Compared with the tourism resources of other cities in Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai, Ningbo may have fewer pavilions and pavilions, but it is absolutely worthy of the list when it comes to food. In addition to seafood, Ningbo people eat grilled vegetable rice cakes in spring wind and spring rolls, Eat Bean Rice in Lixia, Nibble watermelon in Liqiu, and eat Tangyuan wine on the winter solstice, and special foods are arranged in each season. For example, in the New Year, tourists visiting Ningbo will definitely see a food in various scenic spots or specialty supermarkets. This food is known as the taste of Ningbo's "old bottom", that is, the sacrificial stove fruit in the mouth of old Ningbo.
Many tourists who come to Ningbo will ask, why do they usually come to Ningbo and do not see this sacrificial stove fruit? Why haven't ningbo friends around recommended this Ningbo specialty? That's because Ningbo's sacrificial stove fruit is only eaten in a small year, only once a year, so that many local young people in Ningbo now don't know that there is such a Ningbo specialty. So what exactly is this sacrificial stove fruit? Why is it so mysterious?
In fact, you can guess the meaning of the sacrificial stove fruit from the name, which is to celebrate the "matsuri festival", which is commonly known as the "little year". In addition to Ningbo, in fact, many areas have the custom of sacrificing stoves, such as dumplings, sugar melons and sticky cakes eaten by many tourists in the north for a small New Year, and rice cakes and New Year dumplings eaten by southerners are prepared for this "festival of sacrifice stoves". But specially made into a bag of various snack combinations, it seems that only ningbo has it. So what's in this sacrificial stove?
In Ningbo, there are many tricks in the sacrificial stove fruit, red and white cones, oil fruits, black and white sugar, sesame foot bone sugar, inch gold sugar, white linen slices, tri-color frozen rice candy, bean crisp sugar in a bag, collectively known as the sacrificial stove fruit. Listening to the old Ningbo, in the past, the sacrificial stove was to be carried out next to the stove of the home, that is, the old-fashioned stove was made of bluestone bricks. Now if tourists go to Ningbo Siming Mountain, Ninghai Stone Village, Cicheng Ancient Town, if they travel, they can also see this kind of earth stove in the ancient houses. Eating firewood-fired rice and eating sweet sacrificial stove fruits are the memories of many old Ningbo people for the New Year. So many foreign tourists will probably ask if this sacrificial stove fruit is delicious?
For the people of Ningbo, the main thing about the sacrificial stove fruit is to please a good color head, and the taste is "summary karma (general)". Interestingly, unlike other Ningbo specialties, the matsuri fruit will be introduced and new products will be introduced according to the tastes of tourists or locals. Ningbo's sacrificial stove fruit 10 years ago how 10 years later or how, the category, taste is always the same, even the packaging has not been changed, which is probably also the reason why the sacrificial stove fruit has been neglected and ignored.
Compared with the Ningbo Tangyuan and Cicheng rice cakes that tourists are familiar with, the sacrificial stove fruit has a single taste and a short selling time. Nowadays, few young people in Ningbo know about the sacrificial stove fruit, let alone tourists from other places who come to Ningbo for tourism. Probably only in the New Year, go to a small ancient village or farm to play, the host family will also take this sacrificial stove fruit to entertain guests.
In fact, the old Ningbo said that the sacrificial stove fruit is not a taste, it is "nostalgia" and characteristics, and it is necessary to try various characteristics in depth to understand what kind of city the real Ningbo is. If you stay in Ningbo for the Chinese New Year this year, you may wish to try ningbo's sacrificial stove fruit and taste the taste of "old bottom".
So what are the characteristics of your hometown for the New Year?