Since the Tang Dynasty, Zhuozhou rice had been used for imperial rice, so it's also called “yumi (the imperial rice)”. Yumi is so white like jade, which is lucency, the cooked rice grain long but not breaked, the perfume very strong, and the cooked water of the rice clear.

    Zhuolu is the home of grapes. The famous Longyan grape is purplish red, sweet and tasty. It is a top-grade fruit, which was called “Pearl in the North” by Guo Moruo. The famous authoress Dingling wrote her novel The Sun Shining on the Sanggan River after observing and learning from the real life here.

    Fern is also called Ruyi vegetable. There are many ways to cook it, such as stir-frying, simmering and making salad. It can be cooked with meat or without. A local proverb goes like this, “Pork satisfies greed and mutton is delicious, but neither is as good as a bowl of fern soup.”

    Koumo is a common kind of delicacy in the dinnner. It may either cook with pork and chicken, or used to stew. It produces in Chengde Bashang, and machining in Zhangjiakou, and distributes all the country.