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About Yuxi |
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Culture |
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Nie'er Music Foundation - Chengjiang Animal Fossils - Lijiashan Bronze Wares - Ethnic Customs - Chengjiang Guansuo Opera - The High Platform Play of Tonghai - The Sansheng Palace Woodcarving |
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Famous
Products and Specialties |
| Due to the complex topography and diversified
climates in Yuxi, rich resources come into being. The industrious
people make a lot of beautiful handicrafts by taking advantage of
the traditional crafts. Yuxi¨s native products include lotus root starch, raw fermented soybean, ancient Boyuntang medicines, jasmine tea, Yuxi pickles, and aloe products. Its special ethnic craftworks are bronze handicrafts, Huaning pottery handicrafts, Huayaodai¨s seeding baskets, and ethnic silver adornments. The famous tourist souvenirs of Yuxi include Hongtashan cigarette series and Ruibiao leather articles. In addition, Yuxi provides tourists with many varieties of local products, especially tropical and subtropical fruits and various rare and precious flowers. |
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Bean Powder Candy (Tonghai County) |
Medicines of Ancient Boyuntang Drugstore (Tonghai
County) |
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Aloe Products (Yuanjiang County) |
Green Tea (Eshan County) |
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Pottery Handicrafts (Huaning County) |
Jasmine Tea (Yuanjiang County) |
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Lotus Root Starch (Chengjiang County) |
Raw Fermented Soya Beans (Yimen County) |
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Ruibiao Leather Articles (Hongta District) |
Wild Mushrooms (Yimen County) |
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Bamboo Shoots (Xinping County) |
Specialties Xinping Pickle Xinping Sour Pickle is the first specialty and cuisine. It is very exquisite to pickle Xinping Sour Pickles. It will be very delicious if you pickle the green vegetables planted in Guishan Town or Pingdian Town in Xinping. The taste of the Sour Pickles using the green vegetables planted in other places cannot be compared to that using the local green vegetables. If the local green vegetables are carried to other places to pickle, it will have a less favorable taste. Moreover, if the pickled green vegetables are introduced from other places, the taste is not as good as the original. Mosha Red Banana Introduced from Malaysia, Red Banana Trees have been planted. Characteristics: thick, plump, bright-colored, tender pulp, nourishing, with fragrance of cymbidium, called ＾The First Red of Yunnan￣, rarely seen, sold to Beijing and other areas. Litchi Characteristics of Feizixiao Litchi: green and red, sweet, thick
and tender pulp, small core, crisp, with pleasant fragrance, good
quality. Black Edible Fungus Black Edible Fungus is one of the specialties in Xinping and the principal traditional commerce for export. Characteristics: nourishing, contenting protein, various vitamins, a little calcium, phosphorus, iron, good quality, black-colored, thick pulp, crisp, moderating intestines, exported to Hong Kong, Japan and Southeast Asia. Fragrant Mushroom Characteristics: rich protein, calcium, phosphorus, high value of nourishment, a traditional specialty for export, produced in Ailaoshan Mountain. Xiping people usually stew the fragrant mushroom with eggs, while some families like to stir-fry the fragrant mushroom with the pork cut from the back of a pig, then enhanced with little Lantern Chili. Lotus Root Starch Characteristics: long history, traditional product, produced in Ancient City (Gucheng) and Naxi of Pingdian Town, convenient to carry, rich nourishment, favorite gift to friends. Zhelong Walnut Characteristics: rich fat, calcium, phosphorus, iron, vitamins,
high value of nourishment, easy to crack, thick walnut meat, fragrant,
sweet, crisp and etc. It is not only a main source for processing
candies and cakes, but also can be used as ingredient in drug making
for digestion. |