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August 15 is round, and the Mid-Autumn Mooncake is fragrant and sweet. Many places on the mainland are making Mid-Autumn Festival cuisine, and the strong aroma is mixed with pyrotechnics, which is difficult for locals to give up.
Shidian, Yunnan: Traditional baked mooncakes, the aroma of the old stove is full
At a pastry shop in Yaoguan Town, Shidian County, Baoshan City, Yunnan Province, local villager Li Yuanfu is cooking and baking mooncakes in the most traditional wood-fired way with oversized cooking utensils.
Li Yuanfu, a villager in Yaoguan Town, Shidian County, Baoshan City: Our baking method is old soil and old stove, wood roasting, generally not bad, characterized by sufficient crisp aroma.
To make fire-baked mooncakes, you need to use eggs, raw noodles, cooked noodles and an appropriate amount of ham meat, and then add honey and lard in proportion, knead them thoroughly, cut them into noodles of the same size, and then wrap the ham, walnut mud and other prepared fillings, press them into a round cake blank in oil paper, and then bake them in a wood-burning oven.
With the constant change of baking color, it is crucial to master the heat. You need to constantly turn the baking pan to make it heated evenly and color consistently, so that the ham mooncake is baked, the skin is thin and crispy, the aroma is fragrant, and it also carries a special pyrotechnic gas. In addition to fire-baked mooncakes, special pastries such as skin candy and walnut candy are also traditional dishes often eaten by locals during the Mid-Autumn Festival.
Lanzhou, Gansu: Neighbors gather to make mooncakes from generation to generation
In Liudun Village, Lanzhou New District, Gansu Province, early in the morning, the villagers began to get busy, and the neighbors gathered together to knead the noodles, ingredients, set up firewood, burn the fire, and make the local Mid-Autumn Festival food tuyue cake.
The mooncakes here are very particular:
First, the noodles that have been prepared in advance are rolled out with a rolling pin, and the ground layer is sprinkled with turmeric, symbolizing the yellow earth where Lanzhou people have lived for generations;
Green coumarin bean flour is placed on the second layer, a metaphor for vibrant crops;
The third layer is filled with rose sauce and white sugar, pinning on the Lanzhou people's yearning for a sweet life.
Plus a layer of flax powder, a layer of red yeast rice flour.
After stacking to the fifth layer, change the knife to a square type, stack and compact it layer by layer, until the dough cake is stacked to more than 20 layers.
Next, it's time for the most kung fu filling, stretching the dough's toughness to the limit and tightening the outer layer. Finally, a simple embellishment is made, and the prototype of the earth moon cake is completed. Put it in the steamer basket, steam it for an hour and a half, and the white and fat earth mooncake will be ready.
Han Jugui, a villager in Liudun Village, Lanzhou New District: They have all been handed down from generation to generation. When I was young, every year I waited for my mother to make us mooncakes on August 15, with sesame oil produced by myself and wheat grown by myself.
The beauty of the full moon in nursery rhymes The beauty of the harvest
During the Mid-Autumn Festival, all parts of the Yangtze River Basin ushered in the most abundant time of the year, with melons and fruits wafting and fish and rice full of warehouses. Follow a nursery rhyme to experience the beauty of a full moon and the beauty of a harvest.
At night, under the moonlight, singing nursery rhymes and carrying pomelo lanterns, children in Anyi Ancient Village, Jiangxi Province, carrying small lanterns made of grapefruit skin, visiting doors, and saying blessings. A grapefruit lamp lights up the alleys and alleys of the village, becoming a beautiful landscape.
Tourist Fan Surong: This Mid-Autumn Festival, families carry lanterns and wish each other peace, which has a local rural cultural atmosphere. We also mentioned one, come here to experience it, it was fun.
Tourist Lei Daozhen: I heard that Anyi Ancient Village has the custom of playing with grapefruit lamps in the Mid-Autumn Festival, we came here, and it was very interesting to see this today.
Relying on climate and soil advantages, Anyi County has vigorously developed the characteristic industries of planting Majia grapefruit and Wendan grapefruit, driving local farmers to increase their income. At present, the grapefruit industry in Anyi County covers an area of more than 1,500 mu, with an annual output value of 20 million yuan. With a history of more than 1,400 years, Anyi Ancient Village has been revitalized and has become a well-known "Yuzu Village".
In the Mid-Autumn Festival, every household eats grapefruit, after eating grapefruit, the grapefruit skin is not wasted, cleverly used, carved out various patterns, put on a rope, lit a candle, and made into a grapefruit lamp.
Cheng Sha, a villager in Anyi Ancient Village, Jiangxi: The harmonic sound of yuzu, the meaning of "youzi" and "wanderer", to bless the health and safety of the family and return home for reunion.
Mid-Autumn Festival A strong hometown flavor in a can of soup
Chestnut yellow, osmanthus fragrance, good scenery in mid-autumn. In many places, the Mid-Autumn Festival also has the custom of drinking soup.
Hubei chestnut stew chicken soup The main dish of the Mid-Autumn Festival
A pound of chestnuts, a chicken, a pot of soup, a memory of the original taste buds of a city. Luotian County, Hubei Province, has an annual output of 60,000 tons of chestnuts, and a large number of them are concentrated during the Mid-Autumn Festival every year, which is a seasonal food with a deep Mid-Autumn Festival mark, and the raw taste of chestnuts is comparable to that of fresh fruits, and cooked food is as famous as the taste of mountain treasures.
Jiangxi Nanchang crock pot soup A taste of hometown
In Xixiang Village, Sandu Town, Tonggu County, Yichun County, Jiangxi, the local selenium-rich demonstration pear base has ushered in a bumper harvest. To strengthen the pear industry and develop the pear economy, the per capita income of local pear farmers has increased by nearly 20,000 yuan. Freshly picked Sydney pears have a good place to go in addition to tasting fresh fruits.
Nanchang crock pot soup is a famous dish in the Nanchang region of Jiangxi. Folk traditional simmering method, using earthen pottery as a clay pot, with a variety of fresh ingredients, with natural mineral water as raw materials, and then into a 1 meter square of a huge vat, with hard charcoal as fuel, simmered for more than 8 hours, crock pot soup can meet with diners. Whether it's rock sugar sherry soup, egg patty soup or kelp rib soup, the taste is a harvest on the tip of the tongue.
Customer Yang Lejin: When I am homesick, I will drink a bowl of crock pot soup, which I think is the taste of my hometown.
Anhui Zhonghe Soup means reunion and beauty
As the saying goes, relying on the mountains to eat the mountains, relying on the water to draft water, if you are looking for a dish that contains the Mid-Autumn Harvest Season, Anhui Zhonghe Soup is a delicious choice. Zhonghe soup is a famous dish in Qimen County, Huizhou, which originated in the Southern Song Dynasty and has a history of more than 700 years.
In Qimen, every New Year's Festival or entertaining distinguished guests, it is indispensable to neutralize soup. This Zhonghe soup during the Mid-Autumn Festival has more bamboo shoots from the mountains, fresh shrimp from the Zhangjiang River and more seasonal vegetables that have just been harvested.
Fei Hongling, head of the Anhui Qimen Zhonghe Tang Intangible Cultural Heritage Production Technique Inheritance Unit: The word "Zhonghe" also means praying for peace in the world, family harmony. The meaning of this dish is very good, it means reunion, harmony and beauty.