when you walk into the south of the Yangtze River, which is a "small bridge with flowing water", and a "sky-blue, clear and soft", you will walk into the sultry wonton. Although it is difficult to draw a geographical boundary in Jiangnan, it is probably not wrong to infer that "I have been a guest in Jiangnan" from "I am glad to see wonton and smell wonton".
On the stone road in the narrow alley with high walls and ancient houses, the wonton shoulder passed the flower girl, and that is Jiangnan; In the old street overlooking the golden signboard, blond people, under the demonstration of the tour guide, used porcelain spoons to know "wonton" with relish, and that is Jiangnan. Jiangnan is two bowls of wonton hung from the window of the pillow river to the bamboo basket on the passenger ship, and Jiangnan is a small lantern on the wonton that moves in the upper reaches of the faint winding path under the moonlight at midnight ... Without wonton, the song of Jiangnan will lose its charm! Perhaps because of the unique influence of Jiangnan culture, the "one pot, one workshop" Jiangnan wonton basket always reminds people of the long, square, exquisite and spotless mahogany carved tea table in the living room of ancient houses in the south of the Yangtze River, which makes people "get drunk before eating wonton"; The wonton master, dressed in an orchid homespun Tang suit, carried an orchid homespun pennant with the old name "Wang Yi Tiao" swaying in the wind, which made people intoxicated with the "blue and white porcelain" atmosphere of "elegant old street wonton".
Travelers on the Post Road often marvel at the "mobile fast food restaurant" in this ancient country. A row of small drawers can magically produce a dazzling stack of wonton skins, a bowl of fragrant fresh meat, a dish of fragrant powder, a pot of soy sauce, a pot of sesame oil, an altar of fine salt and a bamboo tube of pepper. Even that very ordinary copper pot can surprisingly and skillfully set up a partition to divide the pot body into two parts, one side is boiling water for cooking wonton, and the other side is fresh soup for soup. The flame in the furnace can flourish or wane, and the secret of controlling the fire temperature lies in adding Song Ming or ordinary firewood. Therefore, the fragrance of wonton in the south of the Yangtze River is always compatible with the fragrance of Song Ming in the mountains; Tasting wonton food often becomes a beautiful thing by adding a few wisps of poetic fire.
Some people started to think about the past, thinking: Wonton is so exquisite, whose invention patent is it? Jiangnan people will proudly let the time go back more than 411 years, so that the reputation of the Jiangyin native Xu Xiake will once again be bathed in admiration and surprise. After Xu Xiake visited the inaccessible Huangshan Mountain for the first time and suffered from hunger, he was inspired by the carpenter's burden of loading all tools, such as axes, saws, chisels and hammers, and designed a "mountain-traveling tool" that combines pots, pans, rice, oil and salt, so he can make his own diet anytime and anywhere, ensuring the complete success of his plan to visit Huangshan Mountain again. The transformation from "mountain equipment" to "wonton bag" is another wonderful flower on "Xiake Road", and Jiangnan people will make her brilliant in the history of folk literature forever. If it is said that "hiking gear" has created a generation of great traveler Xu Xiake, then it is a wonderful coincidence that wonton bears are deeply favored by scenic online travelers today.
No wonder people say "Jiangnan wonton is fragrant". I think this "fragrance" is more than just the red and thin-skinned fresh meat stuffing. What are the points? Spend a few wisps of incense and a few wisps of Song Ming cooking smoke? It is no wonder that people who enjoy Jiangnan wonton like to gently pinch porcelain spoons. The traces of poetry and soul deposited in the bottom of the bowl cannot be caught with bamboo chopsticks and steel forks, I think.