The 7th appearance on CCTV in five years, treasure hunting Shaoxing cuisine "CCTV professional household" name, this is considered to be a solid.
On January 19, 2022, CCTV-10 CCTV Science and Education Channel "Travel with Books" broadcast the feature film "Lu Xun's Sauce Taste". Under the leadership of the tour leader Zhang Yue and Si Jidong, chairman of the Shaoxing Writers Association, the 7 primary school students of the book tour group set off from Lu Xun's former residence to visit the ancient town and visit the sauce garden to explore how the sauce duck and sauce flavor mentioned by Mr. Lu Xun in his family book were made, and finally tasted the authentic Shaoxing dishes such as Shaoxing sauce duck and Shaoxing drunken crab in the treasure hunt, and truly experienced Mr. Lu Xun's attachment to his hometown and his longing for his mother.
"Read thousands of books, travel thousands of miles." We are proud to let the children eat authentic Shaoxing cuisine, deepen their understanding of knowledge, and recognize Mr. Lu Xun. Zhang Liang, founder of Treasure Hunt Shaoxing Cuisine, said.
The taste of Lu Xun's sauce
"Mother adult knees, worshipper, a few days ago sent a photo of the Shanghai baby, I think it has been received." A small packet, received today. Sauce duck, sauce meat, white flowers from yesterday, after steaming, the taste is still not bad; only chicken loin can not eat. The rest of the stuff, all good. At the beginning of the program, Si Jidong, chairman of the Shaoxing Writers Association, read a letter from Mr. Lu Xun to the book tour group.
This letter from Mr. Lu Xun to his mother in Shanghai in early 1935, the usual text flows with the sincere emotions between mother and son, and the sauce duck, sauce meat, which are still unwilling to lose the delicious taste although it has been white flowers, bring a lot of warmth and comfort to Lu Xun, who has reached his old age.
Mr. Lu Xun has not written a special article on food, but in his pen, in addition to the well-known fennel beans, there are dozens of kinds of rotten chicken, brine melon, dried vegetables, pickles, rice cakes, etc. Zhejiang cuisine master Mao Tianyao once wrote a book - "Lu Xun's Shaoxing Cuisine", which closely combines Lu Xun culture and Shaoxing food culture.
From this point of view, Mr. Lu Xun can also be called a gourmet, but "horizontal eyebrows are cold to a thousand fingers, bowing down to the cow", in addition to showing a warm side in front of his mother and family, more often than not, he is still a fighter who is sick with needles and bad times and cherishes the hardships of people's livelihood, including from snacks to big hometown cuisine, and also has in-depth thinking.
As for why Shaoxing people like to make sauce duck, sauce goods, why they like to make moldy dried vegetables, Mr. Lu Xun once wrote in the "Diary of Ma Zhi": "I would like to check how many times Shaoxing has encountered a great famine in the future, and it has frightened the residents so much, as if tomorrow will be the end of the world, and I like to store dry goods." If there is a dish, it is dried; when there is a fish, it is also dried; there are beans, and it is dried; there are bamboo shoots, and it is not decent; the diamond horn is characterized by being rich in water, tender and crispy meat, and it must also be air-dried..."
When the elementary school students of the book tour group heard these words, a trace of solemnity appeared on their still childish faces.
Travel through the history of Shaoxing sauce duck
Although the history is heavy, but one side of the water and soil to raise one side of the people, sauce duck, sauce goods these delicacies can be passed down to this day, does not it also reflect the wisdom and bravery of Shaoxing people?
Si Jidong introduced to the book tour group in the program that Shaoxing is located in Jiangnan, the climate is humid and hot, and the food is not easy to preserve, which is also another reason why Shaoxing people like to make sauce duck and sauce goods.
The secret of the rich sauce of Shaoxing sauce is derived from the traditional production method of Shaoxing soy sauce.
It is understood that as early as the Wei and Jin dynasties, the Shaoxing sauce industry has risen, and in the late Qing Dynasty, the influence reached its peak, and there is a saying that "no one in the sauce industry in the world does not say Shao, and there are few chefs in Kyushu who do not know Shao".
The development of the sauce industry has naturally evolved a unique flavor in Shaoxing cuisine - sauce pickling flavor, and has become one of the top ten flavors of Shaoxing cuisine.
"Yummy! And some sweetness! It's not as salty as you think..." When the book tour group came to the treasure hunt Shaoxing cuisine and tasted the sauce duck brought by founder Zhang Liang himself, everyone ate a different taste.
Knowing what it is, knowing why it is so, this is the true meaning of "reading thousands of books and walking thousands of miles".
However, children who eat with relish may not know that the sauce duck they eat is an "upgraded version".
It is understood that the traditional Shaoxing sauce duck heavy salt heavy oil, in order to make people want to eat more nutritious, healthy, treasure hunting technology research and development team after hundreds of trials, successfully reduced the saltiness of traditional sauce duck by 30%, and supplemented by Shaoxing soy sauce in the best product - mother and child soy sauce and red sauce with pickling, making Shaoxing sauce duck taste more mellow, but also more loved by the younger generation of diners.
Adhering to tradition and having the courage to innovate, this concept and practice of "keeping the right and making the new" is reflected in many dishes of Treasure Hunt, and it is also the secret that it can represent Shaoxing cuisine on CCTV for 7 consecutive times.
From the Baicao Garden to the Sanwei Book House, from the Centennial Sauce Garden to the 20-year Treasure Hunt Shaoxing Cuisine, the book tour group deeply deciphered the sauce flavor of Lu Xun's pen, and also made us seem to smell the timeless sauce fragrance and see the back of Mr. Lu Xun who wrote the book.