At the table of the Zhenjiang people
There is never a bowl of pot lid noodles
When you're eating with a bowl
Have you ever considered when this bowl of noodles became popular?
And who will put that representative pot lid
What about the first one to throw into the dough pot?
Today
The Town View Survey will take you to unravel this historical mystery
In the Zhenjiang people's life encyclopedia, a small pot lid should float in the noodle pot, which is an indispensable configuration for cooking a good bowl of noodles. But few people will delve into why they should put the lid on the pot when cooking noodles?
The earliest folk saying:
There was a pair of Shandong brothers and sisters who had lost their parents, and once the sister was under the brother, and when they did not find the lid of the pot for a while, they put the small lid for cooking soup into the cauldron. Later, when the brothers and sisters were separated by the flood in Shandong, the sister fled to Zhenjiang and suddenly found a pot lid floating in a pot of cooking noodles in a shop, so as to recognize her brother.
The legend of "Shandong brothers and sisters" and the author of "Pot Lid Noodles" Yu Zhenhui
It is not to listen to one person, but also to hear a lot of people say, slowly put together, including I put some circles up, in the end is not two brothers and sisters in Shandong, it is difficult to say.
The origin of the pot lid noodles is widely disputed
But in all folklore
The most widely disseminated
It is related to Qianlong
Pot lid noodle practitioner Mr. Ren
When Qianlong went down to Jiangnan, Zhang San's sister-in-law nervously dropped the lid of the small pot into the big pot.
A legend may be just a seasoning in people's daily lives, making the bowl of noodles that they are eating more flavorful. But in the eyes of conspiracy theorists, it's not that simple! This year's article titled "The Birth of Pot Lid Noodles: An Organized and Planned Scam?" The online article of "" has stirred up layers of waves. The self-media author believes that the origin of the boiling pot lid in the noodle pot "originated from a 'brainstorming of literary and historical experts' in 1977, which is a modern marketing method, without any historical basis, and a naked scam." ”
Pot lid noodles are the golden sign of our Zhenjiang culture, and the pot lid noodle making technology is a provincial intangible cultural heritage and the pride of Zhenjiang people. Now being directly named the word "scam" is really unacceptable, but it is inevitable to wonder, where does the pot lid noodles come from? As Zhenjiang people, it is necessary to find out who put the first lid in the noodle pot.
Source
More than 4,000 years ago, Chinese invented noodles, because of its simple production and rich nutrition, it has been handed down to this day and has become one of the favorite staple foods of the Chinese people. Due to the difference in strip making, seasoning, and thickness, a wide variety of noodles have appeared throughout the country. In many places, there is a bowl of noodles that the locals are proud of. But to say that the small pot lid is put into a large pot and cooked with noodles, Zhenjiang is still the only one. If you want to know the reason, you have to start with the culture of Zhenjiang.
Zhenjiang literature and history expert Zhou Wenxiang
Our culture in Zhenjiang has two cultures, one is the city culture and the other is the dock culture.
Located at the junction of the Yangtze River and the Golden Cross waterway of the Grand Canal, Zhenjiang is a city that rose up from the docks. Since the Tang and Song dynasties, Zhenjiang has been an important port, and the transshipment of goods at that time mainly relied on manpower. For dock porters, noodles become a perfect food.
If you want to eat it, you must eat noodles. fast! Don't wait too long to eat.
It is said that near the dock at that time, the business of a noodle shop was directly dependent on the speed below. To this end, the noodle shops are also racking their brains.
Chinese culinary master Gu Kemin
There was no lid, and there was a small soup pot next to the cauldron.
Chinese culinary master National pastry senior technician Chen Fulin
The following water is consumed, add cold water to people and so on too long, the water in the soup pot is hot, at any time to pick up the pot lid to add the water in the soup pot, there are also plans to save trouble with the chopsticks to put it on, the middle of the dial is likely to drop the pot lid.
And it plays a very good role, after the noodles go down, it is on top of the lid of the pot, which plays a role in storing gas.
Because you can increase the speed of the following bar
Small pot lids became a cooking technique
Spread quickly
With the passage of time, people have found that under the noodle pot with the small lid, there are also benefits such as keeping the maturity of the noodles uniform, saving fuel, and quickly skimming off the foam to keep the noodle soup clear.
It used to be impossible to have a bowl of noodles under one pot, it was a lot of bowls of noodles, it was a lump, you need this portion, he needed that portion.
At that time, the food was tight, so the people who came to eat the noodles were very calculating, you give me three or two, you must have three or two sides of this noodle.
The lid of the pot was lowered, just to press this noodle, one lump per person, and it did not fall apart.
Because of its many advantages, in Zhenjiang, boiling the pot lid inside the noodle pot has become a cooking process. Whether it is on the dock or in the city, whether it is a noodle shop, a knife noodle shop, a dumpling shop, or a jumping noodle shop, most of the noodle pots are floated with a small pot lid.
The lid of the cooking pot in the noodle pot is relatively early, and it should have been there in the early days of liberation.
I'm 68 years old, and I personally remember it for at least 60 years.
Citizen Mr. Lin
I was born in 1964.
Reporter: When you were a child, did the big pot in the Zhenjiang noodle shop have a small pot lid in it?
Yes, there really is.
In the 1990 book "Zhenjiang Nostalgia", there is an article called "Thinking of My Hometown", which contains a description of Zhenjiang noodle shops.
It is mentioned that when I was a child, I ate gang noodles, and he said that there was a small pot lid floating in the pot below, so this also proves that the pot lid is inside the pot, according to his article for at least eighty or ninety years.
The written noodle pot inside the boiling pot lid dates back to the first decade of the twentieth century, and it is a fact that it has been circulated in Zhenjiang for a long time as a cooking process. According to the recollections of the old people, ?
