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 books or silk to become 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 or deform, it has extremely high technical requirements and is rarely circulated.
Oriental statues embroidered in the Southern Song Dynasty and Maitreya Buddha embroidered by Han Ximeng in the Ming Dynasty were collected as treasures in London Museum in England and Zhengzang Hospital in Japan respectively. The only hair embroidery in Shanghai Museum, "Stop the piano and wait 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 use the methods of rolling, winding, sewing, sleeving, virtual and real needles, etc., with yellow hair, gray hair, ochre hair and white hair as the color line, and according to the color on the picture, painting and embroidery are combined to create colorful embroidery with ink in it.
2. Dongtai watermelon
The special watermelon in Dongtai City, Jiangsu Province is called "Dongtai Watermelon" (1 block). In 2008, Dongtai passed the evaluation organized by the Watermelon Professional Committee of China Horticultural Society and became the first "Watermelon Town of China" in China. The trademark of "Dongtai Watermelon" has been registered by the State Trademark Office, taking the lead in breaking through the blank of the certificate of origin of agricultural products and becoming the only melon product registered with geographical indications in China.
"Dongtai Watermelon" has been planted for more than 800 years, and has formed its own flavor characteristics with its unique geographical location, superior soil conditions and rich planting experience. Texiaofeng, early spring ruby and other varieties, from fruit size, color to internal quality, all meet the market demand, and their products are very popular, sweet and delicious.
"Dongtai Watermelon" is a real pollution-free watermelon, green watermelon and organic watermelon. At present, most of the "Dongtai Watermelon" on the market are small fruit watermelons, with a general unit weight of 1.5~2.0KG, with crystal yellow pulp and bright red pulp, tiny seeds and light green and blue stripes on the peel.
3, Dongtai cocoon
Geographical scope Dongtai has mulberry fields with an area of 6.5438+0.6 million mu, with an annual output of 20,000 tons of fresh cocoons and more than 2,900 tons of white silk. The number of spring silkworms in Dongtai this year is1930,000, accounting for a quarter of the province. The specific quality of mulberry garden in Dongtai covers an area of 6.5438+0.6 million mu, with an annual output of 4.65438+0.6 million tons. The scale and cocoon quality are the first in Jiangsu, and 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 and Benefiting Farmers and Revitalizing Villages", "National Rural Science Popularization Demonstration Base", "National Top 100 Agricultural Technology Association", "National Sericulture Standardization Demonstration Zone" and "National Sericulture 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 200 years. This kind of white noodle soup is famous for its extraordinary technology. It turns out that the chef takes fresh crucian carp and eel bones as the main raw materials, supplemented by cooked lard, ginger onion, shrimp and other condiments, and carefully cooks them into soup. The white noodle soup made of this soup is as thick as milk, dripping into beads, and the noodles are white and thin, fresh but not greasy. Unfortunately, people who come to Dongtai don't eat fish noodle soup. 1924 Dongtai fish noodle soup won the medal of Panama International Expo.
Listed as "Chinese snacks". Fish noodle soup is a specialty of Jiangsu province and is very famous in Dongtai. The production of fish noodle soup is very distinctive. First, cut the fish clean and don't leave residual blood. Boil the pot with lard until it is 80% cooked, put the fish into the pot one by one, fry them until they are crisp, and don't burn them. Add eel bones or pig bones into the fried fish, cook them in river water to make a thick soup, remove the fishy smell with onion wine, filter the clear soup with a fine sieve, and add a little shrimp to make noodle soup. Noodles are cut with a white knife. So fish noodle soup is delicious.
5. Kitchen broad beans
Vegetable broad bean is a specialty of Xiazao Village, Anfeng, Dongtai City. It was listed as a "tribute" in the Ming and Qing Dynasties. This kind of broad bean is flat and round in shape, as big as a thumb, slightly concave in the middle of the bean body, and shaped like a cow's foot, commonly known as "flat cow's foot". Strangely, if the "horn edge" is planted in other places, it will be separated from Xiazao Village by a ridge, but it looks beyond recognition, either with small particles or bad taste.
Antang in the temple, competing to choose "horn edge" douban as the soup base, white as milk, delicious. Laian Feng, a bachelor of Xinghua, studied under Wang Gen. Whenever green beans are listed, teachers and students like to receive food awards. Later, when Li Chunfang became prime minister, he paid tribute to the emperor and was praised.
From then on, "Summer Jujube Broad Bean" paid tribute every year, and also distributed to buy and transport green beans and dried beans for imperial meals. This kind of bean was used in Ming and Qing Dynasties. At that time, Xiazao Village became a "Yudou Garden".