What are the specialties in Xinjiang?

Xinjiang native products include camel milk, Saussurea involucrata, Xinjiang carpet, Shanshan cantaloupe and Turpan seedless white grape. Among them, camel milk is the milk source of bactrian camels living in Altay mountain area of Xinjiang, which is called desert platinum; Xinjiang carpets are famous for their long history and superb skills. The following is a detailed introduction for everyone.

1, camel milk

Camel milk is the milk source of bactrian camels living in Altay mountain area of Xinjiang, and is called "desert platinum". Milk is favored because of its rich nutrition, and it is an important source of nutrition for many people every day. Camel milk's nutrition is no less than milk, which can bring huge economic benefits to herders.

Camel milk is high in calcium and low in saturated fatty acids, and even has medicinal value. Camel milk is a very healthy product. Camel milk can help diabetics reduce their demand for insulin, which is beneficial to newborns because it does not contain allergens. It also proves that camel milk is beneficial to patients with peptic ulcer and also helpful to hypertension.

2. Turpan raisins

Turpan raisins are naturally dried in a cool local room and refined with advanced equipment and technology from the United States and Japan. The product has pure color and unique flavor, does not contain any additives and pigments, and is rich in natural fructose, protein, vitamins, cellulose, iron, potassium, calcium, phosphorus, magnesium and other trace elements needed by human body. Identified by foreign scientific circles, raisins contain a special anticancer substance, which is a multi-purpose pure natural health food.

Grape has the effects of "enriching blood, strengthening Chilean bones and muscles, strengthening stomach, promoting fluid production, quenching thirst, benefiting qi, promoting diuresis, nourishing kidney and liver, and improving complexion". Eating more grapes can relieve cold hands and feet, low back pain and anemia and improve immunity.

3. Xinjiang carpets

Xinjiang is the birthplace of carpets in the world. Carpets in Xinjiang are famous for their long history and superb skills. They are traditional ethnic handicrafts in Xinjiang and one of the main export commodities. Hotan is the hometown of carpets in Xinjiang, also known as oriental carpets. No matter the style, pattern and color, they are full of national characteristics and local styles. It is famous for its excellent raw materials, fine texture, dense fluff, thin and flat carpet surface, exquisite craftsmanship, unique patterns, excellent weavers, beautiful color matching, durability and complex patterns.

4. Hotan Meiyu

Xinjiang has been famous for producing beautiful jade since ancient times, among which Hetian jade is the most famous. Its texture is moist and delicate, and it has a plump luster, and its sound is like the echo of a golden pot. The lingering sound is far from heavy and slowly exhausted, which is unmatched by jade produced in the southeast.

Sheep fat jade is named because it looks like sheep fat. The texture is delicate and the color is like sheep fat, which is especially moist and smooth, giving people a soft feeling at first sight. This is the best variety of white jade. At present, only Xinjiang has this variety in the world, and its output is very rare and its value is extremely high.

5. Saussurea involucrata

Saussurea involucrata is a famous specialty in Xinjiang. As early as the Qing Dynasty, Zhao Xuemin wrote; Compendium of Materia Medica; In art, there are "snow in cold regions, persistent in spring and summer, grass in snow, lotus stems and loveliness in Tingting snow" and "snow in winter and summer, lotus in snow", with the peak of Tianshan Mountain as the first.