Many people misunderstand the origin of Nanning Friends Powder. An old friend equals a cellmate. In fact, there is a touching story about the origin of Nanning Friends Powder, which is a patriotic story. Today, I'd like to introduce a paragraph

Nanning's "friend powder" is a family snack in Nanning, and it can even be said to be one of the primitive cultures in Nanning. On the basis of "old friend powder", the "old friend culture" has been developed, which embodies the position of "old friend powder" in the life of Nanning citizens.

Nanning Laoyou Powder

But what is the origin of Nanning Laoyou Powder? There has always been a story in Nanning: in the 1931s, an old man went to Zhouji Teahouse for tea every day, but he didn't go for several days because of a cold. Zhou Ji's boss was very concerned, so he made refined noodles such as minced garlic, douchi, pepper, sour bamboo shoots, minced beef and pepper. Put it in a bowl of hot noodles and gave it to an old friend. Hot and sour noodles immediately opened the old man's appetite. He broke out in a sweat and got over his cold. After the activity, the old man was very grateful and presented a plaque with "Old friends often come" to Boss Zhou. "Old friend noodles" got its name from Bagui and became famous gradually. But because southerners eat more powder, they developed "Friends Powder" on this basis.

For a long time, many people in Nanning thought that this was the origin of Nanning Friends Powder, but in fact, the origin of Nanning Friends Powder was wrong, or there was a big mistake. There are two obvious mistakes. First of all, in the last century, the language of Nanning people has always been vernacular, including Guangxi vernacular and Cantonese, but neither the traditional vernacular nor Cantonese has the word "old friend". Even today, Guangdong rarely uses the word "old friend", but often uses "Ayou"; Secondly, Nanning people have been tasting Cantonese food for a long time and seldom eat spicy food. They only use a small amount of condiments to remove fishy smell, and basically have no habit of putting pepper in the powder. Even today, except for old friends, other Nanning cuisines rarely eat Chili; Finally, it is mentioned in the story that it is good to have a sweat and a cold. This is a typical self-evident statement. If this is true, it is estimated that many people don't need to go to pharmacies and hospitals.

So, obviously, the legend of the origin of scattered old people in Nanning is wrong.

According to some stories and materials provided by old Nanning and the story of "Friends Powder", we can know the origin of friends powder in Nanning.

In the early years of the Republic of China, there was a Zhouji teahouse in Minsheng Square, which was said to be a teahouse. In fact, it is similar to Guangdong teahouse, and it also buys snacks, noodles and steamed bread. Boss, Zhou Dean, one day, the boss offended the dignitaries. At that time, warlords in Guangxi levied heavy taxes. In prison, I was in the same room as the person who came in earlier. This person has a strange identity, only knows a little vernacular, and his accent is Guangxi Mandarin. Boss Zhou didn't know how this man got into prison, but because he was bored and panicked, he chatted with the prisoner. I soon got familiar with it and told him about myself. Soon after, the family spent a lot of money to get boss Zhou out. Boss Zhou said goodbye to the prisoner. After he was released from prison, he continued to run the teahouse and gradually forgot his friends in prison.

Nanning Laoyou Powder

One day, when Boss Zhou was running his own teahouse, a customer came in and told his friend to go to the boss. When boss Zhou came out to meet him, he recognized the "friend" he met in prison. After all, he has been in prison. Zhou didn't want to have anything to do with these people, but because of his kindness, he reluctantly received this "friend", so he asked his buddy to cook him a bowl of meat powder, which was regarded as his dismissal. But then there was trouble. This "friend" wants gunpowder at both ends for three days. Although a bowl of flour is worthless, it is still annoying after a long time. So one day, boss Zhou came up with a way to let his friends add a lot of pepper and cooking seasoning sour bamboo shoots to the powder. I hope this person can know better after eating this strange smell, and will not eat or drink again in the future, but trouble still happens. This man, after eating this bowl of "Chongren powder", I shouted that it was better than Guizhou hot and sour powder. Strangely, the boss has never produced such delicious powder, which makes boss Zhou laugh and cry. The man asked boss Zhou what kind of gunpowder it was. Boss Zhou still wants to urge people, but it's hard to say clearly. I think it's natural for a friend I met in prison to call it "cellmate powder", but I'm afraid I can't make it clear, so I'll let my friend say it in Guangxi Mandarin. The man thanked him loudly, so he often came to eat this "cellmate powder". Boss Zhou really can't think of any way to offend this "cellmate", so he has to eat white powder every day.

a few months later, this man suddenly disappeared. Many years later, in the 1931s, Boss Zhou's teahouse made some achievements, expanded its scale and continued to do its own business. But suddenly one day, an officer in military uniform walked into the teahouse and told his friend that he wanted to see the boss. Zhou came out to meet him. After watching for a long time, the officer looked familiar, but he couldn't remember where he had met him. The police officer said with a smile that he was a "cellmate" who came to eat every day more than ten years ago. Tell his boss that he wandered in Nanning more than ten years ago. It was the boss who kept him alive with a bowl of powder every day, and then he left. He told Boss Zhou that he knew what Boss Zhou's "cellmate" meant at that time, but in order to survive, he had no choice but to eat brazenly. The police officer took out a sum of money, thanked boss Zhou for his kindness and asked for a bowl of' prisoner powder'. Boss Zhou couldn't think of it today, so he thanked the police officer and specially asked him to make a bowl of "prisoner powder", and told the police officer that this was a real "old friend" rather than a "prisoner". Every time the police officer returned to Nanning, he would go to Boss Zhou's teahouse to eat delicious food. Many people come here. Although this kind of "friend powder" is not suitable for the taste of Nanning people at first, the more you eat, the more you feel, especially in winter. It can really drive away the cold.

After the fall of War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression and Nanning in p>1941, Boss Zhou's teahouse closed, and he hid in his hometown of Guigang. After War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression ended in 1945, he returned to Nanning, reopened a small teahouse and resold "old friends". He has been asking about the officer, but he has found nothing. Later, when his troops returned to Nanning, he learned from his old men that the officer had died in the battle of Kunlun Pass. Boss Zhou was heartbroken and went to the cemetery of the soldiers of the Fifth Army who died in the Battle of Kunlun Pass. He made a bowl of old friend powder and put it in front of the officers, crying loudly.

Nanning Laoyoufang

This officer, whose original name was Fang, was from Dushan, Guizhou Province, and was one of the few mainlanders in Guangxi School. He died as a colonel in the national army. In addition, some people say that this "old friend" died not in the Battle of Kunlun Pass, but in the Battle of South Guangxi.

Since then, Friends Powder has spread all over Nanning. After liberation, Boss Zhou was an "exploiting class". After the teahouse was confiscated by the state, his family returned to their hometown of Guigang and never mentioned the departure of their friends again. At that time, people in Guigang seldom ate hot and sour food, so he stopped making "friend powder". In 1961s, Boss Zhou died in his hometown. For a long time after liberation, for various reasons, no one ever made friends again. After the reform and opening up, the planned economy was broken and the private economy developed. Some old Nanning people who have eaten old friend powder have regained the tradition of making old friend powder and started to make old friend powder according to their previous tastes and materials. Some private old friend powder shops have appeared, and old friend powder cakes have returned to the lives of Nanning citizens. At present, among the founders of some famous old friends in Nanning, there are some old Nanning people.

Due to the interruption of history, many people don't know the origin of Nanning Friends Powder, so it has been circulated for decades and has become a story taken out of context, which is quite different from the facts. No one would have thought that "Friends Powder" would become "Prisoner Powder" at the earliest, let alone a touching patriotic story.