The old saying often says that "one side of the water and soil to support the other side", which shows that food culture has a strong regionality, and the formation of a cuisine is inseparable from the living environment of the local people.
Yunnan is located in the subtropics, and most of the region has a relatively hot climate. The same is true of Dali Bai Autonomous Prefecture in central Yunnan.
In order to dispel the heavy summer heat, the industrious Bai people will make a cold dish called "blowing liver".
Blowing liver is a unique dish of the Heqing Bai people, and almost every household will make it. When guests come to the house, it is a must-have hospitality dish.
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Blowing liver cold slices is the simplest and most common way to eat, the naturally dried liver blows open like a steamed bun, the fat shrinks into a fibrous shape, and the cut surface is densely covered with pores.
The condiments are soaked by pork liver absorption, and with the spicy and sour dipping water, the taste is extremely refreshing.
This delicious "blowing liver" can be naturally preserved for more than 10 months, and it is generally necessary to choose the coldest "39" season of the year, so that the dishes produced will not deteriorate and spoil.
Although pig liver is common, the pork liver that does blowing liver should be fresh and full, bright red in color, and the pig liver cannot be damaged, otherwise it will leak when blowing air to the pig liver.
The craft of making blowing liver relies on generations of generations, and the mother and mother-in-law pass on this craft to their daughters and daughters-in-law, there is no specific recipe, and dali Bai girls have passed on this craft.
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Every year after October Week (the 10th day of the 10th month of the lunar calendar), most Bai families are busy killing pigs. Before dawn, I heard the cries of pigs from the village.
Hearing the cry, the people in the village would go to the pig slaughterer's house and rub it up with pain and pleasure.
The best thing to eat is the blown liver made by the Heqing people themselves.
The pig slaughterer blows the pork liver to a drum, stirs the prepared chili noodles, pepper noodles, and finely chopped chives with dry wine and stuffs them into the pores of the pork liver.
Until the filling is almost complete, apply some fine salt on the outside and hang the blown pork liver under the eaves with a rope.
When the Spring Festival or when guests come, as long as you boil in the water for a few minutes and make a platter of cold mix, the taste is pure and beautiful, and it is absolutely unique in the world.
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When eating blown liver, the locals also have a custom, that is, they can only eat 6 tablets per person.
Legend has it that in the early years of the Tang Dynasty, six ethnic minority tribes lived around Erhai in Yunnan, historically known as the "Six Commandments", who were the ancestors of the Bai people.
When paying tribute to the Tang Dynasty every year, there was always one "edict" per year, and the Return Gift of the Tang Dynasty was also one part of each "edict", called "Six Rites". Therefore, the Bai compatriots have been passed down to the present day according to the customs left by their ancestors.
Moreover, the Bai compatriots here are fluent in Chinese, and they use the harmonic characters in one language to enrich their lives with auspicious meanings - "six six thirty-six, blessed and lu" to show celebration.
Food can always affect people's emotions, not only because of the worms in the stomach, but also because some foods contain feelings.
As people joke that "people in the Northeast can't eat authentic pot-wrapped meat no matter where they are, except at home", this is exactly the truth.