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Introduction to Changting, China

Introduction to Changting, a famous historical and cultural city in Fujian

Changting County (Changting County, Tingzhou Prefecture), referred to as “Ting”, is located in the west of Fujian Province, at the southern foot of Wuyi Mountain, adjacent to Guangdong in the south and Jiangxi in the west. West Gate”.

Changting was established as a county in the Han Dynasty, and Tingzhou was established in the 24th year of Kaiyuan in the Tang Dynasty, becoming one of the five major prefectures in Fujian. For more than a thousand years since the prosperous Tang Dynasty, Changting has been the seat of state, county, road and government administration, and is the political, economic and cultural center of western Fujian.

Tingzhou is one of the Seven Min Prefectures and Eight Min Prefectures in Fujian Province. It is the first prefecture-governed city where the Hakka people live. It is known as the Hakka capital, one of the holy places of the Chinese revolution, the famous ancient city of Tang and Song Dynasties, and a national historical and cultural city ( 1994), the first hometown of Hakka dishes in China (2004), a famous food city in Fujian, and a famous city in the western part of the economic zone on the west coast of the Taiwan Strait.

Changting integrates human landscape and natural landscape, and is praised as “one of the most beautiful mountain cities in China” by international friend Rewi Alley together with Hunan Phoenix. In 2012, it was awarded the title of “China’s Top Ten Ancient Towns with the Most Cultural Heritage”.

Changting history and culture

1. Hakka Culture

Changting is the most representative city where the Hakka people live together in history. The Ting River, which runs around the city, is known as the mother river of the Hakka people. The Hakka people founded Tingzhou with the spirit of tenacity, pioneering and innovation, which brought prosperity and development of Tingzhou, and later developed to Meizhou, Guangdong, and expanded to Southeast Asia and the rest of the world.

Tingzhou became the base camp and the capital of Hakka in China. The ancient city of Tingzhou is deeply imprinted with the imprint of the Hakka people, and it is filled with the atmosphere of the Hakka people who endure hardships and stand hard work, struggle ceaselessly, and pioneer and innovate.

The long history has left Changting with a well-known Hakka culture at home and abroad: so far, Changting still retains the unique and charming Hakka folk culture, Hakka costume culture, Hakka architecture culture, Hakka food culture, Hakka religious culture and Hakka culture. Rich Hakka customs. Hakka folk songs, Hakka food, traditional Hakka lanterns, colorful folk arts such as boat lanterns, horse lanterns, dragon lanterns, Jufan, advocacy, pavilions, flower drums, etc. constitute a treasure trove of traditional Hakka art and culture in Changting.

In January 2008, Changting was named “China’s Cultural Tourism County”. Every year, a large number of Hakka hometowns at home and abroad return to Ting to find their roots and ancestors. Every autumn, the World Hakka Public Offering Ceremony to the Hakka Mother River is held.

According to statistics, more than 3 million people with more than 60 common surnames in Taiwan originated from Tingzhou, and more than 2 million Hakka people in Hong Kong came from Tingzhou. Liu Guoxuan, an important general who assisted Zheng Chenggong to recover Taiwan in the late Ming Dynasty, was from Tingzhou. , Shangguan Zhou, a master painter in the Qing Dynasty, was from Tingzhou. The ancestors of Sun Yat-sen once settled in Tingzhou. The ancestral place of Jiang Yong, a famous patriot, was also in Tingzhou. Guo Moruo wrote in “My Childhood”, “Five hundred years ago, My ancestors are from Tingzhou, Fujian.”

The traditional culture of Ting has formed the distinctive characteristics of Changting Hakka traditional culture due to the spread and import of the Central Plains culture, the infiltration of foreign cultures in the past dynasties and the integration with the local culture.

2. Red Culture

Changting is a famous old revolutionary base in the country. It is the hometown of the Red Army, the red land, and the place where the red flag will not fall. Changting has a glorious revolutionary tradition. During the Second Civil Revolutionary War, Changting was an important part of the Central Soviet Area and the economic and cultural center of the Central Soviet Area, known as “Little Red Shanghai”.

Mao Zedong, Zhou Enlai, Zhu De, Liu Shaoqi and other revolutionaries of the older generation engaged in great revolutionary practice in Changting. The early leaders of the party Qu Qiubai and He Shuheng died in Changting. During the Second Civil Revolutionary War, more than 20,000 outstanding sons and daughters of Changting joined the Red Army, and 13 veteran generals emerged. It was one of the starting points of the Red Army’s Long March.

