Living and working hard in a big city, do you often miss the "taste of your hometown"?
Today,I introduce you to Grandma Qinba who lives in the mountains of Shaanxi. Hundreds of "grandma brand food", let many headline netizens recall their grandmother's craftsmanship, a time full of nostalgia.
"Mother, what are you going to eat today?"
"Your grandfather wants to eat steamed noodles."
With a strong rural accent, @Qinba Grandma is intently preparing today's lunch for her family. She picked vegetables, noodles, noodles, and pots with her hands and feet... A bowl of fragrant steamed noodles, waiting to come out of the pan.
Grandma's cooking skills are very good, local snacks, classic dishes are all in question. Click on the headline homepage of @Qinba Grandma, as if you have harvested a Shaanxi food recipe:
You'll see Grandma digging out huge plant rhizomes, grinding them into powder, and making a fragrant konjac tofu.
When it is hot, Grandma will come to a bowl of smooth and tender Shaanxi famous snack pulp water surface fish, sour and refreshing slurry in the sun bright and attractive.
There is also a unique flavor of kimchi beef rice noodles, large pieces of beef mixed with rice noodles together, noodle soup can drink a large bowl.
"Hardcore" dishes are essential, and grandma's hand-stewed pig's trotters are oily and red in color, which is an authentic hometown flavor.
Not to mention the pork rib stew that blends rich meat aroma with rice, and the Shaanxi version of chicken with noodles and bibimbap. Across the screen, people can swallow their saliva...
These ordinary and delicious dishes are recorded by Grandma's grandson, a young man who has returned to his hometown from the big city, Zhang Wanlu.
"Life is only 76,000 meals, and there is always one meal that will make you cry, and that is the taste of home." For Zhang Wanlu, the taste of home is three meals a day made by grandma.
Born in rural Shaanxi, her parents have been working in other places since childhood, and Zhang Wanlu's childhood was spent with her grandparents.
During the days when he was a migrant worker, he would always think of the simple life in his hometown, and the most impressive thing was to work in the fields with his grandparents, planting cucumbers, cowpeas, beans and green onions in the summer, and cabbage and turnips in the winter.
At that time, my grandparents were very busy every day, and my grandmother had to push the vegetables from the field to the city every day to sell, and it took 4 hours to walk back and forth. Vegetables are not easy to sell, and it is common for the whole car to go back to the whole car. "Every night I would walk down the path counting the stars to pick up my grandmother, and the most important thing I was looking forward to was to see if my grandmother had brought me something delicious to come back." Zhang Wanlu recalled.
Zhang Wanlu and "Grandma Qinba", "Thanos Grandpa"
In the summer of 2018, he accidentally saw his grandmother digging konjac in the orange grove, so he casually photographed it and posted it on the Internet, and unexpectedly received thousands of plays. Many netizens replied that when they saw this video, they remembered their grandmother and remembered the happy life of their childhood.
These comments touched Zhang Wanlu, who was also working outside, and came up with the idea of recording the dishes made by her grandmother and the rural life in Shaanxi: "Instead of doing work that I don't like, every day life is like copying, it is better to return to Ankang to do what I like." ”
Therefore, he decisively ended his career and bought a one-way ticket to his hometown.
After returning to his familiar cabin, he began to learn to record every meal made by his grandmother with the camera, and also used simple language to tell the ordinary and moving feelings between his grandmother and grandfather.
Because Ankang belongs to the Daba Mountain area south of the Qinling Mountains, and has the name of "Qinba", the post-90s creator named this headline account that records the life of his family as "Grandma Qinba".
In Zhang Wanlu's eyes, nostalgia is the most worthy of a bowl of steamed noodles.
This is also the collective memory of the Ankang people, in this livable town, five steps can see a snack bar selling steamed noodles, the locals start the day with a bowl of steamed noodles, the taste is "very beautiful".
Bean sprouts, celery on the bottom, soft dough with boiled sour vinegar soup, plus a spoonful of oil spicy seeds, a spoonful of sesame paste, garlic juice, mustard oil, mixed together and then slipped a big mouthful, that is the tip of the tongue like a teasing.
Zhang Wanlu has also used the lens to interpret this authentic Shaanxi cuisine many times, and while expressing her love for her hometown through steamed noodles, she has aroused the homesickness of many netizens: "I want to return to Ankang from Guangzhou to eat steamed noodles", "When I see this, I miss my grandfather", "Steamed noodles Ankang people's favorite"...
"Good content will definitely get the love of fans and the recommendation of the platform, and everything goes naturally, which is the best state." Zhang Wanlu hopes that through the creation of the headlines, the idyllic life state of the grandparents will be conveyed to more fans, and at the same time, they will also experience the taste of home and feel the warmth of home here.
His heart was not in vain.
