What are the specialties of Jiuquan?
Jiuquan specialty, mainly some handicrafts, jade, leather, carpet, brown hair and other products have been passed down from generation to generation since the Han and Tang Dynasties. Luminous Cup, which has a long reputation in Wo Wo, Suzhou, and others such as home-made paper, grow plush blankets and felts. , indigo cloth, Suzhou hookah, Achnatherum mat, etc. And all over the place. In recent years, due to the increase of machine-made products, handmade products have been replaced, and some are dying out. However, its unique style and exquisite craftsmanship are still necessary to maintain and learn from. \x0d\\x0d\ First, the luminous cup; The luminous cup is a precious wine vessel produced in Jiuquan, which is made of stone from Luo Chen, Qilian Mountain. (also known as Jiuquan Jade), beautifully carved and vividly shaped. Brilliant color, delicious and mellow wine, deeply loved by Chinese and foreign people. Tang Fu poet William Wang praised Liangzhou music. Poetry is named after the cup, and the cup is passed on by poetry, which is praised as the story of afternoon and autumn. It is actually a good gift display, banquet and giving to relatives and friends. \x0d\\x0d\ II。 Jiuquan liquor (Suzhou shochu): Jiuquan liquor is made from wheat as saccharifying starter, sorghum, corn and rice as raw materials, and water from famous springs through a unique process. Liquor is clear and transparent, with soft fragrance, sweet and mellow, and various flavors are combined. \ x0d \ x0d \ Jiuquan wine has a long history. At the end of the Qing Dynasty, it has sold well in Lanzhou, Qinghai, Xinjiang and other places, and was well received by restaurants. \x0d\\x0d\ Third, planting plush carpets: planting plush carpets has a long history. In ancient times, the Yue people scattered in Jiuquan, and the Yue people were good at weaving carpets. "Journey to the West in Longxi" written by Gu Yuefu, "Inviting guests to the North Hall and Sitting on a Guest Carpet", tells that during the Western Han Dynasty, Jiuquan could weave plush carpets. The raw material of carpet is mainly high-quality wool or camel hair, which is woven by traditional technology. It is elegant in color, unique in pattern, spectacular and generous, durable in wear and rich in national characteristics, and is known as a treasure. \x0d\\x0d\ IV。 Suzhou hookah: Suzhou hookah is mainly produced in the suburb of Qiu Lai River. Because of its fertile soil and abundant moisture, the produced tobacco leaves are golden in color and fragrant in smell. Except for tobacco leaves, the ingredients and processing of hookahs are very particular. In addition to clearing tobacco leaves, medicinal materials, mint, angelica, Ligusticum chuanxiong, borneol and x0d, there are several workshops such as Wangjia Tobacco Workshop and Lujia Tobacco Workshop, and their products are sold all over Hexi. \ x0d \ x0d \ v Suzhou Wo Wo: Suzhou Wo Wo (wool and cotton shoes), a specialty of Suzhou in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, is made by soaking and rubbing cow hair, commonly known as cat's nest, which is thick and clumsy, strong in cold resistance, durable and popular. \x0d\\x0d\ VI。 Fuzhou Hemp Paper: Suzhou Hemp Paper (homemade paper), commonly known as Hemp Paper, existed in workshops in the Ming and Qing Dynasties. It was made of rags, Ma Lian, Achnatherum splendens and hemp, with delicate texture, softness and tenacity. Fine paper can be used for writing and printing, while coarse paper can be used for packaging or other miscellaneous purposes, especially. \x0d\\x0d\ VII。 Achnatherum splendens can be planted everywhere in Jiuquan. Farmers use local materials, use their leisure time to weave seats according to their uses. They are bright and clean, clean and tidy, and are indispensable for building houses, bridging bridges and laying kang. They are sturdy, reliable, economical and durable. \x0d\\x0d\ VIII。 Feelings: People of all ethnic groups in Jiuquan live together, engage in agriculture and animal husbandry, and produce many livestock products. Felt is the most famous, with fine manufacturing technology, pure wool, which can be divided into red, black and white, wool and cow hair. After being made, it is elastic, flexible and durable, and is a daily necessity for people of all ethnic groups. \ x0d \ x0d \ IX。 Indigo Zhang Bu: Since the Ming Dynasty, agricultural production in Hexi has been stable, and many farmers planted indigo. Therefore, cloth dyehouses have mushroomed in Suzhou. There are still people running dyehouses in the city and fortresses in the countryside. Most of them are hand-woven with indigo as the main dyeing material. \ x0d \ \ x0d \ X. Black melon seeds: Black melon seeds are also one of the specialties of Jiuquan, with the characteristics of thick meat, black skin, white meat and oily fragrance, which are well received by customers inside and outside the province. \ x0d \ x0d \ XI。 Onion: Onion is a famous specialty of Jiuquan. Farmers have accumulated a whole set of experience in cutting and cultivation, and the planting scope is expanding day by day. \ x0d \ x0d \ XII。 