In the first half of the last century, chengdu and Beiping had two similar restaurants, Jingning Hotel and Changmeixuan Restaurant.
Also located in the hinterland of the city park, surrounded by flowers and trees, adjacent to the tea shop, can eat and drink, Jing Ning Ju Shaocheng Park, Changmei Xuan Central Park. The same hall is not luxurious, the time is not long, but there are several well-known dishes, the former is famous for the tang slices of duck, fried finger, tofu fish, the latter is known for Mr. Ma soup, roasted morel mushrooms, ham buns. Changmeixuan is the drinking place of Lu Xun, Hu Shi, Zhang Hexhui, Lao She, Ma Sulun and others, and Jingning is the gathering place of Qian Mu, Lü Shuxiang, Lin Yutang, Ye Shengtao, Wu Yu and others.
Both are representatives of china's early park culture and dining, the only difference is that Beiping Changmeixuan specializes in Dianqian cuisine - Chengdu also had a famous store in the early years of Meixuan, the same name has a slight origin, another article to recount - while Chengdu Jingning is an authentic Sichuan restaurant.
Old shadow of Shaocheng Park
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > the beginning of Shaocheng Park</h1>
The Jingning Hotel was born from Shaocheng Park, and xingxing disappeared. Shaocheng Park is now the People's Park, and its establishment is an important pen and ink for the urban construction of modern Chengdu, and it is now briefly described with rare materials.
On October 10, 1909 (lunar calendar, the same below), the last emperor of the Qing Dynasty, Xuan Tong, decreed that the former deputy capital of Liangzhou, Yu Kun, would be made a general in Chengdu. On December 15, the chengdu general of the last Qing Dynasty arrived in Rong, and was officially inaugurated by the 567th Chengdu General Seal Letter issued by Zhao Erxun, the governor of Sichuan.
At a time when the Qing court was struggling, the situation was turbulent, and the situation of the flag people was getting more and more difficult, Yu Kun made it a top priority to reorganize the camp, coach and expand the school, and prepare for livelihood at the beginning of his term of office, and set up industrial business in Mancheng (that is, Shaocheng), build new street houses, open new trade, and open three new factories of agriculture and forestry, sericulture, and craft for the flag people to make a living. In February 1911, Yu Kun achieved initial results in the initiative of raising flags in the industry, and was praised by the imperial court, and in March, the construction of parks and theaters was started.
Shaocheng Park Museum
According to the knowledge of Yu Kun Shangchao and the family letter, the two gardens were selected in the southeast corner of Shaocheng, and jufeng restaurant was first built in the lotus pond inside the Xiaodongmen Gate, with a monthly rent of 50 yuan. He also used the rent of the camp as a mortgage, borrowed 15,000 taels of silver from the Yuanguan Bank of Lichuan, and transformed more than 50 mu of vegetable land in the area into a park and a theater garden, which was chartered and operated by Zhengxing Restaurant, and collected a total of 1,000 yuan per month in rent. Coupled with the accumulated monthly rent of 500 yuan for the newly opened houses in the city, the rent alone has 18,000 or 9,000 yuan per year, not including tickets, product sales and donations, Yu Kun is really very operational.
Here there are two old Sichuan restaurants, JufengYuan first opened Huaxing Street, and then set up a branch in Shaocheng Guandi Temple, this time the new camp lotus pond, is actually three degrees of expansion. In the middle and late Qing Dynasty, Chengdu catering leader Zhengxing Garden, although the end of the Qing Dynasty was the end of the strong crossbow, but still by identity and strength to win the right to operate the two gardens, its background had to be amazing, have not seen similar information before.
It took three months to build a large number of buildings, and the two gardens were successfully completed. The grand opening ceremony was held on the sixth day of June, all Sichuan officials came to congratulate, the morning is only for the official tour, the afternoon citizens can buy tickets to enter, the day to sell more than 3,200 park tickets, the theater sold more than 1,000 tickets, the hot grand situation lasted for several days. Because the two gardens are located in Shaocheng, they are commonly known as Shaocheng Park.
Janssen (left), Lu Zuofu (right)
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > popular education hall and Jinling Hotel</h1>
Soon after the opening of Shaocheng Park, it was in the baolu trend, and the following year it encountered a change of dynasty, and since then, there have been many repairs and additions to the park in Chengdu, of which the most significant improvement was in 1924.
In March of that year, Lu Zuofu, with the support of Yang Sen, founded a popular education hall in the park, and in just five months, he completed the public stadium, museum, sports room, lecture room, amusement room, film room, music room, library, Buddhist society, National Art Hall, expanded zoo, lotus pond, newly opened the back gate of the eastern end and many other projects, covering hundreds of acres, and officially opened on August 8 to welcome guests. Since then, major festivals have been celebrated, and various trainings, rallies, exhibitions, and sports events have been held on weekdays, and Shaocheng Park has once again presented a bustling and prosperous scene.
In addition to tea houses such as Heming, Tongchun, Green Sky, and Shade, Yuru Xinming Cinema, Heji Marbles Room (i.e. Billiard Room), Wanchun Opera Garden, Yuanji Photo Studio, Yongjian Ice Skating Rink, Pillow Stream Bathroom, Taste Cafe, Yanchun Flower Garden, Jingxiang Flower Garden, etc. have also been opened, attracting countless tourists. In terms of catering, Jufengyuan continued to operate, and rented the old premises with Huang Jinglin, the owner of the Shaanxi Street Jinglian Hotel, and the store was renamed Jinling Hotel after entering the park.
