Quanzhou is an ancient city in the southeastern coastal area of ??Fujian. It is the oldest global trade port and freight gathering place in China and even the Far East. It has attracted businessmen from different countries in ancient history. The cultural composition is very complex. Let me share with you Quanzhou below

What are the recommended ways to eat oysters?

Oysters are found in almost all coastal areas of China, from the Bohai Sea, Yellow Sea, East China Sea, Taiwan Strait, to the Nansha Islands. There are more than 20 varieties of oysters in my country.

The delicious taste of oysters is well known. Not only is the meat tender and delicious, but it is also rich in nutrients. It is known as the "milk of the ocean".

People all over the world eat oysters. I remember there was a middle school text "My Uncle Jules" that described the scene of eating oysters. Oysters and sea oysters are in the same family, so they are probably just larger in size.

"An old sailor in ragged clothes pried open the oysters with a knife and handed them to the two gentlemen, who then handed them to the two ladies. They ate them in a very elegant way, holding the oysters with a small handkerchief, with their heads slightly forward.

Then, with a quick movement of his mouth, he sucked in the juice and threw the oyster shell into the sea. "After reading this text at that time, it overturned all my previous views on eating oysters, which are abundant in Quanzhou Bay.

Eating oysters is a common meal for the people of Quanzhou. Quanzhou people eat them fried, fried, fried, and in various ways. They have never eaten them raw (I am talking about the 1980s, when oysters were not introduced.

), and the French people not only eat raw, but also eat them elegantly. The French people not only dress elegantly, but also eat oysters elegantly. But why do they throw the oyster shells into the sea? 1. Quanzhou people’s oyster shells are in Quanzhou

, a house built with oyster shells is called an oyster shell house.

Oyster shells are oyster shells, large oyster shells. There are no such large oysters in Quanzhou. The oysters produced in Quanzhou are pearl-shaped oysters, which are commonly known as "pearl oysters". They are small and have a very sweet taste.

Even though Quanzhou Bay is small and has different waters, we actually have many different varieties of oysters. The most commonly eaten one is the oyster from Dongshi, Jinjiang, which is slightly larger and has darker ears; the other is the oyster from Dongshi, Jinjiang.

The oysters produced in Xunpu of Oyster Shell House are small, round like pearls and yellowish in color.

Both types of oysters were delicious.

The shells of Quanzhou oysters are too small to build a house (that is, to build a house). How did the oyster shell houses in the entire Xunpu area come from? During the Song and Yuan Dynasties, Quanzhou Citong Port, the largest port in the East, along with the maritime silk

Many people from Quanzhou went on long voyages to earn a living. Every time they returned from a trading voyage, they would place large oyster shells as ballast at the bottom of the cabin.

The smart people of Quanzhou discovered a truth, "a thousand years of bricks, ten thousand years of oysters", oyster shells are much more durable than bricks, so they used them to build houses. They are not only warm in winter and cool in summer, but also invulnerable, which is good for preventing bandits and Japanese pirates.

If you walk into Xunpu Village and look from a distance, the rows of oyster shell houses look like big fish, and the pieces of oyster shell are fish scales, shining dazzlingly in the sun.

While the French people elegantly threw oyster shells into the sea, the ancient Quanzhou people transported them back home in distant East Africa and built oyster shell houses that are unique in the history of architecture and have great historical and cultural value.

2. Luoyang Bridge of the People of Quanzhou The people of Quanzhou are not only industrious and simple, but also quite smart. Smartness is not limited to Oyster Shell. Let’s talk about building bridges.

Quanzhou has the first bridge in the country and the earliest cross-sea stone bridge in China, Luoyang Bridge. It was built in the Northern Song Dynasty from 1053 to 1059. It has been a thousand years and is one of the four famous bridges in China.

Why is it called Luoyang Bridge? It is not in Luoyang, Henan, but in Quanzhou.

During the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, Wang Shenzhi established the Kingdom of Fujian. Almost all the people who entered Fujian were the people he brought from Henan, mostly from Luoyang and Luoshui. In order to commemorate their ancestors, the local villages were called Luoyang, so the Luoyang Bridge was born.

Luoyang Bridge is also known as Wan'an Bridge. Cai Xiang, the prefect of Quanzhou in the Northern Song Dynasty and a famous politician and calligrapher, presided over its construction. There are many legends about the construction of Luoyang Bridge in Quanzhou, including sea monsters, eight immortals, and Guanyin Bodhisattva. It is very interesting that in

I won’t go into details here.

Luoyang Bridge can become the first bridge in the country because of several firsts, including the first "raft-type bridge foundation", the first "oyster foundation method" and the first "floating method". These are all unprecedented firsts in the history of bridge construction.

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The piers of the Luoyang Bridge are still stable after thousands of years, which is inseparable from the wisdom of the people of Quanzhou. The skilled craftsmen of Quanzhou in ancient times invented the method of cultivating oysters on the foundation stones of the bridge piers to cement them into a strong mainstay. This is also the world's first application of biology in

Quanzhou is the only precedent in bridge engineering.

The Anping Bridge, Shunji Bridge, and Sunjiang Bridge built subsequently are also famous bridges in our country. They are also built based on the principles of Luoyang Bridge.

So when you come to Quanzhou and I take you to eat delicious oysters, I will definitely take you to taste the oyster shell house in Xunpu first, blow the sea breeze and taste the fishy smell of the sea, and then go to these bridges.

When you walk and look down at the sea, you will see the densely packed oysters on the bridge piers, forming a large ship that is about to sail away, which is spectacular.