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Macheng is one of the 26 county-level cities in Hubei Province, located in the hinterland of central China and the southern foothills of Dabie Mountain. The famous "Jute Uprising" originated from this. The name of Macheng comes from the "Xianshou Immortal" Magu, more than 1400 years ago in the Sui Dynasty established Macheng County, so Macheng is also known as a thousand-year-old county.
Macheng was a county of Jinshi in the Ming and Qing dynasties. In the Ming and Qing dynasties, there were 754 Wenwu people from Macheng and 162 Wenwu Jinshi. In the History of Ming alone, there are 10 high-ranking officials from Macheng. Macheng people not only know how to read, but have always been very particular about eating. Eating well is also one of the characteristics of Macheng people.
In the New Year, families will prepare meat cakes, pounded fish, rice dumplings, old rice wine and other delicacies to entertain guests. Today I will talk in detail about the history of these cuisines in Macheng.
<h1 class="pgc-h-decimal" data-index="01" > Macheng White Fruit Cake</h1>
Illustration of a meat cake special to Macheng
Macheng meat cake is a traditional famous food in Macheng, Hubei Province, and has a very long history. Legend has it that it originated from the Chu state during the Spring and Autumn period. Its production process is very delicate, using fresh fish and pork belly as the main raw materials, removing the bones of the fresh fish, chopping and then mixing with various spices such as sweet potato flour and edible salt in Macheng. Stir into a pulp and steam over high heat in a steaming cell. Made using traditional production methods, the resulting Macheng meat cake is delicious, easy to digest, and rich in nutrients.
Freshly steamed meat cake
Speaking of Macheng meat cake, there is also an interesting story. Legend has it that the King of Chu was fish-loving, but he was often annoyed by the fish's prickly throat, and many cooks died.
Later, a chef from Macheng accidentally found that the fish bones were easily separated from the fish meat while cutting the fish. The separated fish and pork are mixed, chopped with condiments, and steamed into chunks. After the King of Chu ate it, he was pleasantly surprised. Meat cakes have since come out, and they are full of fame and reputation in the Chu Palace.
Since then, after the chefs returned to their hometowns to pass on their skills to the people, people praised meat cakes as the leader of the "Feast of the Heavenly Son", so macheng's habit of loving meat cakes has only flourished until now.
It is understood that Macheng people generally like to cut it into rectangles, arrange it neatly and orderly on the plate, and then sprinkle a layer of green onions on the surface of the meat cake, steamed and not yet served on the table, it has been fragrant. If you look closely, the yellow, white and green colors are very beautiful; when you taste it, it is even more fragrant and creamy, and the lips and teeth are fragrant. Meat cakes are a must-have during the Macheng Red and White Banquet. There is also a saying that "no meat cake is not a table", and there will be meat cake in the first few dishes of the banquet.
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A specialty of Macheng Fuzihe Town: pounding fish, also known as fish noodles.
Fuzi river fish noodles are the traditional famous food of Macheng, Hubei Province, with a very long history, created in the fifteenth year of Qing Daoguang. Its production process is exquisite, using fresh fish, fine flour, salt as raw materials, using traditional production methods to make, the production of The Confucius fish river noodles are delicious, smooth and tender, rich in nutrition. Macheng "pounding fish" is often mistakenly written as "hanging fish".
The origin of Macheng fish pounding: The earliest fish pounding was not to chop the fish meat with a knife, but to smash it out with a wooden pound. And do not add water, just like The fujian Shantou smashed beef balls, the fish puree plus amaranth powder (sweet potato flour) does not add water, or pounding, the protein of the fish is pounded more and more thin, add amaranth flour to knead into a dough rolled up steamed slices and dried and finally made into a long-term pounding fish.
<h1 class="pgc-h-decimal" data-index="03" > Macheng</h1> rice dumplings
Macheng rice is the traditional famous food of Macheng, Hubei Province, playing rice dumplings, in Macheng, in the past was a very grand thing, only the New Year, Summer, Mid-Autumn Festival several big festivals can be eaten, its production method is very fine, the use of high-grade glutinous rice as the main raw material, after a number of processes refined, the production of rice can be variety of ways to eat, can be grilled, can be cooked. Delicious and delicious.
<h1 class="pgc-h-decimal" data-index="04" > Macheng Dongshan old rice wine</h1>
In the eastern part of Macheng, there is a saying that "old rice wine, a fire of the seed, after the emperor will count me". Dongshan old rice wine is a special alcohol brewed with glutinous rice in Muzidian and Dongcheng in the eastern mountains of Macheng, with clear color, sweet taste, strong quality without hurting the spleen and stomach, light but not lacking in staying power. Macheng Dongshan Old Rice Wine has been listed as an intangible cultural heritage of Hubei Province.
Macheng Dongshan old rice wine, from the source of Bashui: Muzidian
After testing by the relevant departments, the wine contains polysaccharides and reducing sugars, protein, 16 kinds of amino acids, as well as calcium, sodium, magnesium, zinc, manganese, iron and vitamin B and other nutritional values are quite rich. Old rice wine is very close to people's lives.
There are actually many more delicacies about Macheng, so I will not list them one by one.
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