Anhui’s most “low-key” city, known as the world’s capital of traditional Chinese medicine, has countless sages and sages but little known

“Peony flowers outside the city of Xiaohuang, ten miles and five miles of morning glow. The flowers before and after the flowers are all people, and every family grows flowers like mulberry.” Conducive to the planting and growth of Chinese medicinal materials, the scene in the poem is a true portrayal of the planting scale of peony. Compared with other cities in Anhui, such as Hefei, the capital of the new first-tier province, and Huangshan City, which is famous at home and abroad, it is low-key, but rich in tourism resources, countless sages and sages, and is known as the “World Capital of Traditional Chinese Medicine.” It is Bozhou.

Speaking of Bozhou, its most shining business card is that it is the world-famous “World Capital of Traditional Chinese Medicine”. We know that peony is expensive as a “floral appearance” and has extremely high ornamental and medicinal value. The history of cultivating peony root in Bozhou dates back to the Wei and Jin dynasties, and Bozhou white peony has excellent texture and high medicinal value. It is one of the four famous medicines in Anhui. As a well-known distribution center for white peony roots in the country, the planting area of ​​white peony roots in Bozhou ranks first in the country, and its output accounts for more than 70% of the country’s total output. Of course, there are not only white peony roots, but Bozhou also has a well-known Chinese herbal medicine planting base, and there is currently the world’s largest professional Chinese herbal medicine market, Kangmei Chinese Medicine City. Bozhou has a wide variety of medicinal materials and high quality. It is the first of the four major medical capitals in the country. Boshao, Boju, Bosangpi, and Bo pollen are even recorded in the Chinese Pharmacopoeia.

As one of the cradles of ancient Chinese civilization and the ancient capital of the “Three Dynasties” with a history of more than 3,000 years, Bozhou has a long history and a rich collection of humanities. It is a famous historical and cultural city with natural and cultural landscapes. It is one of the first batch of excellent tourist cities in the country. “. For thousands of years, this beautiful and fertile land has nurtured countless celebrities and wise men who have made martial arts and shining through the annals of history. There are nearly a hundred of them included in China’s “Dictionary of Celebrities in History” alone. Like “bring the strong men to break the strong formation, and the lyricist at night to give the Chinese house”, the generation of Wei Wu Emperor Cao Cao; “the strategizing, the decisive victory thousands of miles away” Zhang Liang, resourceful and resourceful to prosper the Han industry; respected by the world as a “genius doctor” , Hua Tuo, the “general doctor of common people” and “originator of surgery”; Li Shen, the famous peasant poet in Tang Dynasty; Chen Tuan, the supreme Taoist who was honored as “Mr. Xiyi” by Emperor Taizong of Song Dynasty; Xue Fengxiang, the author of “History of Peony” in Ming Dynasty, Qing Dynasty Acting calligrapher Liang T and so on.

The long history, splendid culture, and the cluster of sages have left many precious cultural relics and historical sites in the ancient city of Bozhou. The Cao Cao Troop Transport Road, built in the late Eastern Han Dynasty, is cleverly laid out and well-preserved. It is an underground military battle road built by Cao Cao. It is more than 8,000 meters long and is known as the “Underground Great Wall”. The largest Cao Cao Park in Bozhou City, named after the Cao Cao family tombs in the park, is one of the famous tourist attractions in Bozhou. The Huaxi Building, known as the “Daguan Emperor Temple”, is known as the “Daguan Emperor Temple” with many operas and scripts all over the country. It was also a major historical site in Bozhou, which was built in the thirteenth year of Shunzhi in the Qing Dynasty. There are also the ruins of Yuchi Temple, the “first primitive village in China” that shocked the archaeological world, the Huazu Temple built to worship the “genius doctor” Hua Tuo, and the earliest Bozhou Museum in Anhui Province, which was included in the “Chinese Dictionary of Famous Places”. “Mengcheng Brick Tower” and so on are all tourist attractions that cannot be missed.

Of course, Bozhou is an important factor in attracting tourists, in addition to the profound historical heritage, and a dazzling array of medicinal materials, as well as a wide variety of specialties. As a well-known hometown of longevity in my country, Bozhou medicated diet has a history of thousands of years of development, such as ancient peony chicken, Cao’s fish head, Huazu braised duck, etc., which are both delicious and nutritious. They are used for diet therapy. Good product. The beef bun with a diameter of 40 cm and weighing several kilograms is regarded as the most popular local snack. The noodles are wrapped with fillings made of yellow beef, vermicelli, green onions, ginger and other materials. Crisp and tender on the inside, it’s simply overwhelming. In addition, there are scorched and fragrant “sole biscuits”, the fragrant Mengcheng soup, the firm and smooth Bozhou noodles, the soft and delicious oil sticks, etc., are all must-try delicacies.