In 1932, the first Fujian Provincial Soviet Government, the Fujian Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China, the Fujian Military Region and other institutions were established in Changting, and Changting became the political and military center of the Fujian revolutionary movement. The county has 7 revolutionary sites under national key protection, 3 provincial-level cultural relics protection units and provincial-level revolutionary buildings, and 27 county-level cultural relics protection units.

3. Folk Literature

Changting folk stories have a wide range of subjects, rich content, complete structure, vivid plot, witty and interesting, fluent language and clear character. Myths and legends mainly include “The River Dragon Brings Rain”, “The Legend of the Bull”, “The Water Ghost Friend”, etc.; the main character stories include “The Story of Xie Jin”, “The Story of the Dingguang Tiger”, “The Legend of Hu Xiali” , “The Story of the Nine Fighters”, etc.

Local stories mainly include “The First Floor of the Sky”, “Money and Human Will”, “Taiping Army in Tingzhou”, etc.; fables and jokes mainly include “Human Dies for Money”, “Three Stupid Brothers”, etc.; revolutionary stories mainly include “Mao” Commissioner’s Story”, “Old Chef”, “Businessmen Are Not Enemy Detectives”, “The Story of Guns”, etc.

Changting folk songs are of various varieties, rich in content and catchy, with distinctive Changting Hakka language color and style. There are mainly long ballads “Zhao Yulin and Liang Sizhen”, “Meng Jiangnu”, etc.; short and medium songs include “Send the Lang Return with a Lantern”, “Long Work in December”, “Bitter Love Song”, “Bad Mother Song”, “Long Work Hard” , “If you want to be in love, you will be in love”, etc., as well as a large number of revolutionary ballads.

Changting folk proverbs can be roughly divided into foreign proverbs and local proverbs. Most of the foreign proverbs are common everywhere. Local proverbs are handed down from generation to generation by the working people of Changting in the long-term production and life, and have typical local cultural characteristics of Changting.

4. Folk art

Changting folk art is rich and colorful. There are mainly dragon dance lanterns, boat lanterns, stilts, pavilion-lifting, flower drum playing, flower lanterns, slot lanterns, juban, long gongs and drums, gongsong and drums, gongshui, southern and northern tunes, Hakka folk songs, Han opera, Chu opera, tea-picking opera, and puppets Opera, folk paper-cut, root carving, bamboo weaving, iron painting, etc. These folk arts inherit the legacy of the Han nationality in the Central Plains, integrate local colors, and form a unique style, which is deeply loved by the Hakka people.

Hakka folk music is the most popular folk music in Changting, and it is the crystallization of Hakka culture and art in Tingzhou. It not only integrates the characteristics of folk songs in eastern Guangdong and southern Jiangxi, but also has the unique style of western Fujian.

Hakka folk songs, sung duet in Hakka dialect, sing in harmony, ask and answer in the mountains and fields, or lyrical, melodious, lingering, endless aftertaste, or narrative, high-pitched, agitated, and exhausted. Love is the eternal theme of Hakka folk songs, but love songs are not the whole of Hakka folk songs. Labor, history, legends, nursery rhymes, nursery rhymes, etc. are all expressed in folk songs.

Gongmuchui is a famous Changting folk instrumental music. It is named after two of the playing instruments, “Gong Chu” and “嫲 Chu”. The instrument is shaped like a suona, but about three times longer than a suona. The tone of “Gong Chui” is low, vigorous, and has a wide range; the tone of “Xu Chui” is soft, mellow and clear.

The relationship between “Gongchui” and “嫲chui” is a polyphonic relationship of pure fifths. In the performance, “gong blowing” and “嫲 blowing” are the main musical instruments, accompanied by erhu, dulcimer, sanxian, zhonghu, hall drum, hall gong, small gong, cymbal and other instruments.

The tune of “Gongmai Blowing” is gripping and heartwarming. Sometimes the melody stretches and swells, like an old couple reminiscing about the good years in the past; sometimes they play alternately, asking and answering each other, like this old couple is pouring out their hearts; The old couple was stroking their white hair and sighing at the ruthlessness of the years; suddenly the musical instruments rang in unison, shocking people’s souls, it was clearly the grief-stricken cry after the sudden death of a relative who had been with each other for decades; it turned to sobbing. Voice……

The author and creation age of “Gongmabhui” cannot be verified, and it has been preserved by folk artists from generation to generation. The melody connotation and playing level of “Gongmu Blowing” have reached a high artistic level. In 1985, Changting folk artist went to the province to perform, and was rated as an excellent program.

