CCTV continues to focus, how hot is Yangzhou now?
On February 16, CCTV Chinese the international channel "Distant Home" column twice focused on Yangzhou, respectively, with the titles of "Dahao River and Mountain - Jiangsu: Taste the Fresh water Yangzhou Baoying: The Hometown of Lotus Lotus To Welcome the Harvest" and "Dahao River and Mountain - Jiangsu: Craftsmanship and Ingenuity Yangzhou Pickles: Imperial Meals of the Qing Dynasty Court", which took more than 24 minutes in total, and introduced the water town Baoying and Yangzhou pickles in depth.
Yangzhou Baoying: Famous as the hometown of lotus lotus in the country
According to the program, Sheyang Lake, located in Baoying County, Yangzhou City, is rich in products, especially famous for lotus roots, and is famous as the "hometown of lotus roots". When the lotus root harvest is abundant, there is a scene described in the poem here - "The lotus leaves are infinitely blue, and the lotus flowers are different red."
The camera follows the local lotus root broker Zhong Jihai to his contracted lotus field, recording in detail the whole process of picking lotus. After the experience in the water, the host quickly found that the soil here is not ordinary. Originally, Sheyang Lake has a mild climate since ancient times, developed agriculture, the territory of the lake is dotted with dots, the local production of lotus is called lotus root, which refers to the grass roots and sediment intertwined to form the soil, the soil is fertile and soft, especially suitable for the growth of lotus. The lotus root that grows out is "white, large, crisp, tender and sweet". The host bit down on the lotus root just picked on the spot, sighed that the sand is less watery, the taste is not losing fruit, and it is very thirsty.
The camera then goes to shuisi lotus garden in the northwest of Sheyang Lake Town, where more than 200 lotus varieties are planted in 10,000 acres of lotus ponds, and the flowering period lasts all summer. Lotus flowers not only have ornamental value, but also purify water quality. The program said that the spectacular harvest scene of picking lotus roots shows the diligence and simplicity of the water townspeople, while the lotus ponds under the sunset make people feel the tranquility and femininity of the water towns.
At the end of the program, I came to a restaurant and tasted the popular snack in Jiangsu - lotus flour dumplings, in addition to lotus clips, lotus cakes, pounding lotus and other lotus-related snacks. Baoying lotus root is continuous all year round, and people are also very particular about the selection of lotus. The practice of lotus growing at different times varies. The abundance of products gives people the inspiration to cook, not only to make food, but also to create a better life.
Fresh, sweet, crisp and tender Yangzhou pickles
"More sauce garden on both sides of the canal". Yangzhou pickles were famous in the Tang Dynasty, and in the Qing Dynasty, they were selected as the imperial court food dish. Yangzhou pickles have the characteristics of fresh, sweet, crisp and tender, crisp and tender basically depend on vegetable raw materials, while fresh and sweet mainly come from sauces.
The program team came to Yangzhou Sanhe Simei Pickle Factory, where they witnessed the production process of Yangzhou pickles. Wang Dong, manager of the quality control department, told the host that the vegetable raw materials in the pickles have their own different schedules for the purchase of different regions, which must be strictly implemented in accordance with the time, and the knife work of the pickle master ensures the thickness and taste of each vegetable. The sauce is made during the Qingming Festival every year and is made in the winter, during which the cylinder is turned at least eight times, which is a test of skill.
It is understood that in the early twentieth century, there were dozens of sauce gardens in Yangzhou City, of which the more influential two were Sanhe Sauce Garden and Simei Sauce Garden. In 1998, the two sauce companies officially merged. The combination of the old brand has given Yangzhou pickles a new vitality. In 2009, Yangzhou Sanhe Simei pickle making technology was rated as an intangible cultural heritage project of Jiangsu Province, and today Sanhe Simei is still on the road of continuous innovation.
Strict standards, excellence, inheritance and innovation, this is the Yangzhou worker in Yangzhou pickles. If you have friends and relatives coming to Yangzhou, you may wish to recommend him to taste the authentic Yangzhou pickles, a small bottle of pickles, may be able to make him feel the unique charm of Yangzhou cuisine.
Just before that, the CCTV Chinese international channel "Distant Home" column continued to focus on Yangzhou for many days, and the cultural landscape heritage Slender West Lake and the intangible cultural heritage yangzhou jade carving, grass flowers and so on have appeared.
On February 11, the special program "Great Rivers and Mountains - The Most Memorable is Jiangnan" said that Yangzhou Gardens are a major representative of Jiangnan Gardens, and Yangzhou Slender West Lake is known as "the victory of gardens in the world". It took nearly eight minutes to lead the audience to feel the charm of Yangzhou Slender West Lake through the lens.
