Everyone says gangnam is good, but few people say that the winter in Gangnam is good.
The intertwined water network and abundant rain bring here not only the poetry of the flowing water of the small bridge, but also the cold moisture of the west wind.
However, the cold winter in Jiangnan is not severe, and even carries a sunny anger.
For example, in Suzhou, the winter here has minimalist lines and warm color blocks: dead branches, pink walls, blue sky, a few strokes, tea houses, bathhouses, vegetable farms, just a few lines, the winter feelings are written.
Lidong in Jiangnan is the prelude to "Winter Supplement", people will eat some chicken, duck and fish meat on the day of Lidong to reserve energy for the cold winter.
Suzhou people have a tradition of eating supplements and eating creams.
In the old days, the big families in the city would choose red ginseng, cinnamon balls, walnut meat, etc., and cook soup and drink it in winter, in order to replenish qi and blood and regulate yin and yang.
Nowadays, every winter, old Suzhou will also seek ancient cream recipes in major Traditional Chinese medicine halls, and there are many famous ointments, ranging from as little as 20 aftertastes to as many as 40 aftertastes or even more.
Although the cream is good, it should be gradual. In the eyes of the people, eating meat is the most enjoyable enjoyment in winter.
At the turn of autumn and winter, the ancient city of Gusu will be fragrant with mutton, and the streets and alleys are full of book-storing mutton shops.
People talked around the stove, talking about their homely routines, and the milky white mutton soup in the wooden barrel was soaked with lamb, just thinking about it was like smelling the rich aroma that belonged to Suzhou winter, as if pouring vitality into every tired winter soul.
But in fact, the book town near Taihu Lake does not produce sheep, and what makes it so famous is actually the unique craft of boiling lamb.
We all thought of it with the slogan, "We don't produce sheep, we're just delicious cooks.".
Lamb is the limited delicacy of winter, and noodle soup is a lifelong obsession of Suzhou people.
Book Collection Old Street @ Suzhou released
Old Suzhou is convinced of Confucius's "not eating from time to time", and has its own ingredients and tastes at different times, and this bowl of noodles can look at each other and eat all year round.
"Listen to the drama, eat noodles and eat soup", the soup of Su-style soup noodles is the most important, generally eat refreshing and delicious white soup in summer, and in winter, you will prefer soy sauce with broth mixed with red soup.
The most famous red soup is the hot stove noodles from Kunshan, and the process of hanging the soup is very cumbersome.
Chicken, duck, goose bones, plus seven or eight kinds of bones such as green fish scales, yellow eel bones, etc., and then with seven or eight kinds of Chinese herbs, spices, together slowly, fine boiling, the soup is rich and delicious, clear and not oily, in the cold winter to a bowl, really endless aftertaste.
Diners of noodles at kunshan AozaoGuan by haisheng
Eat noodles in winter, the most wonderful toppings are naturally meat. Poppy eels, braised hooves, spiced pork ribs, marinated duck, and the most classic and tested noodle chef's level of stew.
The pork belly that is full of grease will melt when soaked in the bottom of the bowl, and it will melt away, and it will be full of fat and fat, and it is endlessly delicious.
Braised meat noodles @ Suzhou released
In Jiangnan, people's lives are always inseparable from water. For example, a day in Suzhou starts in a teahouse and ends in a bathhouse.
Suzhou people have always loved to eat tea, during the Ming and Qing Dynasties, Suzhou's prosperity and prosperity reached its peak, with many commercial establishments and people, people need to rest, entertain, meet friends, eat...
As a result, the tea house became the "Yuelai Inn" of the city.
In the Ming Dynasty Qiu Ying Suzhou version of the "Qingming River Map" and the Qing Dynasty Xu Yang's "Gusu Prosperous Map" can find several teahouses, the world's wind and clouds, life is like a root of tea, through the boiling water, ups and downs, floating and sinking.
If you think that tourists are too noisy, you may wish to go to the small garden that is more loved in old Suzhou,......
