A city where local culture is full of beans

While Anhui is known for Huangshan and Bagong mountains, and Huangmei Opera, it is the humble soybean that's the province's real cultural hero.

The area celebrated the marvels of these magic beans at the 16th Chinese Bean Curd Cultural Festival - the largest to date - in Huainan city last month.

It was in this city that tofu was invented 2,000 years ago by Emperor Liu An, the grandson of the first emperor of the Han Dynasty (206 BC-AD 220), Liu Bang.