However, the beauty of Lianzhou is not just an underground river. It is a thousand-year-old county with a very long history and a particularly thick culture. It has always been a battleground for military strategists in history. Liu Yuxi, Han Yu, Yue Fei, General Fu Bo and others all left footprints here. They successively went out of Lianzhou with 65,438+038 Jinshi, some of whom were even prime ministers and some were very important officials. There are also stories of famous brothers (Chen Quan and Zhu Chen) and three generations of top scholars (Tang Yuan, Tang Jing and Tang Yan) Gong Sun. Moreover, Lianzhou was the capital of Guangdong five times in modern times, so its position in history was extremely high, even higher than that of its superior city-Qingyuan.
The long history and rich culture have also spawned various specialties, such as Lianzhou white tea, honey, candied dates, Polygonatum sibiricum, Northeast Laba dog, Yao 'an mushroom, Lianzhou flower sausage, stuffed snails, Northeast dumplings, yellow dumplings and so on. Hot and sour beans, etc , is a specialty of Lianzhou in the country. Among these specialties, the northeast bacon is very famous, which left us the deepest impression. Why? Because in the process of self-driving in Qingyuan, when we passed through Dongbei Town, Lianzhou, there was a lot of bacon in front of almost every household. We tasted it many times and it was really delicious.
Northeast bacon is now a national geographical indication product, and the geographical feature of the northeast is that it belongs to the river bed valley, which is located between two mountains and two waters. Among them, the Dongtang River drilled from the canyon slowly flows to Dongbei Town, bringing mountain breeze to the town. In autumn and winter, the dry cold wind blows from Nanfengao and mixes with the steam emitted by the two rivers, which just makes the bacon hanging on the ceiling slowly cool and dry.
Because of the specific wind, temperature and humidity, dongbei town has formed a unique flavor of northeast bacon. Therefore, Dong Pei bacon is also called "dried bacon", and it is also called "the right place at the right time". In addition, due to the air-drying process, it can only be produced in natural climate conditions in autumn and winter, and the production time is about between the cold dew festival and the slight cold festival every year, which belongs to seasonal production. The bacon produced beyond this time range has no characteristics of air-drying bacon. Production time and production area are two indispensable conditions, which together constitute the natural conditions for producing air-dried bacon.
There are many kinds of bacon in Northeast China, not only our common bacon and sausage, but also preserved chicken, preserved fish, preserved duck and preserved steak. And the meat is also very particular. The variety of pork is Landrace Pig, which is a lean pig with high protein content. Chicken, duck, etc. They are all local native varieties, naturally stocked and have good meat quality; Feed includes local wild vegetables, rice bran or free foraging in stocking, supplemented by refined feed and peanut bran and other minerals.
According to local friends, Dongpu's bacon production has a long history, which can be traced back to the Ming Dynasty. According to legend, during the Ming Dynasty, two immigrants from Dongguan moved here, bringing traditional bacon making skills. Combined with the special environment in dongbei town, they waxed the livestock raised by farmers, which was very popular among villagers in Fiona Fang for dozens of miles.
During the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty, the people in Northeast China lived a prosperous life and six livestock flourished. At that time, in addition to normal slaughter and sales, pork was often in surplus. By chance, a local villager sprinkled the leftover pork on the surface and salted it. The next day, he hung the pork salted all night with a rope. It was the solstice of winter, and it snowed for several days, so the family took down the braised pork and cooked it, only to find that it tasted different, salty and delicious. Since then, the process of curing pork into bacon with salt has spread.
In view of the characteristics of Dong Pei bacon, in 2006, AQSIQ approved the protection of Dong Pei bacon geographical indication products. In 2007, the local government also officially launched the pilot project of standardization demonstration sites in specialized towns. Establish a standard system covering the production, processing and operation of products in the township, with a standard coverage rate of 99%. Unify the technical threshold, establish a fair and just technical platform, promote the optimization and upgrading of Dong Pei bacon products, and gradually develop from small workshop production to enterprise and standardization.
Today, Dongpu Vera has not only become a famous specialty of Lianzhou, but also a food business card of Qingyuan. Almost every Qingyuan restaurant can eat Dongpu Vera, but the most authentic one is in Dongpu Town, Lianzhou City.
Recently, when Yu Fan participated in tourism activities in Qingyuan, he visited the famous Lianzhou Underground River, and tasted the authentic Dong Pei preserved meat banquet in dongbei town, Lianzhou, where the underground river was located, including various delicacies made of sausage, bacon, preserved chicken and bacon ribs, such as preserved meat platter, preserved pork foot radish soup, preserved fried heart (Lianzhou cabbage heart is another famous real estate brand in Lianzhou) and preserved fried heart.
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