There are many literati in Ningbo. In history, there have been high-level schools with local characteristics, such as Siming School, Yangming School and Zhedong School, and a number of cultural celebrities, such as Yu Shinan, Huang Zongxi, Quan and so on. Ningbo has a profound collection culture, and a large number of famous buildings with tens of thousands of books have emerged. Tianyi Pavilion is the oldest existing library in China with a history of more than 400 years. It is the representative work of China's book collection culture. The traditional crafts of Ningbo, such as bone and wood inlay, Ning furniture, Zhu Jin wood carving, gold and silver colored embroidery, bred in profound cultural accumulation, are exquisite in materials, exquisite in craftsmanship and unique in style. On the 20th, when Marie Laure Gigon was tired, Castle Peak revealed the Vatican Palace, which is a portrayal of tiantong temple, one of the five largest Buddhist temples in the world. Ningbo's Buddhist culture is world-famous. Ashoka Temple treasures Sakyamuni relics, Xuedou Mountain is one of the five famous Buddhist mountains in China, and Guobao Temple is the oldest wooden structure building in the south of the Yangtze River.
Ningbo is a transportation hub in eastern Zhejiang, with rapid development of three-dimensional transportation by land, sea, air and water, especially Beilun Port, which is known as the "Oriental Port", enjoys a good reputation at home and abroad. There is an air bridge between Hongkong, lishe airport and major cities in China. Railways, highways, water transport and urban traffic extend in all directions.
Ningbo has a long history and is the birthplace of Hemudu culture with a history of more than 7,000 years of civilization. In the Tang Dynasty, Ningbo became one of the starting points of the Maritime Silk Road, and was also known as the three major foreign trade ports of China along with Yangzhou and Guangzhou. Song Dynasty, Guangzhou and Quanzhou were listed as the three major ports of foreign trade. After the Opium War, it was turned into one of the "five major trading ports". Today, Ningbo is the most economically developed city in Zhejiang Province, and also one of the national 14 cities (sub-provincial), with the fourth per capita income and the second consumption level. Ningbo Port is an important part of Shanghai's international shipping hub port, and has opened air routes with more than 400 ports in 79 countries and regions around the world.
Ningbo is the birthplace of China businessmen. One of the Shanghainese who claim to be "the smartest in China" is 1/4 from Ningbo. Compared with Wenzhou people, Ningbo people prefer to do big business, and a large number of internationally renowned industrial and commercial giants, such as "Ship King" Bao Yugang, have emerged. Therefore, it is known as "Ningbo Big Boss" and "Wenzhou Small Boss".
Ningbo is also a famous hometown of overseas Chinese, with more than 3 million Wanningbo people living in more than 50 countries and regions in the world. Overseas "Ningbo Gang" has become an important bridge and link between Ningbo and the rest of the world.
Ningbo is not only beautiful, but also has spread all over the world with its "four fragrances" (rice fragrance, fish fragrance, book fragrance and ink fragrance) since ancient times, and its products are extremely rich. The main specialties can be divided into seafood, dry goods, special foods, seasonal fruits, traditional handicrafts, clothing and so on. Seafood and dry seafood Ningbo is located at the east mouth of the Yangtze River with a long coastline. It is a place where salt water and fresh water meet. The microorganisms in the water are extremely rich, so seafood tastes particularly delicious and has high nutritional value. Ningbo is one of the main seafood producing areas in China, with all kinds of seafood, such as yellow croaker, hairtail, cuttlefish, grouper, fragrant fish, mudskipper, swimming crab, sea shrimp, clam, razor clam, oyster, mud snail, dried tribute, jellyfish, kelp and laver. Among dried seafood, several are the most famous, such as yellow croaker, Mingfu owl, baked crab in red paste, drunk snail, dried shrimp, dried shrimp skin, fresh eel owl, jellyfish head, kelp, moss, grilled fish fillet and so on. People in Ningbo like to give this special product as a gift to relatives and friends.
Location of government: Haishu District
Area: 9365 square kilometers
Population: 6.07 million, and the urban population is about 2.034 million.
