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Hangzhou has numerous special local products. As the “Capital of Silk”, its history of silk producing could be dated back to 4,700 years ago testified by the silk cloth unearthed from Liangzhu ruins. Later in the Tang Dynasty, the silk production had reached a distinctively high level, which was described in the poem of the great poet Bai Juyi as “Silk sleeves are decorated by fl ower textures which could be well compared to the real blossom. When pears flowers are bloom, it is the time to drink the light heart under the blue fl ags of the bar.” Presently, the silk is differentiated into fourteen categories of Chou, Duan, Jin, Fang, Zou, Lin etc. Those categories are fractionized into more than 200 subclasses, over 2,000 designs and colors with vivid pictures printed, fl owers and fi gures alike. The silk of Hangzhou has won immense national and international awards and was marketed into more than 100 countries and regions. Hangzhou is also renowned for the dragon-well tea which is listed as one of the top ten tea in China, the popular Dongpo Pork which is ruby in color and softly tender in taste, the fan of Wangxingji, the scissors of Zhangxiaoquan, the lace from Xiaoshan, the Jinshan tea from Yuhang, the honey products from Tonglu, the organic fi shhead from the Thousand Island Lake, the mountain walnuts from Linan, the Yellow wine typed Wujiapi of the brand Zhizhonghe, the Tofu peel from Fuyang. Numerable local specialties give out a rich fl avor of Hangzhou local taste.

Source: eng.hangzhou.gov.cn

Editor: Feng Hui