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Wuhan is one of the birthplaces of the brilliant ancient Chu Culture in China. Han opera, which is the local opera of Wuhan area, was one of China's oldest and most popular operas. During the late Qing dynasty, Han opera, blended with Hui opera, gave birth to Peking opera, the most popular opera in modern China. Therefore Han opera is called "mother of Peking opera" in China. Language Wuhan natives speak a variety of Southwestern Mandarin Chinese. Cuisine “No needs to be particular about the recipes, all food have their own uses. Rice wine and tangyuan are excellent midnight snacks, while fat bream and flowering Chinese cabbages are great delicacies.” Hankou Zhuzhici (an ancient book recording stories about Wuhan) produced during Daoguang Period of Qing dynasty, reflects indirectly the eating habits and a wide variety of distinctive snacks with a long history in Wuhan, such as Qingshuizong (a pyramid-shaped dumpling made of glutinous rice wrapped in bamboo or reed leaves) in Period of the Warring States, Chunbinbian in Northern & Southern dynasties, mung bean jelly in Sui dynasty, youguo (a deep-fried twisted dough stick) in Song and Yuan dynasties, rice wine and mianwo in Ming and Qing dynasties as well as three-delicacy stuffed skin of bean milk, tangbao (steamed dumpling filled with minced meat and gravy) and hot braised noodles in modern times. Besides the snacks, Hubei cuisine ranks as one of China’s ten major styles of cooking with many representative dishes. With development of more than 2,000 years, Hubei cuisine, originating in Chu Cuisine in ancient times, has developed a lot of distinctive dishes with its own characteristics, such as steamed blunt-snout bream in clear soup, preserved ham with flowering Chinese cabbage, etc. Guozao is a popular way to say having breakfast in Wuhan. It is generally said that Guangzhou is the paradise for eating and Shanghai for dressing, while Wuhan is a combination of both. Sitting favorably at the heart of China, Wuhan has gathered and mixed together various habits and customs from neighboring cities and provinces in all directions, which gives rise to a saying of concentrating diverse customs from different places. Doupi on the left and Re-gan mian on the right Hot and Dry Noodles, Re-gan mian (热干面) consists of long freshly boiled noodles mixed with sesame paste. The Chinese word re means hot and gan means dry. It is considered to be the most typical local food for breakfast. Duck's neck or Ya Bozi (鸭脖子) is a local version of this popular Chinese dish, made of duck necks and spices. Bean skin or Doupi (豆皮）is a popular local dish with a filling of egg, rice, beef, mushrooms and beans cooked between two large round soybean skins and cut into pieces, structurally like a stuffed pizza without enclosing edges. Soup dumpling or Xiaolongtangbao（小笼汤包）is a kind of dumpling with thin skin made of flour, steamed with very juicy meat inside so that is why it is called Tang (soup) Bao (bun), because every time one takes a bite from it the soup inside spills out. A salty doughnut or Mianwo (面窝) is a kind of doughnut with a salty taste. It's much thinner than a common doughnut, and is a typical Wuhan local food. Notable people Li Na, a professional tennis player, serving at Wimbledon 2008, 1st round against Anastasia Rodionova Yu Boya (俞伯牙) – ancient Chinese musician whose musical composition "Flowing Water" was burned on a CD carried by the U.S. space probe Voyager 1 as a representative of the earth civilization in the hope of being picked by humans from other planets. Wei Brian - Chinese entrepreneur Peng Xiuwen – composer and conductor Paula Tsui – singer who spent most of her singing career in Hong Kong Xu Fan – actress Liu Yifei – actress and singer Li Yuanhong – former President of the Republic of China. Xiong Bingkun (熊秉坤) – armyman who called the start to the Wuhan Uprising in the Chinese Revolution of 1911 which gave birth to the Republic of China, Asia's first democratic country. Chang-Lin Tien – seventh Chancellor of the University of California, Berkeley (1990–1997), the first Asian to head a major university in the United States.[citation needed] Li Ting – female tennis player, Olympic gold medalist (in woman's doubles, Athens 2004) Fu Mingxia – female diver, four-time Olympic gold Medalist (1 in Barcelona 1992, 2 in Atlanta 1996, 1 in Sydney 2000), the only diver that had won gold medals at 3 Olympiads as well as one of the very few divers in the world who are able to win world championship in both platform diving and springboard diving. diver Zhou Jihong – woman diving athlete, Olympic gold medalist (Los Angeles 1984), the first Chinese who has won an Olympic gold medal in diving. Qiao Hong – woman table tennis player, two-time Olympic gold medalist (in woman's doubles, Barcelona 1992, Atlanta 1996) Wu Yi – former Vice-Premier and Minister Of Health of the People's Republic of China[51] Xiao Hailiang – Olympic gold medalist (in 3m springboard synchronized diving, Sydney 2000) diver Gao Ling –, professional badminton player, two-time Olympic gold medalist (Sydney 2000, Athens 2004) Li Na – female tennis player, Champion of the French Open 2011 and Australian Open 2014 Chi Li – modern writer[citation needed] Zhou Mi – Super Junior M member Tang Jieli – AIBA Women's Boxing World Champion[52] Tian Yuan – singer and actress Xiao Bowei – Silver medal in NBA 2K11 competition by International NBA 2K11 committee (Toronto, 2012). Diplomatic representation As of October 2011, there are three countries that have consulates in Wuhan: France[53] Republic of Korea[54] USA[55] The U.S. Consul General, the Honorable Ms. Diane L. Sovereign, was stationed in Wuhan from November 30, 2009 to 2012. The office of the U.S. Consulate General, Central China (located in Wuhan) celebrated its official opening on November 20, 2008 and is the first new American consulate in China in over 20 years.[56][57] U.K. announced it would set up a consulate general in Wuhan.[58] Japan will establish a consular office in Wuhan.[59] |
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