Guangfu is a clan under the Han nationality. Guangfu people, that is, Guangfu people, broadly include Cantonese ethnic groups (Cantonese-speaking ethnic groups from generation to generation) in Guangdong, Hong Kong, Macao, Guangxi and all overseas regions. Guangfu soup is a kind of health-preserving soup that Guangfu people stew and cook with corresponding edible herbs according to traditional Chinese medicine in different seasons and physical conditions.
The weather in Guangdong has been hot and humid for a long time. Therefore, Guangfu Decoction with local characteristics has been derived, which is used for nourishing, beautifying and strengthening the body. Especially, with the concept of "health preservation first", it has created a world in the stomachs of Guangdong people, and it is the most distinctive benchmark in Lingnan cuisine, which is suitable for both men and women. For Cantonese people, perhaps they can live without bamboo and eat without meat, but they can't eat without soup. It is the biggest feature of Cantonese people to drink soup in different seasons. Guangfu decoction is expected to be included in the food (diet) cultural heritage after China herbal tea.
No dish can compare with the charm of Guangfu soup
Guangfu soup is an indispensable wake-up program in the dinner feast of Cantonese people, and it is also the most common food culture in Cantonese life.
soup has a long history. From about 8 to 7 BC, people at that time would cook the cultivated grains in coarse pottery to make soup. Ten thousand years ago, people didn't have the conditions and spare time to think about how to make this soup into some tricks. This important task must have been taken over by China people later, and it was estimated that it was the barbarians in South Guangdong in everyone's eyes-this is evident from the superb operation of the soup by Guangfu people today.
Soup occupies a high position on the dining table of Cantonese people, which is naturally related to the geographical environment and weather here. In Lingnan, the weather is sultry and sweaty, and the qi is released with the sweat, and the yang is released to the outside. Most of them have symptoms of qi deficiency, and sweating consumes a lot of energy at the same time. At this time, it is corrected with the help of nourishing soup. Furthermore, Lingnan area has developed traditional Chinese medicine in history. In recent decades, Guangdong has also paid more attention to traditional Chinese medicine, which is the best place in the country to publicize traditional Chinese medicine knowledge. Therefore, ordinary citizens not only believe in traditional Chinese medicine, but also have a certain understanding of pharmacology. Experts have said that Bao Guangfu decoction can become a tradition handed down from generation to generation, and it has a deep medical foundation.
"Soup-making", according to the conventional understanding, belongs to a kind of Cantonese cuisine. It is to add enough soup to the ingredients, simmer them slowly and finely, without adding water, opening the lid and adding complicated seasonings, and cook the larger ingredients until they are soft and rotten. Through the blending of various ingredients, the essence of food is concentrated in the soup to become a delicious and good soup. The highest realm of soup is "home soup", which represents the unshakable position of mother or wife in a family.
In Cantonese dictionaries, soup is not just a literal explanation. The association it brings is not only a mixture of various kinds of meat, non-meat and Chinese herbal medicines, but also an aroma that floats in the air, if it is absent or rich and difficult to melt. It also represents a strategy that adapts to the natural environment and living habits to a harmonious state, and it also represents a way of life and hope, which contains more of a sense of belonging to home.
Guangfu soup is a delicious soup that Cantonese people can't live without.
When Cantonese talk about Guangfu soup, they habitually add the adjective "Jing" to the soup, and it must be "Jing"-"Guangfu soup" to meet the requirements of Cantonese people. A pot of pure Guangfu soup should conform to several factors such as long cooking time, sufficient heat and delicious taste.
a pot of soup needs not only care, but also rich and thick materials.
Medicinal materials: Traditional Chinese medicine plays a very important role in Guangfu people's soup pot. Apart from tonic such as ginseng antler, general medicinal materials like to be added to the soup, and fresh materials are also used to replace some dry medicinal materials, such as lean meat, pig bones, pigeons, black-bone chicken, etc., and auxiliary materials are common kudzu root, five-finger peach, Polygonatum odoratum, North and South apricot, Dioscorea opposita, Lycium barbarum, red dates, ginseng, and black-bone chicken.
"two stews and three stews": literally speaking, stewing means that the raw materials or cut pieces are put into boiled water after treatment, and then the materials are boiled with slow fire. There is a saying in Cantonese that "two stews and three stews", but the implementation is not so strict. It usually takes two to three hours to cook a soup, depending on the quality of the materials.
The smell is all over the house: a pot of successful old fire soup usually has nothing to sell. No matter how watery and full of raw materials, after such a long period of rolling and suffering, they can only be squeezed out and turned into dross. The vast majority of Cantonese people will despise this soup residue and only favor the most essential "soup"-although in fact, most of the nutrients still exist in the soup residue. Although the soup is cloudy in color and not surprising in appearance, the moment it was uncovered, it was absolutely full of fragrance, tying the stomachs of a room full of people together.
if you haven't drunk Guangfu soup, you've never been to Guangdong.
The rare talent of cooking super good soup-that is, it's a kind of genius-is presented in different ways for everyone. Recipes are like music scores: every artist will make different interpretations according to his own personality and skills. Whenever he lifts the lid of the soup pot and explores its steamy connotation with a big wooden spoon, there is always one thing that is certain: tasting timeless things will bring surprises.
According to Isabel Allende's description in Memoirs of the Senses, women in Guangfu are undoubtedly geniuses. Their soup is like a performance work of art, and countless people bend their backs for it. Of course, a man who can cook soup is not without it. A man who can cook soup will make women feel safe in life. But in terms of purpose, men are obviously much simpler, without the feelings and scheming of women.
The popular saying, making soup, is an attitude towards life, which involves affection and love. The idea of keeping a man's stomach first is implemented in Guangdong, and the real focus is on this soup.
Mother's soup will always be the verbal concern of her children. Whether consciously or unconsciously, "Go home for soup" contains deep affection, and all the soup is full of deep love, which will become the warmest place when you are most disappointed and helpless, and it will be offered all the year round.
In terms of love, it is even more fatalistic. In Hong Kong's bubble dramas, the heroine takes a fancy to the hero, and the first step is usually to make soup as an embroidered ball. No matter how tough and willful a woman is, washing her hands and cooking soup is always gentle and virtuous, which is one of the killer skills with high success index. Remember, a woman who has subconscious resistance to you would rather spend half a month's salary to invite you to a French dinner than make you soup. As women in huotang legally, what they are most afraid of is that they work hard to manage the guard's soup position, and suddenly a land grab comes out, and the husband around them changes to the soup cooked by other women, which means that the war has begun. This soup, on the battlefield of love, has become a struggle between women.
To put it bluntly, making soup is actually a woman's enclosure movement. Men wander inside and outside the circle, and there is always a bowl of soup in the scene. Just like the lyrics written by lin xi: In the moonlight, why do you shine on the ground floor? You would rather hide in the park than drink soup; The screen glows, no matter what you look at, lovers only dare to drink soup on the edge of breaking up; In the moonlight, why didn't you shine in the ground hall? The child is very busy in the company and doesn't need to drink soup.
Even today, the distance between the city and its parents is a word "a cup of Guangfu soup".
a cup of Guangfu soup has exhausted life.
In Guangdong, a developed area of catering industry, restaurants and restaurants are always crowded. In the restaurant, you can always eat the most expensive, authentic and delicious food, but there is only one thing, no matter how good the restaurant is, it can't make the taste of home-Guangfu soup.
Because everyone who knows how to drink soup knows that a good Guangfu soup can't be separated from the Guangfu woman standing behind Guangfu soup, and that kind of home feeling. Therefore, if you don't experience and taste in Guangdong, you have never been to Guangdong.