"There is heaven on the top and Suzhou and Hangzhou on the bottom", which has been widely circulated. "Paradise on Earth" is still the name of Hangzhou by people at home and abroad.
Hangzhou vegetables, like Hangzhou West Lake, are famous throughout the country. The excavated cultural relics underground and the documents on the ground record the long history of Hangzhou vegetables.
In the Neolithic era, in the Liangzhu area, the ancients had produced vegetables. In the Sui Dynasty, the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal was opened to navigation, which greatly promoted the exchange of fine vegetable seeds and production technologies between the north and the south. By the Tang and Song dynasties, Hangzhou gradually became a famous city in the country, and was known as a "famous county in the southeast", and vegetables maintained a prosperous situation of production and marketing. During the Southern Song Dynasty, the capital of Hangzhou (Lin'an Province) further promoted the prosperity and development of the vegetable industry, with more than 40 kinds of vegetables, and the capital city provided vegetables for four times. In the Ming Dynasty, the West Lake became more and more "ten miles of lotus flowers, Lingge pan night", and the city of Hangzhou was "thirty miles around the Guo lotus". With the development of society, the production, circulation and cooking of vegetables in Hangzhou have improved synchronously and are changing with each passing day. Today, Hangzhou is the political, economic and cultural center of Zhejiang Province. The vegetable industry is improving day by day and showing a thriving trend.
After long-term artificial breeding, processing and cooking, or natural optimization of vegetables, Hangzhou has formed many traditional famous dishes with local characteristics. Hangzhou famous dishes, different formulations in various periods, different views of each person, agriculture, commerce, catering industry is different, can be summarized into real estate famous dishes and cooking famous dishes two categories. This article introduces several famous dishes of Hangzhou real estate for the benefit of readers.
<h1>Lettuce</h1>
Lettuce, with West Lake lettuce and Xianghu lettuce, is a precious aquatic plant, precious dishes, with lubricating non-greasy, fragrant and refreshing, high protein content characteristics. 1600 years ago, in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, there was a record of "lettuce soup perch", and it is said that the emperors of the past would use lettuce to mix soup every time they visited Hangzhou in the south, and now the guests are also prepared with fresh and fragrant lettuce soup.
The Southern Song Dynasty Jiatai 's Huijizhi' records: "The xianghu of Xiaoshan is a special treasure, silky and plump." Xianghu vegetables originally grew naturally in Xianghu Lake and faced extinction in the late 1960s. In 1980, Xiaoshan Wenyan Tiger Cave Village established a professional team of lettuce, resumed artificial planting, in 1984 the cultivation area of 49.7 acres, the annual output of 15 tons, export 9.62 tons. The Ming Dynasty's "West Lake Tour Zhiyu" records that in the Song Dynasty, "the third bridge of the West Lake (now the Wangshan Bridge of Su Causeway) is close to the lettuce, and the people who do not go down to Xianghu Lake" are not down. West Lake lettuce was originally planted in Places such as Sandan Yinyue and Huagang Park, with a small area and an annual output of only more than 50 kilograms. In the late 1970s, the development was relatively fast, and the villages of Renqiao, Maojiabu, Fushan and Miaojia in the West Lake District had developed more than 200 acres. In 1980, the output was 2750 kg, and in 1985 it rose to 7500 kg, and the products were exported to Japan in addition to domestic sales.
