Whenever I taste the pieces of dried bamboo shoots, the faint fragrance lingers on the tip of the tongue. This is the taste of hometown, but also a childhood memory. Picking, processing, and the tedious process poured into the hard work and expectation of the family, so that countless wanderers are connected with the customs of their hometown.
Before and after the Qingming Festival, the ancient city of Shaoxing once again floated the fragrance of bamboo shoots. In front of the house and behind the house in the countryside, in the open drying field, the "bamboo shoots boiled and dried vegetables" spread by residents on various drying equipment have become a beautiful scenery in Yuecheng.
In the past few days, Cangqiao Straight Street, located in the ancient city of Shaoxing, has doubled its bustle, and while feeling the fireworks in the south of the Yangtze River, dried bamboo shoots have become a "local specialty" that many tourists are vying to buy. "The taste is peculiar, I've never tasted it before. "It has a faint smell of bamboo shoots, and it's very addictive to eat. During this period, many tourists were very curious about the umami of dried bamboo shoots. For Shaoxing people, dried bamboo shoots are an exclusive memory engraved in the genes. The writer Lu Xun is one of the "loyal fans" of bamboo shoots and dried vegetables. In March 1935, Lu Xun received food from his mother Lu Rui from Beijing, and he happily praised the delicious dried vegetables to his mother: "The dried vegetables are very delicious, and the children love to eat them, because they have never eaten such dried vegetables." Shao Wenrong, a classmate of Lu Xun during his stay in Japan, has been friends with Lu Xun for more than 30 years, and during Lu Xun's stay in Shanghai, Shao Wenrong sent gifts to Lu Xun were often dried vegetables, dried bamboo shoots, and dried fish. Among the gifts given to Lu Xun in 1933 and 1936 was bamboo shoots. To this day, dried bamboo shoots are still the favorite of many Shaoxing travelers. "Every time I go home, I take some home-made dried bamboo shoots with me, and whenever the strong smell of bamboo shoots continues to smell during the cooking process, it always reminds me of the taste of my hometown. Mr. Chen, who works outside the home all year round, said that when he was a child, he had the experience of making dried bamboo shoots with his parents, which made him have a special affection for this "local specialty" of Shaoxing. In Shaoxing, making dried bamboo shoots has always been the top priority for many residents. "The quality of bamboo shoots directly determines the final taste of dried bamboo shoots. Aunt Wang, a villager who lives in Fusheng Town, told reporters that the bamboo shoots in dried bamboo shoots generally refer to hairy bamboo shoots. Before and after the Qingming Festival, peel the shells of the spring bamboo shoots that have just grown, remove the heads, clean them, cut them into thin slices, mix in the salted mustard greens that have been pickled out of the tank in advance, put them into the pot and boil them together, and cook them in the sun until they are dried, and the dried bamboo shoots are considered to be completed.
On the table, dried bamboo shoots and vegetables have become an excellent side dish for meat dishes with high protein and fat content in Shaoxing cuisine by virtue of their fresh and tender characteristics, and they are versatile masters of removing fishy and smelly smells. Pioneered by Xu Wenchang, a genius of Shaoxing in the Ming Dynasty, the dried vegetables and pork belly have become the top grade in the meat and vegetable dishes by virtue of the full absorption and harmony of the oil in the pork belly by the dried bamboo shoots. In the eighteen flavors of the Yue Banquet, many cuisines such as ham and duck pot also use dried bamboo shoots as one of the important production materials. In addition, with bamboo shoots and dried vegetables and loofah, pumpkin, pampas, bamboo shoots, river shrimp and so on together in soup, is the most commonly used vegetable soup in Shaoxing people in summer, its soup color is clear, green, white and red three colors, not only light and delicious, but also have the effect of shengjin, sweating and so on.
One side of the water and one side of the taste. As a traditional "local specialty" of Shaoxing, dried bamboo shoots not only carry the nostalgia that cannot be parted, but also reflect the broad consumer market. In 2022, the Commerce Bureau of Yuecheng District of Shaoxing City (Post Administration), together with Shaoxing Post and the Government of Fusheng Town, Yuecheng District, will carry out the pilot action of "Express Rejuvenation of Agriculture" in Fusheng Town based on the "Contract Co-construction of the Common Prosperity Post Road", and make every effort to build the "Yuefu Post Life Museum", connecting the entire industrial chain of agricultural product production, promotion and sales, distribution and consumption, effectively promoting the transaction of agricultural products and handicrafts in Fusheng and surrounding areas, and smoothing logistics channels. "In the past, it took three buses to go to the urban village to sell the bamboo shoots and dried vegetables, but now it only needs to be delivered to the postal service point in the village, and there is a special person to help sell them, which is convenient and time-saving. Jin Shanfu, a villager living in Jinxi Village, Fusheng Town, told reporters that with the help of the Yuefu Post Life Museum, the agricultural and sideline products produced by the villagers can be seen by more people, and the villagers' money bags are also more bulging. At the same time, "local specialties" are also exuding new connotations. At present, based on special products such as bamboo bamboo shoots in Fusheng Town, many primary and secondary schools in Yuecheng have organized students to come to study and experience the production process of dried bamboo shoots and other special products.
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