Guangming Culture Weekend Grand View Edition: Taizhou One Day

Author: Balgi Wilderness

I have heard that Taizhou morning tea is famous, and this time I have the opportunity to come to Liufang Tea House to eat morning tea. Here the tables and chairs are clean, the willows outside the window are clinging to each other, and the river surface is wide. There are 12 morning meals before and after morning tea, among which blanched dried silk, fish soup noodles, and crab yellow buns are the three treasures of Taizhou morning tea. The blanched shredded pork belly is dried from Taizhou tofu, split into 20 layers and blanched thoroughly. The fish soup is boiled with eel bones, paying attention to simmering, and the snow-white fish soup base is delicious. Crab yellow wrapped in crab meat filling, scraped with crab butter, the dough is fluffy, taste delicious to the point of dullness.

The other early breakfasts can not remember the name, all are Jiangnan cuisine. Remember a bowl of green tea at hand, the leaves are tender and the soup is delicious. With the willow color of the lake outside the window, this morning tea tasted a piece of elegant beauty.

I thought that such an exquisite early breakfast was deliberately arranged by the owner, but it was not. Taizhou morning tea is a "morning class" for ordinary people, who also go to the tea house to meet with hot dried silk, fish soup noodles and crab yellow buns. "Water in the morning, water in the evening", telling the trajectory of their lives. How did this more luxurious breakfast become the daily diet of the people? In the Qing Dynasty, this was a place where salt merchants gathered, and their living customs spread to the people and became the eating habits of the public. Since the middle of the Qing Dynasty, there have been tea houses operating in Taizhou, and centuries-old tea houses are not uncommon here. In fact, Taizhou morning tea is not a luxury, exquisite is the characteristic.

Eat morning tea to visit the attractions of Taizhou, the first stop is Mr. Mei Lanfang Memorial Hall. When I was a child, my great-grandmother Nunjiya said to me, what do Han Chinese people sing? There's only one word, "Uh-huh-uh-uh She didn't know Chinese, and certainly didn't understand Peking Opera, so she asked such a question. In order to solve this mystery, I ran to the first street theater garden to listen to the play (free for children) to hear what they sang. From afar, I saw the actors singing on stage, and there was no microphone at that time, I couldn't hear the words they sang, and I heard "uh-huh-uh-uh While singing, the actress hoisted her orchid finger to the left or right front. At that time, people who did not understand the mysteries of Peking Opera, people who understood Peking Opera saw That Peking Opera was a piece of beautiful jade, and people who did not understand Peking Opera saw only a stone and could not see through it. And the elderly, gradually learned that Peking Opera is not only profound and profound, but also unique in beauty, otherwise how can it be called the essence of the country? Local drama sublimates into a national essence and conveys the voice of the nation, which must be related to great artists. Boss Mei is such an artist.

Later generations talk about Mei Lanfang, often mentioning his temperament in the Japanese pseudo-japanese period, which is his just side. Boss Mei is not only good at drama, but also good at people, tolerant, kind, and bears the burden of humiliation. Whenever someone else has the slightest difficulty, he will help him with all his might. Speaking of his art, he took a steamship to the United States to perform, and the people of Chicago welcomed him. He took a train through the Far East to Russia to perform, sensationalizing Moscow. Chinese appeared in a foreign country in such a posture, and there was no second person at that time.

Entering the courtyard of the memorial hall, I was greeted by Mr. Mei Lanfang's white jade seated statue, with elegant eyebrows and distant thoughts. Taizhou is the hometown of Boss Mei, this side of the water and soil is good, salt merchants gathered is to say that the side of the property here, the birth of Mei Lanfang is the beautiful side of Taizhou. The land where great men are born must have a special aura.

Near noon, we rushed to The Wanghai Tower, a landmark building in Taizhou. This building was built in the Southern Song Dynasty and is located in the Fengcheng River Park Scenic Area. Those who climbed this building included local people Shi Nai'an, Wang Geng, Zheng Banqiao, Liu Jingting, mei Lanfang, and foreign celebrities such as Lu You, Fan Zhongyan, Ouyang Xiu, Yue Fei, Kong Shangren, etc. Upstairs can not see the sea, "wanghai" takes the meaning of "Jiangnan Shizi, in the mud, with a cangsheng heart". This building is well built, with vicissitudes and folk flavor. Upstairs, I heard the Taizhou ancient band playing a song "Leaning On the Table", and I couldn't help but applaud it. Generally speaking, folk folk bands mostly play fixed songs, which are suitable for red and white celebrations, more stylized, and more stagnant. Taizhou ancient band played well, grateful, like the tide of Qiantang, flowing with the emotions of living people, just like this building, repeatedly destroyed and built, standing in the wind and rain.

At noon during the conversation, morning tea is eaten asahi, and now it is time to eat lunch, and there are two dishes written here: Taizhou is rich in river fresh, pearl mandarin fish made of Yangtze River mandarin fish in the south bank of the Fengcheng River, soft and crisp and light; take grass chicken, ham and chicken mushrooms into a clear soup, simmer with bamboo, and drink from a small tea cup.

At night, swim on the Fengcheng River. The river is wide, and the aura of the whole city is gathered by this river. Visiting the Fengcheng River at night has a magnificent scene that is different from the daytime. The cruise ship travels slowly, and at the light of the shore is a stage, staging the Kunqu opera "Peach Blossom Fan". Further ahead, the shiphouse performed the Peking opera "Noble Concubine Drunk". The river lightly crushed the lights on both sides of the river, and the chants of Kunqu opera and Peking Opera rippled. Taizhou is quiet and peaceful, the attractions everywhere are not far-fetched, not pretentious, the heavens and the earth are one, and the city and water are connected, setting off a happy Taizhou.

Guangming Daily (2021-09-17 edition 15)

Source: Guangming Network - Guangming Daily