As one of the four major ancient towns in Guizhou, Qingyan Ancient Town is not purely filled with many ancient buildings of the Ming and Qing Dynasties with exquisite design and craftsmanship, coupled with the historical and humanistic gatherings of Qingyan Ancient Town, it is therefore crowded with tourists. As a tourist mecca, Qingyan Ancient Town attracts a lot of tourists of course, but also its specialty food.
Qingyan Ancient Town, one of the food - brined pig's feet
Walking through the Qingyan Ancient Town, that paved with the old streets, carved beams and eaves of the old buildings, so that people have a kind of trance through the illusion of space and time, but that along the streets of the gusts of brined incense for, and will instantly pull people back to reality.
Most of the vendors on both sides of the street sell snacks that are characteristic of the ancient town, many of which are Qingyan brined pig's feet. There is also a historical legend about Qingyan pig's feet!
It is said that at the end of the Qing Dynasty, Zhao Yijiong, a scholar from Qingyan, went to the capital to take the examination, and when he left, his mother brined a pot of pig's trotters for him to eat on the way, and then Zhao Yijiong won the high school high school scholarship, and became the first person in Yunnan and Guizhou provinces since the imperial examination, "to be the top scholar and the first in the world", and so the people of Qingyan brined pig's trotters as "scholar's trotters". The people of Qingyan called the brined pig's feet as "Scholar's Feet".
Qingyan brined pig's feet are selected from the best pig's feet, a large thick meat, cleaned and cut soak in the special marinade in a slow simmering simmering, brined to the skin and meat when the reddish, when the pig's feet skin is soft and glutinous meat, eat up the aroma of the four, so that people mouth-watering.
Brined pig's trotters are fished out in large pots or large iron plate sold by the catty, the scale is good on the table when the boss will be accompanied by special chili pepper water to dip to eat, the taste is a masterpiece. Dipping pig's feet in the chili water is also unique, is a hand rubbed paste chili, vinegar, roots, green onions and other special made to eat spicy and delicious, and soft brined pig's feet with a perfect match.
Just like this, strolling through the old town, eating food, enjoying this leisurely time.