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Introduction to Bozhou, China

Introduction to Bozhou, China

Bo (bó) State, referred to as Bo, was called “Qiao (qiao) City” in ancient times, a prefecture-level city in Anhui Province. It is located in the northwest of Anhui Province, at the southern end of the North China Plain, 330 kilometers away from the provincial capital Hefei, bordering Henan Province in the west and north, Fuyang City in the southwest, Huaibei City and Bengbu City in the east, and Huainan City in the southeast. Neighborhood, an area of ​​8374 square kilometers.

Bozhou is a famous national historical and cultural city. Humans lived here in the Neolithic Age. It is one of the birthplaces of the ancient culture of the Chinese nation. During the Yan and Huang Dynasties, Emperor Ku (the great-grandson of the Yellow Emperor) succeeded Zhuanxu as the emperor, and the capital was in Bo. During the Western Zhou Dynasty, Jiao Guo moved the capital here and built Jiao City.

Since the establishment of Qiao County in the Qin Dynasty, after the change of dynasties, most of them were established by prefectures, counties or counties. In the fifteenth year of the Yuan Dynasty (1355), Liu Futong rebelled against the Yuan Dynasty, supported Han Liner to proclaim himself emperor in Bozhou, established the “Han Song” regime, and made Bozhou the capital for three years. Bozhou became the ancient capital of three dynasties.

Bozhou is an excellent tourist city in China. It is a member city of the Central Plains Economic Zone, the capital of traditional Chinese medicine in the world, and half of the top 100 pharmaceutical companies have settled in Bozhou. It is the world’s largest distribution center and price formation center for Chinese medicinal materials. It is the central city of tourism in northern Anhui and the central city of provincial intersection.

Bozhou history and culture

1. Folk customs

1. Martial arts: Bozhou is located in the Central Plains, and the martial arts are prosperous. Many villagers practice martial arts, especially the Hui people. In the history of Bozhou, there have been many martial artists. Xi Yangzhang and Chen Tuan’s ancestors Xinyi Liuhe Bafa Quan were all born in Bozhou.

2. Paper-cuts: When the daughters of big families in Bozhou got married, each dowry was affixed with paper-cuts with bright colors and novel compositions. The interiors of some people in Bozhou and the meeting rooms of many units were decorated with paper-cuts with folk characteristics.

3. Stilts: Bozhou stilts are performed by people stepping on wooden sticks, usually in well-trained groups.

4. Taipanhui: It is a kind of dance drama created by the yamen in Bozhou. “Bozhou Taipanhui” is also known as “La Qinhui” and “Ghost Club”. The main characters in the Taipanhui are portrayed with distinctive characters through typical and personalized dance movements.

5. Three Fights: There are many recreational and recreational activities in Bozhou society, such as cockfighting, cricket fighting, quail fighting, shuttlecock kicking, listening to books, listening to opera, raising birds, raising flowers, playing chess, playing mahjong, etc. There are three kinds, known as “Folk Three Music”.

6. Elbow rest: It is a kind of Bozhou folk dance with a history of hundreds of years. The elbow rest is divided into two parts: “seat” and “shelf”. “Zuozi” is held by the physically strong, and the Hui people are martial, so they are mostly held by the Hui people.

7. Erjiaxian: Also known as Liangjiaxian, also known as “Big Five”. One of the national intangible cultural dramas. It is mainly popular in western Shandong, eastern and northern Henan, northern Jiangsu and northern Anhui Province. Bozhou Erjiaxian has distinctive features, and the voiceless singing is graceful and melodious. In addition to the original “Man Jiang Hong”, there are more than 10 miscellaneous songs. The repertoire includes “The Story of the West Chamber”, “The Legend of the White Snake”, “A Dream of Red Mansions”, “Journey to the West” and so on.

8. Bozhou Bang Opera: also known as “Huaibei Bangzi Opera”, “Anhui Bangzi Opera”, and “Tu Bangzi”. One, it is the most popular type of drama in Bozhou.

