Ruyi Huilujan: Nanjing has a long history, and Nanjing people are willing to touch all kinds of snacks and history. Take this ordinary brine drying as an example, and it has also been linked with Zhu Yuanzhang, the Ming Taizu. Legend has it that after Zhu Yuanzhang ascended the throne in Jinling, he was tired of eating the delicacies in the palace. One day, he went out of the palace incognito, and saw a snack bar fried bean curd in the street, which was full of fragrance and golden color, and his appetite increased greatly. He took out a silver ingot and asked the shopkeeper to process a bowl of tofu fruit for him to enjoy. Seeing that he was a rich gentleman, the shopkeeper immediately put the bean curd into the chicken soup pot, cooked it with a small amount of bean sprouts and seasonings until the bean curd was soft and tender, and Zhu Yuanzhang praised it again and again after eating it. From then on, oily tofu was all the rage and spread to this day. Because Nanjing people often add bean sprouts during firing, and its shape is very similar to the jade ruyi in ancient jade articles, it is called ruyi Huilu Dry.
Zhuangyuandou: Zhuangyuandou is one of the special snacks in Nanjing Confucius Temple. According to legend, during the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty, Qin Dashi, a poor scholar who lived in the alley next to Jinsha well in the south of the city, studied until late at night every day because of his poor family. His mother cooked the beans with red rice and red dates, packed the beans in a small bowl, and gave him a red date to eat, and encouraged him to study hard and win the top prize in the future. Later, Qin Dashi won the top prize, and the story spread, and Zhuangyuandou became famous. . Some vendors took advantage of the students' psychology and sold Zhuangyuan beans near the Gongyuan of the Father-Son Temple, saying with a lining that "eating Zhuangyuan beans makes you a champion". Zhuangyuan bean is actually spiced bean. Like spiced egg, spiced bean tastes fragrant, salty, sweet and tender, and tastes interesting. Because it is cooked to taste, it is generally rosewood-colored, elastic and fragrant, so people can't stop eating it.
2. Details of Qinhuai snacks Traditional Qinhuai snacks are heavy in oil and sugar, which are not suitable for modern people's eating habits. In the past twenty years, the snack operators in Confucius Temple have successively developed some new varieties. Recently, the varieties of "Eight Unique Snacks in Qinhuai" have been adjusted. The original snacks such as scallion cake, five-color cakes, noodles with shredded chicken, dumplings with thin bags, silver noodles with smoked fish, and sweet-scented osmanthus-filled dumplings have been replaced by new snacks such as Shaoshao, Xiaocha, braised dried duck's blood soup, steamed black-bone chicken, fried stinky dried, steamed plum cake and Yuhuashi dumplings. Duck oil crisp sesame cake is golden in color, full in appearance and oil-free. Sesame oil perm-dried silk is as thin as silver, loose and not lumpy. The shape of soybean sprouts in the brine-returned dry is perfect and seems to be satisfactory. Duck blood in duck blood soup is red in sauce and decorated with chopped green onion. After each snack is delivered to the guests, the waiter should introduce the historical allusions of the snack in standard Mandarin.
Walking into the "Yat Sen Lou", which is a collection of Qinhuai snacks, it is like a warm spring breeze that drives "blowing open the petals of ten thousand pear trees". Elegant and beautiful silk and bamboo in the south of the Yangtze River depict the charm of a water town with clear wind and bright moon and flowing bridges. A celadon with a lid and a lotus lamp placed on a painted porcelain dish makes people feel the flavor of teahouses in the Ming and Qing Dynasties. Perhaps it is a custom formed for thousands of years, and dining has its own set of dining procedures. Make tea at the beginning of your seat, and help yourself to what you need. Some people like Guangdong-style medicated diet, and ginseng, medlar and red dates are numerous. However, I prefer the fragrant "Biluochun", and I am fascinated by the green mountains and blue waves and the wild cranes in the three mountains of Taihu Lake in the long sound of silk and bamboo. While sipping tea, appetizing snacks first came to the table: first, Sugar-Coated Berry, a string of five hawthorns, red and bright, opened their mouths on the hawthorns, meaning "always smile."
Snacks special
Snack is still a meal, snack is not a meal, and it is originally a kind of enjoyment in leisure. The snacks in Confucius Temple are particularly attractive, and the "Qinhuai style" shows the profoundness of Chinese food culture. The snacks in Confucius Temple are exquisite in style of "color, fragrance, taste, shape and utensils". They should look and taste, and have a poetic and imaginative taste, which makes people salivate. Golden, Huang Chengcheng, green, glistening, such as the world, colorful; Sweet, salty, acid soaking stains, spicy, like an open life, full of flavors. Vegetarian fruits and vegetables, follow one's inclinations, spring, summer, autumn and winter, each collar * * *. In spring, there are shepherd's purse biscuits, steamed stuffed bun with vegetables and meat, and snacks from Confucius Temple at Sixi Lantern Festival. In summer, there are thousands of layers of oil cakes, flowering steamed buns and planed bean jelly; In autumn, there are crab roe, radish cake and chicken and duck blood soup. In winter, there are five kernel steamed buns, crystal steamed buns and bean curd. The old Huaiyang flavor is well-known: there are soft and delicious dried silk; Steamed buns with moderate salt and sweetness, oily but not greasy; Huangqiao sesame seed cake with strong aroma and aftertaste, spicy tofu brain, and "assorted snacks" that everyone loves, each cage contains ten pieces and five varieties, which are both meat and vegetable, sweet and salty. The Confucius Temple is also characterized by its flexible and vivid management mode. It has not only small brick houses with white walls and sloping houses, but also "Old Huaiyang" decorated with colorful lanterns. There are many fragrant and ready-to-eat food stalls, moving smiles under the lights and folk songs, which bring warmth and joy to the psychedelic Qinhuai immersed in the sound of lights and shadows.
