Recently, a colleague gave me some homemade "sun-dried blue meat", only to know that this "blue meat" is not a strange thing, let alone a plant. Simply put, it is a kind of processed lean pork.
But what kind of pork can be called "sun-dried blue meat"? This is the characteristic.
You remember Yuanling. Yuanling is a county in Hunan Province, and now it belongs to Huaihua City. Geographically, Yuanling is located in the northwest of Hunan, belonging to western Hunan. In fact, most of the bandits in Xiangxi in history occurred in Yuanling. Yuanling County was once the temporary provincial capital of Hunan Province during the Anti-Japanese War. There is an ancient lane with a width of nearly 4 meters and a length of 922 meters in the county, where churches and temples of five major religions, such as Catholic Church, Christian Eternal Life Hall, Islamic Mosque, Buddhist Baiyuan Temple and Taoist Taoist Temple, are gathered. In the past hundred years, they have lived in the same lane and lived in harmony, forming a rare and intriguing religious and cultural spectacle at home and abroad. The ancient temple on Fenghuang Mountain on the bank of Yuanshui River in the county was once the house arrest place of General Zhang Xueliang.
Yuanling is very mysterious. Shen Congwen's "People in Yuanling" and other articles about Yuanling have written three unique things about Yuanling: driving away the corpse, releasing the cup, and expressing the state of Chen. As for whether these are true or not, there is no need to explore. What it shows is the transcendental form and disguise of witch culture. Yuanling has a lot of history and culture. There is an idiom in the dictionary, which means reading a lot and having rich and exquisite knowledge. And this "Eryou" refers to Dayou Mountain and Xiaoyou Mountain on the shore of Youshui River in the northwest of Yuanling County. There is an allusion behind the idiom: According to legend, when Qin Shihuang "burned books to bury Confucianism", Fu Sheng, a doctor of the imperial court, risked his life, smuggled more than a thousand books from Xianyang and hid them in Eryou Cave, which made the pre-Qin cultural classics spread to future generations. These letters were dedicated to Liu Bang, the founder of the Han Dynasty, when the Qin Dynasty destroyed the Han Dynasty. Liu Bang was overjoyed when he received a large number of letters before the Qin Dynasty from Guan Fusheng. He personally named Eryou Library Cave as a "cultural sacred cave" and Eryou Mountain as a "famous mountain in the world". Since then, Eryou Mountain Eryou Cave has become a sacred monument in the world and a place that scholars yearn for and pursue all their lives. I remember that in recent years, Hunan Daily reported that there was a village called "Professor Village" in Yuanling County. The village of 2, people has produced 67 professors for decades. I still remember that there is a saying in the domestic cultural relics circle: underground cultural relics look at Shaanxi and above-ground cultural relics look at Shanxi. It is said that there are many underground cultural relics represented by the Terracotta Warriors and Horses of the First Qin Dynasty in the land of Sanqin, and the cultural relics preserved on the ground are the most in the land of Sanjin. In Hunan, Yuanling can be said to be both Shaanxi in China and Shanxi in China. Why? It is the rich cultural relics in the underground of Yuanling, such as the No.1 tomb of Huxishan, and the precious historical materials obtained can be comparable to the Mawangdui Han Tomb; The scenery on the ground is beautiful, and there is a saying that "water travels for 3 miles, and it has been wandering for 5 thousand years." No wonder Shen Congwen once commented: she is beautiful and heartbreaking. You say, what kind of beauty is this!
that's a bit far. Let's go back to "meat"
After talking about Yuanling for a long time, in fact, this "meat" is related to Yuanling. It is an authentic Yuanling specialty.
Yuanling produces "sun-dried blue meat", which is not unrelated to the geographical environment of Yuanling. Yuanling was called Chenzhou in ancient times, and Shen Congwen's Border Town, Xiangxi and Notes on Xiangxing were all written in Yuanling. There are two big rivers in the county, one is Yuanjiang River, and the other is Youshui River. In history, Yuanling used to be the traffic artery for the circulation of materials and passengers in western Hunan, with many docks along the river and many famous towns.
where there is a river and water, there are people living near the water. Yuanling people on both sides of Yuanshui and Youshui mostly make a living by sailing or sailing. Every year after the spring flood, they leave home and wander on the river, wandering in the wind and waves. Life on board is naturally hard. These women, thinking about their husbands, are thinking about making something delicious for men. So, I came up with a wonderful way to remove the skin, scrape off the fat, remove the bones and remove the tendons from the hind leg meat of Yuanling native black pig, cut the meat into large slices, marinate it with salt and rice wine, and hang it on the bow with bamboo baskets to expose it to the sun, so that the lean meat gradually turns red, which is called "basking in baskets". Later, literati changed the word "basket" to "rustic".
The seemingly simple "sun-dried blue meat" once again proves the essence of China's food culture. This thin "sun-dried blue meat" is not only delicious in the mouths of Yuanling men who row and sail, but also sweet in their hearts.
I fried a piece of "sun-dried blue meat" given to me by my colleague according to the method provided by Baidu, put some in a lunch box and took it to the train for Jishou for lunch. It was really delicious. When I arrived in Jishou, my family sent me a text message: It tastes very good. Is there any more? Please bring some back next time.
It seems that the "sun-dried blue meat" on the tip of the tongue is quite attractive. Just like Yuanling, which is "beautiful and distressing".