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[Dezhou Braised Chicken] Dezhou braised chicken is a national intangible cultural heritage and a famous specialty of Dezhou. "Dezhou braised chicken" is famous at home and abroad for its five-spice boneless chicken, high quality, and delicious taste, originally evolved from Dezhou roast chicken. As early as more than 300 years ago, in the ancient and crude technical process, the original Dezhou roast chicken was made. After being handed down from generation to generation, it has formed its own unique product and technical characteristics.

 

Traditional Dezhou braised chicken adopts excellent big-tailed speckled chickens raised by farmers, weighing 0.9 kg?1.1 kg, with an ideal level of fatness. It undergoes 11 processes including slaughtering, shaping, and cooking. The production process is meticulous, with the cooking technique requiring a precise balance of gentle and intense heat. The amount of seasoning varies according to seasonal and temperature changes, and each step of the process is subject to strict standards. This is what makes Dezhou braised chicken unique.

 

[Dezhou Black Pottery Making Skills] Dezhou black pottery making skills are the national intangible cultural heritage. Dezhou black pottery uses traditional hand-thrown techniques, preserving the single-layer forming method while also creating a double-layer composite body with a single base. Black pottery is polished and carved while the clay body is drying, and then it is fired. The standard production process involves 11 steps: material selection, filtering the clay, kneading the clay, shaping, refining the shape, sanding and polishing with sand, soft carving, drying, firing, removing from the kiln, and hard carving. The black pottery produced in this way has a uniform texture, feels smooth to the touch, exhibits a pure and lustrous sheen, and produces a clear and crisp sound.

 

 

[Golden Silk Jujube] Laoling golden silk jujube was planted in the Spring and Autumn Period, promoted in the Wei and Jin Dynasties, and flourished in the Ming and Qing Dynasties. It is of excellent quality, with thin skins and thick flesh, small seeds, and beautiful color, as well as fine and juicy flesh.

 

晒干的小枣掰开后，能看见果肉间有缕缕金丝，故名“金丝小枣”。以乐陵为中心的小枣主产区（包括山东省的无棣、沾化、惠民、阳信和河北省的孟村、黄骅、盐山、沧县、献县）总产量在50万吨左右，占全国红枣总产量的60%。乐陵市被命名为“中国金丝小枣之乡”。

When the dried dates are split open, golden threads can be seen within the flesh, hence the name "golden silk jujube". The total output of the main jujube-producing areas centered on Laoling (including Wudi, Zhanhua, Huimin, and Yangxin in Shandong Province and Mengcun, Huanghua, Yanshan, Cang County, and Xian County in Hebei Province) is about 500,000 tons, accounting for 60% of the total jujube output in China. Laoling City is named "the hometown of Chinese golden silk jujube".

 

[Baodian Donkey Meat] Baodian donkey meat is produced in Baodian Town, Ningjin County, famous for its rich nutrition.

 

 

In the 8th year of the Republic of China (1919), it was included in the Record of Local Survey of Counties in Shandong Province and ranks among the top dishes in the sixth volume of Famous Chinese Dishes, which features 145 notable dishes.