Yangzhou is a very special city, also known as Guangling, is a prefecture-level city in Jiangsu Province. Located between the two major river systems of the Yangtze River and the Huai River, it is pregnant with the ancient Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, which connects the south and north of China, and enjoys the reputation of the first city of china's canal. Here the natural conditions are superior, the climate is mild, and a large number of tourists come to Yangzhou in March for that sentence - fireworks in March.
In history, Yangzhou has experienced three heydays of the Han Dynasty, Sui and Tang Dynasties, Song Ming and Qing Dynasties, but now in May 2021, Yangzhou has even been rated as a third-tier city. Yangzhou, under the shining of today's stars, looks so obscure and unremarkable. But the locals don't seem to care so much, they just want to live a slow life, and they will laugh at you, and they don't understand the meaning of life at all.
In the city of Yangzhou, it was as if time had stood still. The streets of the new city were very quiet, as if the city was a sleeping old man who did not dare to disturb. A little later, the noisy tea house opened, shrimp seed dumplings, hot dried silk, three diced buns, and then a pot of tea, slow and leisurely drinking. Most people know Cantonese morning tea, but few people go to know Yangzhou morning tea, in fact, the morning tea here is not rougher than Cantonese morning tea, very delicate.
For example, three diced buns, you need to cut fresh bamboo shoots, pork belly and chicken thigh meat finely, each of which is even in size, and can not be sloppy at all. Shrimp seed dumpling noodles, first go to the shrimp seeds inside, scrape away the shrimp eggs one by one, to ensure that the inside is very clean, there is no dust left behind, in order to put it in the pot to boil the hot head. Another example is the hot dry silk here, a dried tofu must be cut into 28 pieces, and then cut into fine silk, without the master's kung fu, this work can not come.
From the morning tea in Yangzhou, we can spy the character of Yangzhou people, which seems to be a simple daily diet, but it has achieved the ultimate. Do not argue, do not grab, do not rejoice in things, do not grieve with oneself. Even if you work so hard to eat, of course, time slows down. Morning tea is just an appetizer, to come to the real, but also to see Huaiyang cuisine.
As one of the four major traditional Chinese cuisines, Huaiyang cuisine originated in Yangzhou and Huai'an, because the Huaiyang water system is mainly based on aquatic products, so Huaiyang cuisine is based on rivers and lakes. The signature dish is the Lion's Head! The selection of ingredients in this dish is extremely elaborate, and the meat filling must be made of pork rib meat, which is fat and lean. The knife skills are extremely exquisite, fat meat, lean meat cut into thin wires, and then cut into cubes. In addition to knife skills and material selection, after the fire must also be used properly to achieve the stewed crab powder lion's head green vegetable crisp, crab powder fresh, fat but not greasy, melt in the mouth.
In the late Qing Dynasty, the Jianghuai salt industry was constantly corrupt, and the governor of Liangjiang began to rectify the salt industry, resulting in the bankruptcy of a large number of salt merchants, which was a symptom of Yangzhou's turn from prosperity to decline. One of the important inflection points was the construction of the Jinpu Railway, which departed from Tianjin and passed through many important cities, but Yangzhou missed the railway in vain. Because the Yan Yamen at that time believed that this railway would affect water transport, they refused, and eventually the railway was diverted to Anhui and had no connection with Yangzhou. However, Cao Yun was too slow to rival the speed of the railway, which directly led to the transformation of Yangzhou from a first-class metropolis to a third-tier city.