Leather: Jiuquan indigenous tanning has a long history. The method is to soak the hide for several days, mix it into a thin paste with nitrate and yellow rice flour, apply it to the skin, soak it for more than ten days, take it out and stretch it, scrape off the fat with a knife, and make it into leather clothes, fur hats and cars. The original leather group was engaged in production, and now a leather factory has been established, which is made by scientific methods and machines, exquisite and beautiful, and meets the needs of supply. Special foods in Jiuquan-snacks, biscuits and steamed buns: \x0d\ 1 Crispy sesame cakes and Beijing-style snacks are characterized by mixing pastry fillings with edible oil and baking them on fire. The color is light yellow, which is bigger than dim sum and smaller than ordinary scones. It's best to eat it while it's hot in a restaurant. It's soft and sweet, oily but not greasy, and suitable for breakfast and supper. Muslim fires are prepared with sesame oil. \x0d\ 2。 Fried steamed bread (also called sugar fried steamed bread) is made by adding turmeric, red yeast and other seasoning materials to instant noodles. After kneading, rolling, rolling and pressing, the shape is flat and layered, with a proper amount of syrup recessed in the middle and coiled around the surface. Sprinkle white sugar granules on the surface and bake in a pot. Huang Liang color, crisp and sweet, both hot and cold. \x0d\ 3。 The oil tower scalds the noodles with boiling water, adds a small amount of dough and cooking oil, rubs it hard for many times, wakes up the noodles at the right time, rolls them into pancakes, coats them with oil, sprinkles the oil noodles, rolls them into cylinders, cuts them into even noodles, twists them into spiral towers, and puts them into a cage for steaming. When they come out of the cage, the color is dark yellow and they are caught in the middle when eating. It tastes non-greasy, suitable for both hot and cold, and hot food is better. \x0d\ 4。 Boiled mice in oil are made into skins with good flour, wrapped with oil noodles mixed with hot sesame oil, kneaded into the shape of mice, steamed in cages, with white back and brown heart, which tastes palatable and is better for cold food. Often eaten on the fifteenth day of the first month, it is also called a good gift for relatives and friends. \x0d\ 5。 Sweet water steamed bread (also known as canned steamed bread) does not add salt, sugar and other seasonings, and the dough needs to be kneaded many times before it can grow into a round spire. It's best to steam in a cage. It's white and bright, soft to eat, chewy, slow to swallow, and has natural wheat fragrance. Sliced braised pork tastes better; Strong water absorption, once soaked in boiling water, it becomes spongy, which is a good product for feeding babies and is also most suitable for the elderly. \x0d\ 6。 Oilseeds are divided into two categories: big oilseeds and small oilseeds, and their tastes are also divided into two categories: salty and sweet. Its patterns are made with exquisite craftsmanship, and the mixed dough is turned, turned, squeezed, pressed, kneaded, twisted, grabbed and picked into various patterns, all of which are fried with flax. Among many oilseed varieties, it is worth mentioning that some clever women make five-color dough with pigments such as turmeric, red yeast and spinach juice, and then make it into the shape of finger eggs, such as bees, butterflies, fish, shrimps, ducklings, pupae tadpoles, dragons, tigers, horses, sheep, birds, rats, chickens, geese, flowers and tsaoko. After frying, the color is gorgeous and the shape is realistic; When served, it is colorful, dazzling, dazzling, crisp and sweet, and extremely palatable. This kind of small _ child, only in the New Year Festival, women are meticulous, so it is still relatively rare in the market. In addition, the Muslim oil and prickly heat powder made by the Hui compatriots in Jiuquan are even more delicious and very particular. \x0d\ 7。 Guo Kui is a big pancake maker in Jiuquan. Baked with tobacco is called a pot helmet, and steamed in a cage is called a steamed cake. Its size depends on the size of the smoke cage, and its thickness is 5- 10 cm. It is called jujube with jujube, it is called Elaeagnus angustifolia with jujube, and it also involves turmeric and turmeric. Go on sale and cut into pieces and weigh. Other different shapes have their own names, such as "Niudan pepper" with slightly curved rectangle, "steamed buns mixed with water" with fennel oil and other condiments, and "burning a knot in one's heart" and "burning a shell" with tobacco barbecue, all of which are sold regardless of weight. \x0d\ 8。 Sweet rice flour is made by grinding yellow rice (millet) into powder, fermenting it with _, putting it in a small bowl, making it into semi-circular rice flour according to porcelain, and steaming it in a cage. Pale yellow in color, soft and slightly sweet in taste, with natural special fragrance and obvious wine aroma. Sweet rice was digested by Huang Yi, which strengthened the spleen and stomach. Suitable for all ages, urban and rural areas. \x0d\ 9。 The dry food on the stove is actually a biscuit the size of a snack made at home. The 23rd day of the twelfth lunar month is the day of offering sacrifices to the kitchen god. In the evening, housewives wash their hands and clean their mouths, offer offerings such as "dry food in the kitchen" in front of the statue of Kitchen God, and say "eat dry food and go to heaven when you are full". \x0d\ 10。 