Sad cold powder is a famous snack in Zhouli Town, Sichuan Province
It originated in the Qing Dynasty, in the early twentieth century, by zhou li chef Wen Jiangyuan on the basis of maintaining its original huangliang powder traditional flavor, focusing on the development of its unique seasoning recipe, further highlighting the "hemp, spicy, fragrant, crisp" characteristics of Sichuan cuisine, making it more spicy and delicious, and has since become a well-known "sad cold powder".
There are two solutions to the sad cold powder: one is that the cold powder is too spicy, and people who eat the cold powder will be spicy tears, tears, and others still think that they have encountered something sad.
The second refers to the cold powder made for the Guangdong Hakka people who lived in Luodai Town when they came from Huguang and Sichuan missed their hometown, and they were sad because of their thoughts, so they got their name.
The Hakka people are the main components of the indigenous people in Guangdong, Fujian, Jiangxi, Taiwan and other places, as an ancient Han immigrant group in the south, it is one of the most widely distributed and far-reaching ethnic groups in the world.
At the end of the Ming Dynasty and the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, the population in Sichuan decreased sharply, and there was not one in ten. In order to solve this problem, the Qing Dynasty immigrated from the Huguang area to Sichuan, which is "Huguang filling Sichuan".
The Hakka also came to Sichuan in this way, and now many residents in Shiling Street, Luodai Town and Xihe Town in Longquanyi District of Chengdu are Hakka. During the migration, some people died of illness, some people were lost, and they suffered unspeakable.
When they settled down through hardships, ate cold powder, remembered the pain of trekking, and missed their relatives who had died of illness, they could not help but feel sad from it, tears were full of tears, and the cold powder they ate into their mouths was also mixed with the bitterness of tears, because they were sad because of their thoughts, so they called it "sad cold powder".
The raw materials of sad cold powder are mainly sweet potato powder and pea flour, which are ground with old cow stone, and are rich in flavor and tender slag.
A small bowl of "sad cold powder", to put 13 kinds of condiments before the table, and the hot cold powder and cold cold powder condiments are different, 13 condiments which put first, which put later also pay attention to.
Although a small bowl of cold powder is a snack of a few yuan, it makes many Sichuan people who have eaten it praise and linger, and it makes the Sichuan people outside miss it endlessly! Because its taste is indeed spicy enough, it will shed tears and sweat when eating. The average foreigner also said that after eating it, he would faint ~ ~ and could not accept so spicy and eat a mouthful of water to drink a mouthful of water.