Dishes stir-fried with chicken and chili peppers are called chili chicken or chili fried chicken, which are available everywhere and can be called local delicacies. One side of the water and soil to raise one person, food without fixed taste and delicious Jane, this is common sense, beyond reproach. However, there is a difference between jujube spicy chicken and chili fried chicken. What's the difference? What's the difference? In short, the ingredients are different, the methods are different, the tastes are different, and the cultures are different. The article published in the 11th issue of Sichuan Cuisine magazine in 2019 has a detailed discussion. This article will make a rough exposition of the ingredients of zaozhuang spicy chicken.
Let's start with chickens
Tracing back to the origin, chickens evolved from the ancient Tyrannosaurus rex, and evolution was by no means completed in a short period of time. It may be transformed into a bird by a Tyrannosaurus rex, and then from a bird to a pheasant, and the pheasant may be domesticated by a person. Chicken populations, breeds are differentiated. So, why is the native chicken that grew on the land of Zaozhuang in ancient and modern times called "Sun Zhi Chicken" now? What is the difference between the Sunzhi chickens in Zaozhuang and the chickens of other populations? "Sun Zhi" is a new branch that grows on a plane tree. The earliest compilation of documents in ancient China, the Book of Shang, has long recorded Sun Zhi, and the Customs and Customs also records: "Wutong was born on the Yang Yan stone of The Mountain, and adopted the southeast Sun Zhi as the piano, and the sound was very elegant." The plane tree that grew in the ancient Zaozhuang land (there are still ancient sycamore trees growing on the hills of Chengxiang Andong) was a special wood for the court to make a violin, and it was used to make a violin, with an elegant tone. The southeast branch of the plane tree has a rooster. The mountains, southeastern, wutong, sunzhi, and tianji refer to the area around Zaozhuang, Yang or Lunan. The local chickens in Zaozhuang belong to the small chicken group of meat and egg combined use, which is good at running and fighting, and stays on the branches of the tree overnight. Experts and scholars of the Zaozhuang Guoguo Society went through a large number of ancient classics, and after repeated comparison and deliberation, they named this local chicken "Sun Zhi Chicken". Therefore, the name of the SunZhi chicken is well-founded and in line with the biological habits of the local chicken, so the ancient Tianji today's local chicken has an official name.
Although the name of the sun branch chicken is a bit tongue-twisting, it is by no means a grandson chicken that some people misunderstand the custom. The name of Sun Zhi Chicken is just a scientific name for the local chicken in Zaozhuang, and there is no need to dwell on it.
If the Zaozhuang chicken is not called Sun Zhi Chicken, it is still the local chicken, native chicken, free-range chicken, walking chicken, playing pheasant, orchard chicken or giving a name with the same name as foreign chicken, is that appropriate? What name is called is just a sign to show the difference. Are there no native chickens, native chickens and free-range chickens in the northeast and northwest thousands of miles away?
Moreover, there is a saying among the people of Zaozhuang from ancient times to the present: "There is a plane tree at home, and it is not worrying about attracting the golden phoenix (colorful pheasant- note from the author)". Even if academic expressions are thrown away and the complexity is simplified, the local people who do not know the Zulu class of hundreds of workers. Local carpenters often call the roots below the ground the ancestors, the trunks above the ground the father, and the branches, branches, and new branches emitted from the trunks call the suns. There seems to be nothing wrong with referring to the local chickens that live in groups on the branches every night as sunchild chickens. If the sun branch chicken is not wild, if the sun branch chicken is a large chicken weighing 4 to 5 pounds, how can it fly to the branch every day to stay overnight.
It should be admitted that after 1979, Zaozhuang had a special chicken industry, a large number of fast-growing chicken populations were introduced, invaded and hybridized with local chickens, and the growth time of chickens was significantly reduced. Everyone feels that it is not as good as the spicy chicken fried by the local chicken, and it is a direct feeling that it is not delicious, and it is also a true fact.
In Zaozhuang, the calls of middle-aged and elderly diners seeking to restore the traditional taste of Zaozhuang spicy chicken are becoming increasingly strong, and there is no real local chicken that cannot make traditional taste, and the deliciousness of group memory has become a regret for Zaozhuang people for a while. There is demand in the market.
