A number of different styles contribute to Chinese cuisine, but perhaps the best known and most influential are Cantonese cuisine, Shandong cuisine, Jiangsu cuisine and Szechuan cuisine.

Jiangsu cuisine favours cooking techniques such as braising and stewing, while Sichuan cuisine employs baking, just to name a few.

It is derived from the native cooking styles of the Huangshan Mountains region in China and is similar to Jiangsu cuisine, but with less emphasis on seafood and more on a wide variety of local herbs and vegetables.

Typical courses of Jiangsu cuisine are Jinling salted dried duck ( Nanjing's most famous dish ), crystal meat ( pork heels in a bright, brown sauce ), clear crab shell meatballs ( pork meatballs in crab shell powder, fatty, yet fresh ), Yangzhou steamed Jerky strips ( dried tofu, chicken, ham and pea leaves ), triple combo duck, dried duck, and Farewell My Concubine ( soft-shelled turtle stewed with many other ingredients such as chicken, mushrooms and wine ).

The imperial clan of the Ming Dynasty, the House of Zhu, who had ancestry from Jiangsu, also contributed greatly in introducing Huaiyang cuisine to Beijing when the capital was moved from Nanjing to Beijing in the 15th century, because the imperial kitchen was mainly Huaiyang style.

The city of Shanghai itself does not have a separate and unique cuisine of its own, but modifies those of the surrounding provinces, such as Jiangsu and Zhejiang.

****# Huaiyang cuisine – often viewed as the representation of the entire Jiangsu cuisine.

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** Jiangsu cuisine

Chinese cuisine including Guangdong, Szechuan, Hunan and Jiangsu as well as Japanese, Thai and Western cuisines can be found.

Jiangyin cuisine is a member of the Jiangsu cuisine prevalent in the Jiangnan region.

Like other styles of Jiangsu cuisine, Jiangyin food is sweet in comparison to other Chinese cuisines.

: Like the culinary art of the Jiangsu cuisine, the art of Jiangsu Penjing ( 苏派盆景 ) is also complicated, with the crowns of the trees often being shaped like clouds.

Category: Jiangsu cuisine

The most popular variety, Zhenjiang vinegar ( 鎮江香醋 ), originated in the city of Zhenjiang, in the eastern coastal province of Jiangsu, China and also is produced in Tianjin and Hong Kong.

It was based mostly in modern Zhejiang province but also held parts of southern Jiangsu.

This not only added to basic academic offerings of Fudan, but also gathered many talented academics from Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Anhui and Shanghai, including Su Buqing, Chen Jiangong, Tan Jiazhen, and Lu Hefu.

Shandong borders the Bohai Sea to the north, Hebei to the northwest, Henan to the west, Jiangsu to the south, and the Yellow Sea to the southeast ; it also shares a very short border with Anhui, between Henan and Jiangsu.

Shandong also acquired the Xuzhou and Lianyungang areas from Jiangsu province, but this did not last either.

South Jiangsu also figures strongly in the Taiping Rebellion ( 18511864 ), a massive and deadly rebellion that attempted to set up a Christian theocracy in China ; it started far to the south in Guangdong province, swept through much of South China, and by 1853 had established Nanjing as its capital, renamed as Tianjing ( 天京 " Heavenly Capital ").

Jiangsu is also laced with a well-developed irrigation system, which earned it ( especially the southern half ) the moniker of 水乡 ( shuǐxiāng " land of water "); the southern city of Suzhou is so crisscrossed with canals that it has been dubbed " Venice of the East " or the " Venice of the Orient ".

Jiangsu also borders the Yellow Sea.

P. lorteti is also recognized from the middle Miocene of Asia ( Jiangsu, China ), where two additional species, Pseudaelurus guangheensis from the middle Miocene of Gansu ( China ) and Pseudaelurus cuspidatus from the middle Miocene of Xinjiang ( China ) are reported.

During its existence, its capital was at Jianye ( 建業 ; present-day Nanjing, Jiangsu ), but at times it was also at Wuchang ( 武昌 ; present-day Ezhou, Hubei ).

Kite-flying became prevalent in Weifang in the Song Dynasty ( 960-1279 ), and by the Ming Dynasty ( 1368 – 1644 ) kite-flying had become even more popular, and there had appeared fairs on kites on a rather large scale. Kites were sold not only across Shandong, but also to Jiangsu, Fujian, Anhui and other places.

* The also very important Chimei ( 赤眉, " red eyebrows ") rebels, who were led by Fan Chong ( 樊崇 ), who roved through large swaths of territory in modern southern Shandong and northern Jiangsu.

There were also many other minor revolutionary organizations, such as Lizhi Xuehui ( 勵志學會 ) in Jiangsu, Gongchanghui ( 公強會 ) in Sichuan, Yiwenhui ( 益聞會 ) and Hanzhudulihui ( 漢族獨立會 ) in Fujian, Yizhihui ( 易知社 ) in Jiangxi, Yuewanghui ( 岳王會 ) in Anhui and Qunzhihui ( 群智會 / 群智社 ) in Guangzhou.

