In order to conscientiously implement the "Wudang Health Care - One Local Cuisine" selection activity, give full play to the advantages of Hubei Yunxi Matou sheep characteristic industry, build Wudang health care brand, solidify the ecological cultural tourism industry in the old revolutionary area, and carry forward the regional characteristic culture, the following recommendations are specially made.
Yunxi Whole Sheep Banquet is a gourmet meal. It has achieved fine material selection, fine processing, fine craftsmanship and fine processing. Non-geographical identification places are not selected in the selection of materials, non-water sheep are not selected, and non-hornless pure white is not selected. And slaughtered and made, select 11 parts of the horse head sheep mutton, head, legs, heart, liver, belly, hooves, ridge, ribs, blood, etc., for debladder and fishy treatment, after one stew, two roasting, three boiling, four stewing and five steaming process, add nine auxiliary materials, fourteen kinds of spices, absorb the local riverside, riverside, provincial border, reservoir side, city side, mountain side of the skills of the skills, refined by several cooking chefs.
Yunxi Whole Sheep Banquet is a healthy feast. The "Yellow Emperor's Internal Canon" and the "Encyclopedia of Traditional Chinese Medicine" record that what to eat makes up for it, and what to eat to make up for it. Yunxi Horse Head Sheep eats Chinese herbal medicines, drinks mountain spring water, runs marathons, inhales natural oxygen bars, sleeps in small Western-style buildings, and grows up after immunization. After eating Yunxi horse head sheep, you can achieve nine supplements and one strong. That is, it can replenish kidney and aphrodisiac, nourish brain and intelligence, replenish spleen and stomach, nourish liver and eyes, replenish blood temperature and menstruation, replenish qi and yin, and supplement collagen and potassium. Achieve the miracle of strengthening muscles and bones and rejuvenating the body. It is more suitable for middle-aged and elderly people, women and children and people who have just recovered from serious diseases.
The Yunxi Whole Sheep Banquet is a cultural feast. According to legend, the love story of the cowherd and the weaver girl meeting at the Magpie Bridge is thanks to the horse head and sheep. When the queen mother found out that the cowherd and the weaver girl were in love, she was furious, and used her golden hairpin to draw the Tianhe as the boundary, separating the cowherd and the weaver girl and blocking the immortals from falling in love. The weaver girl was captured and returned to the Heavenly Palace and spent her days weaving clouds. The weaver girl had to repeatedly plead with the queen mother, who said a desperate sentence: "Unless the sheep do not grow horns, the river will flow backwards." These words were transmitted by the magpie to the ears of the goat, and the goat read the life-saving grace of its cowherd and weaver girl, and was very sad, so he went to the mountain to find the immortals to point out, worshiped the temple of the horse king for four hundred and ninety days, and hit the stone gate with the horn of the goat, and the horn of the goat was broken and broken, and from then on the sheep in this area no longer had horns, and the stone gate was also knocked open a gap, forming a backward river towards the north. These strange things spread to the Heavenly Court, and the Jade Emperor, who could not break their word, and the queen mother Niangniang ordered the cowherd and the weaver girl to meet once a year at the River Magpie Bridge on the seventh day of July. On this day, magpies will fly to build a magpie bridge to welcome the arrival of the cowherd and weaver girl. On this day, people hold the Qixi Festival, kill pigs, slaughter sheep, and release river lanterns, and invite Qi Jie to make food to celebrate. Qixi Festival has also become the Qiqiao Festival, the Tianhe Cultural Tourism Festival. This is the true portrayal of the only Tianhe Qixi culture in Yunxi "imaged in the sky, formed into a river in the ground, and became a custom in the people", which is also the oldest legend of horses and sheep in Yunxi.
