If China is likened to a school, a class represents a province, then Jiangsu can be said to be the school's rocket class, the thirteen cities in the province, each of them are competitive bully, creating China's first "infighting province" status, but also competed for a popular GDP map.
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But there are three, six, nine and so on, and there are also excellent points for the school bully, and the one we are going to talk about today is the player sitting in the back row - Yancheng.
In terms of area, it is the first in the class; in terms of grades, it is the 37th in the whole school.
However, due to the fame of the top three in the class (Suzhou, Nanjing, and Wuxi), it is often ignored.
It sits in the corner of the class every day silently brushing the exercises, neither wanting to amaze the world nor stand out from the crowd, because life that is not the first place can also be wonderful.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="12" > Yancheng, with "yan" as the city</h1>
The history of Yancheng and "salt" have an indissoluble relationship, the Western Han Dynasty placed Yandu County, at that time Yancheng area because of the proximity to the seaside, there are many boiling salt farms and salt rivers, so named; until the Eastern Jin Dynasty, the sea water continued to regress, more and more land, the ring city is salt field, so it was renamed Yancheng.
The place where the word "salt" runs through it is the only city in China that does not have mountains, and the long coastline gives it soul and suffering.
In ancient times, the salt industry was an important source of income for the country, and having salt in hand was equivalent to having money in the bag, but the salt people who boiled salt were the most bitter people, who carried natural disasters (frequent floods in the Huai River Basin) and suffered man-made disasters (exploitation at all levels).
So they had to save themselves.
In the course of their unremitting struggle against the harsh living environment, they learned to defend against floods by building embankments and cities. During the Tang Dynasty, it was a long-lived Hanhai weir; during the Song Dynasty, Fan Zhongyan led the people to build a large embankment along the coastline on the basis of the original - Fan Gong Causeway.
Since then, along the line into a city, Yancheng began to gradually have a county seat.
The Kushiba River is the river channel dug out during the construction of the Fangong Causeway, and the entire Yancheng is connected by this river channel, hence the name.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="60" > Yancheng, near the sea but not ate the sea</h1>
Yancheng, which occupies more than half of jiangsu's coastline, has no mountains on the mountain, does not eat the sea by the sea, and the 582km long coastline is a silt coast, and it is impossible to build a deep-water port on the beach.
But as the saying goes, God closes a door for you and leaves you a window.
Yancheng, home to China's largest wetland along the beach, was inscribed on the World Natural Heritage List in July 2019, as the only unpolluted coastal sanctuary on the west coast of the Pacific Ocean, which UNESCO has designated as a wetland.
Such a unique natural environment attracts nearly 3 million shore birds and more than 500,000 waterfowl to migrate here every year to overwinter.
In autumn and winter, here you can see flocks of white cranes, leisurely red-crowned cranes, and flocks of heron birds hugging together harmoniously...
When you are surrounded by the endless beach and the sea, and are dazzled by the swaying reed meadows and the fairy spirit of the red-crowned crane, you will be surprised to realize that this small city in northern Jiangsu has long since changed from a barren land to a rich land today, which is thousands of years of Yancheng people sweating and boiling out of the sea.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="61" > a mouthwatering place</h1>
Salt, you can call out the umami taste of food, Yancheng is also the same, whether it is spicy, sour, sweet, spicy pay attention to a "fresh" word.
Drunken crab
Take, for example, this fish noodle soup.
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At four or five o'clock in the morning, when the whole city is still asleep, the chefs of the breakfast restaurant start a busy day, so that people can eat the first bite.
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Making fish noodle soup is not a simple task, you need to use wild crucian carp, eel bones and pig bones as the base, first go through the hot oil, fry until golden brown, and then boil in boiling water slowly until the soup is milky white and the aroma is overflowing.
After a lot of processing, the fish noodle soup is fragrant and thick, without a hint of fishy smell, put into pure handmade noodles, decorated with pickles from Yancheng, can make people's tongue fresh.
Let's talk about the hanging roast goose in northern Jiangsu.
Unlike the golden red crisp roast goose in Guangdong and the iron pot stew goose in the northeast, the roast goose in northern Jiangsu relies on the freshness that has been boiled for a long time.
The goose is a free-range earth goose in the reeds, after processing, first blanch the water in an iron pot, and then add rapeseed oil and lard to the iron pot and fry together until a clear fragrance is emitted, then add onions, ginger and spices, sauces, beer, broth, and simmer slowly.
After coming out of the pot, the goose meat is full of fresh and thick soup, the meat is fat and elastic, the soup is golden and clear, and the gods and immortals can't walk when they see it.
Eight bowls of Yancheng, wild duck soup buns, eight fresh dishes in the lake, pork head meat... Even if it is as small as an egg cake, out of Yancheng, it is difficult to eat that kind of fresh flavor.
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Yancheng, do not live up to the mountains and seas do not live up to people.