"Treat the guests with tea, and recommend the carved plums."
As early as the Tang Dynasty, the poet Li Bai wrote about the carving of plums when he was in the Shenggong Qingfeng Pavilion of youhuacheng Temple, which shows its long history.
Coincidentally, the carved plum also has a long history in Tengchong. Carved plum is both a unique delicacy of Tengchong and a carefully carved handicraft.
Plum fruit is rich in a variety of amino acids, minerals and other ingredients that are beneficial to the human body, and have the effect of appetizing and refreshing the spirit, which helps to treat indigestion, loss of appetite and other diseases. The carved plum wine made is sweet and mellow, full of color, and is a good gift from Tengchong people visiting relatives and friends.
The craft of making carved plums has been passed down in Tengchong for many years, and through generations of words and deeds, with dexterous hands and full patience to create this unique artistic delicacy. The Tengchong process is fully displayed in one carving and one refinement.
After passing through the hands of Tengchong people, rounded plums can be carved into more than 60 different patterns, small and delicate. In the era of mechanized production, Tengchong people still inherit and insist on making carved plums by hand from generation to generation, perhaps because they feel that hand carving can give carved plums a warm temperature.
"Kick off the swing and get up and straighten your hands." Dew is thin and thin, and the sweat is lightly clothed. See the guests come in, the socks are cut off and the gold is slipped. And shyly walked, leaned on the door and looked back, but sniffed the green plum. A few words wrote about the girl's pure feelings, as if seeing the shyness of the girl peeking.
If Qingmei is shy, just like a girl's heart, then the carving plum is to carve this meandering heart into a poem and hide it in wine.
In Tengchong and Shun, it is common to wash the fresh plums that grow in the corners of their yards in June and July, and use knives to carve out various tricks to soak wine, along with shyness and heart, and keep them until they are married.
When the green plum is carved into a carved plum, the girl's heart that was once hidden in a greenery will eventually be properly placed.
Tengchong, a set of volcanic geothermal in one of the "polar edge of the first city", here unique geographical and climatic conditions for the growth of green plums to provide favorable conditions.
Tengchong average annual temperature is 25 °C, most of the Merlin is in the mountain forest above 2000 altitude, Tengchong special volcanic soil, deep and fertile soil, sufficient sunshine, abundant rainfall, its climate, rainfall, light and soil quality are suitable for plum tree growth. Grown in such a place, Tengchong's plums have the characteristics of thick flesh, small core, delicious taste and high nutrition.
Mazhan Dayun Village, a village with hundreds of years of plum cultivation history, here simple people follow the ancient method of planting plum trees, no pesticides, no fertilizers, natural growth of plum meat thick and delicious.
Ome at Ma Station, in Zhongying... Surrounded by mountains and water, far from the city in the Tengchong mountain forest, plums are basking in the sun, watching the blue sky and white clouds mature.
Every year in May and June, the picked plums are carefully selected to be used to make carved plums. The carved pattern of the green plum needs to be soaked in light salt water overnight to remove the bitterness, and then fished out to control the dry water and added to the 52-degree liquor for more than a year.
There are more than 60 kinds of Tengchong carved plum patterns, the number is so large that the exquisite finished products are unique in the country.
Rose pattern
Hydrangea pattern
Rice pattern
Chrysanthemum pattern
Glass pattern
Octagonal pattern
Multi-layered leaf pattern
Single-layer leaf pattern
Polygonal leaf pattern
Lace-shaped octagonal pattern
Sunflower pattern
This bottle of carved plum wine hidden in The Tengchong family is waiting for you to taste.
Tips
Recommended places for buying plum wine: Tengchong City and Shun Ancient Town
Source: Tengchong Ji