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Folk festival food customs: Xiasha Poon Choi?

In the food documentary "A Bite of China 2", which is very popular with the audience, the big pot cabbage feast in Xiasha Village, Futian, Shenzhen has become the representative of Shenzhen food. This Shenzhen local food has a history of hundreds of years and has been growing for a long time.

It has continued to develop and improve over the years, and has even been certified by the Guinness World Records as the "largest private banquet - the Big Poon Choi Banquet".

So today’s folk festival will introduce you to this delicious and warm festival food custom: Xiasha Pot Choi.

Xiasha Big Poon Choi is a Han Chinese food custom spread during the Lantern Festival in Xiasha Village, Shatou, Futian District, Shenzhen City, Guangdong Province.

It originated as a military diet in the Southern Song Dynasty in the 13th century, and later gradually developed into a folk diet.

"Big Poon Choi" generally involves putting more than a dozen dishes including fried oysters, chicken, duck, celery, radish, etc. into a pot for cooking layer by layer, and then eating them together.

Xiasha people have been eating "Big Poon Choi" for more than 500 years.

Legend has it that in 1278 AD (the third year of Jingyan, Duanzong of the Southern Song Dynasty), Yuan soldiers sent their troops southward. Zhang Shijie, the envoy of the Jiankang Festival of the Song Dynasty, Lu Xiufu, the minister of official affairs, Zhao Shi, the king of Yi, and Zhao Bing, the king of Wei, walked southward in a hurry to Guanfuchang (that is, Hong Kong).

Kowloon area), stationed in Erwang Village.

The villagers hurriedly gathered the vegetables brought by each household and poured them into large military basins to cook.

Divided into pots of hundreds of dishes, the aroma was overflowing, making the hungry Song army feel full.

Later, the Song army was defeated in the Yashan naval battle, and Lu Xiufu jumped into the sea with the young emperor on his back.

The local residents were very sad to see the emperor in such a tragic situation, so all the villagers cooked another meal to mourn the demise of the Song Dynasty and the tragic death of the emperor.

Slowly passed down, it became the so-called "Pon Choi".

During the Ming and Qing dynasties, the locals called "Pun Cai" "Xin'an Poon Choi" (Xin'an was later called Bao'an). At that time, the Poon Choi was served in wooden basins, with one wooden basin per table, one Eight Immortals table, and four benches.

Eight people per table, commonly known as "eating Poon Choi", has become a custom in the coastal areas of Kowloon, Sha Tin, Tai Po, Yuen Long, Sheung Shui in Hong Kong and Kowloon, and Bao'an, Nanshan, Futian and Luo Wu districts in Shenzhen, but its workmanship

Only Xiasha Village in Shatou has well-preserved its ingredients, ingredients and cooking methods. Later, as the population of Xiasha prospered and life became more and more affluent, more and more people celebrated the Lantern Festival, so it was renamed "Big Poon Choi".

"Big Poon Choi" switched to stainless steel pots in the 20th and 21st centuries. There are fifteen kinds of vegetables in the pot, including fried oysters, chicken, duck, pork, fried fish, fried tofu, bamboo shoots, yaru, dried eel, and pork skin.

, cloud antler, dongru, celery, radish, etc.

More than a dozen dishes are placed in the basin layer by layer. The top dish is chicken and duck, which means birds returning to their nests.

Big Poon Choi symbolizes "birds returning to their nests", reunion, prosperity, and hope for peace and prosperity and a good harvest in the coming year.

Whenever there is a need to entertain guests on festive occasions or weddings, the host will hire a professional chef to prepare Poon Choi for the guests to enjoy.

Once the pot of vegetables is finished, the feast is over.

Since the establishment of the village, the Xiasha people have had the tradition of eating "Pon Choi" during the "Lantern Festival". Every fifteenth day of the first lunar month, they set up a "lantern shed", light lanterns, and sing Cantonese opera. The whole village, old and young, gathers together, which is very lively.