Quanzhou has all kinds of melons and fruits, famous wood flowers, Dehua porcelain, Hui 'an stone carving, Anxi oolong tea, Lao Fan Wan Zhiying divine comedy, Yongchun aged vinegar, Yuanhetang candied fruit, Quanzhou puppet head, Yongchun lacquer basket, artificial flowers and so on.
Zhangzhou's specialties are narcissus, camellia, orchid and other "three famous flowers", and citrus, litchi, banana, longan, sleeve and pineapple and other "six famous fruits". There are also various dried seafood, Pien Tze Huang, Babao Indy, Pien Tze Huang epidemic, pearl paste, Zhenbei lacquer decorative board, and Narcissus brand wind oil essence. ...
Let me introduce one of the specialties first. Olive Bar Olive is a specialty of Fuzhou, which was listed as a tribute as early as the Tang Dynasty. The first time I ate Fuzhou olives, I felt bitter and astringent. After the aftertaste, I felt fragrant and sweet. Fuzhou olive producing areas are mainly distributed on both sides of the lower reaches of Minjiang River, with Minhou and Minqing counties producing the most.
Olives are not called "green fruits". This is because ordinary fruits are born blue and will change color when they are ripe; Olives, from raw to ripe, always stay green. Olive, also known as "loyal fruit" and "admonishing fruit", is named after its special charm of bitter before sweet, which is exactly the same as the character of bitter admonition of loyal ministers in ancient times. Olive basket is also called "Fuguo". This is the name given by overseas Chinese. This not only shows that there are many olives in Fuzhou history, but also expresses the attachment of overseas Chinese to their native land (Fuzhou).
"Peach, plum, four olives and seven olives", olives need to be cultivated for 7 years to bear fruit, and the maturity period is generally around 10 every year. At first, the new olive tree produced few fruits, each tree was only a few kilograms, and after 25 years, it increased significantly, reaching more than 500 kilograms. Every time the olive tree bears fruit, the yield will be reduced in the following year, and the dormancy period will be one to two years. Therefore, olive production has different years.
Olives have many processing methods, such as "honey stains" and "salt storage". There are many varieties of olives in Fuzhou, including sandalwood, Huiyuan, Chang Ying and Yang Ya. In recent years, raw olives have been beaten flat and served in restaurants in Fuzhou, with unique flavor and popularity. Fuzhou lacquerware began in the Southern Song Dynasty. During the Qianlong period of Qing Dynasty, Shen Shaoan, a master of lacquer painting in Fuzhou, inherited and developed the traditional lacquer art and created a unique bodiless lacquer ware, which has a history of more than 200 years. Fuzhou bodiless lacquerware is solid and light in texture, beautifully decorated, bright in color, durable, with unique national style and strong local characteristics. Together with Beijing Cloisonne and Jiangxi Jingdezhen Porcelain, it is also called the "Three Treasures" of China traditional crafts.
The production methods of bodiless lacquerware are divided into bodiless lacquerware and wood lacquerware. A green tire is a green tire made of clay, gypsum, wood mold, etc. And then put it on the green tire layer by layer with summer cloth (linen) or silk and raw lacquer. After drying in the shade, it is broken or taken off from the original tire, leaving the shape of lacquer cloth. After dust removal, polishing, painting and various decorative patterns, it becomes a bright and gorgeous "bodiless paint". Wood tires are mainly hardwood such as nanmu, camphor wood and beech wood, which are directly painted without bodiless. The process is the same as the bodiless cloth blank. There are as many as forty or fifty processes in a handicraft, and some even reach more than one hundred.
Fuzhou bodiless lacquerware products can be roughly divided into two categories: practical and artistic appreciation. Besides being light, beautiful and durable, bodiless lacquerware also has the advantages of heat resistance, acid resistance, alkali resistance and insulation, and its application scope has been extended to industrial products.