the theme of punching in the 12th 28-day writing camp of Qifanqi Business School

The annual flavor of hometown is the constant homesickness.

Going home for the Spring Festival seems to be becoming more and more luxurious for me at present. My hometown snacks and classic food always inadvertently awaken my taste. Those long-lasting hometown flavors have made people unable to give up.

Some people say that the Spring Festival is like a door, which is gently pushed open by wanderers. It has the flavor of hometown, and it has the flavor of reunion and happiness of parents and relatives.

There is a snack in my hometown that I will always miss. The locals call it "Chenzhou Flower Set".

made of pure glutinous rice, it is golden in color, crisp and delicious, and delicious.

it is neither too big nor too small, with a diameter of about 5 cm, and has a beautiful appearance. Six large circles are combined into six small circles, and the flowers are interlocked.

According to the old people, Taohua, also known as Taohuan, is named after the local dialect.

"Taohuan" snack has been listed as the top of the list of new year snacks for every household in the local area, which is not only delicious and sweet, but also profound in meaning.

It has 12 rings of different sizes, which looks like a beautiful flower. It is of profound significance, symbolizing family reunion, representing six big months and six small months in a year, and also meaning "June, June, June, June, June, June, June, June, June, June, June, June, June, June, June, June, June, June, June, June, June, June, June, June, June, June, June, June, June, June

as far as I can remember, although flower sets can be seen everywhere in the streets and alleys, most families will make them themselves.

Every time the Spring Festival approaches, the aunts and grandmothers in the neighborhood spontaneously join in groups. Luo Ze never stops coming to my house and says that she wants to learn from her mother to make a "peach ring" in her hometown. Since then, she feels particularly proud that she can bring this craft from her hometown to another place.

The traditional snack "flower arranging" is a bit complicated. The glutinous rice is soaked for about two or three days, or until the rice becomes soft.

Our family has a bamboo basket, which was woven by Sichuan villagers themselves, as a reward for them to learn skills and give it to my mother. It can be used to carry a baby or as a backpack for traveling.

my father always uses it to carry heavy soft rice bags, and some big brothers in the neighborhood also use long bamboo poles to carry a rice bag at one end, humming a little song and strolling around the streets to grind rice pulp in nearby private mills.

My father pushes a heavy stone millstone, and my mother pours a spoonful of soaked glutinous rice grains into the millstone. Glittering rice slurry, like a spring slurry, is continuously sprayed out from the sharp mouth of the millstone.

I live next door to my house, and I have a big brother who is strong and young. Usually, I always like to follow him. I think he is like a great warrior, so powerful that he often helps me deal with those naughty little boys. Scrambling to help the elderly and frail mother-in-law push the back rice slurry.

I remember that when I was twelve years old, I helped my mother take rice paste home. I struggled to carry a bag of rice at least 5 kilograms on my thin shoulders and stumbled home.

The mill is a long way from my home. I walked into a long alley, when several little boys came face to face. When I saw it, it was those little boys who often made trouble. I tried to avoid it, but there was nowhere to escape in the alley, so I had to bite the bullet and walk over. One of them came up behind me with a toy plastic knife and arrow in his hand, and suddenly he felt white pulp dripping from the ground. When he turned around, he saw that the little boy was only about ten years old.

I crouched and knelt, cleaned the pulp on the ground with both hands, and tied the hole tightly with a headrope for tying my hair. When I got home, I saw my brother next door who had just delivered a bag of rice pulp to an old neighborhood. When he saw me pouting and dejected, he knew that I was wronged again. I also told the whole story, and he kept comforting me. The little boy and his mother came to my house together, bowing to apologize to me again and again, and said that they would compensate us for the money of Taohuan. My mother said that it was unnecessary to lose money, as long as the child realized that he was wrong and could correct it, it was the best apology. Since then, I have never suffered any harm. I know that it was my big brother who did it, and I respect and admire him more.

It's almost the Spring Festival, and the adults are busy happily. The children love to join in the fun. I always sit among the adults and clamor for glutinous rice balls.

According to my father, every time I make an ugly set of flowers, my mother will give me a good compliment. She will take the trouble to teach me how to arrange them neatly next to each other. She has always said that the key link of the set of flowers is frying, and the success or failure of the production is at stake.

when she explains to her aunts, I occasionally stand aside and listen quietly.

first, add the cooked sweet potato powder to the ground fresh rice paste (it is best not to stay overnight), then add a proper amount of white sugar, stir and knead constantly, and make the rice paste into sticky dough.

Then roll the dough to a thickness of about 5cm, and knead it into uniform strips, so that the "flower arrangement" will all be called exquisite.

The next step is the most important link. The strip-shaped surface is made into a small ring around the index finger, and the small ring pulls the big ring, interlocking with each other, so that a "flower arrangement" with 6 big circles and 6 small circles is presented beautifully.

the key link of "flower arrangement" is fried in oil, and the success or failure of the production is also at stake. It is said that if you want to fry the set of flowers golden and crisp, you must use the local tea oil in Chenzhou (which is also one of the famous specialties in Chenzhou).

You must be prepared to dry the pot, then slowly pour in pure camellia oil. After the oil boils, slowly put the "flower set" into the pot and fry it until it turns golden yellow.

after frying for more than an hour, it looks like blossoming peach blossoms, and a delicious "set of flowers" is out of the pot.

its collection method is even rarer: quicklime (blank ash) is placed at the bottom of the cylinder, and another layer of environmentally-friendly and clean oil-spreading paper is separated, and the nested flowers are stacked layer by layer into a tower shape, which can be preserved until the beginning of the next year.

The flower sets I made are the same as those of my beginners. They are uneven in size. My mother always encourages me, and my aunts are not discouraged. As always, they come to my mother every year and learn to make peach rings while chatting.

My mother is also a good teacher. She specially wrote a set of production methods and published the formula and production process in the army column for the reference of those aunts.

I'm getting better and better every time. I learned a lot in the production, practicing endurance, mastering craftsmanship, and enjoying the joy of the production process. Everyone sat together and laughed loudly without heart. The atmosphere of the New Year was really strong.

exquisite and small? "Taohua", which carries the memories of previous generations, has gradually faded out of our sight. < P > Just when the native people in Chenzhou left their hands to fish in Dongjiang and their right hands to duck in Linwu, Taohua was slowly forgotten by people.

However, after hard work, most of the wanderers in foreign countries eat all kinds of takeout and western-style cakes, especially because they can't go home for the New Year and are immersed in the flavor of the year. We might as well make a hometown dish or a delicious snack with a strong flavor of the year to relieve a trace of homesickness.

everyone says: the flavor of the year is the most nostalgic flavor.

The first article of the 12th 28-day writing camp of Qi Fanqi Business School is 2,237 words, totaling 2,237 words.