The Shaoxing cuisine master personally went out on horseback and taught the children to make mugwort dumplings!
On March 28th, Treasure Hunt Shaoxing Cuisine held a "Spring Shaoxing Taste • Qingqing Wormwood Fragrant Parent-Child Experience Activity", Zhejiang cuisine grandmaster and Shaoxing cuisine non-hereditary heir Mao Tianyao personally came to the scene to popularize the knowledge of the plant "wormwood" and Shaoxing traditional food "wormwood" and "wormwood cake" made of wormwood for the 8 groups of families participating in the parent-child activity. Qian Jianxiang, director of Shaoxing cuisine production in Treasure Hunt, also came to the scene and taught the children to make their own food. Shaoxing TV's "Little Orchid" column also recorded the whole event.
Parents and children made mugwort dumplings and mugwort cakes under the guidance of the master, and for a time, the indoor wormwood fragrance was full of refreshing and refreshing.
Children incarnate as "little kitchen gods"
As soon as the wind comes to the artemisia mugwort, as soon as it arrives before and after the Qingming Dynasty, people in the Jiangsu and Zhejiang areas will pick wormwood and make mugwort every household, which is the Qingming Festival custom in Jiangnan Water Town, people not only use it to pray for the happiness and peace of life, but also use it to relieve their own pain, and at the same time, with the warmth of Ai, let people enjoy its taste.
Mao Tianyao, a zhejiang cuisine master and non-hereditary heir of Shaoxing cuisine, said that Shaoxing people like to eat seasonal food, which is a good way to maintain health, and now this season, it happens to be the most tender time of wormwood, so Shaoxing people pick mugwort leaves and chop them, mix with glutinous rice flour and knead them into dough, making mugwort, mugwort and other delicious tastes on the tip of the tongue.
Grandmaster Mao Tianyao also encouraged the children to be like wormwood, have tenacious vitality, weather the wind and rain, see the world, not be a flower in the greenhouse, and become an eagle fighting in the sky and a seagull flying in the storm!
At the event site, the children carefully wrapped the filling into the dough, with the assistance of their mothers, kneaded into a crescent moon, and then put into the small cage drawer, for the lace around the mugwort, the children also did carefully and carefully, small hands lightly put it, lest they "expose the filling".
When one by one, mugwort dumplings and mugwort cakes were put into the cage drawer, a satisfied smile rippled on the faces of parents and children.
One by one, the mochi cake fell into the mortal world like a blue moon, looking at the past exquisite and cute, which attracted Qian Jianxiang, the director of shaoxing cuisine who was guided by the treasure hunt, directly praised the children as "little chef gods"!
"To promote Shaoxing culture, we must start from dolls"
Whenever a cage of mugwort cakes is ready, the staff of the treasure hunt sends it to the back kitchen to be steamed and then served, and the children are excited to see their elaborate "delicacies".
The sensible children picked up mugwort or mugwort cake and delivered it to their mother's mouth, tasting the fruits of their children's labor, and the parents were also touched and moved.
Ms. Chen, who brought her children to participate in the activities for the first time, said: "Usually busy at work, there are very few opportunities to make food with children like this, and today I participate in the activities, I feel a lot, in addition to being able to communicate and interact with children, enhance feelings, but also let children recognize many children, more importantly, let children contact and learn some traditional culture." To be honest, even I myself have benefited a lot, I only knew that I had to eat mugwort during our Shaoxing Qingming Festival, but I never understood the meaning behind it. Through this activity, I learned that a small dumpling also has a story. ”
For this activity, the person in charge of the Treasure Hunt Shaoxing cuisine activity said that Ai dumplings, mochi cake and Qingtuan are all special foods that Shaoxing people love to eat, and through such activities, they can better popularize the relevant Shaoxing food knowledge and let more people understand the history and culture of Shaoxing cuisine. For children, they can cultivate their sense of identity with Shaoxing culture from an early age, promote the inheritance of Shaoxing culture, in short, "promote Shaoxing culture, and start from dolls."
All activities are only for the promotion of Shaoxing cuisine and Shaoxing culture
In fact, Treasure Hunt Shaoxing Cuisine has organized related activities for many times to promote Shaoxing cuisine and Shaoxing culture.
Like the recent "Looking for Shaoxing Folk Old Taste Season 1: Shaoxing Dried Vegetables and Meat" activity, it uses the way of competition to let the public participate in the excavation and inheritance of traditional Shaoxing cuisine, so that more people can pay attention to and promote Shaoxing food culture.
In the past few weeks, Treasure Hunt Shaoxing Cuisine organized the "Shaoxing Cuisine Spring Tasting Meeting", inviting cultural scholars, media people and leaders of various industries to give advice and suggestions for Shaoxing cuisine in the form of tasting meetings, and promote the industry to keep the right and new.
Last year, Treasure Hunt Shaoxing cuisine launched the "Second China Local Cuisine Development Conference", more than 360 catering bosses across the country attended the meeting to discuss the general trend of local cuisine, Shaoxing Municipal Party Committee Secretary Ma Weiguang also rushed to the scene to give a speech, the country's major media competed to report, for a time, "local cuisine conference" became a hot social event.
The activities of treasure hunting for Shaoxing cuisine range from small to large, as small as a dozen people, to hundreds of people, but their direction is very clear - to promote Shaoxing cuisine and Shaoxing culture.
The wind began at the end of Qingping, promoting local cuisine and local culture, treasure hunting can be described as a "forerunner", but the industry to prosper, not from which person or which company to promote, which requires more people to participate.