Anyone who likes to eat snail powder almost knows Liuzhou. This city is out of the circle because of snail powder, perhaps in the eyes of many people, Liuzhou has been deeply bound to snail powder, but when you talk about the city with Liuzhou people, people will say, "We in Liuzhou are not only snail powder." Here you can also see more than ten ethnic minorities such as Dong, Mulao, Zhuang, Miao, Yao and so on, with strong ethnic customs; you can also experience world-class water events here. One after another speeding rowing boats staged the "Fast and Furious" that belonged to Liujiang. The "National God Car" Wuling Hongguang, the golden throat throat piece, the two-sided needle toothpaste, and the "LiuGong", which ranks first in the world's sales of wheel loaders, were all born here.
Surrounded by mountains and rivers, Liuzhou has been the main traffic route in the southwest region since ancient times. Liu Zongyuan, a great writer of the Tang Dynasty, once served in Liuzhou, and during his tenure, he revitalized the people and persuaded farmers to produce, gradually changing the closed state of Liuzhou, making Liuzhou a commercial and trade center in the southwest region, and the specialty that made Liuzhou famous in ancient times was the coffin.
In ancient times, there was a folk saying: wear in Suzhou, play in Hangzhou, eat in Guangzhou, die in Liuzhou. According to legend, Liu Zongyuanke's death in Liuzhou was the first step in Liuzhou's coffin becoming popular. After Liu Zongyuan died in Liuzhou, the local people bought him a copy of the coffin. When the body was transported back to Liu Zongyuan's hometown, the family opened the coffin to see that the body was not only intact, but also vivid, which could be called its own preservation function. Due to the light of Liu Zongyuan, the Coffin of Liuzhou soon gained favor among some high-ranking officials and nobles, and gradually had the saying of "dying in Liuzhou". Gu Long specially explained in "Tianya Mingyue Knife" that "it is a good Nanmu coffin, which was specially transported from Liuzhou", and Jin Yong directly praised it in the thirty-third time of "Deer Ding": "Liuzhou is rich in wood, Liuzhou coffin, and the world is famous." "Nowadays, when you ask the people of Liuzhou for specialties, what you get is not necessarily snail powder, it is likely to be the kind of small coffin that means "promotion and wealth" without people.
"The people need what Wuling will build", this slogan has spread throughout the north and south of the river during the epidemic. Liuzhou, as the industrial center of the whole of Guangxi, is known as "the strongest industry in Shanshui City", the most beautiful landscape in the industrial city, and well-known enterprises such as Wuling Automobile and LiuGong were born.
Wuling was ridiculed as the "Autumn Mountain God Car", and in the folk, it was no problem to go up the mountain, cross the muddy water, and enter Tibet. The Internet is full of its paragraphs. Many million-dollar luxury cars compete to be proud of posting a Wuling car logo priced at 40,000 yuan.
Liuzhou people have loved to eat acid since ancient times, and there is nothing for them that cannot be sour. The taste of sour shoots after fermentation is exactly what Liuzhou people love, and it is also unimaginable to outsiders. Liuzhou people have a long history of eating snail powder, but the specific origin of snail powder, no one can say. Even locals only know that snail powder came from the Liuzhou Night Market in the 1970s and 1980s. Its sour and spicy taste is very much in line with the appetite of Guangxi people, so it has been passed down.
Liuzhou Night Market
From the first time it appeared on the "Tip of the Tongue", snail powder has gone from a bowl of rice noodles on the street to an industry with an annual income of nearly 10 billion yuan, which is much redder than other hunting delicacies. For the people of Laoliuzhou, being able to distinguish the quality of snail powder soup is the basic skill. After a bowl of powder, if there is a faint aftertaste in the mouth, it is the original soup material; if it feels dry in the mouth, it must be some extra additive in the soup.
Fragment of "China on the Tip of the Tongue"
In Liuzhou's large and small snail powder shops, Xiaoqi snail powder; large amount of side dishes, Cuicui snail powder, known for "only selling 100 bowls a day, sold out will be closed"; while Gujia snail powder, with soft powder and the ingredients of wet rotten bamboo cooked in advance, taste more tender, the bean aroma is more intense.