5. Religious Culture

The religious beliefs of the Hakka people in Changting are mainly Buddhism, Taoism, Catholicism and Christianity, and most Hakka people believe in Buddhism.

The introduction of Buddhism into Changting has a history of more than a thousand years. The first Buddhist temple, Kaiyuan Temple, was founded in 736 (the twenty-fourth year of Kaiyuan in the Tang Dynasty). From 907 AD to 960 AD (the Five Dynasties), it was the heyday of Changting Buddhism. In the Northern Song Dynasty, there were two eminent monks Fuhu and Dingguanglaiting. missionary.

After Dingguang and Fuhu passed away, the monks revered them as gods and Buddhas. Together with Guanyin, they were called “Three Taizus”. The followers spread all over the counties in Tingzhou and later spread to Taiwan. Today, there is a Buddhist temple in Dingguangtu in Changhua, and a temple in Yinshan in Danshui. Created by immigrants from Tingzhou. For the past 100 years, Changting has been celebrating the 13th day of the first lunar month and the 14th day of the lunar calendar as the meeting period for welcoming and sending off Dingguang and Fuhu, which is quite grand.

In 1937, monk Benzhan founded Babaoshan Junfeng Temple, ordained more than 40 monks and nuns, and received more than 500 disciples. As of July 2009, the county has more than 100 temples.

The introduction of Taoism began in the Tang Dynasty, and it was quite popular in the Tang and Song dynasties. It declined in the early Qing Dynasty, and by the end of the Qing Dynasty, there were no official Taoist monks in the county. As of July 2009, there are only a few folk Taoist activities.

Catholicism was introduced into Changting twice. The first time was during the Chongzhen period in the late Ming Dynasty, and the activity was suspended after 10 years. It was introduced for the second time during the reign of Emperor Guangxu of the Qing Dynasty, and it has continued. As of July 2009, there is one church in existence.

Christianity was introduced during the reign of Emperor Guangxu in the Qing Dynasty, and it has a history of more than 90 years by 2009. From 1941 to 1945, the church was the most prosperous. As of July 2009, there is 1 church in existence.

In addition, there are many folk beliefs in Changting, which can be roughly divided into four categories: one is the natural god, the second is the heroic god, the third is the religious god, and the fourth is the family god. The Tingzhou Tianhou Palace outside the east gate of Tingcheng is unknown when it was first built. It was rebuilt in AD 1825 (the fifth year of Daoguang in the Qing Dynasty).

6. Residential buildings

The traditional residential buildings in Changting are another characteristic of the Hakka architectural culture. It inherits the architectural style of the clan mansion in the Central Plains.

This large-scale dwelling can accommodate dozens of families living in one family. Some have a gatehouse in the front, a boudoir embroidery building in the back, and a “beauty leaning” curved bar seat, which is elegant and unique. This type of Hakka residential building is most typical of the Changting Enclosed House. Like the Hakka Tulou, it is a “family city” where the Hakka people live together.

7. Famous People

Changting is famous for its outstanding people and famous people. Chen Jian in Tang Dynasty, Zou Yinglong, Marquis of Lu State, Luo Yu, Luo Lie, Song Ci in Song Dynasty, Luo Liang in Yuan Dynasty, Ma Tun and Hao Fengsheng in Ming Dynasty, Li Shihong, Liu Guoxuan, Shangguan Zhou, Huang Yichen, Yang Lan, Liu Jiaju, Kang Yong in Qing Dynasty, etc. , are all well-known historical celebrities.

Zhang Chinan, Luo Huacheng, Chen Pixian, Yang Chengwu, Fu Lianxuan, Tong Xiaopeng and many other loyal fighters of the proletarian revolution emerged on this red land. The early leaders of the Communist Party of China Qu Qiubai and He Shuheng died heroically in Changting.

Changting fun place

1. Attractions

1. Changting County Museum

In 1995, Changting County Museum was rated as a national key cultural relics protection unit. In the museum, there are “Tingzhou Hakka Museum Exhibition”, “Changting Revolutionary History Exhibition”, “Qu Qiubai’s Prison Place”, “Tingzhou Test Institute Site” and ancient cypresses in the Tang Dynasty.

