Following the "Most Beautiful Street" competition launched by "Panlong District" (a WeChat public platform for cultural, sports and tourism information release in Panlong District) and Dianyuan was awarded the "Most Natural Street", "Panlong Jun" planned to write a special report in Dianyuan. I was invited to participate in the writing group composed of the staff of the Dianyuan Street Cultural Service Center and two teachers of Kunming Jingtingshan Cultural Communication Co., Ltd., and the first stop was to the Qishutang Village Group of the Baiyi Village Committee of Dianyuan Street, and interviewed the production process of "Miaojia Zhang Ji Bitter Buckwheat Dumpling Dipped in Honey".
As a native of Dianyuan, the author has worked in Dianyuan for many years, and I am most familiar with the special snack of Miaojia bitter buckwheat dipped in honey in Qishhutang Village, and I have tasted it many times in market towns, villages, and small stalls in Qinglongtan, which can be described as a delicacy on the tip of the tongue in the depths of memory.
The favorite thing about buckwheat dipped in honey is naturally that it is locally sourced, pure natural and handmade, and has no added original taste.
Soba (buckwheat) happens to be a widely cultivated crop in our Dianyuan Mountains. Buckwheat is highly adaptable to soil and can grow in barren land in alpine mountainous areas. I also planted this crop with my mother when I was a child, and I remember it was during the summer vacation, in the mountains after digging potatoes, around the beginning of autumn, or spreading or on-demand. The industrious mother also said that buckwheat is a lazy crop, and the land is idle, and it is better to sprinkle some buckwheat seeds in the field and harvest as much as it can be than idle.
When the buckwheat grows, it will produce dense small white flowers, the stems are red, the leaves are green, and it is beautiful. The seeds are gray and black, triangular, and the yield is low, with a yield of about 100 kg per acre, so fewer and fewer people plant, and the rarity of buckwheat noodles can also be seen.
Buckwheat is usually ground into flour to make cakes to eat, sweet and cold, rich in dietary fiber, containing iron, manganese, zinc and other trace elements, has the effect of appetizing and widening the intestines, lower qi accumulation, easy to digest, but also suitable for people with high blood lipids and high blood sugar, is an ecological health food.
The production of bitter buckwheat in Qishutang Village is most valuable in pure nature and zero addition. It is taken with gray-brown buckwheat, washed, shelled and ground into noodles, and mixed with mountain spring water from the village or the spring water of Qinglongtan (it can flow naturally when spooned up). Use charcoal to burn a stove fire, support a small iron pot, after the pot is slightly hot, apply a little vegetable oil to the bottom of the pot, scoop a large spoonful of batter on the bottom of the pot, lift the small pot to shake the batter evenly and roundly, in the shape of a round cake, and then put it on the stove to sea, use a spatula to carefully turn the other side to sear, until the yellow pot on both sides, it is cooked. Cooked buckwheat cakes have natural honeycomb holes, so spread honey while hot, roll them up, and you can eat them to a great meal, or cut the cake into small pieces, drizzle with honey, and eat picky with a toothpick to share with family and friends.
Besides, honey is also a homemade honey raised by yourself in a small mountain village. The environment of the small mountain village is pure and quiet, the ecological environment is good, there is no pollution, honey has the fragrance and nutrition of hundreds of flowers, and it is truly "the most perfect food in nature". Honey can be described as a "golden partner", which can nourish the stomach and is a year-round health delicacy for men and women, young and old.
Zhang Ji, the seedling family of Surushu Pond, has insisted on making buckwheat for more than 20 years. Every time during the unique "Huashan Festival" and "March Head Dragon Festival" and other ethnic folk festivals in Dianyuan, as well as other holidays and weekends, they will set up stalls in the Three Turns Mountain Flower Farm, Qinglong Pond and other stalls for sale, not only the local people of Dianyuan are well-known, love to buy and eat, even guests from other places, also like to find and taste, full of praise.
It's been more than 20 years, and I remember that in the beginning, every time I saw my mother with her flower-like daughter, I was busy doing it. This time I arrived in Qishutang Village, just when the students were on holiday, the granddaughter who accompanied the couple was already a fourth-grade granddaughter, and the daughter had already been married. The granddaughter is also smart and capable, and has already obtained the true biography of her grandparents and aunts, and she also has a good appearance and can stand alone.
Time flies, for more than 20 years, I have witnessed the warm time of three generations of my ancestors and grandchildren, and I am really infinitely gratified and emotion-a kind of long-working family style. Now the old mother and his wife are both in their 70s, but they still look healthy, clean, kind and kind.
Qishhutang Village is a small mountain village located about three kilometers north of Dianyuan Market Town, with 138 people in 37 households, 100% of whom are inhabited by Miao compatriots.
Seeing the whole leopard, I personally seem to have a preference for this small mountain village of the Miao people, and there is a good impression and deep feelings that can never be erased. More than 10 years ago, when I was still working in the town government, I tried every possible way to help them create several "county-level civilized villages" and one "city-level civilized villages". In terms of hardware facilities and basic conditions alone, the small mountain village is far from reaching the conditions of a civilized village at the municipal level, but the small village completely relies on its simple folk customs, profound Miao cultural heritage, attaches importance to ecological environmental protection, and the villagers unite and cooperate and improve themselves, and live in harmony with the Han villagers in the surrounding Baiyi Village, Xin'an Village and Shuangping Village to win.
In recent years, with the care and attention of all levels and departments, Qishutang Village has made gratifying development, and through the construction of new countryside and beautiful village projects, the road into the village has been widened and beautified and greened; The construction of water conservancy facilities has been improved, and every household has access to running water, and it is much more convenient to use water for production; Sewage ditches in the village were dredged, garbage houses were built, and environmental sanitation was improved. A public welfare garden (red and white happy event hall), parking lot, and multi-functional cultural room (used to display Miao culture and village culture) have been built. The newly built small amusement garden, the wall paintings are vivid and lifelike, reflecting a classic love story of the Miao people, and also equipped with sculptures, Miao cultural elements are prominent, becoming a new landscape showing the characteristic culture of the Miao people.
Over the years, under the care and care of all levels and departments, and the unremitting efforts of all villagers, the appearance of the village and the mental state of the villagers have been completely renewed. It is gratifying that in promoting rural revitalization, Qishhutang Miao Village has been listed as the third batch of recommended units for the creation of ethnic unity demonstration in Panlong District, and around the conditions of the demonstration village, Qishutang Village will organically integrate the creation of ethnic unity demonstration units into rural revitalization, not falling behind or falling behind, and the people of the whole country to start a new journey of rural revitalization.
May the Surushutang Miao Village, like the bitter buckwheat dumplings they dipped in honey, taste sweet and mellow!
This article was selected as a documentary book on national unity work in Panlong District and published in Panlongjiang magazine in 2022.
About author:Duan Hongqin, member of Yunnan Province Writers Association; Director of Kunming Writers Association; Vice President of Kunming Children's Literature Research Association; Practice traditional culture, practice farming and reading life, record nature notes, gardening notes, write ecological essays, and remember daily life.
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(Cailong Community Duan Hongqin)