Development history
Qinhuai snacks originated in the Six Dynasties (222~589) and became famous in the Ming and Qing Dynasties. Wu Jingzi in his "Scholars" has such a description: "Pass a cup for a change, eat in the afternoon, Du Shenqing called for snacks, that is, lard dumplings bait, duck meat buns, goose oil cakes, soft fragrant cakes, and bring them up one plate at a time. "Everyone ate it, and it was rain-fed Lu 'an Maojian tea, each with a bowl. Between the lines, we can see the scene of Qinhuai snacks in those days.
Nowadays, the snacks in the Confucius Temple are getting more and more popular, such as spiced tea eggs, bean curd, mandarin duck biscuits, jade buns, sweet-scented osmanthus sweet potato, honey lotus root, ..., and almost every snack bar has a unique trick, with more than 300 varieties, which is dazzling.
Snacks are famous, dry and thin, and the variety content changes with the seasons.
Eating snacks in Confucius Temple means eating a "small" word. The painted building where people sit is small and exquisite, the food is small and small, and even the tableware is small and small.
One side of the landscape, one side of the customs. Friends, the landscape of Qinhuai and the customs of the Six Dynasties, you can enjoy delicious food here.
Nanjing snacks have a long history and a wide variety, with more than 80 varieties since the Six Dynasties. Famous snacks are well-prepared, sweet and salty, and have different shapes. Qinhuai snacks in Nanjing Confucius Temple are one of the four largest snack groups in China. Tea houses and restaurants in the Confucius Temple area are full of street snacks, forming a food concentration place with unique Qinhuai traditional characteristics.
Qinhuai Snacks "Eight Absolutely"
First place: Huangqiao sesame seed cake and kai yang dried silk in Yongheyuan.
The second best: Jiang Youji's beef soup and beef fried dumpling
The third must: tofu waterlogging and scallion cake in Liufengju
The fourth must: the duck oil crisp sesame seed cake and jambalaya Bao in Qifangge.
The fifth trick: dried sesame oil and shredded chicken in Qifangge.
The sixth wonder: sweet-scented osmanthus-filled dumplings and five-color cakes in Lianhu cake group shop.
The seventh must: Zhanyuan noodle restaurant smoked fish, silver noodles and thin bag dumplings.
Eight unique skills: spiced beans and spiced eggs in Kuiguangge.
3. About the history and story of Confucius Temple. 1, history: Confucius Temple was built in Song Dynasty, located beside Gongyuan Street on the north bank of Qinhuai River, with the Qinhuai River in front of it as Panchi and the stone brick wall on the south bank as zhaobi, with a total length of 1 10 m and a height of 10 m, which is the whole country. There are Juxing Pavilion and Sile Pavilion in front of the North Shore Temple. On the central axis, there are buildings such as Lingxingmen, Dachengmen, Dachengdian, Mingdetang and Zunjingge. In addition, there is Kuixing Pavilion in the east of the temple.
2. Story: The Confucius Temple, located on the Qinhuai River in Nanjing, was founded in the third year of Emperor Sima Yan Xiankang in the Eastern Jin Dynasty (337). According to Wang Dao's proposal, "Governing the country should focus on cultivating talents", Taixue was established on the south bank of Qinhuai River. At that time, there was only the Xuegong, but no Confucius Temple was built.
Confucius Temple was built in the first year of Song Renzong Jingyou (1034) on the expansion of the East Jin Academy. Because it is dedicated to Confucius, it is also called Confucius Temple. The purpose of building Confucius Temple in front of Xuegong is to hope that scholars will follow the way of sages and accept feudal education.
From the Six Dynasties to the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the prosperous scene and unique features of Shili Qinhuai were once eulogized by literati in previous dynasties. Confucius Temple, located on the north bank of Qinhuai River, was originally a place to worship Confucius. It was built in the first year of Jingyou in the Song Dynasty (1034) and expanded from the former site of the East Jin Xuegong.
Extended data
Confucius Temple has become an important scenic spot in Shili Qinhuai scenic belt with rich architectural style in Ming and Qing Dynasties. It takes Dacheng Hall as the center, the north and south are in an axis, and the left and right buildings are symmetrical, covering an area of about 26,300 square meters. It has been listed as a municipal cultural relics protection unit. Confucius Temple is located in the south of the city center, next to Gongyuan Street on the north bank of Qinhuai River.
It is a bustling downtown area evolved from a cultural and educational center. What people usually call Confucius Temple actually includes Confucius Temple, Xuegong and Gongyuan main building complex.
Confucius Temple provides more than 200 kinds of traditional food and snacks. The food culture of Confucius Temple has a long history, which can be traced back to the Six Dynasties, especially in the Ming and Qing Dynasties. The cuisines and snacks of various factions have a unique flavor. Since the reform and opening up, the city has excavated and sorted out the scattered folk snacks, and innovated on the basis of inheriting the traditional characteristics, forming Qinhuai snacks represented by the "Eight Musts of Qinhuai".
The snacks in Confucius Temple are provided in a dry and sparse way, mixed with meat and vegetables, interspersed with folk performances, with strong local characteristics and cultural atmosphere, which makes the catering process become a process of general cultural appreciation at the same time, embodies the exquisite combination of catering and culture, and has long attracted Chinese and foreign tourists, becoming an important pillar of the tourism economy of Confucius Temple and the characteristic culture of this area.