In the early morning, factory employees are quickly transporting the dried cakes produced on the same day to various sales outlets.
"Looking at the same boat in the front is far apart, and the head is in a hurry to resist the river. The donkey was unable to lead the boat cable, and it was already dusk when it reached Yangcun. "This is the poem "Zhouci Yangcun" written by ma Zhen, a Taoist priest of the Yuan Dynasty, who went north to Beijing and wrote halfway through." The spring breeze came from the east to the river, and the sand and stone world were stunned. The boat people roared with rage, and the sea was like a battle group of dragons running. The first ship is not within easy reach, and the road is in a hurry. Sitting unsteadily on the sides of the bed, he crossed Pugou Village by moonlit night. This is a thrilling portrayal of the Ming Dynasty official Shangshu and Li Dongyang, a scholar of Huagaidian University, who was blocked from sailing on the Lu River in Yangcun." The sand bank of the falling tide is clear, and the ancient wood frost forest is several heavy. Sixty miles have not risen, and the monks of the temple have only played five bells. This is the leisure and leisure of Zhang Tan, a Scholar of the Qing Dynasty, when he went down the river and passed through Yang Village.
Today's Wuqing section of the North Canal is beautiful.
Yangcun is sandwiched by the north canal into a town, and the settlement is distributed along the east and west banks of the river. It is 90 kilometers away from the capital in the north and 30 kilometers away from Tianjin in the south, which is a famous ancient town on the north canal of the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal. From the Yuan to the Ming Dynasty and the Qing Dynasty, the three generations have been setting up post stations in Yangcun, Yi Cheng, Guan He Master Book, inspectors and so on. During the Ming Dynasty, the monument of the "Record of the Relocation and Construction of Yangcun Yi Office" states that Yangcun "land is named after the station". Since the beginning of the Yuan Dynasty, Caoyun has brought unprecedented prosperity to Yangcun.
Relocation of the Monument of Yangcun Yi Office.
The prosperity of Yangcun attracted merchants, eunuchs, and ship craftsmen from all over the world. The "Wuqing County Chronicle" records that in the second year of Yongle in the Ming Dynasty (1404), Du Jin, the founder of Yangcun Cake Dry, Du Yin, and his family members settled down in Zhengzhuang Village along the canal from Shanyin County, Shaoxing Province, Zhejiang Province, along the canal to Zhengzhuang Village in the north erli of Yangcun, and opened a dried cake shop and made a living by selling dried cakes. They crushed rice into noodles and steamed it with sugar into dried cakes and sold them along the river. People like it after tasting it, and the dried cakes made by the Du family have also begun to flourish because of their unique flavor.
Yongyang Du clan branch diagram (partial).
According to Du's "Family Tree", "Han (that is, Du Rongfu) once had a dragon ticket for Yongle's second year of relocation, which was issued by Zhejiang Daofa, which belonged to the People's Clan of Shanyin County, and lived in the Wuqing area. "The Yongyang Du Family Tree" begins with the Ming Dynasty Du Jin and Du Yin brothers moving north as the first generation. During the Kangxi Dynasty of the Qing Dynasty, the fifth generation of Du Fuzhi bought a shop on the west bank of the canal in Yangcun Town, operated a cake and dry shop and gradually developed and grew.
Du Baojiang, the fourteenth generation of Yangcun dried cakes, told the author about the history of the development of Yangcun dried cakes.
According to Du Baojiang, the fourteenth generation of Yangcun cakes, when the Kangxi Emperor of the Qing Dynasty visited Yangcun in the south, after personally tasting the dried cakes of "Wanquantang", Long Yan Was pleased and personally sealed as tributes, and specially provided high-quality rice in the south as raw materials for annual tribute. The Qianlong Emperor also wrote four big characters in the imperial pen" as "Women and Children's Gifts". In 1930, at the Panama International Exposition, Yangcun Cake Dried Cake won the Jiahe Bronze Medal for its unique flavor, becoming the first small food in China to enter the international market.
The plaque (reproduction) of the Imperial Pen "Women and Children's Gifts", the original was lost during the Cultural Revolution.
At the end of the Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the people, there were many cake shops opened by Du surnamed Wanquantang, Wanshengtang, Wanjintang, Wanshuntang and Wanyuantang. Coupled with the cake shops run by people with foreign surnames, there can be more than a dozen at most. These dried cakes sell well all over the country and are sold at home and abroad, and people are collectively known as Yangcun dried cakes.
At the entrance of Wan Quan Tang Yangcun Cake Dry Factory.
Why is Yangcun dried cake also called "dried poria cake"? It does not see Poria in its main ingredients, so where does the name come from?
A corner of the production workshop of Wan Quan Tang Yangcun Cake Dry Factory.
According to legend, the Kangxi Emperor went out on seven tours, three times lived in Yangcun, and each time he had to eat Dried Yangcun Cake, and said: "The dried cake is soft and delicious, easy to digest, often eat no less poria, has the effect of strengthening the spleen and nourishing the stomach." Since then, Yangcun dried cake has had the reputation of "dried poria cake".
Workers are working intensely and busily.
The main ingredients for Yangcun cake are actually very simple: rice, sugar, water. Production process: First of all, the selected rice is put into the soaking pool to soak, and the soaked rice is drained and controlled; then, the wet rice without moisture on the surface is repeatedly rolled on the stone mill, and after 100 mills, the delicate and moist rice noodles are obtained; then it is mixed with a certain amount of cotton white sugar and placed in a large porcelain jar, this process is to make the sugar fully dissolve with the wet rice flour and get the effect of waking up. After a period of time, take out the standing dried cake powder, use the cake dry powder tissue fluffy, thin and evenly spread on the mold, and then draw the printed block, and put the resulting dried cake raw embryo into the steaming box for about 30 minutes.
Zhang Jie, a non-hereditary heir and the fifteenth generation of Yangcun dried cakes, introduced the production process of Yangcun dried cakes to the author.
Tracing back to the source, Yangcun cake is a historical witness to the food culture exchange between the north and south of the Grand Canal. In the early years, every New Year's Festival, a new house was completed, a wife and children were married... It is always inevitable that the figure of Yangcun cake dried. The soft and sweet dried cake has long become an eternal memory on the tip of the tongue of the old Wuqing people, which can tolerate family affection, pretend to miss, and relieve homesickness.
Beautiful scenery on the banks of the North Canal.