In the last century, the eight specialties of Wuhan City, including Han embroidery, Wuhan Fenjiu, Huangpi clay sculpture, heavy sugar baking cake, Gaohong Taigong, Xinzhou oil noodles, Qingshan hemp baking cake and Cao Zhengxing kitchen knife, have all become intangible cultural heritage, and now the annual sales volume exceeds one billion yuan.
Author Feng Yuhui, President of Central China Urban Research Institute
Han embroidery
Han embroidery and Su embroidery, Xiang embroidery and other national famous embroidery, the Qing Dynasty and the early years of the Republic of China, Han embroidery shops throughout the three towns, the main varieties are table and chair back, door curtain tent 4 edges, hall color screen, costume, etc., in 1910 Nanyang Competition and 1915 Panama Games won gold medals. Han embroidery costume has a high reputation in the country, its stitching method has more than 70 kinds, fine workmanship, finished product structure, pattern rich in variation, pattern simple and gorgeous, colorful and dazzling.
Famous Beijing opera masters Mei Lanfang, Cheng Yanqiu, Yuan Shihai, Gao Shenglin, Han opera celebrities Zhu Hongshou, Yu Hongyuan, the great monk, peony flower, Chen Bohua, etc. have all customized performance costumes. In recent years, the costumes in film drama films such as "Breaking the King's Banner", "Flower Wall Society", and "Xu Jiujing's Promotion to The Official" are also Han embroidered costumes.
Wuhan Fenjiu
The production of liquor in Wuhan has been recorded in the "Wuchang FuZhi" during the Kangxi Dynasty. In the late Qing Dynasty, "Lao Da you", "Lao Tiancheng" and so on are more famous, they use the traditional craft of Shanxi Xinghua Village Fenjiu to make wine, called "Han Fen", which was awarded at the PanamaNian International Wine Appraisal In 1916. After liberation, the special Hanfen produced by the Wuhan Distillery built on the basis of Lao Tiancheng and so on was renamed Yellow Crane Tower Wine, Yellow Crane Tower Brand Fragrant Hanfen Wine, transparent and clear, mellow and sweet in the entrance, sold inside and outside the province, in 1980 was rated as a high-quality product in Hubei Province; the special Hanfen wine was a clear and fragrant Daqu wine, "smelling of fragrance, drinking with strong fragrance", the entrance was gentle, the aftertaste was long, and in 1979 it was rated as a high-quality product in Hubei Province; the special Yellow Crane Tower fragrant liquor, clear and transparent, pure aroma, mellow and soft entrance, aftertaste is refreshing and clean, In 1984, it won the National Quality Gold Medal, the Gold Cup Award of the National Light Industry System Liquor Quality Competition and the highest score of the Fourth National Liquor Quality Competition.
Huangpi clay sculpture
It has a long history, and it is recorded that the five hundred arhats (destroyed by the soldiers in Xianfeng 2 years) and the existing five hundred arhats (rebuilt during the Guangxu years) at The Guiyuan Temple in Hanyang are all written by Huangpi Minwen artists.
Since its establishment in 1979, the Huangpi Clay Sculpture Craft Factory of Paulownia has mainly produced small decorative sculptures in interiors and marketed them in domestic and foreign markets. The factory's creative products include "Li Bai", "Qu Yuan", "Du Fu", "Lu Xun", "Mulan Congjun" and so on, all of which are well received by the society. The factory's products have won the first place in the overall score in the provincial quality evaluation. Some products are exported to more than ten countries and regions such as Europe, america and Southeast Asia, of which 11 works have been selected for exhibition and sales in the United States.
Heavy sugar baking cake
Created in the year of Gengzi of Qing Guangxu (1900), it is a specialty of Li Xiangtai in Wutongkou, Wutongkou, Huangpi. It is made by steaming and baking twice from rice, cooking oil, osmanthus flowers, star anise, cover noodles, yellow pine sugar, black sesame seeds and other raw materials. Top-notch crispy and sweet. It has been well-known for more than 100 years and sells well inside and outside the province. In 1981, he won the Quality Product Award at the National Confectionery Appraisal Conference hosted by the Ministry of Agriculture and Reclamation.
Gao Hongtai gong
One of the four famous gongs in the country, Han Lao, is the gong of Huangpi Gao Hongtai. Its unique features are good timbre, long volume, moving aftersound, and flexible and pleasant, with moderate thickness. Such as high, medium and low tiger sound gong, pronounced like the hum of the tiger. Therefore, Gao Hong's large bronze gong is well-known. There are 64 kinds of existing products, of which Huyin Gong and Guangzhou Railway are listed as the most prestigious high-quality products of the Ministry of Light Industry in 1977 and 1980. Su Gong, Xiao Gong and Xiao Gong won the 1st, 2nd and 3rd places in the 1982 National Competition respectively.
New Island Oil Noodles
Famous pastry in New Island. The dough is thin and hollow inside. Knead with flour and salt and water, plate into coarse strips, then soak in oil, roll into round strips, pull on long bamboo chopsticks, after fermentation, inserted on a wooden frame, elongated into filaments, dried and cut into bundles. The best made by Yu Maoqing and Xu Zhaoxiang (female) of Happiness Township.
Aoyama baked cake
Made of high-quality glutinous rice, plump black sesame seeds, famous osmanthus flowers and fine cotton sugar, the cake is uniformly thick and thin, the sugar and hemp are evenly distributed, sweet and crispy, loose and refreshing, and it is a famous special product. In addition to eating, Wuhan residents often give gifts. It is sold throughout the country and exported in small quantities. In 1981, it was awarded the title of hubei province quality product, and in 1982, it was popular at the national children's daily necessities exhibition.
Cao Zhengxing kitchen knife
Cao Zhengxing kitchen knife is a traditional brand-name product with a history of more than 140 years. It is famous for cutting before and then cutting, cutting ginger without shreds, cutting meat without tendons, and cutting bones without rolling. Cao Yuehai, the founder of Cao Zhengxing Kitchen Knife, is a native of Caojia Dawan, Qijiawan, Huangpi. He is very strict in the process of material selection, forging billet, clamping steel, and jinhuo, and has created two unique methods, namely "smoke method" and "stone spark identification method" to check whether the knife plate is flat and whether the warehouse thinness meets the requirements Whether the hardness of the steel fire is just right. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, the traditional skills of Cao Zhengxing's kitchen knife were inherited by his descendants, and with the support of the government, they went to a higher level and gradually moved towards mechanization. The variety of colors has been increased to more than 300. Since the 1960s, it has been exported to Hong Kong, Macao, Japan, Mauritius and so on.