9. Huatuo Wuqinxi: It is one of the most popular and longest-running fitness methods among the Han people. It consists of five imitating animal movements. Wuqin Xi is also known as “Five Animal Exercises”, “Five Animals Qigong”, “Hundred Step Khan Show” and so on. It is said to have been created by Hua Tuo, a physician of the Eastern Han Dynasty. On June 28, 1982, the Ministry of Health, the Ministry of Education and the National Sports Commission of China took Wuqinxi and other traditional Chinese fitness methods as one of the contents of the “Health and Physical Education Class” promoted in medical universities.

2. Special diet

1. Bozhou beef bun

Bozhou beef buns are made in three steps: the first step is to make stuffing, use good yellow beef to mince the meat, and serve with vermicelli, green onions, ginger and multi-flavored materials. The second is to mix the noodles. After the noodles are reconciled, you have to “wake up” well, then press them into thin skins with your hands, and roll the meat filling layer by layer until the skins are as thin as paper; the third is kang, first heat the charcoal fire Prosperity, then cover a layer of charcoal ash on the prosperous fire, the thickness is subject to the open flame. Then put on a frying pan, add sesame oil, put the beef buns in the pot and cook on a simmer, and keep turning them to heat evenly.

2. Bozhou pot helmet

Bozhou Guokui, also known as Zhuangmo, is a unique food. The method is to take a large piece of dough and knead it repeatedly to “cook” to make a round cake the size of a washbasin, about an inch thick and one to two feet in diameter.

3. Fried film

Fried film, also known as oil bar, is unique to Bozhou. Its shape is similar to fried dough sticks, but it is shorter and thicker than fried dough sticks, and its taste is similar to fried dough sticks, but it is softer and more delicious.

4. Mengcheng Soup

Mengcheng Satang originated from Mengcheng County, Bozhou City. Sa means meat soup and meat miscellaneous. Because of its uncommon characters, people mistakenly write it as “scatter soup”, “kill soup” and so on. Wild goose soup is made of old hens, pork chops, etc. After stewing, beat eggs in a bowl, stir well, pour it with broth, and make broth egg tea.

5. Mrs. Fish

Madame fish is a special dish in Bozhou. Its name comes from the wife of the Grand Master of Bo County (a military general in the late Qing Dynasty).

6. Heavy oil biscuits

Mengcheng biscuits are made from wheat flour and baked on charcoal, coal or oven. The quality requirements are that the bottom surface is the same, the layers are not hard on the sides, and it will burn immediately after being fired.

Mix the noodles with salt water, adjust the amount of salt according to the season, knead it repeatedly, and then pull it into a strip of one or two feet long, evenly spread the pre-made mixed seasonings such as lard, yuan fennel, peppercorns, green onions, etc., roll Good for making cakes. Coat with sauce-colored oil and sesame before entering the oven, and control the heat and oven temperature when baking in the oven. The cake turns yellow after baking.

3. Featured products

Bozhou’s modern industry originated from traditional handicrafts. During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, pottery and other utensils were already produced locally. The winemaking in the Three Kingdoms period, the silk weaving in the Tang Dynasty, the crepe in the Song Dynasty, and the handmade products such as the reduced wine, sauced huqin, longevity silk and felt in the Ming and Qing Dynasties are well-known throughout the country. In the first year of Xuantong in the Qing Dynasty (1909), Tongmaoshun Egg Factory was established, which became the beginning of modern industry in Bozhou.

Fun places in Bozhou

1. Huaxilou: It is a national key cultural relic protection unit and a national AAAA-level tourist attraction. It is located on Huaxilou Road, Bozhou City, on the south bank of vortex water. It was formerly known as Daguandi Temple, also known as Shanshan Guild Hall. A building dedicated to acting during the years.

2. Cao Cao Underground Troop Transport Road: a national key cultural relics protection unit, now a national AAAA-level scenic spot. It is located in the underground of the old town of Renmin Road, Bozhou City, with Dayushou as the center, extending to all sides, leading to the outside of the city.