These teahouses are hidden in the garden like hermits, where visitors from all over the world can hide in the city, sneak around, and wait until people go to the tea and cool, and then forget about each other.
The best thing is winter, the weather outside the window is somewhat gloomy, but the house is warm and dry, people are incubated in the tea house to read newspapers, play chess, small talk, holding hot tea in their hands, listening to a man and a woman's comments and blocking books, this is the Suzhou people's "incubation tea house", all comfortable.
Tea house in the garden, photo @ Tao Yuan
In the evening, it's time to take a comfortable bath. In the past, the bathhouses in Suzhou were all called mixed halls, and bathing was also called "incubation mixed halls".
Mr. Lu Wenfu's novel "Foodie" has a male protagonist Zhu Ziye, in addition to being keen on head soup noodles, he has to go to the bathhouse every day after lunch to take a bath, and they are all first-class rooms, and the service of ear removal, foot cutting, back beating, and scraping is very thoughtful.
Incubate in the hot pool for half a day, and then return to the bed, the whole person is a little fluttering, at this time the bathroom master will fly two hot towels, use it to wipe the body, not to mention how comfortable.
Then come a cup of tea, or knock on the back, a foot, the outside of the house is cold, the inside of the house is snoring, and another winter day has passed.
Although the winter in Suzhou is humid, often cold and bitter, deep into the bone marrow, but if you encounter a warm afternoon, you can also feel the subtle vitality.
On Fengmen Heng Street, the crowd of grocers gradually dispersed, and the stall owners sat in front of the shop or chatted or closed their eyes, and incubated the sun with lazy cats.
In front of the shop is the old street, behind the shop is the flowing water, old rice wine, small snacks, a string of hanging sausages, a whole chicken and duck, and the aroma of Su-style popcorn that fills the air...
This century-old vegetable farm has been condensed into a book of Jiangnan food talk.
When night falls, if you want to resist the cold winter, Suzhou people must have a pot of yellow wine on the table.
The entrance of rice wine is warm, soft, sticky and cotton, and it is similar to the temperament of Suzhou people. I don't know if it is because of this reason, Suzhou people have always loved to drink yellow wine, for which there is a special word called "mi".
This is not a red wine product, not a dry white wine, but a sip of lips to nourish the bottom, so that the wine is a little bit soaked in the heart.
Rice wine with crab, photo @ National Geographic
Yellow wine must be hot and then drink, pay attention to the old Suzhou will also add some ingredients to the wine, the most common are ginger shreds and plums.
Ginger shredded is to dispel the cold, and the plum, in the process of pickling, absorbs a lot of salt, sugar, licorice, thrown in a hot yellow wine, not only can relieve the wine, but also make the wine more beautiful.
After the yellow wine is strong, I want a mouthful of rice, a little taste. Standing up, my body warm, my steps swaying slowly, and I was happy to say anything.
It is said that once Lu Wenfu carried a pot of yellow wine to Beijing to visit Ye Shengtao, the wine was in full swing, Ye Lao said, I still have a real estate in Suzhou, send you some cultural uses.
So in 1988, the "Suzhou Magazine" edited by Lu Wenfu was founded, and the Suzhou Magazine Office naturally lived in the Bluestone Lane of the Rolling Embroidery Workshop, which was really a pot of wine in exchange for a building.
Rolling embroidery workshop bluestone lane No. 5 Suzhou magazine agency
Waiting for the winter solstice, the rice wine can be exchanged for winter wine, and the sweet and sweet osmanthus fragrance enters the throat with a sip of wine, soothing the tip of the tongue and warming the cold winter moon.
Everyone says that Jiangnan is good, and there are always people who say that the winter in Jiangnan is good.
The drizzle knocked on the canopy boats that crossed the bridge holes, and the moon halo sprinkled on the eaves of the houses stuffed with dead leaves. People guard the cold wind, but they do not feel desolate.
After all, winter is coming, will spring be far away?