What are the specialties in Shuyang?

Deciduous trees, up to 40 meters high. The trunk is erect and the bark is gray. There are two kinds of leaves, which are clustered on short branches, alternate on long branches or spirally spread on long branches, fan-shaped, 4 ~ 8 cm long and 5 ~ 10 cm wide, shallow upper edge, 2-split or deeply split at the top and middle, wedge-shaped at the base, parallel veins and bifurcated veins; The petiole is 2.5 ~ 7 cm long.

Flowers are unisexual, dioecious and open at the same time as leaves; Male flowers are pendulous catkins, among which 4 ~ 6 flowers are born in leaf axils or bracts on short branches, with many stamens and 2-loculed anthers, which are born at the top of short stems; Female flowers are clustered on short branches every 2 ~ 3 flowers, each flower has a long stem, the stem ends are bifurcated, each flower has/kloc-0 carpels, and the ovules are attached to the stem, usually only/kloc-0 ovules are mature.

Seeds drupe-shaped, obovate or oval, 2.5 ~ 3 cm long, pale yellow, covered with white powdery wax; Exocarp is fleshy, white powder, foul-smelling, and orange-yellow when ripe; Endotesta grayish white, bony, with edges on both sides; Endosperm is abundant, cotyledons 2. The flowering period is from April to May. Result period: July ~ 65438+ 10. The root or root bark (ginkgo root), bark (ginkgo bark) and leaves (ginkgo leaf) of this plant are also used as medicine.

2. Juxian flowers

Leisure and sightseeing agriculture in Shuyang County has developed rapidly, and Juxian Village in Miaotou Town is one of the representatives. In order to accelerate the development of rural tourism, broaden the channels for farmers to increase their income, and promote the adjustment and transformation of rural economic structure and the all-round development of rural society and culture.

In recent years, with Shuyang Subei Flower Co., Ltd. as the main body, we have implemented the construction of village enterprises, guided farmers to develop flower and tree industry, and taken the road of ecological leisure sightseeing agriculture development. Subei Flower Co., Ltd. is responsible for the technical guidance, seedling supply and sales of flower farmers, and has achieved considerable economic benefits for farmers. At present, all the cultivated land in the village has been planted with flowers and trees, and it is the first in the town to change from a traditional agricultural village to an efficient agricultural village.

3. Horse factory mung bean cake

Racecourse mung bean cake is a special snack in machang town, Shuyang County, Suqian City, Jiangsu Province. Racecourse has been making bean cakes 100 years, and now there are dozens of them in Racecourse Old Street. In 1930s and 1940s, Wang Mingfu and Wangminglou were the most famous. Now, the oldest font name is Xuwen Shi Jia.

Bean cake is small and round, yellow and green, which makes people fondle it. In fact, the mung bean cake cooked on the kang is only half a dish from the cooking point of view, because people never eat the mung bean cake cooked on the kang directly, but also take cooking methods such as stewing, frying and frying, and can only eat it after processing.

Stew, that is, braised pork, is the simplest and most commonly used way to eat. Stir-frying is to put the bean cake in a pot and stir-fry it thoroughly with a little oil, then put it in a plate and mix it with the spiced pepper and salt powder seasoning prepared in advance to make a famous dish-salt and pepper mung bean cake.

4. High market rice

The high-quality rice in Shuyang County is well known. People like to eat the rice cooked by Gaoshimi, saying that it is delicious and fragrant, and praising it as "Gaoshimi, the fragrance is in Wan Li", whether at the banquets of hotels and hotels in cities or at the dining tables of ordinary people's homes.

Xugao Town has been the "Northeast Granary" of Shuyang since ancient times. Now it is the production base of high-quality japonica rice in Jiangsu Province. The high-quality japonica rice produced by Xugao Town sells well in large and medium-sized cities such as Shenzhen, Guangzhou, Kunming, Guizhou, Shanghai, Nanjing and Qinghai, and the market is in short supply, which is favored by the masses.

5. Yanji Dahongpao Chestnut

Yanji Dahongpao chestnut is a specialty of Yanji Town, Shuyang County, Suqian City, Jiangsu Province. Shuyang Yanji Dahongpao chestnut shell is deep red, with bright color and big and full grain, which is suitable for raw and fried. Chestnuts fried with sugar and roast chicken are delicious. They can be ground into powder or made into many dishes, cakes, cans and so on.

Yanji belongs to sandy soil, close to the river slope. There is no shortage of water and no flooding. Suitable dry and wet, sunny, suitable for chestnut growth. Dahongpao chestnut is tall and strong, with high and stable yield and strong stress resistance. Chestnut bracts are oval, and the average fruit weight is 18 ~ 22g. They have many fruits, large grains, waxy meat and unique flavor. Raw food can be used as fruit, sweet and crisp; Dry, sweet, crisp and delicious.

Steamed and eaten, sweet and greasy; Roasted with chicken, it smells delicious. This is a famous dish with a history of more than two thousand years-chestnut chicken, which is still famous at home and abroad. Its color, fragrance, taste and shape are all first-class, and everyone who has tasted it is full of praise. Chestnut pulp in Dahongpao contains 45.5% water, 9.9% sugar and 6.6% protein. It is also rich in trace elements such as calcium, iron, potassium, copper and phosphorus, especially trace elements needed by human body such as boron and selenium.

Therefore, in addition to eating, it also has certain medicinal value, has the function of invigorating qi, tonifying kidney and nourishing stomach, and can also treat symptoms such as weakness of waist and legs. These are recorded in Li Shizhen's Compendium of Materia Medica.