The content of Ankang steamed noodles has been played more than 55 million times on the whole network, and as an Ankang person, he can make the most representative food in his hometown be known and loved by more people, which makes him feel extremely proud and pleased. And because his creation closely combines "food and emotion", @Qinba Grandma's headline number gathers more and more netizens' thoughts about their relatives and hometown:
- "My grandmother also had a pair of skillful hands, and she could never eat the delicious food she made anymore. The memories of childhood tastes can no longer be recalled. I wish this grandmother health, longevity, happiness and well-being. ”
- "Watched your video for a long time, only this time, it warmed the eyes and heart." In my memory, my grandmother's home in the hinterland of the Central Plains also had such a bowl of hemp food full of love and nostalgia. During the Qingming Dynasty, the rain is pouring, and it is full of homesickness, and the taste of happiness will always exist. ”
- "I want to go home, it is the taste of my well-being, in Zhuhai for more than ten years, watching The video of Grandma Qin Ba comforts my homesickness!" I wish my grandparents good health. ”
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Living in the city, you can go to the supermarket with abundant ingredients to buy dishes, and when you return to the rental house to rotate the gas stove, you can start making food, which is a convenience that the hometown is self-sufficient and firewood stove cannot give. But meals made with a full range of modern kitchenware always seem to be missing something, and sometimes after two bites, they become tasteless.
Maybe it's the figure that's busy satisfying your taste buds and the phrase that hears the calloused ears: "Eat!" ”
Now, every day, 2.75 million people are watching the headlines @ Qinba Grandma Update three meals a day, in addition to waiting for food, more people are looking forward to pinning their thoughts on their loved ones and hometown through video content.
"Grandpa lives in grandma's heart, and grandma is grandpa in her eyes", "Grandpa is Grandma's most loyal fan, like a child waiting to eat." In every video made by Zhang Wanlu, the little beauty between grandparents is captured by the camera.
What Grandpa loves to eat, Grandma does.
Grandma said, "As long as he's in good health, tell him to eat." ”
Grandpa said, "It's beautiful." ”
Grandma became a food blogger, and Grandpa spontaneously took on the responsibility of "eating broadcast".
Because of the pain of Grandpa's hard work in the field, Grandma always prepared the day's delicacies for him early according to the taste that Grandpa loved to eat. In the busy spring season, make a bowl of Grandpa's favorite Ankang steamed noodles, Grandpa ate a bowl of belly, and all the hard work of the day was wiped out.
Grandpa enjoyed Grandma's care and would occasionally take a handle, adding a handful of firewood to her cooking and handing her a blue flower bowl when she was busy.
But more often, Grandpa always smiled and squinted at her and looked at her. Taste the saltiness, eat every meal to the plate light bowl light, smile until you see the teeth and do not see the eyes.
As a recorder, Zhang Wanlu said: "The feelings of grandparents cannot be described by vigorousness. The feelings of that generation are actually precipitated in the bits and pieces of life. Standing the test of time and the precipitation of the years, they have experienced hand in hand from the passion of youth, to the stability of middle age, and now to mutual support. ”
But bland feelings tend to penetrate the back of the paper.
@Grandma Qinba The copywriting of each content is only one or two sentences, but many fans feel that the best love is just like this:
"You cook for me, I accompany you to grow old, happiness is so simple" "Grandma said that the so-called preference for sons and daughters is that men take heavy and women take light." "Every dish I cook for you is the most beautiful love letter I have written to you"
Perhaps to say ten thousand words of love "I love you", it is better to accompany him alone for a lifetime, three meals and four seasons, from early morning to dusk, from handsome teenagers to dying old age.
Netizens have also left messages: "The love of grandparents is really enviable", "three meals a day, two people together, flowers in all seasons, life is enough." ”
In addition to the beautiful love between grandparents, the life status of @Qinba's grandmother family is evaluated by fans as a realistic version of "longing for life".
A family of three generations, with a self-sufficient rural courtyard, the vegetable garden is homegrown vegetables, melons and fruits, the noise in the chicken shed is in the ears, and the fragrance of flowers in the garden is fragrant.
When the family gathers for dinner, the family sits around the table, talking about this year's harvest, the work of relatives, the children growing tall again, the laughter is passed on the table, and the family affection ripples in time.
The melons, fruits and vegetables in the vegetable garden, the splash of water when cooking noodles, the satisfaction of eating a bowl, the fireworks of life come to the face, reminiscent of the grandparents in memory, and make people homesick.
Cities and villages are pinned on the different feelings of contemporary people.
When you are in your hometown, people always yearn for the lights and greenery in the big city. After leaving our hometown, we recall the hometown food of our childhood, and those aromas and tastes constitute our deepest emotions and sincere thoughts about our hometown.
In the headlines, @Qinba Grandma conveys the most simple emotions between people by showing ordinary Shaanxi cuisine.
Perhaps compared to the recently explosive fashion "silver-haired boudoir group", foodie Grandma Cai, Broken Mouth Tian Grandma, @ Qin Ba Grandma is just an old man who can cook and is not good at words. But it is such an ordinary grandmother who uses her cooking skills and smile to comfort and heal countless urban people who are working outside, so that everyone thinks of the old man at home who also loves to cook, loves to nag, and is worried that you will not be able to eat outside and wear warm clothes.
The love and support of millions of netizens has also become a powerful driving force for @Qinba Grandma to continue to create.
Elderly people who have lived in the countryside for a long time have access to the Internet, and we, as spectators, are touched by the softest places in our hearts. Originally a stranger in the south of the mountains and the north of the sea, it seems to have become a familiar and warm family.
Whether you are a city person far away from your hometown or a rural person who sticks to the countryside, as long as you want to see, want to shoot, and want to create, headlines welcome you to come and share your love for life.
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