Qilu Evening News Qilu one-point reporter Wang Shiyue
Near the Spring Festival, the taste of the year is getting stronger and stronger, Shandong steamed buns also sent themselves to the hot search, of which Jiaodong's "flower feast" has attracted widespread attention from netizens, and they have made steamed buns into an art.
From the taste of home to the blossoming everywhere
"Every Spring Festival, my grandmother has to eat the flowers and food of her hometown to feel steadfast." Ms. Wang said her grandmother, a native of Jiaodong, has been away from home for more than three decades. Although it is also a habit to live in Jinan over the years, every New Year's Festival, she still remembers the flowers she ate at home when she was a child, and for her, it was the taste of home.
Jiaodong Hua rao has a history of more than 300 years, and in 2009, it was included in the list of intangible cultural heritage of Shandong Province. For the Jiaodong people in the past, whether it was sacrifice, offering or Chinese New Year's Eve rice, flower food was indispensable. A flower bun is a handicraft. Take the kneading of flowers in the production process as an example, pinch out the round cake shape, cut the flowers around, emboss the middle, pick the face into a bud in the center, or flowers or leaves, and come alive. The flowers and greenery are stacked together, which should be in harmony with the atmosphere of the Spring Festival, and Jiaodong is full of festive and peaceful scenes.
As a native of Jiaodong, Sun Hong has shown an interest in flowers since she was a child, "I remember when I was a child, every New Year's Festival, my mother would take me to make dumplings together. Sun Hong said that at that time, the food was not so good as it is now, usually it was to twist a few flowers and put two dates. Under the influence of her eyes, she developed a unique emotion for the taste of this hometown.
A few years ago, Sun Hong came to Jinan alone and was surprised to see that Jiaodong's specialty flowers and flowers were little known in Jinan. Therefore, in order to let more people know about the intangible cultural heritage of Jiaodong, she set up a small studio. At that time, many Jinan people introduced through old friends felt that this product was very novel, so word of mouth spread, and the demand increased. Today, she has opened a specialty store called "Blossoming on the Buns" in Shimao Tiancheng, Tianqiao District, Jinan City.
Sun Hong said with a smile that since she made flowers, there have been many customers who are particularly interested in flowers and flowers to find her, hoping to learn this craft from her. Now the students who have studied with her have opened their own flower shops in Jinan, Weifang, Wenzhou and other places.
It takes four hours to make and is loved by young people
Ms. Liu, who is selecting flowers for her son in the store, said that by chance, her children saw the cute flowers on the Internet and have been thinking about it. But I was too busy to make food for my children. Until recently, she found that Jinan also opened a shop selling flowers and dumplings, which finally made her children get their wish. “
This is called "Chunhua Qiushi", all flowers, suitable for young people; this is called "Fu Shoulu", is a classic model, suitable for the elderly ..." Sun Hong introduced that in order to make her products healthier, but also let more young people accept this traditional craft, she chooses vegetables as natural dyes, in the style is also more flexible, can be customized according to customer needs. "Don't look at our raw materials as flour as ordinary steamed buns, but they look very foreign."
As a traditional folk food in Jiaodong, the audience for flowers and food in the store is now some young people. Sun Hong said that many young people now think that such a thing as flowers and food is beautiful and fresh. "There are also many elderly people who are not used to eating cream cake on their birthdays.
Young people choose to buy flowers and food to celebrate the birthday of the elders in the family. ”
"Usually we have about a dozen orders a day, and now that it is close to the Spring Festival, we have to do twenty or thirty orders a day." Sun Hong said that compared with traditional Shandong steamed buns, it takes a lot of time to make flower dumplings. "Like this ordinary, the production time is generally only thirty minutes," she said, pointing to the small tiger-shaped flowers in the store, "but like this classic fourteen-inch large flower dumplings, it takes four hours to complete the whole process of juicing, dough, molding, fermentation, and assembly." So we only accept reservations, and the number of things that can be completed per day is also very limited. ”
Like Sun Hong, there are many traditional craftsmen who adhere to the traditional cuisine of Jiaodong, and they let more people know about the flowers step by step. Over time, The Pasta has transformed from a regular pasta to an infinitely creative pasta. This kind of traditional handicraft alternating between the old and the new, on the basis of retaining traditional skills, keeping up with the pace of development of the times, exploring a new path of creative transformation and innovative development, integrating folk characteristics with fashion elements, giving new connotations to traditional handicrafts, and making traditional handicrafts shine with new brilliance.