When you are a guest in my hometown, the hospitable host will always bring out the fragrant fried Xinghua rice noodles for you to taste, especially for those who go to Taiwan, foreign Chinese, and overseas Chinese to visit relatives and friends. The traditional delicacies of their hometown are indispensable.

--Xinghua rice noodles.

At this time, the rice noodles from my hometown have become a treasure for Taiwan compatriots and overseas travelers to express their homesickness. At this moment, they will always be filled with emotion and even become poetic.

A Xinghua native who returned from the other side of the Taiwan Strait chanted passionately as soon as he tasted the rice noodles from his hometown: "The silver threads are breaking my heart, and there are shock waves on both sides of the Taiwan Strait. The descendants of Xinghua are making rice noodles with chopsticks, and they are singing together across the sea.

"Song of Unification." expresses the sentiments of compatriots on both sides of the Taiwan Strait who long for the reunification of the motherland.

Why is Xinghua rice noodle so fascinating? It turns out that it has a long history.

According to legend, during the Zhiping period of the Northern Song Dynasty (1064-1068), Bo Lijin, the leader of the Xinghua army, was ordered by the imperial court.

In Xinghua, he smelted water and built Mulan Pi. Later, his right-hand assistant Qian Siniang threw herself into Mulan River and died due to failure in building the Pi. Li Jin was not afraid of danger, and took charge of the project personally.

In order to reward migrant workers, Li Jin made public the brown rice flour processing skills passed down from his ancestors, and also produced rice noodles in large quantities.

Not long after, Li Jin was unfortunately killed in the line of duty while surveying the construction site. People offered rice noodles and rice wine as sacrifices to Jiang, and built the "Li Jin Temple" in his honor to commemorate him from generation to generation.

The rice noodle industry founded by Li Shi also bloomed brilliantly on the beautiful and fertile Xinghua Plain. After generations of rice noodle farmers continued to reform and innovate, they gradually formed rice noodles with Xinghua local characteristics.

When you eat Xinghua rice noodles, the delicious fried silver threads, have you ever thought of the hardships of making Xinghua rice noodles in the old days?

Indeed, making rice noodles by hand in the old days was an extremely arduous and complicated process. The production process included rice soaking, grinding, pressing, kneading, steaming, flour extraction, pulp removal, handle making, drying, and girdling.

There are more than a dozen processes, and each process is soaked with the hard work and sweat of the noodle farmers. They are really strips of rice noodles and strings of sweat beads. There is a poem to prove it: "I wake up in the middle of the night to grind the rice noodles, steam them and press them. My limbs are chapped.

When you are sweating, you can leave some rice soup to satisfy your hunger. "Xinghua rice noodles are not only mellow and delicious, but also fragrant and famous all over the world.

Today, when we are opening up to the outside world and revitalizing the economy internally, Xinghua rice noodles are a flower of township enterprises. Its products have entered the international market and are sold well in Japan, Southeast Asia, Europe and the United States, earning foreign exchange for the country and contributing to the four modernizations.

Noodle farmers in Putian City make mellow rice noodles for humans and create a sweet life for themselves.

Look, the rows of red-brick houses rising up along the vast Mulan River are not the new homes of the pink farmers? The riddle says: "Four corners, with straw bundles around the waist." The answer is "Xinghua

rice flour".

It turns out that Xinghua rice noodles are a boxy replica of rice with a crystal white center tied with straw. Its color is white and thin, elastic and tough. It is easy to cook and stir-fry. The soup is dry and salty. If it is served with fish, meat,

The eggs and vegetables are really mouth-watering.

No wonder Zhu Xi, a famous scholar from the Song Dynasty, was giving lectures in Xinghua. When he tasted the rice noodles, he couldn't help but clapped his hands and exclaimed: "It's so delicious that you'll want to swallow it, and the deliciousness is endless." Nowadays, people are more particular about the cooking method of Xinghua rice noodles, and there are many ways to eat them, "

"Eight Vegetarian Fried Rice Noodles" is one of them.

The so-called eight ingredients are "shiitake mushrooms, golden needles, fungus, seaweed, gluten, dried shreds, tofu skin, green vegetables. After the ingredients are added, crispy peanuts are added, which is colorful. This kind of rice-pink, fragrant, taste and shape. For those who are anorexic and overworked, change

The taste is even better. Xinghua rice noodles are also a panacea for fighting colds. Just boil the rice noodles in soup with ginger, green onions and bean paste granules, and eat them while they are hot, and then wrap them in cotton quilts.

The body is sweating profusely, and the high fever is dissipated. In the sound of the horn of the construction of the four modernizations, all the heavy and backward manual operations are replaced by machines, and the painful whines and groans in the old workshops are all replaced by the roar of the motor and the relaxation and joy.

With the advancement of science and technology, Xinghua rice noodles are currently producing a kind of "fast food" rice noodles that are filled with various nutrients and condiments according to scientific formulas.

As long as rice noodles are boiled in boiling water, they become a truly delicious "fast food". It provides convenience for the tourism industry and people's meals. I hope Xinghua rice noodles, a traditional local product, will shine more brightly in the era of reform and opening up.