Gongcheng people have to "butter tea" for breakfast every day, and some families can't even eat three meals without oil tea. Camellia oleifera is called "beating" instead of cooking, which is a unified name in various places, but Camellia oleifera in various places has its own different flavors.
Camellia oleifera is drunk all year round, morning and evening, regardless of season. Guests arrive in the morning and evening, ready to serve, and more abundant. Gongcheng is now rated as the hometown of longevity in China, and the secret of longevity is also closely related to camellia oleifera.
Gongcheng Camellia oleifera is very particular about its preparation method. Tea leaves picked in Qingming and Grain Rain seasons are selected and soaked in a little boiling water for 5-11 minutes to reduce the smell of fireworks and bitterness. Then, a little lard is put in the tea pot to heat it, and ginger, garlic and soaked tea leaves are added for a little stir-frying, and then chopped, boiled and boiled with water to taste.
filter the tea water into a bowl with a bamboo funnel, sprinkle with chopped green onion and coriander powder, and serve with rice flower, crispy fruit (similar to fried dough bumps), crispy peanuts, fried rice, fried soybeans and scattered. After the prepared Gongcheng Camellia oleifera is served, it first smells a unique fragrance of chopped green onion and coriander. After import, it is the bitterness of tea at first, and then it is sweet and delicious, which is memorable.
after drinking a pot of tea, you can also add water into the pot and boil it, so that it can reach five or six pots repeatedly. In this way, the oil tea is cooked pot by pot, and the taste is not as strong as before, which is the fulfillment of the saying that "one cup is bitter, two cups are bitter, three cups are good, and four cups are good". In recent years, with the increasing number of tourists to Gongcheng, Gongcheng Camellia oleifera has become famous and spread far and wide.
On the basis of traditional camellia oleifera, Gongcheng people developed concentrated camellia oleifera, brown powder, jelly-like packaging.
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In p>2118, "Gongcheng Camellia oleifera" was listed as the intangible cultural heritage of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. This is a great event in terms of national characteristic culture and local food culture. Gongcheng Yao Autonomous County has become a tourist attraction attracting worldwide attention in recent years. Speaking of the unique scenery of this place, Gongcheng people will proudly tell you that Gongcheng has three treasures, folk songs, camellia oleifera and Wenwu Temple.
Mr. Ning Zige, vice president of Guangxi Folk Song Association and member of Gongcheng CPPCC, will describe the charm of Gongcheng Camellia oleifera with vivid sayings and folk songs. For example, this sentence is often said by people in Gongcheng, "Gongcheng is a local custom, and oil tea is soaked in porridge." The word porridge is pronounced "Zhou" in Mandarin and "Zu" in Gongcheng dialect.
The folk song goes like this: "Speaking of the local customs in Gongcheng, we often use camellia oleifera to make porridge; Camellia oleifera is like elixir water, which makes everyone feel comfortable. " An old writer in Nanning commented that the word "shout" was used well. "Comfortable" will be multiplied by this "shout".
When Gongcheng people talk about the history of Camellia oleifera, they will also associate it with Zhou Wei, the censor of the Northern Song Dynasty who went out from Gongcheng. Zhou Wei, the word is a minister. Gongcheng intersection village people. He is a famous upright official in history. His debut was sixty years earlier than that of Bao Gong. When Bao Gong was in politics, he regarded Zhou Wei, a Gongcheng native, as his model.
according to the records in the history of the song dynasty, Zhou Wei, as an honest official, made remarkable achievements. He dealt with corrupt officials decisively and neatly, and he was even more incorruptible. He was upright and clean. When you die, there is no money for burial at home? . In the History of Song Dynasty, there is such an account about Zhou Wei: "Shangmin was too poor to be buried, and he was given 111,111 yuan", which enabled him to be buried in peace.
So there has always been a beautiful legend in Yaoxiang, Gongcheng. It is said that Gongcheng was originally called Tea City, and the annual tea tax paid to the imperial court made the place overwhelmed. Zhou Wei took pity on the people, so he added some strokes to the word "tea" and changed the tea city into Gongcheng, exempting the heavy tea tax and saving the people from fire and water.
It is true that the tea city was changed to Gongcheng in history. According to the 15th edition of Gongcheng County Annals published by Guangxu, "Liang Xiaoxi set out for Baling at the end of Sui Dynasty, and according to the Guangdong border, he set up a county in peace, which was called Tea City. Tang Wude was quietly milled for four years and renamed Gongcheng County. "
The people of Gongcheng put Lai on Zhou Wei, which shows the people's deep feelings for the son of Yaoxiang. There is a solemn Zhou Wei Temple in the county seat, also called Zhou Wang Temple. Now it is our education base for building a clean government.
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