Zhang Wei's song "Nine Bowls of Thirteen Flowers at Tasting the Original Banquet in Zhen" praises the original old banquet in Qingyang Food Town. In our city, Zhenyuan old seats have a long history, unique style, and contain profound culture and etiquette. Nowadays, Zhenyuan Old Xi has been listed as a municipal intangible cultural heritage and has become a unique scenery in Qingyang culture.
Wendao Zhenyuan has a good flavor, with nine bowls and thirteen flowers.
The palace of the Han Dynasty passed down jade banquets, all because of the splendor of Yuanzhou people.
The fragrant day lily blooms with royal flowers, and the original buds were collected as tributes in the Ming and Qing Dynasties.
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Zhang Wei's song "Nine Bowls of Thirteen Flowers at Tasting the Original Banquet in Zhen" praises the original old banquet in Qingyang Food Town. In our city, Zhenyuan old seats have a long history, unique style, and contain profound culture and etiquette. Nowadays, Zhenyuan Old Xi has been listed as a municipal intangible cultural heritage and has become a unique scenery in Qingyang culture.
Origin: Originated from the court dishes of the Han and Wei dynasties
It is said that Zhenyuan’s traditional banquet originated from the court dishes of the Han and Wei dynasties. The banquet operation techniques were taught to the local people, which further influenced and changed the eating habits here, forming a food culture that is different from other places in Zhenyuan. Zhenyuan Laoxi is a concentrated reflection of Chinese Confucian culture in "eating" and "walking". The main forms include "Seventeen Kingdom Banquet", "Thirteen Flowers", "Shiquan", etc. Among them, "Thirteen Flowers" are generally used in It is more common to have "passing events", with thirteen main dishes, eight side dishes, four steamed buns, and seventeen servings of food. The dishes are served individually first, and each big dish is served, followed by a side dish, eight times each, which is commonly known as "wind stirs snow".
The process of sitting is also very particular. The tables and chairs are the Eight Immortals table, with eight people per seat, and a pair of Taishi chairs on top. These are the two most noble positions. There are plaques, curtains, calligraphy and paintings hanging behind the table, which symbolizes the four-in-one and four-in-one. Happy and good luck. When the dishes are served, the venerable will move his chopsticks first, followed by the others. When pouring the wine, he does not pour it down in a circle, but first from left to right, then from left to right.
The entire process of sitting down is the complete embodiment of Chinese culture in dining etiquette. According to documentary records, at least in the Zhou Dynasty, my country’s dietary etiquette has formed a fairly complete system. Although it has developed to this day, Some red tape has been improved, but the etiquette and culture embodied in Zhenyuan's old seats are still a window to witness the appearance of a great country, a country of etiquette, and a place of civilization.
Method: Respect the taste of the ingredients
Years ago, people’s lives were relatively simple, and materials were not as abundant as they are now, especially in rural areas. If you want to make a hearty meal For meals, the available ingredients are very limited, especially vegetables. Therefore, the dishes at Zhenyuan Laoxi are mainly meat, and pork is the absolute protagonist, supplemented by a small amount of chicken, spare ribs, pork belly, liver, crispy pork, sliver meat, hoof meat, and meatballs. Pork alone can make it. There are various tricks, one banquet often uses up a pig, and different parts of the pork can often be made into plates of "hard dishes".
It may seem like just a plate of meat, but the depth of the chef's "knowledge" is often reflected in these pieces of meat. How to cut soft meat thinly and completely is the most test of the chef's knife skills, and how to turn meat into slices. It takes only a few years to twist a piece of meat until it stands upright. It looks like a piece of fatty meat, but in fact it has gone through several steps such as boiling, steaming, and stir-frying, making it taste fat but not greasy. Since there is just one kind of pork, the chefs try their best to make more than a dozen kinds of meat dishes in various ways - this is the complexity of Zhenyuan Laoxi processing.
Each ingredient has its own unique character and temperament, such as deer antlers, which are a kind of algae salad. When eaten with rice wine, the antlers will become soft. In terms of condiments, the chefs at Zhenyuan Laoxi mostly use simple condiments such as ginger powder, daxiang, vinegar, and salt. Many dishes are simply processed or even unprocessed, which can better reflect the original taste of the food. The more they deliberately seek novelty, If you seek change, you will get further away from the simple, simple and natural way of eating. The reason why Zhenyuan Old Xi is unforgettable lies precisely in its return to nature.