Telephone area code: 0574
Postal code: 3 15000
Districts and counties: 6 districts, 3 cities and 2 counties.
City Tree: Cinnamomum camphora
City flower: camellia
Annual average temperature: 16.3℃
Fenghua Xikou, a tourist attraction, is the main tourist attraction in Ningbo and a national key tourist area. With the origin of Jiang Zhongzheng as the background, the most famous ones are Xuedou Mountain and Xuedou Temple, as well as the original address of Jiang Zhongzheng and the antique culture of the town. It includes Wuling Gate, Wuling School, Wenchang Pavilion (Kuige), small house, Jiang's former residence (Fenghaolou), Yutai Salt Shop, Maha Hall, Tomb, Yushu Pavilion, Jinjingchi, Qianzhangyan Waterfall, Miaogaotai, Qianzhangyan, Xuedou Temple, Jiangjunnan, the former site of China Travel Agency, Sanyintan and so on. Wulongtan in Yinzhou District can also be regarded as Yeheqiu Tourism Scenic Area, Liangzhu Cultural Park, Ningbo Tengtou Eco-tourism Demonstration Zone, Jiulong Lake Scenic Area, Ningbo Songlanshan Coastal Tourism Resort, Dongqian Lake Scenic Area, Shipu Fishing Port Ancient City, Tianyi Square, Ningbo Tianyige Museum, Ningbo Songlanshan, Guobao Temple, Hemudu Site Museum, Xuedou Mountain, Beilun Phoenix Mountain Theme Park, Tiantong Temple, Tianhe and Dong Qian. Chenghuangmiao Commercial and Leisure Pedestrian Street, Ningbo Wanda Commercial Plaza, Ayurveda Temple, Yuehu Lake, Fenghaofang, Qianzhangyan Waterfall, Tashan Weir, Miaogaotai, Wulongtan, Nanxi Hot Spring, Dong Zhe Grand Canyon, Ningbo Ocean World, Jiang Mu Tomb, liang-zhu cultural park, Songhuangcheng Beach, Qiantong Ancient Town, Yuelao Site in Shanglin Lake, Qinshi Ancestral Hall, Drum Tower, etc.
The place to see the sea in Ningbo: Yang Sha, Beilun, in Xiaochun Town, Beilun, is a tourist attraction; Tickets for Xiangshan 60 China Fishing Village; Go to Xiangshan, where you can see the sea, and you can also visit the Gold Coast in Lan Song. Xiangshan is better, but it is far away. If you can see it, Zhenhai is the nearest.
Mid-Autumn Festival on August 16th Mid-Autumn Festival is celebrated all over China on August 15th of the lunar calendar, but it is the 16th in Ningbo. There are two reasons for this: one is that Zuo Cheng of Jiangsu and Zhejiang and Fang Guozhen of Taiwei changed it on their birthdays at the end of Yuan Dynasty; It is said that Shi Hao, the prime minister of the Southern Song Dynasty and a native of Yinxian, changed his life because his mother's birthday was 16. Qing Yuan Jun's "?" Northern Miscellaneous Poems? NB04 1？ The peak longevity mother is easy to stay in the Mid-Autumn Festival, and the custom stays for 700 years. From then on, it was not the time to race, and every family watched the dragon boat at the age of sixteen. Every Mid-Autumn Festival, families get together, catch up, watch dragon boats, eat moon cakes and give each other gifts. Ningbo moon cakes have a unique flavor because of their thick moss and long water.
Ningbo cuisine Ningbo is located on the coast of the East China Sea, and its seafood is famous at home and abroad. Known for steaming, roasting and stewing seafood, it is unique, light in form, heavy in taste, fresh and salty. People in Ningbo nicknamed it "Xia Fan". Cooking is mainly based on steaming and stewing, with special emphasis on temperature and knife cutting, and great emphasis on color, fragrance and taste. The top ten famous dishes in Ningbo are rock sugar soft-shelled turtle, braised eel in boneless pot, roasted small square with laver, yellow croaker with laver skin, goose liver wrapped in pure oil, steamed pork with lotus leaf powder, yellow croaker and sea cucumber soup, and five-color fried whole yellow croaker with eel back. In particular, rock sugar soft-shelled turtle and pot-cooked eel are the most famous traditional dishes in Ningbo. ?
