Fuhei Persimmon Cake (Prose)
• Ma Tengchi
A large, persimmon cream white thick, bright bottom, moist, sweet taste of Fuping persimmon cake, that is a thousand years of persimmon township Fuping County famous specialty, but also my favorite persimmon cake. Every autumn, the persimmons have just turned red, I secretly think to myself, fast, fast, the time for The Rich Flat persimmon cake to go on the market is not far away, thinking of the persimmon cake, there is saliva in the mouth.
Fuping persimmon cake, let people eat a bite can not forget! What can't be forgotten is it: sweet, soft, sticky. Pick up a persimmon cake with a white frost on the outside, this white frost is the natural sugar crystal that slowly precipitates from the persimmon during the process of hanging the frost to dry, with the change of temperature difference between day and night. When the lips touch this powdery sweet, cold and moist white frost for a moment, the taste buds are instantly activated, and people can't help but bite into a piece of persimmon cake flesh. The crystal clear flesh like a crimson gemstone has both the soft toughness and the rich taste of freshly ripe persimmons, the domineering sweetness that only Fuping persimmon cake has, and the whole body and mind are soaked at once.
The sweetness that permeates the whole body and mind is soul-stirring, with strength, and unfolded in layers. The thick persimmon cake is sweet and blends into the rich and full flesh with a strong fruity aroma. If the sweetness, softness and glutinousness of eating persimmon cakes are unrestrained and intoxicating, this should belong to the first level, then after eating persimmon cakes for a long time, the afterscent that has not been dispersed still reverberates in the mouth, and jumps on the taste buds, which belongs to the second level. Oh, big, fruitless, a big plate of delicious Fuping persimmon cake on the coffee table, take a big bite to eat it, enjoy it!
The mountainous landform and unique and superior climatic conditions make Fuping County, located in the northeast of the Qinchuan River, a world-famous persimmon eugenic area. Speaking of persimmon cakes, bypassing The Persimmon Cakes of Fuping and saying persimmon cakes is equivalent to not saying. Talking about the benefits of persimmon cakes, not talking about the benefits of Fuping persimmon cakes is equivalent to talking in vain. Fuping persimmon cake is the proud king of the world persimmon cake industry, the king who will not fall for a thousand years, and will also be the king of the future generations, and no one can shake its boss status! What place should grow, this is a gift from Heaven, this is God's favor. Famous and excellent specialties are registered, the household registration of Fuping persimmon cake is Fuping, and the Fuping persimmon cake of the national geographical indication protection product cannot be taken away by anyone who wants to take it.
A place, its history and culture, its celebrities, its unique products, will become a capital that locals are proud of. If nothing else, just a world-famous Fuping persimmon cake is enough to make the Fuping people on the ground of Fuping proud and proud.
When I worked at the Tongchuan Mining Bureau many years ago, one of my colleagues who had a good relationship with me was a Fuping person. When he talks about the past life of Fuping Persimmon Cake, he does not say that he is like the narrator of the scenic spot, and he goes out without a second thought. The difference is that the docent may be a monk chanting the sutra - walking through the scene without heart, but he is attentive and emotional, Fuping persimmon cake, which is a famous product of his hometown!
Listen, what he said: I Fuping, there are many kinds of persimmons that make persimmon cakes, including more than 10 varieties of persimmons, such as persimmons with rising bottoms, pearl persimmons, mirror persimmons, heavy persimmons, milled persimmons, chili tip persimmons, square persimmons, chicken heart yellow persimmons, four-unlike persimmons, mountain knots persimmons and five-flowered persimmons. The cake-making treasure of the persimmon with a cake yield of up to 26% is the top variety among persimmons. Persimmon cake contains 163 mg of calcium per 100 grams, has 14 kinds of nutrients and trace elements, which is the most similar product in China. The nutrients such as calcium, phosphorus, iron, riboflavin and ascorbic acid are much higher than those of persimmon cakes in other places, and it also has medical efficacy in cough, phlegm, mouth sores and so on. Fuping persimmon cake has eaten a bite, and I remember it for a year! It is a very seasonal food, and only in the short period of time in late winter and early spring can you enjoy the real high-grade sweetness!
He said this large paragraph without stopping. When I said the last sentence of "high-grade sweetness", I saw his throat knot moving, and he must have thought of the intoxicating sweetness of his old persimmon cake.
He continued his topic: In my Fuping, in the autumn, the hard persimmons plucked from the trees to make persimmon cakes became a sought-after commodity. Peeled persimmons, dried into a semi-finished product that has not yet been frosted, red cake, has been used as a high-grade snack by Koreans and Japanese. In Japan, Tominari persimmon cake is the most delicious and highest persimmon product, known as "god-given food". The world's only persimmon museum, the Yoshino City Persimmon Museum, has a written record that "the main producer of persimmons in the world is China, and the eugenic area of persimmons is in Fuping". 70% of China's exports of persimmon cakes come from our Fuping.
I smiled and asked him, are you not going to advertise me as a big buyer? He smiled, picked me up, and gave some people who love to eat Fuping persimmon cakes without advertising, persimmon cakes have not yet come down, when it comes to persimmons, when it comes to persimmon cakes, there is saliva in his mouth. Haha, I know, he said "some people who love to eat Fuping persimmon cake" and was talking about me.