Inheritance: The descendants of the old seats in Zhenyuan are becoming increasingly rare
Li Huilin is a native of Zhenyuan. He is 58 years old this year. He learned the craft of making old seats after he retired from the army. Over the past thirty years, his cooking skills have become increasingly sophisticated and he has trained hundreds of apprentices.
As soon as they tasted it, they found it hard to swallow and all of them frowned. Only Xu Li ate it with gusto. When member 1 asked him, he said: "This is all made specially for us by the common people, how dare we dislike it! The common people have to mix it with wild vegetables, which will make it even less delicious!"
Back to At the court, Xu Li and his entourage reported to the emperor that the drought in Gansu was real and that the people were living in extreme hardship. It was a place where rats would die if they stumbled over snakes, and taxes could not be paid. The emperor then reduced Gansu's grain tax by 3,500 dan. Because there was a person from Henan who once said that Henan was a land of great courage, and the harvest that year was also good, so the reduced grain tax was borne by Henan.
Xu Li is tall and tall, with a long beard and white teeth. He was an eloquent and talented man, an honest official, and a man of great service to the people. His memorials were sincere and well-reasoned, so that no corrupt officials were afraid of giving excuses. Once when he went to court, he happened to meet a prince playing shuttlecock at the Meridian Gate. The prince joked: "Xu Huzi often participated in playing for others when he went to court. What crime should he deserve?" Xu Li also joked: "You are holding a phoenix (that is, shuttlecock feathers, phoenix). Alluding to the empress) kicking the emperor (that is, the copper coins on the shuttlecock are the emperor's several gold coins), what crime should be committed?" The prince who asked was speechless. Because Xu Li was upright and upright, he gained the respect of the emperor. Just when he was doing his best to serve the country, unfortunately, a letter came from home that his father was critically ill. He resigned from his official position and returned to his hometown on the pretext of going home to see his father.
To express his feelings, he pulled more than ten carts with all the things he needed and left Kyoto in a mighty manner. Someone reported to the emperor in the name of a corrupt official. The emperor sent a light cavalry guard to intercept him halfway. After checking, the car contained books, paper, pens, inkstones, hoes, plow sticks, etc. The emperor was puzzled. Xu Li said: "I have been an official for many years, and today I returned home in fine clothes. I brought these things as gifts to my father and fellow villagers. Young people study hard and serve the country; farmers work hard and live and work in peace and contentment." The emperor sighed, praised Xu Li, and punished Xu Li. People who make false accusations.
When Xu Li was appointed to the county, he often went deep into the people. He saw the simple folk customs, respecting the old and loving the young. He thought of his distant relatives and felt deeply. He wrote four poems (Missing Relatives while in office) to send abroad. Feelings:
My son is in the south of the Yangtze River and I am in the west. I shed tears wherever the white clouds fly.
The Confucian scholar mistakenly raised me in the court, but he was pure and filial, but he didn't know that he was a commoner.
Who knows that pure filial piety is commoner, Wen Qing and Ding Sheng will not violate the deadline.
Tell me what to do, it will relieve my daily sorrow in a foreign land.
I feel sad every day in a foreign land, and I am tired of serving the country and caring for the people.
On the day of Yu Ting's three-year work report, the purple mud was wet with five-color dragon seals.
The five-color dragon seal is wet with purple mud, and I realize that I can live up to my studies.
It is difficult to repay God's kindness with a trickle of money, but the economic love and ambition are in line with each other.
According to folklore, Xu Li also brought back banquet operation techniques from the imperial court and taught them to the local people, which influenced and changed local eating habits and formed a food culture in Zhenyuan that is different from other places. Nowadays, the banquets that Zhenyuan people serve during New Years, festivals, weddings, funerals, and marriages are made in imitation of imperial banquets.
Xu Li died at the age of 48 at the Xu Family Ancestral Hall in Mabo Valley, east gate of Zhenyuan County. There used to be a family temple in front of the ditch, which was popular with incense. It was demolished due to road construction in the early years of liberation and was buried in the west of the county. On Lianchiping, the tomb was robbed in the 22nd year of the Republic of China. The python robe, jade belt and other items were stolen, but the remaining epitaph bricks were still left in the tomb. The only souvenir he left to his descendants was the ivory wat tablet he held in his hand when he went to court. It is still kept in the Xu family and has become a prop used by the villagers of Xugou Village to play social fire every year.