It has been 6,000 years since the "Shanghai First Rice" excavated from the Songze site, and the water and soil of Qingpu have created a monumental rice style. Folk customs have clouds: "frosted green vegetables race lamb", with the winter temperature falling, with Qingpu new rice listed, with the "taste of the old bottom" of the dish rice, carrying people's thoughts about the old stove at home, the achievement of a bowl of heart-warming "human fireworks". This winter, the Qingpu District Culture and Tourism Bureau specially launched the "Qingpu Vegetable Rice Season - A Bowl of Human Fireworks" theme cultural tourism route, inviting the general public and tourists to go into the countryside and kitchens of Qingpu to explore the special dishes and rice with different flavors, and to peek into the past and present lives of this bowl of "human fireworks". 9 hotels and homestays in the area, seasonal launch of room and meal package special activities, just pay attention to the Qingpu Cultural Tourism WeChat public account, you can enjoy the exclusive "pet powder price".
The "Qingpu Vegetable Rice Season" mainly promotes three cultural tourism routes, including rice exploration, original taste of the countryside, and hotel freshness. These three routes not only connect the beautiful villages of Qingpu farming civilization for thousands of years, but also bring together the most well-known high-quality agricultural products in Qingpu in the season, from the rural earth stove to the back kitchen of the hotel, each with its own unique incense "vegetable rice", integrating Qingpu's unique Jiangnan farming culture, regional characteristics and water town humanistic feelings, promoting the integrated development of culture, tourism and agriculture, and promoting rural revitalization.
During the event, the Qingpu District Culture and Tourism Bureau will also carry out online prize collection activities through the WeChat public platform of Qingpu Cultural Tourism, inviting the general public and tourists to participate in the interaction, come together to "boast about my family's vegetable rice", participate in the selection of "Qingpu Vegetable Rice Club", awaken the warm memory of the "old stove" at home, and taste the selected specialty rice. It is reported that the message "Popular King" will receive generous prizes such as the "Bowl of Fireworks in the World" experience package provided by oriental green boat hotel, oriental green boat resort, oriental green boat hotel, Shanghai Lianyi loquat paradise, Jingting homestay, and Le Dao Xintian homestay.
Qingpu rice, each grain has a story
A bowl of fragrant vegetable rice is inseparable from high-quality rice. Qingpu thin rice is the shanghai rice market for Qingpu excellent rice, named for the grain full, thin shell rice rate, excellent rice quality. According to historical records, at the end of the Qing Dynasty, the "thin rice" operated by Qingpu Zhujiajiao dominated in Shanghai and was exported to Beijing and overseas, and the price of rice in Zhujiajiao was the price "weather vane" of Shanghai rice market.
Qingpu rice cultivation has a long history and a broad and profound farming culture. In 1961, archaeologists collected rice stems and rice grains from the Majiabang culture during the excavation of the Songze site, which were identified by agricultural experts as two different subspecies of japonica and indica. This is one of the oldest rice specimens in China and provides valuable information for the study of agricultural origins. The "Shanghai First Rice" excavated at the Songze site has advanced the history of rice cultivation in Qingpu and even the world to 6,000 years ago, and has also made this water and soil known to the world as the origin of human rice cultivation civilization. What is even more impressive is that the history of rice cultivation in the Qingpu area has never been interrupted since then. Nowadays, ecological rice such as frog rice, duck rice, rice and turtle symbiosis cultivated with the help of advanced agricultural science and technology has become the preferred varieties favored by the public, all of which contain the wisdom and hard work of farmers.
The story of Qingpu rice is endless, and the traceability of agricultural civilization in the Songze Site Museum is even more exciting. The ancestors of this land not only attached importance to the domestication, cultivation and breeding of rice, but also attached importance to how to eat better - the ever-evolving cooking utensils such as kettles, dings, and yǎns (yǎn) jointly produced a "fireworks on earth" that lasted for thousands of years and was delicious.