The entire exhibition hall of Tingzhou Hakka Museum covers an area of ​​700 square meters and is divided into four exhibition rooms. The exhibition is divided into five parts. The first part is “the famous Hakka capital in China”; the second part “splendid and colorful cultural landscape” ; “Hakka culture with a long history”; “The world’s Hakka belongs to one family”; “The rising and forging ahead Changting“.

2. Tingzhou Examination Institute

The Tingzhou Test Institute was built in the Song Dynasty. It has a courtyard-like structure and covers an area of ​​more than 10,000 square meters. The site was the site of the Tingzhou Military Guard Office in the Song Dynasty, the site of the Tingzhou Guard Office in the Yuan Dynasty, and the examination center in the Ming and Qing dynasties, which was the place for the elites to take the imperial examinations in the eight counties of Ting. Ji Xiaolan, a famous scholar in the Qing Dynasty and the chief editor of Siku Quanshu, once stayed here for the examination.

The two rare and rare Tang Dynasty double cypress trees in the courtyard are towering and lush, which is a spectacle. The Tingzhou Examination Institute has fixed exhibitions such as “Tingzhou Hakka History Exhibition”, “Fujian Soviet Area Capital – Changting Revolutionary History Exhibition”, “Qu Qiubai’s Glorious Achievement Exhibition” and other fixed exhibitions, and various special exhibitions are also held in good time.

3. Yunxiang Pavilion

The Hakka people created Tingzhou and created a unique Hakka culture. Walking into Changting, as long as you pay attention to the architecture, food and folk customs here, it is not difficult to feel its unique charm.

Yunxiang Pavilion is a typical southern ancient pavilion building. It was built in the Dali period of the Tang Dynasty, integrating strange mountains, clear water, ancient trees, bridges and pavilions, fully reflecting the wisdom and superb architectural art of the ancestors of Tingzhou at that time.

Such well-preserved ancient buildings can be seen almost everywhere in Changting. The ancient city gates of the Tang, Song, Ming and Qing dynasties, the magnificent Confucian Temple, the Tianhou Palace with carved beams and painted buildings, the splendid temples, the peculiar Double Yin Pagoda, the ancient blocks of the Tang and Song Dynasties.

4. The ancient city wall of Tingzhou

It was built in the fourth year of Dali in the Tang Dynasty. By the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the total length of the ancient city wall of Tingzhou was more than 5,000 meters, with 12 city gates. The unique pattern of hanging beads. The superb construction skills and immortal artistic value fully reflect the industrious wisdom and outstanding talents of the ancient Han working people.

Now the well-preserved city wall is nearly 3,000 meters long, connecting Chaotianmen, Wutongmen, Huijimen and Baozhumen together. In 1996, Tingzhou City Wall was listed as the fourth batch of provincial-level cultural protection units, and in 2013, it was listed as a national key cultural relics protection unit.

The ancient city wall has a history of more than 1,200 years and was built in the fourth year of the Tang Dynasty. The preserved city wall connects the ancient city gate Chaotianmen, Wutongmen, Huijimen and Baozhumen, with a total length of more than 1,500 meters, and is a provincial cultural relics protection unit.

5. Sanyuan Pavilion

Guangchumen, also known as Sanyuan Pavilion, was built in the Tang Dynasty and is a provincial-level cultural relics protection unit. The foundation of the city wall is made of granite, and the blue brick bucket arches are triple progressive, with a total length of 8.55 meters and a height of 3.4 meters.

6. Double Yin Tower

Shuangyin Pagoda is the collective name of the ancient well “Bagua Longquan” in the Tang Dynasty and the ancient well “Xuefu Yin Pagoda” in the Song Dynasty. Contrary to the tower on the ground, it is placed upside down on the ground, so it is called “Yin Tower”, which is a rare ancient well in China. On December 16 and December 19, 1984, “People’s Daily” issued two special articles from Xinhua News Agency reporters, reporting that Changting cultural relic workers discovered the “Double Yin Tower”. In 1989, it was announced as the third batch of county-level cultural relics protection units.

Yunxiang Pavilion was built in the Dali period of the Tang Dynasty and is a typical southern ancient pavilion building. It integrates strange mountains, clear water, ancient trees, bridges, and pavilions. It has the distinctive features of Chinese garden architecture and is one of the famous eight scenic spots in Tingzhou, “The Wind and the Moon”. In March 1929, the first county-level red regime in the Central Soviet Area, which was created by Mao Zedong himself, was located here in Changting County Revolutionary Committee. In 1988, it was announced as the third batch of national key cultural relics protection units.