3. Cao Cao Clan Tombs: National key cultural relics protection units, the Cao Cao clan tombs cover nearly 12 kilometers of Bozhou. Tombs No. 2 in Dongyuan and No. 1 in Zhangyuan have been opened. According to research, the tomb of Dongyuan No. 2 is the tomb of Cao Cao’s grandfather Cao Teng, and the tomb of Zhangyuan No. 1 is the tomb of Cao Cao’s father Cao Song.

4. Tomb of Cao Teng: It is a national key cultural relic protection unit. It is located on the north side of the tomb of the Cao family in the west of Weiwu Avenue in the urban area. It is the tomb of Cao Cao’s grandfather, Cao Teng.

5. Tomb of Cao Song: National key cultural relics protection unit. Located in the northwest of Cao Teng’s tomb, it is the tomb of Cao Cao’s father, Emperor Wu of Wei.

6. Yuchi Temple: The Neolithic settlement site, announced by the State Council as a national key cultural relics protection unit in 2001, is located in the east of Biji Village, Xutuan Town, Mengcheng County. Known by the historians as “China’s first primitive village”, it was rated as one of the top ten new archaeological discoveries in the country in 1994.

7. Huazu’an: It is a temple where later generations worshipped Hua Tuo, a divine doctor of the Eastern Han Dynasty. It is a key cultural relics protection unit in Anhui Province. It is located between the Douwu Camp, the relics of Cao Wei in the urban area, the Temple of Xianyi, and the Tomb of Shennong’s Clothes.

8. Wanfo Pagoda: Located in the southeast of Mengcheng County, Bozhou City, formerly known as Flower Arrangement Pagoda, commonly known as Mengcheng Brick Pagoda, it is a famous Buddhist building in northern Anhui. . Because there are more than 8,000 Buddha statues inlaid inside and outside the pagoda, it is called the Ten Thousand Buddhas Pagoda. This pagoda belonged to Xinghua Temple in Song Dynasty and Ci’s Temple in Ming Dynasty. Therefore, it is also known as Xinghua Temple Pagoda and Ci’s Temple Pagoda.

9. Confucian Temple: Also known as Confucian Temple, Hongxue, Xue Gong, Sheng Palace, commonly known as the Hall of Saints. In May 1998, it was announced by the Anhui Provincial People’s Government as a key cultural relics protection unit in the province. It is located in the north of the middle section of Xincheng Road, Mengcheng County, Bozhou City.

10. Zhuangzi Temple: It is located in the eastern suburbs of Mengcheng County, Bozhou City. According to the Records of Mengcheng County, in the first year of Yuanfeng in the Northern Song Dynasty (1078), Cheng Wang Jing, secretary of the Mengcheng County magistrate, built the first construction at the former site of Qiyuan on the north bank of the Wo River to commemorate the famous thinker, writer, and Xianzhuangzi of Mengcheng Township during the Warring States Period. Zhuangzi Ancestral Hall. The main buildings are “Xiaoyaotang”, “Dream Butterfly Building”, “Guanyutai” and so on.

11. Tianjing Palace: Also known as Laojun Palace and Taiqing Palace, it is located in Zhengdian Village, the birthplace of Laozi on the north bank of the Guohe River in Guoyang County, Bozhou City. In May 1985, it was announced by the Anhui Provincial People’s Government as a key cultural relics protection unit in the province. Books such as “Daming Yitongzhi”, “Qianding Siku Quanshu”, “Zhongduzhi” and other books all record that Tianjing Palace was the birthplace of Laozi, located in Funing Town, 120 miles east of Bozhou.

12. Jiangning Guild Hall: In 1989, it was announced by the Anhui Provincial People’s Government as a key cultural relics protection unit in the province. Located in the middle section of Guquan Road in the urban area, it was built by Nanjing medicinal material merchants in the Qing Dynasty with funds raised. It has three functions of convenient living, entertainment and leisure.