasing to the eye, and it is extremely delicious to eat. It is a top-quality shrimp. Scallop: so named because its shell is shaped like a fan, it is a valuable marine bivalve shellfish. It has a particularly enlarged adductor muscle and is made from dried scallops, so scallops are also called dried scallops. Scallops like to live in clear water with light and swift currents in shallow waters, and are fixed on seabed rocks or sand with their byssus. The shells are thin and hard, with several radiating tendons in bright colors such as red, yellow, purple, and moon white. They are excellent raw materials for shell carving crafts. The scallops produced in Beidaihe are mainly Zhikong fans. Its meat is tender, delicious and nutritious, with a protein content of more than 60%, 4 times higher than eggs. "Scallops": Wild clams from the deep sea are used, peeled raw and boiled in salt water, then air-dried in a sunny place, put into a sealed container to shrink and form, and can only be eaten after half a year. Dried scallops are easy to store and are a great gift for relatives and friends. Xiaoyang pear: small and seedless, with a crisp texture, sweet but not greasy, it is a unique variety among local wild fruit trees. Ham sausage: It is the most famous specialty of Beidaihe seaside. It is oblong in shape, elastic and rose red in appearance. It is about 35 centimeters long and weighs about o.5 kilograms. Its meat is fresh and tender, fragrant and delicious. In 1981, it was rated as high-quality food in Hebei Province. lIn 1982, it was named a famous brand food by the Ministry of Commerce. The production of ham sausage has a history of nearly a hundred years. Based on the production of German-style ham sausage, it absorbed the production techniques of the Han nationality and gradually formed a unique specialty. ============================== Qinhuangdao is known as the "back garden of Beijing and Tianjin". It has good tourism resources such as the Great Wall, coastal areas, and ecology.

More than 40 tourist attractions, including the national historical and cultural city Shanhaiguan, the summer resort Beidaihe, Nandaihe Tourist Resort, and Changli Gold Coast, have unique charms and attract tens of millions of tourists from home and abroad every year. Qinhuangdao has undulating mountains and the Great Wall stretches across the entire territory. It is one of the most elite sections of the Great Wall. Great Wall series tours such as Laolongtou, The First Pass in the World, Changshou Mountain, Jiaoshan Great Wall, and Meng Jiangnu Temple are very popular among tourists. Beidaihe, a well-known tourist resort at home and abroad, has beautiful mountains and clear waters and beautiful scenery. The content of negative oxygen ions in the air here that are beneficial to the human body is as high as more than 7,000 per cubic centimeter, dozens of times that of other cities in the country. Strolling along the winding tree-lined road is like wandering in a natural oxygen bar, which makes you feel refreshed and lingering. Beidaihe is one of the four major bird watching resorts in the world. Every spring and autumn, a large number of migratory birds pass by and play here, attracting many bird watching enthusiasts. Adjacent to Beidaihe, Nandaihe Tourist Resort and Gold Coast Tourist Area have unique charms. The spectacular ocean desert scenery of Changli Gold Coast, a national nature reserve, is rare in the world. Among them, "sandboarding" is a thrilling and exciting entertainment and fitness project that is unique in China. Zushan in the north of Qinhuangdao enjoys the reputation of "Huangshan in the North" for its unique natural scenery such as strange rocks, strange flowers, sea of ??clouds, waterfalls and virgin forests. It is an excellent place for modern people to return to nature. Qinhuangdao Wildlife Park, located in Beidaihe Coastal National Forest Park, is currently the largest wildlife park with the highest forest coverage in my country. It houses thousands of wild animals and is a veritable animal kingdom. Pigeon Nest Park is very beautiful. There is a huge statue of a pigeon with outstretched wings in the park, which makes people linger.