1. Special snacks in different places:
After enjoying the beautiful scenery of Mount Emei and understanding the Millennium Buddha culture, you must not miss the unique local cuisine of Mount Emei. The food in Emei Mountain can be divided into two categories: Buddhist vegetarian food and Sichuan food. Monks in Guobao Temple, Khufu Temple and Wannian Temple in Emei Mountain are famous for their vegetarian diets. Buddhist vegetarian mats are dishes made of bean products, noodles, fruits and vegetables, imitating the types and shapes of meat mats. Imitating not only its shape, but also its taste can be confused. Relying on mountains to eat mountains, Emei Mountain never lacks delicacies, snacks and various Sichuan dishes. As long as there are Sichuanese, the food culture will surely flourish.
Sichuan hot pot in Emei Mountain, vegetarian food in Emei Mountain, tofu, braised duck ... these seemingly ordinary snacks are mouth-watering because they are full of strong spicy taste. For people who love spicy food and Sichuan snacks, Emei Mountain is also right.
Emei old bacon is one of the traditional folk foods in Emei. It is made of pig's buttocks, pickled with various spices and then smoked. The slag melts at the entrance, and the aroma is overflowing and the aftertaste is endless.
You can eat tofu brain and three-way mud in Shuyuan Street in the urban area; You can eat yeba, frozen rice cake and corn cake in Zheng Xi Street downtown. You can eat Cao duck in the commercial street in the city center; You can eat Emei eel shreds in the giant grass area in the suburbs; You can eat bean jelly in the urban persuasion field; Every farmhouse in the scenic spot can eat homemade tofu pudding, old bacon and sausage; Hotels and restaurants in the scenic area can eat famous foods such as snow konjac roast duck and stewed snow bamboo shoots.
Second, Emei tourism development:
In the long historical development of Mount Emei, according to the main social practice activities and its development trend, the whole development of Mount Emei can be roughly divided into: the farming period before the Eastern Han Dynasty, mainly agricultural farming, almost no tourism activities; From the Eastern Han Dynasty to the middle of19th century, it was a development period dominated by religion and the primary stage of Emei Mountain tourism. Mount Emei is dominated by temple buildings, and tourists are mainly monks.
/kloc-From the middle of the 9th century to the end of 1970s, Emei Mountain became the focus of researchers' attention because of its rich geological and biological resources and long Buddhist culture. Tourists in this period are mostly researchers and Buddhists, which is the development stage of Emei Mountain tourism. During this period, the number of tourists increased year by year, mainly for Buddhism and scientific research, and the development of tourism was still in the stage of exploration and disorder.
References:
Baidu Encyclopedia Emei