There is a place where it often appears in footage of CCTV food documentaries. Its beef hot pot appears in "Taste"; hand-beaten beef balls, grass carp porridge, and oysters have names in "China on the Tip of the Tongue"; it is in the "Super Project" Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge special edition, the design of "bridge + tunnel + artificial island", but also partly from the inspiration for the bridge in this place with a history of more than 800 years. Its traditional craftsmanship is also featured in National Treasures. This place is the Chaoshan Province located on the southeast coast of Guangdong Province. Chaoshan has a long history, known as "Chaozhou" in ancient times, in the late Qing Dynasty, the site of ChaozhouFu subordinate to the name sha Shantou coast as a treaty port, Shantou foreign trade gradually prospered, developed into a new port, connecting Chaozhoufu, this bustling area began to be called "Chaoshan ".
Many travelogues start to write about fun and beautiful attractions, and finally finish with food, and the attraction of Chaoshan cuisine is too great, so people can't help but write them over and over again at the first time. The essence of Chaoshan cuisine lies in "fresh", beef balls pay attention to "hand beating", insist on slapping beef in a handmade way, creating a taste of q bomb incomparable, full of tenacity, hand-made skills are also used in pork balls, cuttlefish balls and other meatballs, with soup powder and hot pot are the best. Different villages have their own set of hand-beating skills, a distance of ten miles, maybe you can taste the different taste of beef balls, eat tirelessly. Due to the abundance of seafood, Chaoshan people are also good at making seafood, just like juggling, can be pickled raw, can make porridge, can be mixed with eggs fried into oysters, no matter which unique flavor, there is always a fresh legend.
In the thousand-year-old Chaozhou ancient city archway street, through the streets and alleys, under the arcade, it is a pleasure to look at the small shops and a variety of local specialties that have been in business for many years. Meatball soup powder, oysters, and the aroma of brine are pleasing to the eye along the way. Brine is also a must in Chaoshan cuisine, which needs to be fried with dozens of medicinal spices, goose-headed goosefoot tofu eggs and other brine-flavored smorgasbords, which is the signboard that every Chaoshan restaurant will hang on the storefront. In the old streets of the ancient city, other small shops include small snacks such as plums, tea and citrus cakes; daily grocery stores sell traditional small items. Called Arch Street, there are 22 restored archways, surrounded by quaint residential communities, and the craft doorways inside are very profound.
The bridge that inspired the engineers of the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge is just above the Han River, which is called Guangji Bridge, and from the ancient city of Chaozhou out of Guangji Gate, you can walk to Guangji Bridge. Guangji Bridge, together with Zhaozhou Bridge, Lugou Bridge and Luoyang Bridge, is called the total number of four ancient bridges, dating back to 1171, was built by the then Song Dynasty Zhou ShouZeng Wang, using 86 boats instead of part of the bridge, as a "pontoon bridge", connecting the stone piers at the east and west ends of the Han River. Later dynasties continued to repair and supplement, constantly adding beam-type covered bridges and building viewing pavilions. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, the Chaoshan people restored the Guangji Bridge on the principle of repairing the old as the old, and reopened it in 2007. When a boat passes, the boats in the pontoon part will separate and give way, and after the boat passes, the pontoon bridge will be reconnected and become a bridge for pedestrians to cross the river.
Hanjiang was originally named Yuanxi, and the nearby Beacon Mountain was later also known as "Hanshan", and the Hanwen Ancestral Hall was specially built to commemorate Han Yu. Although Han Yu served as a magistrate in Chaozhou for only a short period of eight months, he did a lot of practical things to benefit the people, civilized the people's wisdom and promoted learning and talent, and was truly loved by the people of Chaozhou. Therefore, the people of Chaozhou commemorated Han Yu's contribution to Chaozhou in various ways after he left Chaozhou. Walking across the Guangji Bridge, you can go to the Han Wen Ancestral Hall to learn about Han Yu's specific deeds in Chaozhou and look at Han Mountain from afar. There is also a very small attraction nearby, Hanshan Academy, chaozhou in the Tang Dynasty, which also adheres to the style of han yuexing learning, so the college is named Hanshan, and now it is Hanshan Normal College, which still continues its original mission.
At the Guangdong Provincial Museum, there is a special Chaoshan exhibition hall that displays wood carving techniques from Chaoshan Province, and the Chaozhou Shrine also appears on the stage of "National Treasure". Chaozhou wood carving pays attention to the overall shape of the real simple, the detail decoration uses a very delicate hollow carving process, the gold paste technology is outstanding. The Huanggong Ancestral Hall in the ancient city of Chaozhou has a typical exquisite wood carving, and on Zhongshan Road, there is a "Chaozhou wood carving street", lined with trees, and the vermilion wooden door reflects the antique taste. Here gathered a lot of Chaozhou wood carving masters, ten years as a day, elaborate wood carving. Feel free to walk into a wood carving shop and you may hear the inheritance story of a wood carving world.
As night falls, the ancient city of Chaozhou glows with a charm different from the daytime. From the ancient city to Guangji Bridge and Hanshan, the lights are lit up and stretched like the sea. Standing quietly by the Han River, or a cup of kung fu tea in the ancient city, eating some beef soup powder, leisure and fun, the troubles of weekday work pressure are only swept away.