The food is very different. The mountains, rivers and folk customs are different. Noodles, grilled fish and ten seas

The food of Hongshi Valley is inseparable from the mountains, rivers and folk customs here.

First of all, it has a great relationship with Buddhism. According to the inscriptions of Linggu Temple in Nanjing, Qishan Crystal Temple was built in the Western Han Dynasty. Zen Master Bao Zhigong opened the first monastery here. The incense was especially popular in the Southern and Northern Dynasties. Xiao Yan, Emperor Wu of Liang in the Southern Dynasties, once became a monk here. For thousands of years, this temple in Hongshi Valley has Royal temples. During the heyday of famous Buddhist sects, pilgrims traveled as far as Hubei, Henan, Anhui and Jiangsu provinces. Buddhist culture spread in Hongshi Valley for a long time and had far-reaching influence.

The thing that Emperor Wu of Liang was related to was "mian fish". He was a compassionate monk and mainly vegetarian. Add flour and water to form a paste. Tilt the dough plate and use chopsticks or spatulas to drop the dough into the boiling water. The batter will slowly solidify when exposed to the boiling water. It will flip up and down in the hot pot, like small fish swimming in the water. After the water is boiled, add oil and salt seasonings, add chives and green vegetables, and enjoy it right out of the pot. Noodle fish is completely different from noodles, and somewhat different from gnocchi.

Watching "The Sky of History" a few years ago, Jiang Daya and the commander ate two large bowls of noodles and fish, shouting that they felt comfortable. Jiang Daya and Zhu Yidao, who are old, still want to eat a bowl of noodle fish. They have deep love and loyalty. They come from the mountains and rivers of the Dabie Mountains. The noodle fish of Hongshi Valley has been continued by the people for a long time, which is different from other places.

If you don’t drink tea when you go to Hongshi Valley, don’t eat fish when you go to Xianghongdian Reservoir, and will be laughed to death when you go back, you are asking for it.

While drinking authentic melon tea, you are waiting to eat deep-water fish from the reservoir. There are many ways to eat fish. The grilled fish at Xianghongdian Reservoir in Hongshi Valley is the most delicious.

The fish salvaged from the reservoir are cleaned, clamped with a special clip, and grilled over a charcoal fire. The aroma is overflowing. I sprinkled the condiments on it and thought it would be ready to eat, but I was wrong.

The grilled fish should be stewed in a hot pot. You can also separate clear soup and thick soup. You can choose the salty, spicy, sour and numbing soup by yourself, and then put it on the induction cooker to simmer slowly, and put the fish roe next to it. Fish pickles and vegetarian dishes, it is really fresh to taste grilled fish in the way of eating hot pot.

As soon as the hot pot is boiled, the fresh aroma of the fish and the taste of the soup come out. Add the side dishes and simmer slowly while drinking beer. It is really a great food experience. It should be noted that grilled fish is a good way to have a dinner party. The size of the fish is specified according to the number of people. If the fish is too big, you will not be able to finish it.

Ten Seas is not something you can eat every time, but it is indeed a banquet cooked by farmers in Hongshi Valley. Even if you eat farm food, you can eat the dishes of Ten Seas. "Hai" is the name of a kind of bowl, commonly known as "Hai Bowl". In rural areas, the sea bowl was the most affordable eating tool. It has a large mouth and is not high. A bowl of rice can be piled up to fill your belly. The Ten Seas of Hongshi Valley are served in sea bowls, and the total number of dishes is the Ten Sea Bowls. The combination of meat and vegetables, and the preparation of dishes are all ordinary farm dishes, but there are folk customary rules, such as the order of serving dishes, setting off firecrackers to thank guests, etc. , it tastes different.

After watching Stephen Chow’s nonsensical comedy, it actually makes sense to say that the God of Cookery is in the kitchen of the Shaolin Temple. Food, in fact, is found in the vegetable fields and stoves of folk farmhouses. Many people will think of their grandmother taking out pickles from the vegetable jar when they were young, putting them in a bowl, adding two eggs and putting them in the pot. The rice is good and the food is good. , when you take off the pot, the aroma is endless, but the result is often a face full of rice grains, which is not satisfying enough.

This is food. Originated from the folk, inconspicuous, but very different.

Three sides face water and one side faces mountains. Tung oil, melon slices and aquatic products are rich.

Every place has its own specialties. Needless to say, Hongshi Valley is Lu’an Guapian. As the origin of Lu’an Guapian, this is the original production area of ??Lu’an Guapian tea in the country. In other words, as one of the few places of origin, most of the high-quality Guapian tea comes from here every year.

Lu'an Guapian Tea maintains strong vitality, derived from the charm of its own tea culture. Tea farmers are the hardest working people. Four pounds of fresh grass can be used to make one pound of dry tea. Listening to the tea pickers in the tea garden saying such an account is not something that I would be surprised to hear, but watching the tea pickers pick pieces one by one, it makes me wonder. Do you know how many young leaves are needed to produce 4 pounds of fresh grass? "The tribute letter was transferred to the government, but the cold buds in the mountains have not sprouted. They are baked into grains and are heart-to-heart, but who knows that Nong's heart is as painful as the lotus." This ancient poem illustrates the hard work of tea farmers.

With the development of the tea economy, the price of Lu'an Guapian in Hongshi Valley is increasing day by day. Compared with a few years ago, the price of Guapian tea sold on the market is already high.

Tasting tea is indispensable when visiting Red Stone Valley. Picking tea in tea gardens, participating in tea frying at farmers' houses, and visiting tea factories are all the most authentic tea country tours. It’s even more cost-effective to pay back a few kilograms of melon slice tea. It is better to have heard than to have seen, and to have tasted is worse than to have seen.

The Guapian tea from Hongshi Valley is several times lower than the market price. The reason is that the tea factories in Hongshi Valley only produce but do not sell directly, and most of them are purchased by tea merchants and then enter the market. Although there are several well-known brands of tea in the local area, most of them are still production-oriented and focus on the production of melon slices. On the one hand, they ensure the quality of melon slices tea and on the other hand, they ensure large-scale production. But once the tea they produce leaves the Red Stone Valley, its value will skyrocket. There is a saying that the tea leaves within the valley have the same taste, while the tea leaves outside the valley have no taste, and those far away have no taste. It seems that tea is a dedicated job. There are only tea makers and not tea sellers.

This may be the reason why Guapian tea has been so popular in Hongshi Valley for decades.

Except for Guobin Tea’s Lu’an Guapian, Hongshi Valley’s many products are even more different.

Shiitake mushrooms, fungus, gastrodia fern, etc., all come from deep mountains and are naturally natural.

Camellia oil, the golden vitamin in the plant world, has become very popular in recent years and is rarely found.

There is also the aquatic products of Xianghongdian Reservoir, which has become recognized by everyone. Most of the people who come to buy aquatic products every year come to buy them in the autumn. This is the time when various aquatic products are harvested. Fishes that are rare in the market, even if they are available in the market, can be bought back to deep-water natural aquatic products in the reservoir, and the taste and nutrition will be greatly different. .