It’s a pine tree.

In many places in the southwest, when the bacon season is approaching, there will be vendors selling pine needles and cypress branches along the street. In the twelfth and first lunar months of old years, pine branches were a good thing to offer as offerings. In New Year pictures, it often appears side by side with plum blossoms, and with a hanging firecracker, the name is extremely auspicious: "Peace every year." Smoking meat with pine and cypress branches is often the first choice in the southwest. I don’t know if this is influenced by the Taoist pursuit of truth and immortality, but they are often said to be “eternally fragrant”. It is true that meat smoked from pine and cypress smoke tastes very good, but it is also true that smoked food is not healthy and it is unlikely to last forever. In other places, peanut shells, tea leaves, and lychee wood are also used, all of which are based on the aroma of smoke.

The hobby of smoking is not limited to Chinese people. Westerners also have a huge smoking system. Among them, the refreshing taste of pine ranks at the top. Even in the United States, a food system that is dominated by burgers, which makes people feel a little bleak, shop owners who make bacon burgers will still go crazy trying to find a perfect pine tree for bacon. The huge piece of meat is smoked and roasted by pine branches to produce grease, and every drop of it is on the advertisement to seduce people's appetite, and it actually feels like a nostalgia for the ancient wilderness.

Just like in the homes of ethnic minorities in southwest China, pieces of bacon, ribs and even hams are hung on the beams of the main hall where the stove is lit. The colors of the years are smoked out by the distant and ever-extinguishing fireworks. They are not only a guarantee for people to have a happy festival. , also a symbol of wealth