It takes no effort to find the hard places in the world. There are always many people with a sense of responsibility among the people, and Zhang Yangmin, senior pastor of the Municipal Animal Husbandry Bureau, is an excellent representative of the chicken breeding and breeding industry in Zaozhuang. For more than 20 years, he has spared no effort to preserve seeds, breed, isolate, purify, expand the group, preserve the original local chicken breed inheritance, and name it Sun Zhi Chicken, so that the characteristic Zaozhuang spicy chicken will not lead to the depletion of the main ingredients. At present, Sun Zhi Chicken has been included in the newly discovered poultry species in Shandong Province, with a background of government recognition and support. The new discovery is not a new flock, which can only show that the commodity awareness of zaozhuang people still needs to be greatly improved.
Sun Zhi chicken fried Jujube Zhuang spicy chicken is delicious needless to say, this is the orthodox use of Zaozhuang spicy chicken. Beijing Compson Biotechnology Co., Ltd. compared the gene sequencing test between sunzhi chicken and Shandong chicken group, and gave the authoritative conclusion that sunzhi chicken has pheasant genes and belongs to an independent population. The Poultry Inspection and Testing Center of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs concluded that the meat quality of Sunzhi chicken is strong in shear, water absorption is large, and the protein content is higher than that of other chickens. The conclusion of the laboratory test of professional instruments is different from the casual remarks of gourmets. This is one of the main reasons why the flavor of Zaozhuang spicy chicken is different from that of chili fried chicken.
Then there's the chili pepper
Chili pepper is a Bolaipin, its hometown is not in China, probably introduced to China in the middle of the Ming Dynasty. Zaozhuang people eat spicy from the national point of view is not the most prosperous area, especially Lu cuisine is based on salty and fresh taste, except for Zaozhuang, other areas of the province do not eat spicy. Zaozhuang, which also belongs to Shandong, is a spicy city in Qilu, with ten dishes and nine spicy, and spicy chicken is one of the main representatives. Zaozhuang people eat spicy is formed by the superposition of many reasons.
The traditional peppers grown by the rural people of Zaozhuang are called a nest of bee thin skins, and they have been planted for many years. A nest of bee pepper fruit shape is beautiful, green color, thin skin, few seeds, crisp, fragrant, skin and flesh connected, moderate spiciness, fruit shaped like a copper bell, also known as bell shell, the result of a nest, a bunch, a bunch, early ripening, seedlings off the ground flowering seat fruit, is the excellent ingredient for Zaozhuang spicy chicken, it can be said that there is no Zaozhuang a nest of bee peppers, the chef can not make the special taste of Zaozhuang spicy chicken. Probably due to the natural degradation of inbreeding, a swarm of bee peppers has gradually lost its original advantages. In 1982, Qin Delei, a student of Zaozhuang Agricultural School, was determined to restore the advantage of a swarm of bee peppers and preserve this excellent variety for the zaozhuang people.
After graduation, Qin Delei was assigned to Nongkou in Yicheng District. Once, he went to Nanjing with the experts of the city's agricultural mouth to investigate, and found an unnamed but similar black-shelled pepper like Zaozhuang's bee pepper in the vegetable base near Nanjing, and quietly brought it back to Zaozhuang, and later learned that its name was Su Pepper No. 5. First planted in the self-reserved land of a friend in Xiwangzhuang Township, and then crossed, propagated, purified and seed-making with a nest of bee peppers in Zaozhuang, after several years of hard work, the traditional nest of bee peppers was restored. How nai, a swarm of bee peppers taste good, but the yield is relatively low, but also Zaozhuang spicy chicken can not be separated from the ingredients, with the gradual increase in market demand, the people are more willing to plant high-yield, economic income varieties. In the case that the jujube spicy chicken was once confused due to the ingredients of the pepper, Qin Delei was anxious in his heart and often could not sleep at night. He went south to the north, looked east and west, thought of many ways, and finally found a kind of thin-skinned pepper commonly known as pig intestine in Changji, Xinjiang, such as the treasure, after several years of closed seeding, finally cultivated a high yield flavor with the same traditional bee pepper wrinkled skin 109 pepper.