7. Wolong Mountain Scenic Area

Wolong Mountain is located in the urban area, in the north of the city, so it is also called Beishan. Because of “flat fields on all sides, a mountain protruding, not belonging to the peaks, like a dragon crouching and lying down, with nine branches in the middle, hence the name Wolong”. It is one of the famous eight scenic spots in Tingzhou, “Longshan Baiyun”.

The North Pole Building and Jinsha Temple on the top of Wolong Mountain were built in the Song Dynasty, and the four-character plaque “Xiong Town Fujian West” is also preserved in the building. In 1989, the North Pole Building was announced as the third batch of county-level cultural relics protection units.

8. Confucius Temple

Provincial cultural relics protection unit. The Confucian Temple of Tingzhoufu was built in the third year of Song Shaoxing (1133 AD), covering an area of ​​1550 square meters. The Dacheng Hall is three rooms wide and three rooms deep, with double eaves resting on the top of the mountain, carrying beams and passing through buckets.

9. Tingzhou Tianhou Palace

Tingzhou Tianhou Temple was built in the Song Dynasty and dedicated to the statue of Mazu, the goddess of protecting the sea. On both sides of the front and rear eaves are stone carved dragon columns. The front hall has three bright rooms and three deep rooms. The plane is rectangular and covers an area of ​​5580 square meters. The main hall of the apse is a square caisson, supported by double-layer Ruyi bucket arches, and there are hanging ball carvings at the four corners. In 1989, it was announced as the third batch of county-level cultural relics protection units.

10. Chaodouyan Scenic Area

Chaodouyan Scenic Area is located in the southern suburb of the county, opposite to Wolong Mountain. In the Daxiong Hall on the mountain, there is a rare Bodhisattva sitting upside down and facing the wall. It is one of the eight scenic spots in Tingzhou, “Dawning Haze”.

In February 1933, the Fujian Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China held the fourth emergency meeting against “encirclement and suppression” in Daxiong Palace. In 1961, the site was announced as the first batch of provincial cultural relics protection units.

11. Former Site of the Soviet Government of Fujian Province

On March 18, 1932, the First Fujian Provincial Congress of Workers, Peasants and Soldiers was held here. The Congress adopted a series of important resolutions and declarations, proclaiming the establishment of the “Fujian Provincial Soviet Government”. The establishment of the provincial Soviet Union marked the heyday of the construction of the Fujian Soviet area. In 1988, it was announced as the third batch of national key cultural relics protection units.

The former site of the Fujian Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China (Zhou Enlai’s former residence) In the spring of 1932, the Fujian, Guangdong and Jiangxi Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China (Fujian Provincial Committee) was located here, with departments for organization, publicity, and women. Luo Ming, Liu Xiao, Chen Tanqiu, Liu Shaoqi and others successively served as the secretary of the provincial party committee. Comrade Zhou Enlai lived here after he came to Changting.

In early April, Mao Zedong, Zhou Enlai and others held a military meeting to attack Zhangzhou here. The site was originally the Church of Christ in China. It consists of a chapel and a back building. It is a brick and wood structure with a west-to-east building area of ​​644 square meters. In 1988, it was announced as the third batch of national key cultural relics protection units.

12. Gospel Hospital

The predecessor of the Central Red Hospital, the former site of the Gospel Hospital, the Gospel Hospital was originally the Church of England Hospital. It consists of six bungalows, including gatehouse, chapel, ward, medical room, and operating room. It has a civil structure and covers an area of ​​1,655 square meters.

After the “August 1st” Nanchang Uprising, Fu Lianxuan, director of the Gospel Hospital, treated the wounded and sick for the Nanchang Uprising Army and the Red Army. Mao Zedong, Chen Geng, Xu Teli, Zhou Yisu, Wu Xiuquan, He Zizhen and others were treated in the Gospel Hospital Rehabilitation Center. In 1933, the hospital moved to Ruijin and was officially named as the Central Red Hospital. In 1988, it was announced as the third batch of national key cultural relics protection units.

13. Xingeng Villa

The former site of the headquarters of the Fourth Red Army and the Political Department – Xin Geng Villa (the former residence of Mao Zedong and Zhu De) On March 14, 1929, Mao Zedong and Zhu De led the Fourth Red Army into Fujian for the first time and liberated Changting City. The headquarters and the Political Department were stationed in Fujian. here. Comrades Mao Zedong and Zhu De also lived here.

Comrade Mao Zedong presided over an investigation meeting and an enlarged meeting of the Front Committee of the Fourth Red Army in the hall, and at the enlarged meeting established a great strategic plan to create a central revolutionary base area.

