Ruian people have always had a traditional special feeling for fritters, hollow mooncakes, hanging cakes, these three foods and shoes. The elderly will tell their stories to the children under the banyan trees in the summer or in the courtyard after tea and dinner, which will be passed down from generation to generation.
Fried fritters, eat fritters, in order to export resentment
Most Ryan people call fritters "fryers." I remember when I was a guest at Ryan as a child, every morning, in the middle of the sound of lang lang books from the neighbors or heard the crisp "pot, pot, hot fryer" shouting. From the window facing the alley, you will always see children walking in the streets with flat bamboo baskets and white towels. If someone opens the door and shouts for buying, they will enter the door from under a white towel and poke one or two steaming fritters with a chopstick.
Why do Ryan people call fritters "fryers"? Judging from the production process, it is indeed fried in a frying pan, and it is crunchy and delicious to eat, and everyone likes to eat it. But the real reason is in its moral. The old people said that calling fritters "fryers" was learned by readers, merchants or officials who went to Hangzhou to participate in the township (solution) test in ancient times.
During the Southern Song Dynasty, the city of Hangzhou was known as Lin'an, the Kyoto of the Southern Song Dynasty, and there was a traitorous traitor Qin Juniper who colluded with the rulers of the Jin Dynasty, and he and his wife (known as Qin Juniper) conspired to frame the anti-Jin hero Yue Fei on trumped-up charges. At that time, when the Yue family army marched into Zhuxian Town and won a victory, Emperor Gaozong of Song was worried that the Yue family army would rescue the two last emperors of the Northern Song Dynasty, Qinzong and Huizong, who were imprisoned by Jin Bing in the huanglong province in the northeast, back to the Song Dynasty, and it would be difficult for him to protect the throne. Qin Ju and his wife instigated Emperor Gaozong to use the Sixteen Golden Medal Holy Wills to summon Yue Fei's father and son and the general Zhang Xian back to Lin'an and kill them at the Fengbo Pavilion.
The Manchu Dynasty ministers could not allow Qin Juniper and his wife, and the people of the city gritted their teeth one by one, and they could not shout unjustly, and they could not get out of anger. Seeing the master who made fritters, he first folded the two noodles together, then pressed them with thin wood chips, and fried them in a frying pan to turn yellow, and really wanted to tie up qin juniper and Qin Juniper, two traitors, alive in the oil pot. In the Hangzhou dialect, the word "pot" and the word "juniper" are pronounced closely, so the fritters were renamed "fried juniper". Everyone borrows fried fritters and eats fritters to get out of this grievance. So the Ruian people brought this changed name back to Ruian, from the Southern Song Dynasty to the present, calling it for nearly 1,000 years. During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, the people of Ruian believed that the traitor Wang Jingwei and his wife were the same as the Qin Juniper couple of the Southern Song Dynasty, and some people changed the name of "fried juniper" to "fried guard".
Hollow Moon was originally used to carry small notes
Hollow mooncake is a famous brand product of Ruian City cake industry, which has always been famous. The hollow mooncake story told by Old Man Ryan is closely related to the peasant revolt that swept through China in the last years of the Yuan Dynasty and finally overthrew the Emperor of the Yuan Dynasty.
During the Yuan Dynasty, during the 97 years that the Mongol ruling class in the north ruled China, class contradictions and ethnic contradictions continued to sharpen. The Mongol ruling clique engaged in land annexation, the gap between the rich and the poor intensified, the ethnic hierarchy was strict, and the Chinese was artificially divided into Mongols, Semu, Han and Nan (Han in the south). The officials of each state and county were all presided over by the upper ethnic groups, and the southerners were reduced to the lowest level. By the end of the Yuan Dynasty, Chinese peasant revolts continued, spreading almost throughout the country. In the villages around southern Zhejiang, the Southerners were monitored by The Mongols or the Semu people, and even iron furniture and agricultural tools such as kitchen knives were also intensively guarded.