Yangzhou Slender West Lake: The victory of the garden A is in the world
The program team entered from the south gate of Slender West Lake, sailed in the waterway of Slender West Lake, and marveled at the scenery on both sides of the river. Gu Feng, a cultural scholar in Yangzhou City, introduced in the program that the peach willows planted along this long river embankment are green and peachy in the spring, and it looks beautiful from a distance and can't believe that it is true.
Slender West Lake is a garden developed on the basis of the river, this section of the Long Causeway Spring Willow is historically called the Guarantee River, which was once the outskirts of Yangzhou, because of the vast architectural space, coupled with the waterway to connect the city, the transportation is convenient and wild. The large families in Yangzhou City have built private gardens and suburban villas along the waterfront. In the late Ming Dynasty, the browsing route from the city to here was developed here, becoming a public landscape. During the Qianlong Emperor's several visits to Jiangnan during the Qing Dynasty, the Yangzhou salt merchants intensively built a series of landscapes along the banks of the river. In the end, the scene of "flowers and willows on both sides of the strait are all by the water, all the way to the mountain".
Subsequently, the program team stopped the boat at the bend of the waterway and docked, and came to Xiaojinshan, which is also a garden. During the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty, the salt merchant Cheng Zhiquan excavated the Lotus New River in the northwest of Slender West Lake, and the soil piled up by the river became a small mountain, which became the high point of the terrain in the Slender West Lake area. The program said that from natural to artificial, such a transition makes people unaware, which may be the magic of Slender West Lake's "although it is artificial, it seems to open from heaven".
When asked why Xiao Jinshan added a small character, Gu Feng said that Yangzhou not only has a small Golden Mountain, but also a small Pangu and a small Qinhuai, and the reason for adding a small word is not weak, but a humble mentality, small in the big, in the small to see the big feelings, more can see the cultivation.
In fact, the protective construction of Slender West Lake has not been interrupted since ancient times, and some historical landscapes such as XichunTai Wangchun Tower have been restored at the original site. As the first batch of national historical and cultural cities announced by the State Council, Yangzhou has gone through 40 years on the road of ancient city protection, always adhering to the proper handling of the relationship between the protection of ancient cities and economic development, insisting on not demolishing and building, not destroying the street and alley system, not destroying the ecology of residents, not destroying the historical context, and not destroying the architectural style, and realizing the harmonious coexistence of people and the ancient city.
Yangzhou jade carving: magic hand Seiko spread to the world
On February 14, the "Distant Home" column of CCTV Chinese International Channel once again focused on Yangzhou, spending nearly 15 minutes in the special program of "Great Rivers and Mountains - Jiangsu: Craftsmanship Spread to the World", detailing the development history, exquisite skills and stylistic characteristics of Yangzhou's intangible cultural heritage such as jade carving and tongcao flowers.
The program said that Yangzhou is famous for jade carving, and in the middle of the Qing Dynasty, Yangzhou jade entered its heyday, becoming the main distribution center of jade and jade production center in the country, with the reputation of "the world's jade Yangzhou gong".
The program team first came to the China Jade Museum in Yangzhou Jade Factory, and under the leadership of zhu Shiping, senior arts and crafts artists, learned more about Yangzhou's jade carving skills and inheritance through exquisite works such as Shanzi carving and chain pot with Yangzhou characteristics. In 2006, Yangzhou jade carving was included in the list of national intangible cultural heritage. In 2020, Wantou Town, Guangling District, Yangzhou City was awarded the title of "Hometown of Chinese Jade Carving".
Yangzhou Tongcao Flower: The immortal flower of ancient China
"In the homes of ordinary people in Yangzhou, beautiful things are everywhere", the program team then visited the inheritors of Yangzhou Tongcao flower technology, witnessed the complex process of Tongcao flower production, marveled at the simulation technology of Tongcao flower, and said in the program that in the early Qing Dynasty, Yangzhou people pioneered Tongcao flower, which is an innovation in the history of Chinese craft flower production.
The history of Tongcaohua can be traced back to the Qin Dynasty, which has been more than 2200 years ago, and it is declining in the Republic of China, and there are only a few inheritors. Now people have re-recognized the value of this handicraft and begun to pass it on and protect it.
I believe that this flower of art that has been passed down for hundreds of years will surely bloom more brilliantly and never wither.
Editor 丨Wan Yuanyan
Source丨Yangzhou Radio and Television "Yangfan" mobile phone channel