The site is a courtyard-style residential building, facing south, with civil structure, covering an area of ​​523 square meters. In 1988, it was announced as the third batch of national key cultural relics protection units.

14. The former site of Fujian Federation of Trade Unions

The former site of the Fujian Provincial Federation of Trade Unions – Zhang Clan Temple (Liu Shaoqi’s former residence) During the Second Civil Revolutionary War, the Fujian Provincial Federation of Trade Unions was established here. Comrade Liu Shaoqi lived here when he inspected work in Changting, and Comrade Chen Yun held a workers’ meeting here.

The site consists of a front hall, a rear hall and a rear building, with a civil structure and a construction area of ​​537 square meters. In 1988, it was announced as the third batch of national key cultural relics protection units.

15. Qu Qiubai Martyr Monument

The Qu Qiubai Martyr’s Monument is located in Luohan Ridge, the county seat. In the spring of 1935, Qu Qiubai was surrounded by the enemy while passing through Xiaojing Village, Shuikou, Changting, and was unfortunately arrested and imprisoned in the Tingzhou Examination Institute. On June 18 of the same year, after drinking in the pavilion (Qiubai Pavilion) in Zhongshan Park, Qiubai walked to the execution ground calmly and died heroically at Luohanling.

In 1953, the Qu Qiubai Monument was erected in Luohanling. When the monument was repaired in 1985, Lu Dingyi wrote an inscription for the monument: “Qu Qiubai Martyr Monument”; the Fujian Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China and the Fujian Provincial People’s Government erected an inscription for the monument. In 1985, it was announced as the second batch of provincial cultural relics protection units, and in 1987, it was announced as a national key martyr memorial building protection unit.

2. Famous and high-quality specialty products

1. Special dishes

(1) Triangular tofu dumplings

Triangle tofu dumplings have been a delicacy in Changting feasts since the Ming and Qing dynasties. The production of this dish is quite elegant. It is made with tofu as the skin and lean meat, mushrooms, winter bamboo shoots, and scallions as the stuffing. The triangular tofu dumplings made by chefs in Tingzhou, with white skin and meat fragrant, tender and sweet, are unique among tofu dishes and have a unique flavor.

(2) Lei Cha

Leicha is a unique Hakka flavored food. It is also widely spread in Tingzhou, passed down from generation to generation, and is still preserved in many villages. Lei Cha is made by adding an appropriate amount of rice to sesame, soybeans, peanuts, tea leaves and orange peel, etc., and then boiled. Because Changting Hakka likes to add rice to Lei tea, it is also called Lei Mi tea.

Lei Cha has a unique flavor, fragrant, slightly bitter, gray-green, and turbid, but it is very delicious to drink. Because there are some Chinese herbal medicines in Lei Cha, which can detoxify and ventilate, the Hakka people, both adults and children, have the custom of drinking Lei Cha.

(3) White cut river frog

There are many ways to cook chicken in Changting folk, among which Baizhanhe frog is the most famous. It is highly praised for its fragrant, crisp, refreshing, tender, slippery and easy deboning. It has been a famous and excellent dish in Tingzhou since ancient times, and has always been listed as the first Hakka cuisine in western Fujian.

Its chicken head, chicken feet, and chicken wing tips are also good ingredients for drinking. There is a saying that “a chicken head has seven glasses of wine, and a pair of chicken feet drinks a pot”. In the provincial Fujian cuisine competition in 1986, “Bai Zhanhe Frog” won the title of local special flavor dish.

(4) Kirin reborn

The reborn unicorn, also known as “Kirin Drilling Elephant Belly”, was a high-quality treasure among the officials in the Qing Dynasty in Changting. Legend has it that a long time ago, there was a wealthy family named Zheng in Siqian Street, Changting. In order to have more children, the women of his family often filled the pig stomach layer by layer with puppies, black chicken, white pigeons, sparrows, wild ginseng and other steamed dishes.

Since then, it has been circulated among wealthy households as a dietary therapy. At the end of the Qing Dynasty, when Xiao Zhimei, the general town of Ting County, held a birthday banquet, “Kirin Reborn” was listed as the first dish. In 1985, Kirin was reborn and won the title of “Quality Cuisine” in the Fujian Cuisine Competition, which was reported by Fujian Daily on May 2, 1986.

