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Chongqing food is part of Sichuan cuisine. Chongqing is known for its spicy food. Its food is normally considered numbing because of the use of Sichuan pepper, also known as Sichuan peppercorn, containing hydroxy alpha sanshool. Chongqing's city center has many restaurants and food stalls where meals often cost less than RMB10.
Sichuan River. The Sichuan River or Chuan Jiang (Chinese: 川江; Sichuanese Pinyin: Cuan 1 jiang 1; pinyin: Chuānjiāng), is the upper portion of Yangtze River from Yibin to Yichang. It is named because the river flows through Sichuan & Chongqing, which was part of Sichuan, in this stretch. The total length of Sichuan River is 1,040km.
The Jialing River enters from the north and flows across the entire width of the Sichuan Basin to meet the Yangtze at Chongqing. Northeast of Chongqing, the Yangtze cuts an outlet through the mountains at the eastern edge of the basin known as the Three Gorges .
Chongqing was part of Sichuan Province until 1939 and 1954 to 1997. Xikang Province dissolved in 1955 and parts were incorporated into Sichuan Province. The majority of the province's population is Han Chinese (95% of the provincial population), who are found scattered throughout the region except for the far western areas.
The majority of the region is drained by the Yangtze River, which forms the Three Gorges in the northeast of the region. [3] The narrowest concept of Southwestern China consists of Sichuan, Chongqing, Yunnan, and Guizhou, while wider definitions often include Guangxi and western portions of Hunan. [4]
Daning River (Chongqing) F. Furong River; J. Jialing River; Q. Qi River (tributary of Yangtze River) Qu River (Jialing River tributary) S. Sichuan River; W. Wu River ...
Fu River, or Fu Jiang (Chinese: 涪江; pinyin: Fú Jiāng) is a river of in China's Sichuan Province and Chongqing Municipality. It is a right tributary of the Jialing River, which in its turn is a left tributary of the Yangtze; it is thus part of the East China Sea basin. Two bridges across the Fu River at Hechuan, Chongqing.
The river reaches the floor of the Sichuan Basin at Langzhong and continues in a sinuous route into Chongqing and its junction with the Yangtze River. Besides the Bailong River which forms a portion of the main stem, the largest tributaries of the Jialing River include the Xihan River , the Fu River (also known as Sui He), and the Qu River .