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What do you eat in the morning, middle and evening of jia fu in the next house? It is the creator of the watermelon video food area @ Bi Cicada Yi who is tireless in creating power.
@Bi Cicada is a teacher at the School of Humanities of East China Jiaotong University, who loves literature and especially loves "Dream of the Red Chamber". Some people have counted that there are 186 dishes in "Dream of the Red Chamber", and Cao Xueqin is a great literary hero and a big foodie.
What is the taste of the ginseng fruit of "Journey to the West", we dare not think, do not dare to ask, but the food of "Dream of the Red Chamber", Cao Xueqin wrote to have a careful mind, bold, or can think, can do, driven by curiosity @ Bi Cicada Clothes embarked on the video production of the reproduction of the Red Chamber cuisine.
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What is done is meticulous
Forty-first time in "Dream of the Red Chamber", Liu Grandma re-entered the Rongguo Mansion, and Wang Xifeng gave her a piece of eggplant made of eggplant (xiang third sound), and liu Grandma was confused, once suspecting that her family was planting fake and shoddy eggplant.
Ordinary people make eggplant in three steps: steaming, salting, and putting in the sauce tank. However, the eggplant of Rong Guofu has a lot of ingredients and complicated processes, and the bi cicada clothes patiently reproduce this eggplant according to the fengjie recipe.
First, chicken fat is practiced and chicken soup is boiled.
Then peel the eggplant and cut it into pieces of nails.
Marinate the eggplant and fry it in chicken fat.
Cut the mushrooms, new shoots, mushrooms, spiced dried rot, nuts and preserved fruits into cubes.
Put the above dozen ingredients into the pot, pour in the chicken soup, add sesame oil, bad oil, and then slowly simmer to dry, so that the essence of the chicken soup is completely concentrated.
Then put it in a jar, seal it for 8972 hours, wait until the bad oil is fermented, and the eggplant and other ingredient essences are fused into one, and then take it out and eat.
The original text reads: "Grandma Liu listened, shook her head and spat out her tongue, and said: 'My Buddha! Pour a dozen chickens to match him (eggplant), strange this taste! "Make the eggplant so that you can't eat the taste of eggplant, just one word: Wonderful!
Different from the contemporary Internet celebrity food with larger quantity, heavier taste and more colorful color, the food in "Dream of the Red Chamber" is very important, and most of them are exquisite "snacks". The ingredients inside are usually visible, but the method is exquisite, and the bi cicada clothes fully carry forward the spirit of the Red Chamber cuisine to talk about seasonality, freshness and refinement.
When doing "legal purple ginger", Bi Cicada failed after a few months of pickling, but the fresh purple ginger was only listed in September, and she was not in a hurry to find alternatives and complete the selection of topics, but patiently waited for a year and waited for the arrival of the season.
When making rouge goose breasts, chefs often use quick red yeast powder as "rouge", while bi cicada clothes mash edible roses to extract the freshest and pureest rouge.
When making lotus powder osmanthus sugar cake, the lotus root is first ground into a puree, and then the manual stone grinding is used for secondary grinding, and after multiple filtration and extraction, the finest part is precipitated.
In order to make a tender and gelatinous egg soup, Bi Cicada adjusted different methods and recipes, and it took nearly a year to produce the effect depicted in the book.
On paper, I finally realized that I had to do something about it. The drool that drooped when reading a book became the sweat of cooking. The more Bi Cicada does, the more challenging she feels, so she also does it while discussing with fans, brainstorming, and constantly improving her craft.
Sometimes, the description in the book is too brief, and Bi Cicada has to develop her own brain hole until she reaches her ideal state. Worthy of being a teacher of the people and a cook of the soul, we thought she was cooking, but in fact she was doing learning.
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Reading is human sophistication
Since the advent of "Dream of the Red Chamber", people who study red studies have flocked to it. There are many schools of red school, both old and new, and there are many derivative schools such as the commentary school, the Suo Yin school, the inscription school, etc. Obviously@ Bi Cicada yi belongs to: the hands-on school.
Bi Cicada has been reading "Dream of the Red Chamber" since she was a child, and she said that watching "Dream of the Red Chamber" when she was a child was like reading a love story, and when she was a little older, she read about human feelings.
But no matter which time, every time I read it, I remember the part of the food description of "Dream of the Red Chamber" especially deeply. It is no wonder, because nearly one-third of the length of "Dream of the Red Chamber" is an interactive scene of you eating, I eat, and he eats, and eats to bring out the food men and women. In March 2020, when Bi Cicada yi read "Dream of the Red Chamber" again, she read the impulse of Mars to hit the earth.
"It's like 'Golden Wind and Jade Dew Meet', and I am once again attracted to the food that appears in the book." At that moment, she had the idea of reproducing the food. She compares "Dream of the Red Chamber" to a sparkling shell, and food culture is a sparkling pearl in the shell.
Since the birth of the idea, Bi Cicada has dug more than 60 (part) precious (view) beads (frequency) from the book, and netizens have said that they are really crying.
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It is written about cold and warm self-knowledge
Attentive viewers will find that at the end of each video, Bi Cicada will write the name of the dish in calligraphy, like a love letter to "Dream of the Red Chamber". And attached a passage of dishes in the original text of "Dream of the Red Chamber", bringing a full sense of ceremony.
In our cultural genes, we are taught from an early age: sitting and sitting, eating and eating. Eating is not only a part of etiquette, but also a profile of character and consciousness, and Bi Cicada said that what she read in "Dream of the Red Chamber" is not just as simple as food.
"In 'Dream of the Red Chamber', every word is worth scrutinizing, including the author's portrayal of food, and the close connection between the dishes and the characters." In the sixtieth title, "Jasmine Powder Replaces Rose Nitrate, Rose Dew Attracts Poria Cream", four objects are used to express contradictions and conflicts, suggesting the fate of the characters.
"The person who likes to eat roast venison is the lively and bold Shi Xiangyun, not the quiet and elegant Lin Daiyu." Xia Jingui's love to eat 'fried charred bones' reveals its viciousness of eating people and not spitting out bones..."
When we think that Cao Xueqin is a literary hero, he shows his side as a foodie. And when we think he's a foodie, he tells us what a literary hero is. It is written about men and women who eat and drink, and the Tao is about human nature, good and evil. The power of the grass snake gray line and the thousands of miles of volts can be seen, which is also the place where "Dream of the Red Chamber" makes Bi Cicada yi obsessed.
However, Bi Cicada is not only a creator of a food district, but also a leader and disseminator of "Dream of the Red Chamber". Through food videos, more people will be introduced to the world in "Dream of the Red Chamber". What is made is food, but also the inheritance of culture, it is no wonder that it is loved by everyone in all directions.
Bi Cicada said that with the growth of experience, reading "Dream of the Red Chamber" again may have a different experience. Sister Feng loves fried quail, Qingwen loves to eat tofu skin buns, dai Yu only drank two mouthfuls of fire meat cabbage soup when she was sick... These can all be the key to interpreting "Dream of the Red Chamber" in Bi Cicada's view.
The first time "Dream of the Red Chamber" was cloudy: full of absurd words and a handful of bitter tears. All cloud authors are stupid, who understands the taste?
Obsessively making a replica of the cicada clothes, I understand the taste of it in my body. In the future, there will be more readers and viewers who will understand the taste.
Cao Xueqin must not have thought that her "eating heart" would realize her dream under the hands of the creator of the watermelon video.