(Features) Those with the exposed dog’s head are in the shape of a unicorn, and those with full coverage are in the shape of a baby elephant lying in a state. The taste is fragrant and the meat is tender, with another flavor; aphrodisiac and kidney, dispel rheumatism, and invigorate the spleen and stomach.

(5) wrinkled meat

Wrinkled yarn meat, commonly known as “burning large pieces”, is a traditional dish in Changting with a long history and has been included in the official table recipe as early as the Qing Dynasty. The skin of the wrinkled yarn is like wrinkled yarn, the whole red is bright, and the color and fragrance are excellent.

(6) Lychee meat

Lychee meat is a dish, which is said to be derived from “sweet and sour fried pine balls” and “yangmei meat”. As early as the Qing Dynasty, there was a dish of “sweet and sour fried pine balls” in banquets. By the beginning of the Republic of China, almost every meal was a must.

Later, after the chefs continued to improve the cooking skills such as knife skills, the dishes on the plate were shaped like Lingnan lychees, that is, beautiful in shape, crispy, sweet and sour, and unique in flavor. Eating it will inevitably make people think of the famous ancient poem “A concubine riding a red dust laughs, no one knows that it is a lychee”.

(7) Phoenix Drunk

According to “Chinese Cookbook”: “Hetian Chicken originated in Hetian Town, Changting County, Fujian Province”. According to folklore, Hetian chickens were sent to Chang’an during the Kaiyuan period of the Tang Dynasty, and they were listed as the cock-fighting champions every time they won.

Changting Rice Wine Niang is brewed by folk craftsmanship, pure natural raw materials, containing more than 20 kinds of amino acids and rich in nutrition. Jiu Niang and chicken are two wonderful flowers in Changting Food Culture Garden. The dishes cooked with chicken wine are deeply favored by the guests. [Features] The chicken is like a drunk lying in a vat, the chicken skin is golden and buttery, and the wine is fragrant.

(8) Burnt Liver Flower

Braised liver cauliflower is a traditional dish in Changting. Because of its crispy taste, it is a wonderful product for drinking, so it has been passed down for a long time. (Features) Golden color, crispy on the outside and soft on the inside, but not greasy.

(9) Raw Braised Grass Carp

Changting urban and rural ponds and reservoirs are mostly stocked with carp (grass carp), bighead carp (bighead carp), silver carp, carp, etc. There are fresh fish on the market every day. And people love to eat grass carp, because the soup is fresh and tender, and it is suitable for all ages.

“Changting County Chronicle·Products Chronicle” records: Carp, that is, grass carp, is large like trout, long and round in shape, thick and loose in flesh.

Raw braised grass carp has been the main course of banquets such as wedding celebrations and the completion of mansions since the end of the Qing Dynasty.

(10) Warm water fish

Hetian warm water fish is famous for its fatness, freshness and tenderness. According to legend, warm water fish originated in the Ming Dynasty. Li people discovered that there was a kind of fish in the downstream of the hot spring. It was round, flat and scaleless. After fishing ashore and jumping on the ground for a while, the whole body showed traces of blood, and it was cooked in a pot, and it was very tender.

So people dug pools downstream of the hot springs to try out fry breeding. Careful observation shows that most of the seedlings adapt to the environment, develop normally, and grow into plump fish in half a year. Later, it cultivated carp (grass carp), carp, silver carp, etc., which has a history of more than 500 years.

2. Snacks

(1) Changting dried tofu

Changting dried bean curd is the first of the “eight major dried dried beans” in western Fujian. It began in the Kaiyuan period of the Tang Dynasty. It was processed and produced by traditional craftsmanship and scientific methods. It is a green food rich in nutrients and high in protein. It has 3 varieties: spiced dried bean curd, soy sauce dried bean curd, yellow dried bean curd.

(2) Ciba

According to legend, in the Song Dynasty, there was a dragon temple on the Baozhu Peak of Manlanling in Changting. When the drought was in order, people in urban and rural areas often worshipped with glutinous rice cakes. Later, the abbot of the temple also made glutinous rice cakes for sale. Because the glutinous rice cake is soft and sweet, cheap and satiating, so many tourists come and go to taste it, so that no one knows about the glutinous rice cake in Manlanling.

(Features) Round, white, soft and sweet.

(3) Rice crackers

Like glutinous rice crackers, rice crackers are traditional Hakka food in Tingzhou. Rice crackers are made of rice, and the materials are convenient. The craftsmanship is simple and the quality is cheap. Therefore, eating rice crackers in urban and rural areas in Tingzhou is quite popular.

