Now there are fewer and fewer dam pads in Chongqing, and the running dam pads can only be seen in the rural areas of districts and counties.

In the past, if a family had a full moon wine, married a daughter-in-law, married a daughter and so on. They basically put a borrowed table and bench in front of their own dam, and then invited some neighboring neighbors to help them show their deep neighborhood feelings to the fullest. If we want to list the most popular collective activities in rural Chongqing, the dam mat will definitely be selected with a high vote. "Have a drink with the old man tomorrow!" As soon as I heard this sentence when I was a child, I couldn't sleep at night. I'm looking forward to eating dam mats with my elders tomorrow! Chongqing people were lucky enough to attend a wedding in the countryside some time ago. Their banquet was a grand banquet held in front of their own house.

No matter how many young people scoff at the dam banquet now, I still enjoy the nine bowls of special dishes, which always have the magic to let me pass through in a second. At ten o'clock in the morning, I arrived at today's destination. Before I went in, I saw a crowd in the distance, vaguely feeling that all the villagers in the village had come to help, cooking, washing vegetables and making a long queue. That kind of lively scene. The table built by bazi has long been occupied by the old people, waiting for the first round of banquet and eating the bazi banquet in the countryside. That is to take the initiative to serve the table. Those who are not active may not be able to change the round. In the corner of the dam, a temporary kitchen was built with something like a mat. There should be a big panel in the temporary kitchen to set dishes, and today's meal is also cooked here.

1 1 o'clock, the kitchen is already cooking. The kitchen is not big, and three women with flexible hands and feet hold up a whole day's banquet.

Super-large wooden products like this are retort bags of rice. The steamed rice has distinct layers and full grains.

Take a closer look at the bottom, or firewood.

At first glance, it is boiled white. This dish is one of Chongqing people's favorite dishes and an indispensable steamed dish!

This dustpan is a necessary kitchen tool for rural families. A dustpan can wash the meals of more than a dozen people, and can hold several tables of vegetables and chopsticks …

The dishes in the kitchen are being cooked in an orderly way, and everything is going on in an orderly way outside the dam banquet. Plastic benches borrowed from neighbors are also something that will appear at the dam banquet.

Old silver tea is packed in a thermos bucket. When visitors come, they will present the first cup of tea with a heavy wooden tea tray, and then the refill will be completed by themselves.

When there was no electric stove, everyone used this brazier to keep warm, and the fire lasted for a long time. When everyone sat together, they began to put on a dragon gate array. When you sit down, it is difficult for someone to wake you up.

Bazi's makeshift kitchen didn't have a faucet, so he moved a water pipe, and the water for cooking and washing dishes was scooped from the bucket.

1 1: 30 began to lay the table, spread a very eye-catching disposable red cloth, change the tablecloth after eating a table, and throw away the garbage on the tablecloth together.

Drinks, beer and white wine should also be served at a table. The drink I drink the most in my memory is fresh orange, followed by various drinks such as peanut milk.

It's almost twelve o'clock, and we're ready to open the table. The women in the kitchen took the unheated cold dishes out of the big bag and put them on the plates one by one. The chef in the kitchen began to fry some fast food dishes.

The firewood burned in the countryside is very strong, and it will be cooked in three or two times. After frying, put it in a small pot like this.

When sitting at the dinner table, smart people generally don't sit at the food delivery port, otherwise they will turn around to get the food most of the time when eating.

Things like dam banquets and running water mats are always in rows. The person who sits in the seat first eats first, and then he can only watch others eat for a round and then go by himself. Because I was slow, I didn't even make the second round of running water seats, and finally it was my turn in the third round.

After sitting on the dining table, the first thing that comes up is cold dishes and a pot with a small stove. The sour radish in the pot is so delicious that I can cook a bowl of rice just with this sour radish.

Then there are hard vegetables and hooves, which the elderly prefer to eat. Mainly the meat rake is soft and easy to eat.

There are many kinds of chickens, either stew one at a table or kill the chicken to make a big dish. Where there are chickens, there are fish. The practice of fish is to braise in soy sauce and steam, and each table has a whole fish, which means more than one year.

Xisha meat is the most closely watched dish on the dining table. Although it looks greasy, it tastes soft and sweet only when chewed with bean paste and meat.

There is no specific limit to the number of dishes in the dam banquet. Every place has its own rules. In some places, it is 4 cold, 8 hot, 6 steamed bowls and 2 soups, with a total of 24 dishes, and in some places it is more than a dozen dishes.

The only thing in common is that there are too many dishes to put on the table …

At the dam banquet, no matter who you are, no matter who you are, everyone crowded around and sat at a big round table, gossiping and ruining the food unconsciously.

Of course, you have to pay every time you go to the dam pad. No matter where the banquet is held, the host family will set up a "gift book" to record the accounts of the gifts so as to "repay the favor" in the future.

You give me 200 and I'll pay you back 300. In Chongqing, there is usually only a lot of kindness. You give me ten points and I'll give you eleven points. Another point is mutual affection, which is also a courtesy handed down from the ancestors.

Now, with the improvement of life, people choose luxury hotels for convenience.

Although the dishes are rich and exquisite, they are not as touching as the taste buds brought by the buckle bowl on the dam pad, and there is no enthusiasm for eating the dam pad. More is the powerlessness of "how can I perform with you". At this time, I miss the bazi mat in the countryside, which is simple and free.