Author: He Yiqun
In the early summer of each year, the sky begins to be gloomy, the air becomes stuffy and sticky, only when the green plum is ripe, the drizzle will not stop, and the entire Lujiang area will suddenly come to the yellow plum rainy season.
"The snail (who knows) is calling, cut the early rice. Eat plum chicken. "I still hear what my mother said to me as a child, but it was a delicacy that I couldn't hope for as a child. Ancients Cloud: The people take food as the sky. Since ancient times, from the princes and generals to the beggars in cloth, the pursuit of food has never been sloppy. The production of food is often closely related to the region, climate and so on.
In my hometown of Lujiang, there is a custom of Huang Meitian giving boys "plum chicken". According to anecdotal rumors: boys eat stewed "plum chicken" in Huangmeitian, which has great benefits for growth and development. Pay attention to the need to eat one plum, out of the plum to eat another. So what is a "plum chicken"? In Lujiang, people used to call the rooster that had hatched in Huangmei Tianli and had not yet opened (not singed) as "plum chicken".
In the days before entering the plum, the hostess of every household would go to the vegetable market to buy one or two "plum chickens" with spiritual heads. The selection of "plum chicken" is generally only six or seven weights, and it is rare to have more than eight or two or one pound. The bought plum chicken is slaughtered first, blood-scalding, broken belly washing, and then the claws that break the tendons of the legs are bent and put away, so as not to open the teeth and claws in the steaming process, destroying the appearance of the "plum chicken" shame; and then put the onion ginger and rock sugar into the belly, generally do not put salt, the taste is particularly heavy is also put very little salt, it is said that more salt will affect the effect of nourishment, and then put in the cauldron in the water with a high fire for half an hour, you can get out of the pot.
Freshly cooked plum chicken is bright in color, mellow in soup, crisp and sweet, full of teeth and fragrant.
Eating plum chicken is still exquisite, and it will be effective to eat one person completely. It is generally eaten by boys in the family or adult laborers in the family, which is said to be able to better get rid of the dampness in the body, strengthen the body and add vitality, and calmly meet and face the ensuing agricultural work. When I was young, my mother often said to me: "You are a boy, weak, eating "plum chicken" is the most supplemental." "I enjoyed hearing my mother say this because it left me with my expectations for the coming year. I don't know if it is my own body is weak, or the "plum chicken" tonic is just a legend, my body bones have not seen strong, but more and more tall, 15 years old junior high school graduation, the height has reached 179 cm, thin like a telephone pole.
How about not delving into its effect for a moment? Maybe few people eat it now, but in the past of material scarcity, it was definitely a luxury tonic. It's the rainy season again, whether you live in the city or the countryside, all kinds of delicacies emerge in an endless stream and are readily available today, do you remember the custom of eating "plum chicken" on that yellow plum day?
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