In order to solve the problem of passing messages between the scattered peasant rebel army, someone (legend is Liu Ji) thought of borrowing a hollow mooncake with a small note to convey information. One mid-autumn festival evening, the messenger predicted that the day would encounter wind and rain, so he wrote many notes of the same content: "The gods instruct: On the night of August 15, the moon is dark, and the sky is dark, and they are united in killing the Tartars (referring to the Mongols who are watching)". Everyone ate the moon cake, saw the note, and participated in the uprising. Hollow mooncakes have thus become Arian's traditional food.
Hanging cake: Qi jiajun eats this food while fighting
Hanging cake, as the name suggests, is the cake hanging on the body. The hanging cakeS that I ate as a child was made of wheat flour, without filling, slightly thinner than the burnt cake, about twice as large, with a small hole in the center, which could be hung on the body through rope. According to the old man, according to legend, this cake was first made by Qi Jiguang, a famous general of the Ming Dynasty' resistance to the Wu Dynasty, and promoted it in his troops as military food that soldiers hung on their bodies when they marched and fought. Later, in honor of Qi Jiguang, people named him after him, also known as "Jiguang Cake" and "Light Cake".
Anti-Wokou refers to the anti-Imperial Wokou. "倭" and "倭奴" are the ancient names of Japan in China. "Wokou" refers to the Japanese samurai who became a "ronin" after losing power between the 14th and 16th centuries AD, colluded with Japanese merchants, and ganged up on The Coastal Islands of China to become thieves, specializing in smuggling activities, and robbing the Chinese people's property, women and children. In the middle of the 16th century, Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Fujian along the coast of China suffered the most. Most of the officers and soldiers of the Ming Dynasty were incompetent, and only generals such as Tan Lun, Qi Jiguang, and Yu Dayu trained their troops, and with the support of the coastal people, defeated the Wokou and pursued their island nests, and gradually quelled the Wukou rebellion during the Longqing period.
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In the more than ten years from the thirty-first year of Ming Jiajing (1552) to the forty-second year (1563), officers and soldiers, squires, and civilians were killed and captured tens of thousands, and 89 out of 10 people's houses outside the coastal guard, institute, and city were burned. On the fourth day of April in the thirty-seventh year of Jiajing (1558), dozens of large and small ships of the Wokou attacked Meigang by tide, besieging ruian county and directly penetrating the mountainous area. On May 12, qi Jiguang, a general, led his troops from Taizhou to wenzhou, burning a large ship at the mouth of the Feiyun River, killing countless people. The old people said that the people saw that the Qi family army was divided into small detachments and lined up in a "mandarin duck array", using weapons such as "wolf baskets" (sharp knives inserted on the top of long bamboo poles), rattan cards, and other weapons to attack and defend in a measured manner; the soldiers hung light cakes on their bodies, and they took them to fill their hunger between battles, and they fought very bravely, so they studied one after another. Later, the Ruian people adapted the "Mandarin Duck Array" of the Qi family army into the "rattan brand dance", and the light cake was handed down in southern Zhejiang as a traditional food, and it became a living specimen of patriotic education.
Shoes: Shoes made of salty grass were once all the rage
Pan Chengnan of Guifeng in Ruian Lake Ridge went abroad to The Hague in the Netherlands in the 1930s, and also tried to use local seaside hay similar to pu grass, dye it with various colors, weave it into a flower "pu shoes", and specially open a pu shoe shop for sale, which is quite favored by the Dutch, and wear it as a work of art on the street to show it off.
Nowadays, the lives of the people in southern Zhejiang have been greatly improved, leather shoes, sneakers, foot shoes and other kinds of shoes are dazzling, pu shoes as shoes gradually withdraw from its historical stage, but it as a witness to the history of our ancestors' heroic resistance to the Wo, has not been forgotten by people, Wenzhou, a famous city that witnessed the "Wenzhou model", still retains the street name of "Pu Shoe City", and we still have a special feeling for "Pu Shoe".
Reporter: Song Weiyuan Editor: Ruian Federation of Social Sciences
Starter Ryan Seal