<h1>Dried bamboo shoots in the sky</h1>
It is made of stalagmites and green shoots in the foothills of Tianmu Mountain, so it is called Tianmu dried bamboo shoots, which is a traditional specialty of Lin'an County. The Ming Dynasty's "Wanli Lin'an County Chronicle" says: "The dried green shoots produce Huangdong Dongkeng are good, especially the early bamboo shoots are newly made and boiled and dried for the breast, and they are not bad over the years", "The shell is thin and fat, the quality is tender, the fresh is sweet, and the fresh is the world". During the Republic of China period, dried Tianmu bamboo shoots have become an important product of local farmers. The "Chronicle of Yuqian County" contains that "the small people take the value of sale, if the high mountains and deep valleys are far from the village, set up a factory on the mountain to pick bamboo shoots to boil, expose them to dried green shoots, store them in baskets, and not bad for a long time, the old and tender and half are said to be plucked, the tender ones are called the bamboo shoot tips, the extremely tender ones are said to be the tip of the tips, the delicious price is particularly expensive, the Jiaqian Jiahou Erxiang has a lot of them, and in the early summer, the merchants are sold in Jia (Xing) and Su (Zhou), with thousands of means of money to make a living, not helpless." "After 1949, the dried bamboo shoot industry has been greater development, by the 1980s, Lin'an County Zazhu Mountain has developed to more than 200,000 acres, built hundreds of dried bamboo shoot processing plants, the annual output of about 500 tons, its varieties are baked, fat, bald, small, tong ting five kinds, sold well in more than 10 provinces, cities and Hong Kong, Macao, Southeast Asia. In 1995, Linmu Township in Lin'an County alone produced 110 tons of dried bamboo shoots, with a total output value of 3.58 million yuan.
<h1>Dried radish</h1>
It is made by marinating with "one knife seed" fresh lotus. This variety is cylindrical, slender, two-knife diagonal, and has a high dry matter content. Xiaoshan Luo dried production began in the Qing Guangxu period, salty with sweet, crisp and refreshing, for Xiaoshan traditional specialty. Originally based on farmers' self-food, in the ninth year of the Republic of China (1920), commodities began to enter the market. In 1963, it began to be "wind dehydration" processing, varieties of salty lotus dried, sweet dried, spicy lotus strips, spiced lotus (d) and so on, after 1966, the annual output of about 12,000, exported to Japan, Singapore, Malaysia and other places.
<h1>Kobayashi turmeric</h1>
During the Song Dynasty Chengchun period, Yuhang honey ginger dried ginger has been made as a tribute. In 1946, the "Hangxian Chronicle" said: "Jiang, for Linping, Xiaolin near the countryside to produce a large number, in the spring under the planting, summer and summer as a reed curtain to restore." In early autumn, the digger is called tender ginger, the buds are purple, and there is a fragrance for The Hanghu pickles. Dig out in late autumn, known as old ginger, put in the house, winter is cold, it is advisable to make a small cellar, buried with rice stalks; Sales north to Pingjin, and Guanwai". At present, the main cultivars are red claw ginger, and there are also a small amount of yellow claw ginger, which are similar in nature and are mostly planted in Xiaolin, Qianyuan, Tangnan, Shuanglin, Xingqiao and other townships in Yuhang District. Kobayashi turmeric is famous for its spicy flavor, flesh-colored turmeric, low fiber, dense texture, and long cooking. In 1985, the area of ginger planted was 3031 mu, and the yield per mu was generally about 1500 kg, and the high one reached 2500 kg.
<h1>Big red robe water chestnut</h1>
Produced in the area of Yuhang County, the skin is thin and bright red, such as wearing a red robe, so the name "Da Hong Pao 茡荠," is famous for its large, crisp, juice clear, sweet taste, and no residue. Ming Jiajing's "Chronicle of Renhe County" contains: "Water chestnut, recently produced in Dushan" (in the territory of present-day Zhanqiao Township, Yuhang District). Legend has it that tributes were made as early as the Southern Song Dynasty. In the 1930s, plants were planted on both sides of the canal from Longguang Bridge to Yiqiao, and the area was 27,500 mu in 1949 and increased to 53,800 mu in 1953. Since 1974, the refined and processed canned food "Shimizu Horseshoe" has been exported to Hong Kong and Macao in China and Europe and the United States. He was awarded the International Gold Medal twice in 1984 and 1985. In 1985, the planting area was 260,000 mu, with a total output of 40,000 tons and an annual output value of 862.91 million yuan.
The content of this article is selected from "Hangzhou Vegetable Record", China Agricultural Science and Technology Press, December 2020, 1st edition, December 2020 first printing, Feng Lizhong editor-in-chief, Hangzhou Seed Industry Group Co., Ltd., responsible editor Yan Qingjian.
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