He also said that in my Fuping, there are not only persimmon cakes, but also ink jade known as "Guimeishi", Liuqu Qiong Pot Candy, Zhangqiao melon, goat milk powder, Nine-Eyed Lotus and Empress Cake. Fuping 10 famous properties, that is not a vain reputation!
You, a Fuping person, must sleep at night wearing sunglasses and sleeping with your hands behind your back - in Shaanxi dialect, it is very self-made! I joked with him. He smiled brightly and said, you see, you see, envy, jealousy, right? I took his words, to say envy is envy, who let us love to eat people's persimmon cakes! jealousy? No, no, not the slightest bit of jealousy!
That was something we were chatting about in Tongchuan many years ago. In the early 1990s, I arrived in Xianyang, and it wasn't long after I left, and he and his family also left Tongchuan for the south. After all these years, we are still in touch, and sometimes, it is inevitable to talk about the persimmon cake in his hometown. On the phone, you can feel his nostalgia for his hometown and feel his deep homesickness.
Leaving Tongchuan to Xianyang, as before, every winter when the persimmon cake came down, I did not buy less, did not eat less Ofi persimmon cake. Last autumn, haiping, whose hometown was in Fuping, had already greeted his relatives and asked him to hang some persimmon cakes for his friends in Xianyang. During this time, when we met, he said, I prepared some persimmon cakes for the brothers for the New Year, and my relatives in my hometown told me that the persimmons that make persimmon cakes are selected one by one, and the persimmon cakes are hanging frost. The crowd said, "No trouble, no trouble, how embarrassing." He said, what is the trouble, not trouble, the real Fuping persimmon cake produced in the hometown, the New Year, let everyone taste fresh, good!
Before the Spring Festival, Haiping specially drove back to Fuping to pull persimmon cakes and give them to friends one by one. The beautifully designed and festive red gift box containing the best persimmon cakes is a precious gift that has taken pains and carries his strong nostalgia and deep friendship. Eat the persimmon cake he sent, the taste is even sweeter, more unforgettable!
February 21, 2021 at Chi Feng Xuan
About author:Ma Tengchi, a native of Liquan, Shaanxi. He has published a collection of essays, "The Footsteps of a Trekker", a collection of essays, "The Call of the Mountain", and has also won various awards in newspapers and periodicals, which are not worth mentioning. Love words, idle to write and write a pleasure, just that, just.
The essay "Back Bun", in ten days on the Internet, a single web page clicked and read more than one million times, and then, various online platforms quickly followed up with a large number of forwards, and the number of readers was difficult to count. With 400 million users, "the largest audio library - Himalayan FM Listening Book Club", Mandarin and Shaanxi Western dialect editions of the multi-version recitation of the work. There are many versions of the audio works of "Back Buns" produced by other units on the Internet, and the audience is very wide.
Subsequently, the essays "Cotton Shoes Made by Mother", "My Old Father", "Soil Cloth Baggage", "Aunt", "Those Years, Our New Year's Taste", "Burning Baby", "Cooking in the Pot", "Pot Collapse", "Tofu Brain", "Seat", "Delivering Public Grain", "Striking Iron Flower", "Remembering Corn", "Back Baby" and "Back Grain" and other works also received keen attention on the Internet, setting a new high in reading. "Striking Iron Flower" won the "Qingyun Project" award of "Today's Headlines" on January 21, 2019.
The author's collection of essays, "Memories of Steamed Buns", was published before the Spring Festival, and the title of the book was inscribed by Mr. Jia Pingwa, vice chairman of the China Writers Association, chairman of the Shaanxi Provincial Writers Association, and famous writer: "Ma Tengchi and His Prose". The book has been collected by the National Library and several libraries. The essay collection "Flowers Are Heartless and Free" is inscribed by Mr. Jia Pingwa and prefaced: "The True Love chant in the depths of life", which will be published by Taibai Literature and Art Publishing House.
Express ‖ the signature book of Ma Tengchi, author of "Memories of Steamed Bread", began to express the delivery of books
Ma Tengchi's collection of essays, "Memories of Steamed Buns", has been published by Taibai Literature and Art Publishing House. Mr. Jia Pingwa, vice chairman of the China Writers Association, chairman of the Shaanxi Writers Association, and famous writer, wrote the title and preface to the book. The book is 360,000 words, consisting of six series, including "The heart has agarwood, why fear the floating world", "A ray of sunshine, warm red dust past" and "Leave a quiet place for the heart".
The collection of essays, "Memories of Buns", is a selection of 86 essays, including the author's famous essay "Back Buns", which has a wide and far-reaching influence.
Mr. Jia Pingwa, a famous writer, said: "Tengchi's prose, I like, mellow and natural and deep in meaning, his words, pure and warm breath is always surging. His prose language is simple and generous, unpretentious, not pretentious, and writes about his past with a sincere and intimate brushstroke, writing about his painful feelings and deep feelings. A lot of his vernacular prose is not only a memory of his former life, but also a lingering long nostalgia that often haunts his chest, and reading his articles can't help but give birth to many emotions. ”
Mr. Bai Shu, a famous writer and former executive dean of Lu Xun Literature Institute, said: "Every essay of Tengchi is written with true feelings, full of deep life experience, and it is particularly moving to read.
"Tengchi is a writer who has attracted great attention in Shaanxi in recent years, and his works on local themes have revived the Chinese memory of an era, and such works will be passed down to the world; and in my heart, he is a friend with a very heavy weight."
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