One is a much-told story that originated from the Southern Song Dynasty's resistance to gold. Legend has it that a general in the Eastern Jin Dynasty sympathized with the soldiers at the front line and ordered the chef to make folk cakes and send them to the front line to show his gratitude to the soldiers. Since then, "dim sum" has spread.

Second, it originated from a cruel punishment in ancient times. In order to save their loved ones from being crushed, the family bribed the executioner with a large sum of money and stabbed the prisoner in the heart from behind before the execution, which ended his life. This knife is called "dim sum", so Beijingers call dim sum cake.

When dim sum meets the word "Jiangnan", everything becomes exquisite, moist and beautiful, which is probably the Jiangnan complex that China people can't give up.

Thick ink painting is not enough to outline the beauty of Jiangnan. The winding and secluded misty and rainy alleys, mottled white walls and tiles, and flowing water make people indulge in its gentle countryside.

The rich Jiangnan area has been unable to hide delicious food since ancient times, especially the snacks in the south of the Yangtze River. The fragrance of flowers and trees that cannot be left in the world can also be sealed in delicate cakes and turned into a delicate and soft sweetness on the tip of the tongue.

In the past year, we have been to the Jiangnan city of 16 and found many exquisite snacks that have been passed down for many years. How many of the following six snacks have you eaten?

Horned dry cake

Like sesame seed cake, there is also a traditional food deeply loved by Lishui people-pepper sesame cake, which is crisp outside and tender inside, soft and waxy and sweet. It is made of flour, brown sugar, raisins, dried plums, pork and so on. There are two flavors, sweet and salty.

Knead and cut the fermented dough, wrap it with raisins and sesame seeds, roll it, cut it into diamonds, and steam it in a pot. This is sweet, with brown sugar flavor, purple potato flavor and honey pumpkin flavor. Chop pork with dried plum vegetables, spread it on the dough in two layers, wrap it into pieces, add secret seasoning packets, expand the edge of the iron pan, steam it, and bake it into salted croissants.

It is said that the traditional corn dry cake is the dry food that ancient students carried with them when they went to Beijing to take the exam. In addition, the shape of dried tortillas is like a blessing bag, which also means praying for peace and success. It's a snack for local people when they were young.

The cake is sticky

Bread, the sound is harmonious "high", which means climbing step by step. The barnyard grass sounds harmoniously "Year", the rice is ripe, and there is a bumper harvest in one year. Gao Ren is a kind of cake that people will eat in the rice harvest year. But most people in Zhejiang prefer to write it as "sticky", sticky mouth and sticky rice cake.

The making of "sticky cake" is a bit complicated. Soak the rice, beat it, wash it, grind the rice flour, and screen out the fine rice flour. Put it in a wooden barrel that can't be used several times all the year round, and the Tiantai people call it "Mi Zan". Move it out of the house, wash it and dry it, and steam it with sesame seeds, medlar and raisins.

It has many flavors, such as corn flavor, dragon fruit flavor, sweet potato flavor and so on. Tourists who have tasted this kind of dim sum in the local area want to buy this kind of "rice retort" and make it by themselves.

Golden qianceng cake

With the local handmade Melaleuca cake and tea as raw materials, the taste is smooth, the color is golden and bright, and the rice is fragrant with tea. And this dish is both salty and sweet. You can dip it in brown sugar if you like, or soy sauce if you like. It is a special food of She nationality in Zhejiang.

Melaleuca cake is a simple food, which can be seen from its making method:

The new rice produced that year was ground into white fine powder with a stone mill. Because it is hard, it is soaked in water made of straw ash and finally steamed in a pot. It abandons the impatience of the modern industrial generation and is the crystallization of wisdom explored by our ancestors.

Wheat cake loose angle

The snacks in Jinyun legend, close to the Yellow Emperor, are wheat cakes and pine horns.

Wheat cake is loose, also called wheat cake pine. It tastes sweet. There are two kinds of pine nuts, soft, yellow as jade, and sesame stars on it. It is sweet and delicious. In Lishui, there is a local proverb to describe it: "Relaxed people enjoy their children, soft people respect the elderly, and young and strong people go out to be road workers."

Wheat cake pine is a dough made of wheat flour and sugar, cut into two-inch long prismatic cakes, sprinkled with black sesame seeds and flattened, and then fried along the side of the pot until both sides are golden. Locals also call it "Agkistrodon flower". Whether it is ready-to-eat or stored in a jar, it can be stored for up to half a month without losing its delicious taste.

Glutinous rice cakes

Eating rice cakes during the Spring Festival is a traditional custom in Lishui. Every year, local people who go out to work will bring a few pieces to relieve their hunger and homesickness.

The glutinous rice cake is made of glutinous rice flour, fresh rice flour, white sugar, bean curd skin, edible pigment and medlar. After mixing glutinous rice flour and fresh rice flour, pour in white sugar water and mix well, then add pigment and stir. Pigment-free and pigmented rice noodles are put into a steamer with tofu skin layer by layer, and the big word "Fu" written in Chinese wolfberry is the key point, which means happiness!

Glutinous rice food should be eaten after heating. Glutinous rice should not be eaten too much at a time. Glutinous rice cakes, whether sweet or salty, are high in carbohydrates and sodium, which is enough for people with diabetes, overweight or other chronic diseases such as kidney disease and hyperlipidemia.

She nationality's hemp cake

Soft, glutinous and sweet Lishui She snacks are essential food for the Chinese New Year and need to be cooked by four people.

Sesame paste of She nationality is made of glutinous rice, black sesame and white sugar. Wash and soak glutinous rice for six hours, then stew 1 hour and fry sesame seeds for twenty minutes. Take the cooked glutinous rice out of the pot and send it to Shemo with the glutinous rice.

Stir-fried sesame seeds are mashed in a stone mortar, then sugar is poured in to continue mashing, glutinous rice is poured in the stone mortar and mashed into smooth glutinous rice balls, glutinous rice balls is placed on the prepared sesame sugar, and glutinous rice balls mixed with sesame seeds is kneaded into a cake, which is best eaten while it is hot.

1000 people have 1000 Jiangnan in their eyes. Jiangnan is good, not only because it exudes dreamy breath and lingering tenderness in quiet years, but also because its unique craftsmanship has turned into a little sweetness lingering on people's tongue in plain days.

Many people talk about the impression of Jiangnan dim sum: "When you see Jiangnan dim sum, your first impression is that you are always waiting in line", which is the charm of Jiangnan dim sum.