LuoyangTravel Budget Guide

Founded in 1895 and famous for authentic Luoyang Water Feast, Zhen Bu Tong was recognized by MOFCOM as a first-batch China Time-Honored Brand in 2006, and its water-feast technique was inscribed as national ICH in 2008.

A full banquet of twenty-four courses dating to the Tang dynasty, prized for its soups and served dish after dish like flowing water — counted, with the Longmen Grottoes and Luoyang peonies, among the 'Three Wonders of Luoyang'.

The opening signature of the Luoyang Water Feast: white radish cut into fine threads, dressed in starch and steamed, then bathed in stock to a 'bird's-nest' texture, plated to resemble a blooming peony.

A century-old Luoyang specialty built on a thin mung-bean pancake — the 'bu fan' — served with vermicelli, kelp, laver and dried shrimp in a peppery, sour-and-savory broth.

A beloved Luoyang home-style noodle dish cooked in a base of fermented, soured mung-bean liquid, finished with celery, soybeans and peanuts — tart, refreshing and distinctively local.

A century-old wonton from Matai Street in Luoyang's old city, with thin wrappers and a rich broth — already ranked among Luoyang's four famous snacks by the 1940s.

Henan's most famous breakfast soup — thick and peppery, typically with beef, wheat gluten, vermicelli and wood-ear — a common bowl on Luoyang's morning streets.

The making technique of the complete Luoyang Water Feast, inscribed on the second national ICH list in 2008 (traditional skills) — China's only case of an entire banquet's technique entering the national registry.

The firing technique of the low-fired tri-color glazed pottery that flourished in the Tang dynasty, most abundantly unearthed at Luoyang and known as 'Luoyang sancai'; inscribed on the second national ICH list in 2008 (No. Ⅷ-94).

A sung storytelling art that took shape in Luoyang around the turn of the 20th century, developed from Luoyang qinshu and the single big-drum form; inscribed on the first national ICH list in 2006 (No. Ⅴ-12).

Luoyang's traditional handcrafted lanterns, prized for the elegant form and exacting frame-and-shade work of the 'palace lantern'; inscribed in 2008 as an extension of the 'festive lanterns' item on the second national ICH list (traditional fine arts).

The folk belief custom venerating the Three Kingdoms general Guan Yu, jointly declared by Luoyang and Yuncheng (Shanxi); inscribed on the second national ICH list in 2008 (folklore, No. Ⅹ-85), with Luoyang's Guanlin a key bearer site.

A traditional Chinese bone-setting therapy originating with the Guo family of Pingle village, Mengjin, Luoyang, formed in the Qing Jiaqing era; inscribed in 2008 as a traditional-medicine extension on the national ICH list, and a major school of Chinese orthopedics.