This year's Spring Festival, how did the famous Bashu cultural scholar Yuan Tingdong spend his life? In his heart, what are the unforgettable tastes of the year? For the upcoming Chinese New Year's Eve, what dishes will he recommend to the citizens of Chengdu?
On February 2, a Red Star News reporter contacted Yuan Tingdong, who was resting on Qingcheng Mountain. Elder Yuan said that his New Year habits are different from everyone's, but there are more and more people like him.
"First of all, I don't travel, it's too tired to be crowded." Yuan Tingdong said that the Spring Festival is more willing to bring three generations of the family together, to a place with good scenery and good air, to charter a farm or homestay, and to cook, eat, play and cultivate feelings as a family.
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"I am a Mianzhu person, and this year we are going back to our hometown in Mianzhu." Chinese New Year's Eve learned that northerners wrapped dumplings, ate spring rolls on the first day of the New Year, and ate hot pot on the second day of the New Year. You can eat casually at noon, but at night, you must eat and play together as a family. ”
So, at the Chinese New Year's Eve table in Chengdu, are there any necessary dishes? Yuan Tingdong believes that there is no standard dish in the Chinese New Year's Eve rice itself, "every household can do what they want, each family has different personnel, the old and the young are different, and the local and foreigners are different." ”
But Yuan Tingdong feels that there are still 3 reference items. "First, take care of the old and the young. There are many people in the group, first of all, we must respect the elderly, and prepare some foods that the elderly like to eat, such as hot, rake, and sweet food, such as sweet roasted white and salty roasted white. Children are lively and active, and they should prepare some 'dry plate' platters, and it is more appropriate to put together brine and wax. Yuan Tingdong explained.
The second reference item is that Sichuan people have the habit of making bacon and sausages, "We often say that there is no bacon sausage but the year, the bacon sausage is the representative of the New Year' flavor." ”
"For the sake of Tujili, we will prepare fish and chicken, fish represent more than every year, and chicken represents golden rooster." Yuan Tingdong explained the last reference item, "In addition, some garlic and leeks will be prepared in bacon and sausages, because bacon and sausages are dark and not good-looking, and the colors will be forked at once with leeks and garlic, which is very beautiful." At the New Year, Chengdu people should use garlic and leeks, which is the reason. ”
For Yuan Tingdong himself, the Chengdu New Year flavor he most yearns for is a freshly cut red oil chicken nugget, plus two vegetarian dishes. "At my age, I don't need too much meat, I don't need to be all of it, I must serve two vegetarian dishes." In the soup of sausages and bacon, boil some tarry head, it is delicious. ”
Red Star News reporter Yan Xue
Edited by Yu Manga
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