? As early as more than 7,000 years ago, Ningbo ancestors flourished here and created a splendid Hemudu culture. Hemudu site is still in Yuyao, attracting a large number of students interested in history and tourists from all corners of the country every year.
? The local traditional drama in Ningbo is Yong Opera. Yong Opera was bred from the fields of Ningbo. It was first sung in Ningbo and nearby areas, and was called a guest performer in Qianlong and Jiaqing years of Qing Dynasty. Later, it was called Ningbo Tanchun Opera, Siming Opera, improved Yong Opera, and finally named Yong Opera.
? Yong Opera is essentially a dialect art.. The remarkable feature of Yong Opera is that it is good at reflecting modern life and has the characteristics of combining narration with endorsement. Moreover, Yong Opera is also a new kind of drama that constantly absorbs new things and constantly reforms and innovates. Yongxi has the characteristics of popularization and popularization.
One of the most famous representative plays of Yong Opera is based on Ningbo folk tales "It's going to rain" and "Mother is going to get married". It abandoned the original legend that widows believed in destiny, and suspicious sons abandoned their children and remarried, highlighting the fact that Lin Weizi remarried, which eventually led to the tragedy of "the son ascended to heaven and the mother went to Jiuquan", which was called the three tragedies of harmony drama together with the other two "Double Jade Cicada" and "Half Scissors".
? The phrase "It's going to rain, my mother is going to get married" has become a familiar idiom for Ningbo locals. No one, old or young, is not moved to tears for Lin's maternal love of remarriage to save her son.
? In terms of diet, Ningbo cuisine is famous for its seafood at home and abroad, and it is good at steaming, roasting and stewing seafood. Unique, light in form, heavy in taste, fresh and salty. People in Ningbo call it "next meal". No matter how long Ningbo people have traveled abroad, when they mention Ningbo, they can always recall the scene of a big table of seafood at home during the Chinese New Year holiday. When you mention and taste seafood in a distant place thousands of miles away from home, you can always recall the unique authentic Ningbo seafood taste of Ningbo people, and your mouth is full of saliva. Seafood has therefore become synonymous with the taste of Ningbo.
? People in Ningbo mostly use steaming, stewing and other methods to cook, paying special attention to heat and knife, and paying great attention to color, fragrance and taste. The top ten famous dishes in Ningbo are rock sugar soft-shelled turtle, braised eel in boneless pot, roasted dish with moss, large yellow croaker with snow vegetables, rotten yellow croaker, foie gras wrapped in pure oil, steamed pork with lotus leaf powder, yellow croaker and sea cucumber soup, color fried whole yellow croaker and fried eel back. In particular, rock sugar soft-shelled turtle and pot-cooked eel are the most famous traditional dishes in Ningbo.
? In addition, various after-dinner snacks also have different flavors. The top ten most famous scenic spots in Ningbo are lard dumplings, dragon, phoenix, gold and jiaozi, crystal oil bag, bean paste eight-treasure rice, lard foreign cakes, three-silk banquet noodles, fresh meat steamed buns, Shao Shao, fresh meat wonton and wine-brewed jiaozi. Among them, Ningbo lard dumpling is a famous snack in China. Other delicacies include Sanbei Crispy Sugar, Fenghua Melaleuca Cake, Yuci Myrica rubra, Fenghua Peach, Xiangshan Red, Yuyao Zhacai, Ningbo Duck, Ningbo Youzanzi, Qiu 'ai Kimchi, Ningbo Tangyuan, Xikou Melaleuca Cake, Xiangshan Seafood, Fenghua Taro, New Year Cake, Ueda Strawberry, Hemudu Zaizi and so on. In particular, Ningbo Tangyuan and Jiuniang Tangyuan were selected as Chinese famous snacks.
? Among them, sweet potato soup is a unique food for Ningbo people, and it is also one of the foods that Ningbo people must eat from winter to Sunday. On the solstice of winter, every household should make their own sweet potato soup, and the whole family will eat it happily together to celebrate the solstice of winter. Because "fan" and "fan" are homophonic, in Ningbo people's understanding, eating sweet potatoes on the solstice in winter means "turning over" all the bad luck of the past year. Tang Guo is a kind of bread, similar to dumplings, but much smaller and without stuffing. Break the kneaded dough for a short period and knead it casually by hand, and a soup fruit is formed. Tang Guo is also called jiaozi, which means "reunion" and "perfection". There is also a saying in old Ningbo that "you are one year older after eating soup". People in Ningbo are used to adding wine to sweet potato soup. In Ningbo dialect, wine-making is also called "pulp board", and "pulp" is homophonic with "sheng" in Ningbo dialect, taking its lewdness of "high luck" and "high happiness"
? When it comes to traditional architecture in Ningbo, there is inevitably an ancient library-Ningbo Tianyi Pavilion, which is "a pavilion in the world and a Wang Yang in books". Tianyi Pavilion is the earliest private library in China, the oldest library in Asia and one of the three oldest family libraries in the world. The name "Tianyi Pavilion" takes its meaning from the statement of "Yi Tian Shui Sheng" in Zheng Xie's Book of Changes. Because fire is the biggest hidden danger in the library, "Yi Tian Shui Sheng" can replace fire with water, so it is named "Tianyi Pavilion".
? Ningbo has always been a gathering of businessmen. "Hong Kong is connected with the world" refers to Beilun Port, and the second half of "ancient and modern books" refers to Tianyi Pavilion. From the peasant uprising in the late Ming Dynasty, to the Qing Dynasty to the Republic of China, to the Opium War, and finally to the founding of New China, Tianyi Pavilion experienced hundreds of years of war, during which countless books were lost and destroyed, and countless people with lofty ideals worked hard to protect Tianyi Pavilion's books. After the founding of New China, Guo Moruo once wrote in Tianyi Pavilion:
"Mingzhou tianyi has a rich collection of books, and it is really blessed.
? There are only one-fifth of the robberies, and there are more than 10 thousand copies.
? Nymphs are elegant and graceful, with many strange stones and beautiful pavilions.
60% of the land has been liberated and the people cherish the pearl of victory. "
? This is the true portrayal of Tianyi Pavilion in the vicissitudes of life, which makes people sad. Tianyige has evolved from the enthusiastic protection of literati to the multiple protection of government and law, and the book-reading holy land can finally recuperate after vicissitudes.
? Ningbo literati abandoned the privatization of ancient treasures with a broad mind, only for their own better inheritance. Tianyi Pavilion is not only a simple library for collecting cultural classics, but also a museum that has gathered the humanistic spirit of Ningbo for 400 years.
? Today's Tianyi Pavilion not only embodies the essence of Ningbo local culture, but also symbolizes the continuation of Ningbo's humanistic spirit. The standing of Tianyi Pavilion also makes them convert to one place, making Ningbo elegant and humanistic in Yong Guang.
? Ningbo has a unique charm and attraction, which makes countless tourists linger, and also makes the wanderers in the distance miss it forever. It embraces everyone who passes by, settles down and returns with its tolerant humanistic feelings. When I stumbled forward and fell to the ground, Ningbo was the driving force for me to fall for 1000 times and get up again, because I always knew that Ningbo, like my mother, would always welcome wanderers home. The attraction of Ningbo has never been the rapid development of economy and the continuous improvement of living standards. Its attraction always lies in the tolerant and proud spirit of Ningbo people and the historical humanistic spirit deeply contained in Ningbo culture.
? Welcome to Ningbo.