Cross-section mat making technique
Horizontal warp mats are also known as grass mats, because the products are based on mat grass, hemp rope for warp, and woven with a wooden loom as a bed mat, commonly known as horizontal warp mats. According to the "Chronicle of Yunan County", "The business of the four peoples is that the soldiers and farmers are in harmony with each other, and there are merchants in between, and the poor weave mats for the industry." "In the middle of the Qing Dynasty, Yunan County's Liantan grass mat was already famous. Transferred to the Republic of China, the handicraft industry has developed quite well, and the production of liantan grass mats is well-known. ”
It can be seen that the production technique of Yunan grass mat has been passed down in the Ming and Qing dynasties.
The basic process of cross-section production is: planting grass - harvesting - breaking grass - sun drying - sorting - cutting hemp - tearing strips - drying - spinning thread - wearing chestnut - cloth gang - sending grass - beating - molding - trimming - knotting - finishing - drying - product.
The equipment for weaving the transverse mat is a wooden machine, commonly known as a wooden machine, also known as a "mat bed", which is composed of two parts, mat and mat, and is made of hard and heavy wood.
The texture of the transverse mat is smooth and thin, the summer is cool and the winter is warm, the thickness is moderate, and it is strong and durable, which is used by the masses. At that time, it was famous in and around the province. With the development of social economy, the current market for cross-section seats has been shrinking day by day, and its production process is in an endangered state. In 2009, it was listed as a representative project of provincial intangible cultural heritage.
Whipped tea porridge
Tea porridge originated from the tea cave in Shicheng Town, Yun'an County, also known as tea cave tea porridge. It is said to have originated in the Ming Dynasty and is a necessary porridge for folk babies to go to the full moon.
The tea porridge is based on white porridge and fine tea leaves, with sand kernels, ginger, small gourds, star anise, peanuts, fennel, tangerine peel, etc., made with sand pots and wooden sticks, and cooked with rice into porridge. The taste is delicious and has a different flavor. The stick of tea porridge is very exquisite, the first choice is the cinnamon tree, followed by the tea oil tree or yellow cow wood (wood is hard, the smell is fragrant) must be pounded with ingredients, mixed well, gradually put in peanut oil during the mixing process, until the material in the basin is mashed, and then the pre-fried and undressed crushed peanut kernels are put into the basin and mixed well. The tea porridge made in this way has flavor. In 2007, it was included in the municipal intangible cultural heritage representative project.
Luoding wrinkled yarn fish rot technique
Luoding wrinkled yarn fish rot enjoyed a high reputation as early as the Ming and Qing dynasties and was one of the famous specialties of Lingnan. It was rated as "Yunfu Top Ten Gold Medal Famous Dishes" and National Geographical Indication Products.
Luoding wrinkled yarn fish rot is mainly raw materials and the flavor of the product has a unique feature. The main ingredients are fresh mud carp, starch, egg white, and peanut oil. Unique flavor, rich in nutrition, soft and smooth, sweet and fragrant, suitable for young and old. The main production process is: select mud carp to remove impurities, clean and crush and blend fried spread cool packaging. Because the fish rot is as thin as a cicada wing and as transparent as a light yarn, it is known as "wrinkled yarn fish rot". Its production process is all handmade production, which is a local cultural product with obvious regional characteristics.
In 2018, it was included in the provincial intangible cultural heritage representative project.
Luoding tempeh brewing technique
Luoding tempeh brewing technology has a long history, as early as the Ming and Qing Dynasties enjoyed a high reputation, is one of The famous specialties of Luoding. In addition to marketing in this county and adjacent counties, products are also exported to the United States, Australia and Southeast Asian countries and regions.
Luoding tempeh is mainly made from pure black beans or soybeans, which are steamed, fermented, rinsed, dried and flavored. Its brewing technology mainly goes through: screening and boiling koji ingredients in runshui to make koji ingredients into canning and sunshine finished products.
Luoding tempeh can be popular inside and outside the province, mainly because the flavor of raw materials and products has unique features. In the second year of the Qianlong Dynasty of the Qing Dynasty (1737), Xu Fengju, a jinshi of Dong'an County, Luoding Prefecture, once composed a tempeh song praising Luoding tempeh as "olive horn salted fish tempeh steaming, oyster sauce shrimp rice buy doding".
Luoding tempeh brewing technology has always been a livelihood industry for local people, and it belongs to traditional handicrafts, which is a product of regional culture with local characteristics. It has certain historical value and economic value. In 2013, it was included in the provincial intangible cultural heritage representative project.
Skill of stir-frying rice cakes
Fried rice cake is a famous traditional specialty of Yunfu City, a traditional food custom of the Yunfu area, and a gift for people to visit relatives and friends during the Spring Festival.
In the late Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the People's Republic, fried rice cakes have been a relatively mature industry, before the Spring Festival, almost every household in Yuncheng can make fried rice cakes, the process is roughly divided into fried rice - flour - making cakes - scones several steps. The main ingredients are rice, brown sugar and white sugar. There are many styles, such as peanut fried rice cakes, sesame fried rice cakes, mung bean fried rice cakes, olive horn fried rice cakes, peanut sesame sugar fried rice cakes and so on.
It has very little moisture and does not deteriorate easily, and it is packed in a glazed cheng, which can be stored until the beginning of the following summer. Stir-fried rice cakes are made from local products and combined with unique craftsmanship and are made through a number of traditional processes. Fried rice cake is a traditional flavor cuisine born in the Qing Dynasty, with a long history and the value of inheriting traditional Chinese food culture. In 2015, it was selected as a representative project of municipal intangible cultural heritage.
Source: Yunfu City Cultural Center
Editor-in-charge: Huang Bingquan
Duty Director: Zhao Jun eel
Chief Editor-in-Chief: Lullivan