Qiu 'ai pickles are a specialty of Ningbo. Rich in Qiu 'ai Town, dongxiang county, Yinxian County, it is pickled with potherb. Potherb mustard is planted in winter and harvested in spring, and the curing season is staggered according to the salt content. Qiu 'ai pickles are the color of Huang Liang, fragrant, tender, fresh and slightly sour. They can stimulate body fluid and stimulate appetite, and can be fried, boiled, roasted, stewed, steamed, mixed with raw materials, served as side dishes, made into soup and stuffing. Cooking ingredients can relieve the fishy smell and remove greasy food. "Yellow croaker with pickles" is a famous dish in Ningbo. As the saying goes, "if you don't eat kimchi soup for three days, your legs will be sour." Qiu 'ai pickles have a history of nearly a hundred years. In recent years, Qiu 'ai vacuum packaging food factory has improved the sanitary equipment and fresh-keeping storage of kimchi, making kimchi sell well at home and abroad. ?
Ningbo lard dumplings Ningbo people celebrate the Spring Festival and have the custom of eating lard dumplings. On the first day of the first month, every household eats jiaozi, and jiaozi is round, symbolizing reunion. Ningbo glutinous rice balls are thin and smooth, white and bright in color, waxy but not sticky, filled at the entrance, spicy and sweet, and have their own characteristics. There are "Ningbo Tangtuan Store" and "Gangya Dog Tangtuan Store" in downtown Ningbo. In recent years, frozen Ningbo lard dumplings have been exported to Hong Kong, Macao and all over Europe. ?
Xikou Melaleuca Cake is a specialty of Ningbo. The ingredients are strict, white sesame, winter moss, local wheat flour, sugar and oil are mixed in proportion, and the baking temperature should be moderate, crisp but not burnt, with 27 layers per cake. Crispy, salty and sweet, full of flavor. ?
Yuyao Yangmei Ningbo specialty. The meat is soft, sweet and mellow, shaped like pearls and colored like agate. There are four categories: white, pink, red and black, and black water chestnut is the best, which is named because it is purple-black when mature and looks like water chestnut. Myrica rubra has a short season, the early red species ripens first in early summer, and the white crystal Myrica rubra is in the market at the latest, commonly known as "Myrica rubra is full of red from summer to the sun, and Myrica rubra will produce insects in summer". Myrica rubra is lovely in appearance, delicious in juice and sweet as honey. As a fresh fruit, it has many varieties. After processing, there are candied dried bayberry, bayberry beverage, bayberry sauce, bayberry syrup and so on. Myrica rubra juice has the functions of promoting fluid production to quench thirst and dispel summer heat, and Myrica rubra shochu is a good summer heat product. Yuyao Yangmei is one of the famous, special, excellent and rare commodity bases invested and built by the Ministry of Agriculture during the Seventh Five-Year Plan period, and Cixi is also an important production area of Yangmei.
Ningbo specialty Fritillaria thunbergii. It is a kind of Fritillaria, named "Zhebei" because it is produced in Zhejiang, also known as big shellfish. Originated in Xiangshan, it is a famous economic specialty and precious Chinese herbal medicine in Yinxian County, Ningbo City, also known as "Xiangbei", which is one of the "eight flavors of Zhejiang". Fritillaria is slightly cold and bitter. It is mainly used for treating typhoid fever, cough, ascending qi, calming five internal organs, benefiting bone marrow, diminishing inflammation, moistening heart and lung, diminishing inflammation and swelling, and treating hemorrhoids and carbuncle. Zhang Cun area in Yinxian county is relatively rich. Planting in the second half of the year and harvesting in May of the following year. Yinjiang Bridge in Yinxian County accounts for 70% of the whole Zhejiang Province, and is known as "the hometown of shellfish in Zhejiang".
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