Hot cake and oil cake Put the rice cake made of glutinous rice and red dates into the pot, put the fried oil cake on it, cover the pot with a cage cloth, and then heat the pot. Always keep rice cakes and oil cakes soft and hot. When eating, put the rice cake on the steamed oil cake, which is sweet and delicious. \x0d\ 1 1, stuffed skin is a favorite summer food of Jiuquan people. The main tricks of the production method are seasoning: vinegar marinade (when boiling, add seasoning, red spicy skin and powder juice to thicken, put it into hot pot, simmer in winter and remove fire in summer), ten spices vinegar (adding seasoning without thickening, soaking a few tsaoko in boiling vinegar), garlic paste (garlic paste, stir with water, light yellow), and red. \x0d\ 12, bean jelly (commonly known as soybean) powder, the production method is simple and common, mainly because the seasoning is better, which is the same as the seasoning used for crusting. At a family dinner, make the powder into thin slices, roll it into a tube, cut it into an inch thick circle, pour it with seasoning, and sometimes add fried meat foam to make it taste different. \x0d\ 13。 The hot bean flour is ground into powder, steamed in a pot, and the seasoning is marinated in chicken soup. This kind of food is suitable for all ages, easy to digest, rich in nutrition and suitable for all seasons. \x0d\ 14, steamed flour (also called steamed cake), wheat flour and soft dough, rolled into round pancakes, steamed in a cage, cooled, cut into thin strips, put in a bowl and mixed with various seasonings, and serve. It is one of the common cold foods in the family. \x0d\ Jiuquan special food-cooked meat: \x0d\ 1, fat wrap: there are two kinds of plate fat wrap and intestinal fat wrap. The way to wrap fat in sheep is to tear off the oil on the belly surface (called belly oil skin) and keep it as skin, then chop the lean meat, add seasonings such as onion, garlic and ginger, stir to make stuffing, wrap it with oil skin, tie the two ends tightly with hemp skin or cotton thread, obliquely wrap it around several times in the middle, and then put it in a pot for cooking. Refrigerate, slice and serve. Eating mutton is not greasy, and it is more fragrant than ordinary instant-boiled mutton. After cooling, slice it and fry it in a kang pan, which tastes better. The method of wrapping the intestines with fat is: after washing the intestines, chop up the amniotic fluid blood clots, add seasoning and proper amount of fried noodles, stir them into paste, put them in the intestines, tie them tightly at both ends, put them in a pot, and deflate them with a needle when cooking to avoid bursting. After cooling, cut into oblique slices and eat immediately. \x0d\ 2。 Mutton chop suey soup (also called mutton head soup): put sheep in water to cook and chop; In the original soup, ginger is used as the main seasoning powder. The soup is white and cannot be turbid. Then put the skull of the mutton into the pot, put the chopped mutton into the bowl, pour the soup and warm it. The soup should be hot, the meat should be rotten and tender. If cooked wheat or barley grains are put into the soup, the soup will be stewed with meat with a spoon, and the flavor will be stronger. Sheep's head soup is the favorite breakfast and dinner for local people. \x0d\ 3。 Preserved mutton and preserved beef: cut mutton and beef into pieces, mix them evenly, put them into their stomachs after mixing seasonings, seal them in a pot and cook them, take them out, put them in a proper pot while they are hot, and press them on them until they are completely cooled. When eating, cut into thin slices and sprinkle with salt noodles. The meat is red, white and yellow, which is appetizing. This is a cold meat food with good color and flavor. \x0d\ 4。 Chang: This is a snack with western characteristics. Mix fresh sheep blood with a little flour, pour it into sheep intestines, put it in boiling water for a while, take it out and cool it, cut it into oblique slices with a thickness of one centimeter, and bake it in an oil pan. It's better to eat now, while it's hot. Kangyangchang has the function of stopping dysentery and diarrhea. \x0d\ There are also some folk snacks, such as burning gourd, wheat seeds, grinding precious seeds, stewing cakes, and so on. In different festivals, Jiuquan people are very particular about food. For example, from the first day of the first month to the fifth day of the first month, they usually don't use knives to make a fire to cook. When entertaining guests, they just fry and steam the prepared semi-finished dishes. On the fifteenth day of the first month, eat Yuanxiao, steamed stuffed bun or oily mouse to get rich. Eat pancakes on February 2; Eat fried eggs in a daze; Eat zongzi, rice cakes and realgar wine at the Dragon Boat Festival in May; Eat moon cakes, oil pot helmets and gourd pot helmets on August 15; Eat meat on the solstice in winter; Laba eats Laba ice, Laba beans, Laba porridge and bean rice. Laba doesn't eat vegetarian food on the solstice of winter, and Laba doesn't eat meat. On the 23rd day of the twelfth lunar month, we offer sacrifices to the stove, eating candy, jujube cakes and dry food. On the thirtieth day of the twelfth lunar month, we will eat some noodles and jiaozi, and we will also have a jiaozi in the middle of the night, which is called "Cang Cang Fan".