At present, Zaozhuang wrinkled pepper has been declared as a geographical indication specialty, and Zaozhuang has also become the focus of the national wrinkled pepper production. The planting area of wrinkled peppers in the country exceeded 120,000 mu, and on October 5, 2020, the International Seed Industry Expo was held in Tianjin, and Qin Delei was surrounded by participants from all over the country in the planting of pepper seeds. The hardships of breeding and breeding are unknown, one thing is certain, there are currently more than 2,000 varieties of peppers in the country, if there is no Zaozhuang a swarm of bees, wrinkled skin 109, wrinkled skin, green excellent and other thin-skinned fragrant peppers, who can fry the taste of traditional Jujube Zhuang spicy chicken. The author's statement that Qin Drey is the father of wrinkled peppers is by no means an overflowing statement.
Speaking of the naming of wrinkled skins, there is also a story. Wrinkle is the meaning of the longitudinal and unsmooth said by the people of Zaozhuang, for the local language of the Zaozhuang dialect, the nasal sound is too heavy, and the outsiders need to explain it. What to do, Qin Delei after more than ten days of hard thinking, changed the longitudinal skin to a wrinkled skin referred to as a wrinkled skin. Grammatically speaking, the longitudinal skin does not make sense, and it is easier to understand and popular than the wrinkled skin.
Horses do not whip themselves. For the obscure people, for the people who are willing to dedicate, for the people who take responsibility, they value the hometown feelings, a career, and the value of life. As far as the Zaozhuang spicy chicken industry is concerned, Zhang Yangmin is a meritorious person, and Qin Delei is also a meritorious person. Otherwise there is no root, where there is a source, where there is a source, where there is a stream.
The third said calf soy sauce and vinegar
Bao calf spicy chicken special soy sauce, vinegar, is a long-established product in Shandong Province, is also one of the famous brand condiments in Shandong Province. Zaozhuang this soy sauce, vinegar, pure grain traditional solid fermentation brewing, is one of the three main ingredients of Zaozhuang spicy chicken, but also one of the important condiments of Zaozhuang spicy chicken. The brewing process of soy sauce and vinegar can be traced back to the skills of brewing artists among Shanxi immigrants in the middle and late Ming Dynasty. At first, there was a brewer surnamed Liu in Shanxi immigrants, who moved to Nanguan, Laoyi County, set up a Nanguan Brewery, and after several generations of development, formed many brewing workshops with the same surname and the same door, and in the heyday, there was Jining Yutang in the west, Nanguan in Yixian County in the east, and Xuzhou Wantong in the south, which was more famous very early.
After liberation, the public-private partnership, the workshops belonged to one factory. After several changes, Yixian Nanguan Brewery artists have been displaced in many places, Bao calf Condiment Co., Ltd. has inherited and carried forward the process of Nanguan Brewing Factory, from grain selection, bran, water extraction, salt, ingredients, clear pond, stacking, fermentation, turning, drying, testing, sparkling, bottled, sealing, labeling, inspection, etc., The responsibility of the Taoist process is to people, strictly control the quality, do not forget the original intention, and do not add any freshening, color enhancement, flavoring and flavoring agents, for pure grain green natural soy sauce, vinegar.
What is more wonderful is that the world's soy sauce has an umami taste and sauce flavor, and the soy sauce of the calf has a bad flavor, the three flavors are one; the calf vinegar is different from the aged vinegar, rice vinegar, balsamic vinegar, for the fragrance of light and elegant vinegar, very suitable for the taste of the people of Zaozhuang, sour and not bitter, but also makes the Zaozhuang spicy chicken delicious with a soul.
Before concluding this article, I have a few unpleasant words. That is, there is a difference between Zaozhuang spicy chicken and chili fried chicken; falsely claiming that the special cuisine cooked by special ingredients constitutes a fraud to consumers; maintaining the locality, tradition, characteristics, uniqueness, and authenticity of Zaozhuang spicy chicken has the value of promotion; Zaozhuang has more than one million mu of mountain forests, ecological chicken raising technology has matured, and a chicken is alive and well; Zaozhuang spicy chicken involves primary, secondary, and tertiary production, and is a large industry that can be made into a hundred billion output value; grasp the foundation, grasp from the foundation, and use culture to cultivate more terminal diners The purpose of declaring the hometown of China's spicy chicken is mainly for the people of Zaozhuang; the cultural and data potential of Zaozhuang spicy chicken with more than one million words has yet to be exerted, and the inheritance is not conservative, and innovation is inseparable.
Author: Wang Xinquan