Qingpu rice, every bite is an aftertaste
Good water produces good rice, And Qingpu, as an important source of drinking water in Shanghai, produces rice with a shiny appearance, fragrant and soft, and the germ of each grain of rice is as full as a small sun. Paired with the sweetened and sticky local greens as the weather cools, and the marinated bacon that is freshly scented by the sun, it can be said that it is the warmest nourishment for the "Jiangnan stomach".
The three main routes promoted by the "Qingpu Vegetable Rice Season" cover various scenic spots (points), hotels and homestays in Qingpu District, and prepare a meal of Qingpu rice condensed in the water town of Jiangnan for the general public and tourists, leading everyone to start a fireworks tour full of hometown flavor, and deeply explore the once cooked but increasingly unfamiliar human fireworks.
The rice source exploration route allows tourists to taste the taste of this bowl of "old bottom", walk into the Songze Site Museum and the field to gain an in-depth understanding of the history of rice cultivation and the characteristics of the Qingpu rice brand. The original taste of the countryside invites citizens and tourists to stroll through the most beautiful countryside in Qingpu and feel the winter warmth cooked by the nostalgic earth stove. You can go to the Mint Xiang Farm in Linjia Village, Zhujiajiao Town, taste the locally produced fragrant rice, and spend the afternoon in the "Most Beautiful BookHouse" Mint Xiang Book Garden (reservation required); you can also go to the old barn in Kanazawa Town, taste the new rice of "Yin Glutinous" (the best face of japonica rice), feel the freshness of the fields of this small micro farm, and fish leisurely by the clear natural river (reservation required); Shanghai Lianyi Loquat Paradise, a national AAAA-level scenic spot in Tangyu Village, uses home-grown "Lianyi rice" and greens, as well as homemade bacon. Cooking a variety of flavored rice, Zhoujiagang Village's Le Dao Xin Tian Hong Restaurant, the main promotion of rural special bamboo tube rice, selected local Zhuxi Yugu rice, the rice aroma, meat aroma, vegetable aroma and bamboo aroma mixed, open lid aroma overflowing, people are appetizing. In Zhujiajiao Ancient Town, Jingting Homestay and Jiangnan First Tea House under the Jinggu people's home integrate Yunnan characteristic potatoes into Shanghai rice, using traditional copper pots to stew, which not only maintains the mellow flavor of potato rice, but also adds a bit of unique fragrance. Red firewood, fragrant new rice, and the simple field life of Qingpu are in harmony, awakening the childhood memories that urban people have forgotten in minutes. The hotel's fresh-looking route, 8 high-quality hotel restaurants in the collection area, launched different flavors of Qingpu cuisine. The rice of Oriental Green Boat Resort is made of salty ribs with three essences and three fats, although it is oily but not fatty; the wax-flavored sweet potato bamboo tube rice of oriental Green Boat Hotel emits a simple and fragrant flavor; the farmhouse casserole dish rice of Oriental Green Boat Hotel, selecting local small greens, homemade pickled bacon, casserole pot with a layer of golden pot, crisp and fragrant, with endless aftertaste; Zhujiajiao Anlu Hotel adds fresh matsutake 5J ham to the dish; CITIC Pacific Fu Zhujiajiao Jinjiang Hotel uses local pollution-free frog rice and crystal out of the tank meat in Qingpu to carefully cook casserole rice The Parma Ham Wax Black Truffle Rice at the InterContinental Shanghai National Convention and Exhibition Center is full of nostalgia; pullman Shanghai Excellence hotel uses chai-fired vegetable rice mixed with Thai jasmine rice and Jinhua South style bacon, full of nostalgia; Jingyuan Shuizhuang Hotel, which features home-cooked food in Zhujiajiao, stir-frying local ingredients in rapeseed oil to cook sticky farmhouse casserole rice.
Qingpu vegetable rice season, invite you to walk all the way, taste the fresh, looking for the warmest "bowl of fireworks in the world" in memory!
Author: He Yi
Editor: Liu Liyuan