The production of rice crackers is very simple. Soak the glutinous rice in water and grind it into a pulp, put it in a cloth bag and press it to remove the water, then take it out and steam it, then pour the steamed rice flour into the mortar and pound it into a sticky shape, and roll it into a round long strip. to make. Because of its white color, it is also called “white rice cracker”.

In the countryside, it is also popular to burn the shrubs into ashes, then pour the firewood ash with boiling water to drain the gray water, and soak the japonica rice made of rice crackers in the gray water to make rice crackers. Because of their golden color, they are called “yellow rice crackers”.

Because the yellow rice cracker is mixed with gray water, it emits a unique alkaline fragrance and has a unique flavor. It can be eaten immediately with white sugar, or cut into cubes or thin strips, add leeks, shredded pork, shredded bamboo shoots, and fine salt to stir-fry, the aroma is attractive and delicious.

(4) Immortal Jelly

Xianren jelly, also known as “Xianrenban” in the Hakka area of ​​Meizhou, Guangdong, is a very popular seasonal snack in the Hakka areas of Fujian, Jiangxi and Guangdong.

The main pigment for making fairy jelly is fairy grass, which is a herbaceous small-leaf green plant rich in the mountainous area of ​​Tingzhou. The jelly made from sun-dried sagebrush is dark brown, while the jelly made from fresh sagebrush is green.

(5) Taro dumplings

Taro dumplings are a famous snack in Changting. They are also popular in many Hakka communities. Most of the Hakka people live in mountainous areas. Sweet potatoes and taro are the main grains in mountainous areas. Changting Hakka people constantly change their tastes when they eat grains and make many unique snacks. “Taro dumplings” is one of them.

(6) lamp cake

That is, fried cake, which is made of rice and soybeans ground into a thick paste and fried.

(7) Cage bed

Also known as “dustpan”, it is a traditional food in Changting urban and rural areas. After steaming, the cage bed is cut into strips and sun-dried. Those who cook it with seasoning are called “rice vermicelli”. After steaming, the whole piece is wrapped in fried lean pork shreds, chives, bean sprouts, etc. and rolled into a tube shape. Those with peanut oil and soy sauce are called “cage bed rolls”.

(8) Burritos

Roll cake (spring cake): It has a long history in Changting and is a famous spot for the Hakka people to maintain the customs of the Central Plains. During the Lantern Festival, every household makes tai.

(9) Shaomai

Since the Ming Dynasty, Shaomai has been a famous snack in Changting. Shaomai is shaped like a pomegranate, with thin skin and refreshing filling, fragrant and mouth-watering, so it is named: “Sante Pomegranate Fruit” and “Sanlixiang”. Later generations were called “shaomai” because the husk is made of flour, and they have to “rush to burn” (eat while hot) when eating. “Shaomai” has two kinds of meat and vegetables.

(10) Chestnut cake

Ming “Yongle Grand Ceremony” has a record of “chestnut” in the tribute to Tingzhou Prefecture. There are a variety of chestnut trees on the beach on both sides of the Ting River. Chestnuts and chestnuts are special products of Changting. In the Qing Dynasty, it sold well in coastal commercial ports, and in the early years of the Republic of China, the products were sold overseas and were very popular. Chestnut cake is an autumn food, because it is made from fresh ripe fruit (air-dried chestnut cannot be used in other places), so its taste is particularly good.

(11) Dumplings

Doutangli is a traditional hot soup snack in Changting, including pork soup, fish soup, chicken soup and so on. “Dou Tang Li” in Changting dialect means “duan broth”.

(12) Flat Food

Bianshi (wonton), according to historical records, has become a common food in China 2000 years ago, and Changting is commonly known as “Bianshi”. Changting’s “flat food” is made of very thin dough and stuffing. The stuffing is as big as the little finger, the thin skin surrounds the edges, and the stuffing is varied. It can be made from pig, cow, chicken, fish, various meats, or shrimp. It is stuffed with velvet, but it is mostly made of refined pork.

(13) Fried Snow Potatoes

Fried Snow Potato (Tai Potato Bun): Also known as “Tai Potato Bun”, it has been feasted in the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China. In 1941, when international friend Rewi Alley came to Changting, more than 100 people from the industrial cooperative held a grand welcome reception at the “Central South Travel Agency” in Perakyan Park. During the banquet, the dish of Tai Potato Bun was praised by Rewi Alley. It was also praised by Chen Guying, an American native of Ting.