The gate of Shaocheng Park, the Art Exhibition of the Republic of China Air Force
Huang Jinglin is one of the most important masters in the history of modern Sichuan cuisine, both have a deep background in traditional Chinese studies, but also have a unique understanding and practice of Sichuan cuisine, as a county magistrate, as a cooking teacher, although there is nothing special in his career, but his later aunt Yuchuan Restaurant, but the combination of Chinese culture and Chinese cuisine skills seamlessly, triggered local media reports at that time, creating its "special Sichuan cuisine" (sometimes known as yu extraordinary) famous, attracting many celebrities to find out.
The Jinling Hotel in Shaocheng Park is the beginning of Huang's origins. Although less than two years after opening, Huang Jinglin went to Xingjing as a county official, and the hotel was not good at management because of his son Huang Boping, and arrived at Chen Xihou, a Wenjiang man, and it was precisely because of this variable that he created the later aunt feast, and there was the next Jingning Hotel.
Traditional Sichuan cuisine
Famous dishes, famous teachers and famous guests of Jing Ning Hotel
Chen Xihou took over the hotel from the Huang family and changed the name of the hotel to Jingning, which not only showed the image of the change of owners of the store, but also hid the heart of the past and opening up. Jingning Hotel is near the library, next to hundreds of plum blossoms, a courtyard bungalow hidden in it, antique and fragrant, and facing the rockery, the stream babbling, the east jujin River.
Jingning Hotel continues the business style of the Jinling period, concurrently operating private seats, zero meals and snack meals, the size of the courtyard is not large, with a small lattice sitting alone in front of it, and a bright window in the back of the hall. The facilities are slightly rudimentary, but the dishes are delicious, in addition to retaining the huqin skin, konjac duck strips, fried spotted fingers, boiled duck liver, pea fat intestine soup, home-cooked kimchi, new tofu fish, butterfly sea cucumber, oil drizzled garden fish, braised carp belly, watercress crucian carp, lentil puree and other fresh things.
Huqin skin is the famous caitang slice filled duck, similar to Beijing roast duck, select Sichuan west duck filling seasoning, slow roasted with bar charcoal, with sesame shortbread and onion sweet sauce dish, the chef eats the spot, because the Sichuan duck body is thin and tight, out of the slice such as huqin skin, crisp and delicious, crisp and tender, and Beijing duck. Tofu fish is one of the famous dishes in the Jingning period, the high-quality gypsum tofu is simmered in a good soup, in addition to the miscellaneous taste, and then add Pixian watercress, mash juice, sweet sauce, cooking wine, ginger and garlic and other ingredients cooked with fresh fish, the dish is bright red, delicious and delicious, accompanied by wine tasting is more mellow, this dish is inherited by Hibiscus Restaurant.
The reason why Jingning Hotel can launch a batch of fresh fish dishes is also due to the famous Sichuan cuisine masters Ji Ting, Ye Zhengfang, Feng Hancheng, Jiang Bochun and others. Fu Shi had previously been in charge of cooking affairs in major Sichuan cuisine famous restaurants, quite prestigious in the industry, he and Ye Zhengfang were the famous shops in the late Qing Dynasty Longsheng Garden, and together with Feng Hancheng and others to create the Pillow River Lou Sect famous for river freshness, Jiang Bochun was in Jingning to worship under Fu's door, and brought many famous dishes of Pillow River Lou and Jingning into the later Furong Restaurant, and the tofu fish mentioned above was one of them.
Due to the excellent geographical environment, and sitting on the continuous flow of people in Shaocheng Park and the guests of several major tea gardens, coupled with the reputation of famous teachers and famous dishes, Jingning Hotel was soon respected by wenya celebrities, Wu Yu, Zhang Hesheng, Song Shidu, Zeng Shuyi, Zhou Luzhan, Huang Jiting often in this cup, Lin Yutang, Chen Youqin, Yu Qiaqing, Luo Wenmo, Ye Shengtao, Feng Zhisheng, Qian Mu, Lü Shuxiang, Tian Shiying, Ying Yunwei, Xu Shiqi, Xiao Jun, Zhou Wen and other people have also fallen here. On April 21, 1929, the Chengdu branch of Nankai alumni's "Global Dinner" was located at the Jingning Hotel.
The first one on the right in the front row is Jiang Bochun
In the mid-to-late 1930s, the JingNing Hotel was managed by Chen Junkai, a descendant of the Chen clan, and reached its peak in the early 1940s, entering the first camp of Sichuan cuisine. At that time, in the Chengdu catering market, the registered capital exceeded the Jingning Hotel only RongYuan, Minghuchun, dasanyuan three, of which Minghuchun is the northern flavor, the big sanyuan is the Cantonese flavor, the Rongyuan is the Sichuan flavor, although the registered capital is only one aspect, but it is enough to show that Jingning can not be underestimated. However, after a year or two, Jing Ning's position was soon surpassed by Yi Shi.
In the 1950s, Shaocheng Park was transformed into People's Park, and the old businesses in various parts of the park were moved or demolished, only the Heming Tea House was retained, and the Jingning Hotel did not know the end.
A corner of the former Popular Education Museum
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