One is a much-told story that originated from the anti-Jin in the Southern Song Dynasty. According to legend, a general in the Eastern Jin Dynasty sympathized with the soldiers at the front line and ordered the chef to make folk cakes and send them to the front line to show his appreciation to the soldiers. Since then, "dim sum" has spread.

Second, it originated from a cruel punishment in ancient times. In order to save their loved ones from being crushed, family members bribed the executioner with a large sum of money, and stabbed the prisoner's heart from the back before execution, which resulted in his life. This knife is called "dim sum", so Beijingers call dim sum a cake.

When dim sum meets the word "Jiangnan", everything becomes fine, moist and beautiful, which is probably due to the Jiangnan complex that China people can't give up.

Thick ink painting is not enough to outline the beauty of Jiangnan. The winding and secluded misty and rainy alleys, mottled white walls and tiles, and elegant flowing water make people indulge in its gentle countryside.

The rich Jiangnan area has been unable to hide delicious food since ancient times, especially the snacks in Jiangnan. The fragrance of flowers and trees that can't be left in the world can also be sealed in delicate and compact cakes, turning into a delicate, soft and sweet smell on the tip of the tongue.

In the past year, we have been to 16 cities in the south of the Yangtze River, and found many exquisite snacks that have been passed down for many years. How many of the following six snacks have you eaten?

Angular dry cake

Like sesame seed cakes, there is also a traditional food which is deeply loved by Lishui people-Jiao Gan Cake, which is tender in the outside, soft and sweet. It is made of flour, brown sugar, raisins, dried prunes, pork, etc., and has two tastes: sweet and salty.

The fermented dough is kneaded and cut, covered with raisins and sesame seeds, rolled, cut into diamonds and steamed in the pot. This is sweet, with brown sugar flavor, purple potato flavor and honey pumpkin flavor. Chopped pork with dried plum vegetables, spread on the dough in two layers, wrapped, rolled and cut into pieces, and added with a secret seasoning bag to enlarge the edge of the iron pan, which is steamed and baked with salty horn dry cakes.

It is said that the traditional dried corn cake is the dry food that ancient students carried with them when they went to Beijing to take the exam. In addition, the dried corn cake is shaped like a blessing bag, and it also has the meaning of praying for peace and smoothness. It is a childhood snack for local people.

Cake sticky

Cake, the sound is harmonious "high", which means climbing up step by step. The sound of barnyard grass is harmonious "Nian", and the rice is ripe, and the year is a bumper harvest. Gao Ren is a kind of cake that people will eat in the harvest year of rice. However, most people in Zhejiang prefer to write it as "sticky", sticky-mouthed and sticky rice cake.

The production of "sticky cake" is a bit complicated. Soak, pulp and wash rice, grind rice flour, and sift out delicate rice flour. In a wooden bucket that can't be used several times all the year round, Tiantai people call it "rice retort", which is moved out of the house, washed and dried, and steamed with sesame seeds, medlar and raisins.

It has a variety of flavors, such as corn flavor, dragon fruit flavor, sweet potato flavor, etc. Visitors who have tasted this dim sum locally want to buy this "rice retort" and cook it themselves.

Gold Melaleuca Cake

The local handmade Melaleuca Cake and tea are used as raw materials, with a smooth Q-bomb taste, bright golden color, rice fragrance and tea fragrance. Moreover, this dish is suitable for both salty and sweet, and it can be dipped in brown sugar if you like it, or soy sauce if you like it. It is a special food of Zhejiang She nationality.

Melaleuca cake is a simple food, which can be seen from its production techniques:

The new rice produced in that year was finely ground into white and fine powder with a stone mill. Because of its hardness, it was soaked in water made of straw ash and finally steamed in a pot. It has abandoned the impatience of modern industrial generation and is the crystallization of wisdom explored by our ancestors.

Wheat cake pine horn

The legendary snack of Jinyun, which is close to the Yellow Emperor, is wheat cake and pine horn.

Wheat cake pine horn, also known as wheat cake pine, sweet, there are two kinds of pine, soft, yellow as jade, sesame star on it, sweet and delicious. In Lishui, there is a local xiehouyu saying to describe it: "Those who relax enjoy children, those who are soft respect the elderly, and those who are young and strong go out as road capital."

Wheat cake pine is made of wheat flour and sugar into dough, cut into two-inch-long prismatic cakes, sprinkled with black sesame seeds and pressed, and then fried along the edge of the pot to make it golden on both sides. The locals also call it "Agkistrodon flower". Whether it is ready-to-eat or stored in jars, it can be kept for half a month at the longest without losing its delicious taste.

Glutinous rice cakes

Eating glutinous rice cakes in the New Year is a traditional custom in Lishui. Every year, local people who go out to work will bring a few pieces to relieve their hunger and homesickness.

The glutinous rice cake is made of glutinous rice flour, fresh rice flour, white sugar, bean curd skin, edible pigment and medlar. After mixing glutinous rice flour and fresh rice flour, pour in white sugar water and mix well, then add pigment and stir. The rice noodles without pigment and with pigment are put into the steamer with bean curd skin layer by layer, and the big word "Fu" written on the top with Lycium barbarum is the key point, which means happiness!

Glutinous rice food should be eaten after heating. Glutinous rice should not be eaten too much at one time. Glutinous rice cakes, whether sweet or salty, are high in carbohydrates and sodium, which is enough for people with diabetes, overweight or other chronic diseases such as kidney disease and hyperlipidemia.

She nationality's hemp cake

Soft, glutinous and sweet Lishui She people's snack is an indispensable food during the Chinese New Year holiday, and it takes four people to make it together.

She people's sesame paste is made of glutinous rice, black sesame and white sugar. Wash and soak glutinous rice for six hours, then stew for 1 hour, and stir-fry sesame seeds for twenty minutes. Take the cooked glutinous rice out of the pot and send it to the She mill with glutinous rice.

Stir-fried sesame seeds are mashed in a stone mortar, then sugar is poured in to continue mashing, glutinous rice is poured into the stone mortar, mashed into smooth glutinous rice balls, mashed glutinous rice is placed on the prepared sesame sugar, and the glutinous rice balls mixed with sesame seeds are kneaded into cakes, which are best eaten while hot.

1000 people have 1000 Jiangnan in their eyes. Jiangnan is good, not only because of its fantastic breath and lingering tenderness in the quiet years, but also because its unique craftsmanship has turned into a little sweetness that lingers on people's tongue in plain days.

Many people talk about the impression of Jiangnan dim sum: "When you see Jiangnan dim sum, your first impression is that you are always waiting in line", which is the charm of Jiangnan dim sum.