What is also known is that during Chu – Han Contention, when Liu Bang fought a five-year war with Xiang Yu for supremacy over the Chinese world, his mother, his sister, and he did not initially follow his father to the Principality of Han ( modern Sichuan, Chongqing, and southern Shaanxi ); rather, they stayed in his father's home territory, perhaps in his home town of Pei ( 沛縣, in modern Xuzhou, Jiangsu ) deep in Xiang's Principality of Western Chu, presumably with his grandfather Liu Zhijia.

* Liu Yong ( 劉永 ), also claiming to be the proper emperor of Han, based on his lineage — as the son of Liu Li ( 劉立 ), the Prince of Liang under the reigns of Emperor Cheng, Emperor Ai, and Emperor Ping who had been forced by Wang Mang to commit suicide ; he controlled the modern eastern Henan and northern Jiangsu region.

Chiang also could not afford losing Zhejiang and Jiangsu provinces to Japanese hands.

Liu Qi (; born November 1942 in Wujin, Changzhou, Jiangsu ) is the CPC Beijing Committee Secretary, first-in-charge of Beijing, and also a member of the CPC Politburo.

: Yangzhou Penjing ( 揚派盆景 ) is also called northern Jiangsu style ( 苏北派 ), it is distinct from Jiangsu style The three twists of tree trunks is the most distinctive characteristic of this style.

The North Jiangsu Irrigation Main Channel also diverts some of its water along its old historical course to the sea, and is planned to be upgraded with a new parallel channel.

Though the capital of the Southern Dynasties kingdoms was ( almost by definition ) Jiankang, in the location of modern Nanjing, in the province of Jiangsu ; nevertheless, the Zhejiang area was home to the major metropolis and cultural center of Hangzhou, formerly known as Qiantang, but renamed in 589.

From then until 581 ( a period known as the Southern and Northern Dynasties ), Nanjing in south Jiangsu was the base of four more ethnic Han Chinese dynasties facing off with northern barbarian ( but increasingly sinicized ) dynasties.

Conversely there was a region located around the " reserve capital " Nanjing known as Southern Zhili ( Nan Zhili ) that included parts of what are today the provinces of Jiangsu, Anhui, and the administrative district of Shanghai.

The museum specializes in the collection, study and display of teaware, including many samples of the Yixing teapot, from Jiangsu Province of China, as well as the world's oldest known extant teapot.

Part of that area is known as the " cradle of stainless steel " ( 中国不锈钢之乡 ) production, and this economic activity gives rise to the nickname " No. 1 Town of Central Jiangsu " ( 苏中第一镇 ).

Originally known as Jing ( 荆 ) and then as Jingchu ( 荆楚 ), at the height of its power the Chu state occupied vast areas of land, including most of the present-day provinces of Hubei and Hunan, and parts of Chongqing, Guizhou, Henan, Anhui, Jiangxi, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, and Shanghai.

A decorative tree guild from around 1276 is known to have supplied dwarf specimens for use in Suzhou restaurants in the province of Jiangsu.

Born in Huai ' an, Jiangsu, Sun and his twin brother Sun Zhihong proved a theorem about what are now known as the Wall-Sun-Sun primes that guided the search for counterexamples to Fermat's last theorem.

Mair ( 1994: 695 ) notes this unusual name may indicate Fan A was a foreigner, and this area was around modern Tongshan County, Jiangsu, " location of the first known Buddhist community in China ".

The monastery was founded in 1906 by three monks visiting from Jiangsu and was initially known simply as " The Big Hut " ( 大茅蓬 Tai Mao Pung ).

With its capital in Xifu, now known as Hangzhou, the kingdom included present-day Zhejiang, Shanghai, along with the southern portion of Jiangsu Province.

Wu Jingzi (, 1701 — January 11, 1754 ) was a Chinese scholar and writer who was born in the city now known as Chuzhou, Anhui and who died in Yangzhou, Jiangsu.

Jiangsu Nangang Dragons ( 江苏南钢龙 ) or Jiangsu Dragons or Jiangsu Nangang or formerly known as Jiangsu Dahua are a professional basketball team in the South Division of the Chinese Basketball Association, based in Nanjing, Jiangsu.

The capital was located in Jinling ( also known as Xidu ), located in present-day Nanjing in Jiangsu Province.

Wang Ruowang (, February 4, 1918, Wujin, Jiangsu province ,— December 19, 2001, Queens, New York City ), born as Shouhua ( 寿华 ) but more popularly known from his pen name Ruowang, was a Chinese author and dissident who was imprisoned various times for political reasons by both the Kuomintang and the Communist government of China

Afraid of the princes of collateral lines of the imperial clan becoming overly powerful, Emperor Jing, under the advice of Chao Cuo, attempted to reduce the size of the principalities, and seven principalities, led by the powerful Principalities of Wu ( modern southern Jiangsu, northern Zhejiang, southern Anhui, and northern Jiangxi ) and Chu ( modern northern Jiangsu and northern Anhui ) rebelled in a war later known as the Rebellion of the Seven States.