Yunxi horse head sheep is a great feast of integrity. The story of the sheep's tail slaughter (shui) of rescuing the king of Chu is a true historical story, full of philosophy, and very educational and reference. The story tells the story of the person who slaughtered the sheep and said that he saved the king of Chu and refused to be crowned the third high-ranking official Houlu, so that the famous Qing Dynasty minister Zeng Guofan also bowed his head and bowed down, it turned out to be a butcher in Yangwei Town who lived by raising sheep and slaughtering sheep. Zeng Guofan wrote in a letter educating his younger brother: "Bow your head and slaughter a sheep and say that everything is too vain." The Zhuangzi "Let the King", the "Shiji" and "Zuo Chuan" recorded that during the period when King Chu Zhao fled from the country, he passed through Ying, Sui, Jiang, Yun, Sui, here Ying was in Zhongxiang, Sui was in Yicheng Manhe, Jiang referred to the Han River, Yun referred to Yunyang, and followed by Ankang. The sheep's tail is a necessary place to go up the Han River, the king of Chu and the sheep slaughter said that the historical adventure should have been amazing, drank the mutton soup at home to nourish the injured body of the king of Chu, it is even more amazing, the sheep slaughter said that he gave up his horse head and sheep to live and a comfortable life, risked death to escort the king of Chu, spent a lot of silver taels of his own, to Jingyang Township sheepskin beach money has been spent, had to take off his sheepskin jacket and give it to the boatman, so as not to help the king of Chu cross the Han River, and connect with the people of the king of Ankang before returning with confidence. Later, the king of Chu restored the country, and he wanted to thank the sheep slaughter, saying that he had sent ministers to ask him to be a high official many times, but he politely declined, saying that it is the duty of a subject to serve the country loyally, and it is against the national system that you promoted me out of the ordinary, and it is our common wish to return to our respective posts, and I will be satisfied to be able to return to slaughter sheep. The sheep slaughter said to keep your true colors, do not take in vain, do not ask in vain, keep your nature, and live a stable life. Zeng Guofan borrowed the great wisdom of the sheep slaughtering theory, was not proud of his achievements, and was a low-key person, on his desk, while placing glory medals, report letters, petitions, and always maintaining the fairness of the balance of the world. Wei Dengdian, the contemporary Duke of Yunxi, a representative of the 16th, 17th, and 18th Party Congresses, kept in mind the feelings of the people, and when he returned from the army, he did not choose to be an official, but chose to serve the people, and he worked as a public servant of the people all his life, building roads, erecting electricity, improving housing, promoting education, poverty alleviation, industry, and tourism, but he lived in an old tile house with no access to the highway.
The horse head sheep in Yunxi are the result of poverty alleviation. The people of Yunxi rely on targeted poverty alleviation, and rural revitalization embarks on the road of making a fortune and becoming moderately prosperous. Yunxi County is historically a particularly poor county integrating the old, young, border, poor, and library, and the first characteristic rich people project selected for precise poverty alleviation is the horse head sheep, because of the large number of poor people involved, the mountain grassland resources are rich, there are 2.96 million mu of grassland can be used, there are relatively rich horse head sheep germplasm resources and sheep raising habits, the county has formulated the horse head sheep industry planning and industrial standards, and successfully declared the base county and geographical protection identification area. It has formulated special industrial policies and development funds, focused on the key tasks of "protection, herd expansion, and service to market entities", focused on key measures of "feed supply, processing and transformation, and technical services", promoted the "small unit +" and 1235 breeding models, established the business philosophy of "moderate scale, moderate grazing, moderate fattening, and appropriate slaughter", built a demonstration center for efficient breeding and promotion, increased technical training, and cultivated a large number of professional cooperatives and sheep breeding experts. At its peak, the breeding of horse head sheep in Yunxi reached 600,000 head, and 200,000 head were slaughtered every year, and a quarter of the people became rich by raising sheep. The horse head sheep industry has become the pillar industry of Yunxi's development, enriching the people's industry and cultural characteristics.
There are many legends and stories about the Yunxi horse head sheep. According to historical records, Yunxi belonged to the land of the Qin dynasty and the ancient Xing'an Province, and it is speculated that goats may have been brought here by immigrants in the Han Dynasty and crossed with local native goats, giving birth to hornless horse-headed goats. According to the "Hubei Province Livestock and Poultry Breeds", Yunxi County is the birthplace and central production area of horse-headed goats. But some people say that the horse-headed goat came from Europe. It was the German missionary Matteo Ricci who spread the biological "milk bottle" brought by Catholicism, and the European dairy goat spread to the vast area of five counties south of the Qinling Mountains. Yunxi still retains several Catholic churches in Shangjin, Ma'an, and Chengguan. According to folk songs, horses and sheep have many benefits, the big ones can push and grind, the small ones are more than a hundred, the old people eat too much at night, and the mothers eat more milk. Now the three-character scripture says, horse head sheep, living in a bungalow, national standard, gold award, female yin, male yang, husband and wife eat, bed is swollen, maternal food, milk swelling, boss eats, business is prosperous, literati eat, articles are published, tourists eat, never forget, old age eats, get up less, children eat, grow up, leaders eat, career, friends eat, love and righteousness, soldiers eat, dare to fight wolves, delicious food, taste carefully, do not eat weekly, always think. There is also a legend that the main leader of the province spoke for Yunxi Horse Head Sheep, believing that Yunxi Horse Head Sheep Soup ranked first among the five famous foods in Hubei, and Yunxi Horse Head Sheep appeared on the Central Video Channel, so it was stained with a lot of light.
(The author, Chen Zunxiang, is a local folklore scholar, president of the Lao Promotion Association, and honorary vice president of the Red Cross)
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