Prosperity
In Zhenjiang, according to the different methods of making noodles, there are small knife noodles, jumping noodles, machine noodles, and in the name of the noodle shop, the name of the noodle shop was the most, and there were also called small knife noodle shops, jumping noodle shops, and noodle shops. It wasn't until the 1980s that people slowly discovered that there were more pot lid noodle shops.
Li Qiaoyue runs a pot lid noodle shop in Xijindu called Li Sister-in-law Pot Lid Noodles, and the li sister-in-law in the name of the shop is her mother. Li Qiaoyue still clearly remembers the scene in the 70s of the last century, when she was five or six years old, she helped her mother to run the "Li Sister-in-law Food Stall". Later, Li Qiaoyue inherited the business, until the 1980s, after the rise of the term pot lid noodles, she changed the name of the shop to "Li Sister-in-law Pot Lid Noodles".
Pot lid noodle practitioner Li Qiaoyue
It seems that about eight years or so, there was this pot lid noodle.
Why did that online article seize this point in time in 1977 to refute the existence of pot lid noodles? On May 31, 1977, a group of literary and historical experts who were extremely prestigious at that time gathered in Zhenjiang and held a publicity meeting to restore Zhenjiang's scenic spots and monuments. It was after that meeting that the experts inadvertently chatted about a string of smooth mouths, and this string of smooth mouths is the "three monsters of Zhenjiang" that we are familiar with today.
Because they are all old people, they are all cultural people and are good at summarizing. Then it is said that a noodle pot is boiled with a pot lid, the meat is not a dish, and the balsamic vinegar is not bad.
Zhou Wenxiang was the deputy manager of the Golden Mountain Hotel at the time, and he also attended the meeting, thinking that this string of smooth words was very interesting. And Zhou Wenxiang has the same feeling, there is Zhang Feng, who was then the deputy director of the Zhenjiang Municipal Garden Management Institute, both of whom believe that this passage is catchy and has great benefits for publicizing Zhenjiang's catering culture. After that, they promoted the "Three Monsters of Zhenjiang" at work.
Zhang Feng of the Garden Management Office because he often accompanies guests, and there is one of me, I often accompany, and later more and more publicity, geometric cardinality.
In addition to Zhou Wenxiang and Zhang Feng, Yu Zhenhui, who was working at Zhenjiang Catering Service Company at the time, also actively participated in the team of publicizing the "Three Monsters of Zhenjiang". In 1980, the article "Pot Lid Noodles" co-created by Yu Zhenhui was published in the then national magazine "Food Science and Technology".
Reporter: Was it the task assigned by the leaders at that time to write this article, or did we spontaneously do it ourselves?
Not giving up the task is my own hobby.
Reporter: After this article, did anyone come to you, or the leaders came to you and attached importance to you?
There is no specific one. Praise me, say that your article is quite well written, not to give you a reward or something.
Unintentionally inserting willows and willows, Yu Zhenhui's article was originally unintentional, but in the era when the information access channel was relatively single, it touched the practitioners of Yu Zhenjiang's catering industry, and then promoted the development of pot lid noodles.
This is slowly and subtly, not with great fanfare.
In the following years, the media at all levels took turns to publicize, and the word pot lid noodles was quickly recognized by the Zhenjiang catering industry. By the 1990s, pot lid noodles had become a general term for Zhenjiang noodles.
This shows that we Zhenjiang people have a good brand awareness, in the past we only knew how to make noodles, did not know how to use this noodles as a brand, and could beat it out.
The pot lid noodles and the noodle pot inside the cooking pot lid are actually two concepts. Pot lid noodles are now the collective name of Zhenjiang noodles, are brands, and have been formed for a short time. As a cooking process, the cooking pot lid inside the noodle pot is the crystallization of the collective wisdom of generations of Zhenjiang catering people. At this point, we seem to have figured out the origin of the Zhenjiang pot cover noodles, and also answered the questions of the network self-media, but why has our small pot cover become a black physique?
Myths
With the growing fame of pot lid noodles, our publicity for pot lid noodles has entered a misunderstanding. Some of the propaganda exaggerated the role of the pot lid, which makes people feel embarrassed to hear it, for example, some people say that the small pot lid used for Zhenjiang pot lid noodles is made of a special kind of wood, which has its own aroma and can enhance the taste of noodles.
This is a little far-fetched, because the fir you cook for a long time, it has a little fragrance, it does have a little fragrance of the new, but after a long time, the taste of the fir gradually fades.
Reporter: Impossible, is it because the noodles are delicious because of wood?
No.
Besides. At present, most pot lid noodle practitioners often emphasize how their own soy sauce is secretly made and how diverse the noodle toppings are. And even some industry competitions, although they are named for pot lid noodles, they only pay attention to the taste of noodles. This weakens the role of the pot lid to a certain extent, and over time, the pot lid that should be the protagonist gradually becomes a prop and a gimmick. The traditional technique of boiling the lid inside the noodle pot will also be gradually forgotten. In such a situation, it is not surprising to be questioned.
In a pot at most I remember can put 16 to 20 bowls, first fishing, then fishing, always keep this, always keep this taste, always keep this tendon, this is the role of the pot lid. Our pot lid noodle competition, both to consider the traditional craft, not only to have high-grade toppings, mixed noodles, but also to have traditional elements, this can not be thrown away, then you can not take out, people do not admire you.
It is difficult to live up to the fame, sinking into the false name, and forgetting the truly valuable inheritance, so there are too many cases of failure. The scam slander of online self-media may not be a bad thing for the development and inheritance of Zhenjiang pot noodles.