Tai'anTravel Budget Guide

A Taishan peach-wood carving house rooted in the late Qing, working in four classical techniques to fashion protective, auspicious wares, the leading emblem of Tai'an folk craft.

A flagship Shandong liquor maker founded in 1945 at the foot of Mount Tai, known for Five-Mountains-Supreme, Steady-as-Mount-Tai and Taishan Special, a Shandong time-honoured brand.

A Tai'an food brand recognised as a Chinese time-honoured name, known for traditional pickles and prepared meats, one of the few such brands in the city.

A thousand-year grain crepe of Tai'an, thin as paper, crisp as pastry, melting on the tongue, the city's most representative snack and a piece of living urban heritage.

A tofu banquet that began as the imperial fare of Han-era Mount Tai ceremonies, its quality drawn from Taishan spring water and fine soy to form the local "three beauties" of cabbage, tofu and water, a rare flower of Shandong cuisine.

A hearty dish loved at home and at feasts in Tai'an, quickly stir-fried from free-range local chicken with a rich savoury sauce and firm flesh, a taste of rural central Shandong.

The Tai'an saying of "cabbage, tofu and water" as the three beauties, cooked together with Taishan spring water for a clean, sweet freshness, the very soul of the local diet.

An old central-Shandong taste of soy-braised pork, thick slabs of belly tied and slow-stewed until rich but not greasy and deeply savoury, a classic hearty dish on Tai'an streets.

An ancient custom of standing a stone tablet carved "Taishan Shigandang" to guard the home and ward off evil; first-batch national ICH from 2006, a living emblem of Mount Tai belief.

Six centuries old, Taishan shadow puppetry is famed for the "ten-at-once" art in which a single performer works the puppets, speaks, sings and plays all instruments; national ICH from 2008.

The orally transmitted folk literature of the Mount Tai region, blending nature worship, imperial rites and Confucian, Buddhist and Daoist culture; national ICH from 2011.

A traditional carving craft working Taishan peach wood into protective, auspicious wares through four classical techniques, a Shandong provincial intangible heritage item.

A banquet craft born of the Han-era Mount Tai rites, drawing on Taishan spring water and local tofu to form the "three beauties," a Tai'an municipal intangible heritage item.