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Suzhou people, like that light rain quietly underground. Suzhou people live a delicate life and a poetic life.
Autumn winds, crab feet itch. It's time of year for Suzhou people to eat hairy crabs.
When there is nothing to do, a bamboo chair and a wooden square table are placed in their yards, and the beautiful thing of eating crabs begins.
Suzhou people eat crabs, there are "eight pieces of crab". Hammers, scissors, shovels, needles, pliers, spoons, forks, scrapes, neatly stacked in bamboo trays and placed on the tabletop. Each tool is small and delicate, but each has its own function, and it is used in turn to carefully remove each small crab meat. Suzhou people are willing to spend two hours to eat a crab, always sitting on the edge of the precarious, not in a hurry.
After eating, you can also put the crab shell back into a complete hairy crab, then wash your hands with chrysanthemum soaking water, and eat some autumn melons. At this time, eating crab is not only a delicacy, but also a delicate pursuit and the enjoyment of life.
Suzhou people's table, is the latest picked green tea, sticky long sugar porridge, a variety of small pastries, is the best season of each moment, condensing the beauty of the whole Suzhou city, full of Suzhou people's eyebrow temperament, life posture.
From taste to aesthetics, Suzhou people are exquisite and exquisite everywhere for eating.
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<h1 class="pgc-h-center-line" data-track="20" > from time to time, eating the exquisite feeling of the season</h1>
It was the autumn of September, and when I walked into the old town lane in Suzhou, I would see many uncles and aunts, carrying a small bench and sitting in front of their own door, chatting about their parents and peeling chicken head rice, which had just been bought from the market this morning.
Wearing little finger covers, they gently cut through the brown shell and dropped round and white chicken head rice.
Chicken head rice is difficult to peel, the strength can not be too heavy, easy to poke the tender meat inside, affecting the taste. It should not be too light, so that the shell is difficult to peel off. But Suzhou people say that chicken head rice is the taste of autumn. So no matter how hard it is to peel, you always have to taste it before you can sigh from the heart: it is autumn.
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Every day, when you open the calendar, Suzhou people see a variety of vegetables and fruits, fish and shrimp meat wine. This sense of seasonal delicacy is sometimes even only one day, such as winter wine on the winter solstice.
On the day of the winter solstice, all the brine restaurants in Suzhou are lined up, and people are ready to take home a bottle of winter wine. At night, the family sat together, before eating vegetables, took up a small bowl, and drank a mouthful of winter brew to warm the stomach. Suzhou people say that the winter solstice does not drink winter wine, it is to freeze overnight.
By the next day, the winter solstice had passed, and the city could not see the shadow of winter wine. Suzhou people drink winter brew, only this one day.
For Suzhou people, food is the season. Suzhou writer Lu Wenfu once said: "There are seasonal dishes at four o'clock and eight festivals, and if there is any kind of seasonal dish that is not eaten, then the old lady or old gentleman will sigh, as if this year's life is a little uncomfortable, and something is always missing." ”
This is not only the pickiness of Suzhou people's taste, but also the generations of different foods in one season to mark the fleeting years and remember the different thoughts of spring, summer, autumn and winter.
The four seasons of Suzhou people are no longer a dry calendar paper, because there are food marks, it floats into real life, making suzhou people's lives more colorful, so that Suzhou people have more expectations for life.
<h1 class="pgc-h-center-line" data-track="43" > aesthetics and is a delicate pursuit</h1>
Suzhou cuisine is exquisite, not only in the exquisite sense of the season, but more importantly: good looking.
Lu Wenfu said of Suzhou cuisine, "Red, yellow, white and blue are colorful, and dragons and phoenixes have different shapes. "He's talking about Suzhou pastries. And Suzhou pastry is the most extreme in the shape of the boat point.
The boat point originated in the Ming and Qing dynasties, when literati and inkers often took a painting boat outside Suzhou, toured Taihu Lake, and wrote poems. Suzhou boat point, not for the sake of satiety, but for the literati to enjoy the lake between a kind of elegant entertainment. The nourishment of Suzhou water and the aesthetics of the literati quietly give the boat a "Yangchun white snow" temperament.
The boat is small, and the glutinous rice flour is kneaded into dough and cut into pieces, less than the size of the palm. However, the boat point masters can use the various "weapons" in their hands to make them come to life, come alive, and give diners exquisite aesthetic enjoyment.
The boat point is in two forms: animals and plants, animals are salty fillings and plants are sweet fillings. The goldfish's eyes are swollen, the scales on its body are faintly visible, and its tail has a feeling of fluttering, as if it is still swimming in the water. A small hedgehog can be cut out of its body with 99 spines, and the leaves of corn are clearly divided and the flowers are delicate.
This requires years of ingenuity and skill of the masters, testing their eyesight, hand power, and patience that cannot be less, and also requires an aesthetic artistic creation. So people say that a Suzhou shipyard is a work of art.
Such elegant poetry meetings of the ancients are rare nowadays, and even the boat points are difficult to find in Suzhou City. However, the exquisite pursuit of aesthetics by the ancients, like "wang Xie Tang Qianyan in the old days, flew into the homes of ordinary people", was integrated into the bones of Suzhou people. The beautiful tableware, careful plating, and plum blossom pastries in the street shops all reflect the aesthetics and elegance of Suzhou people from ancient times.
Maintaining aesthetics on the table is suzhou people's pursuit of refinement and respect for a good life.
<h1 class="pgc-h-center-line" data-track="60" > sense of refinement and is a yearning for life</h1>
The old Suzhou people got up early, their eyes opened, and a thought flashed in their minds: Go eat the head soup noodles!
So I dressed up and went out, walked to the noodle restaurant I was most familiar with, sat down in the shop, and shouted: "Come to a bowl of fried fish noodles, want wide soup, heavy green, heavy pouring to cross the bridge, hard point." ”
At this time, the noodle shop had just opened its doors, and the first bowl of noodles under the water in the pot was placed on the square eight immortals table, steaming. It tastes refreshing and slippery, without a hint of noodle soup.
From time to time, a soft voice of Wu Nong came from the noodle restaurant, crisp and soft, blowing past people's ears and turning into the wind.
Looking outside the store, the pink wall Dewa remained silent, and the people who walked by seemed to have never disturbed them. In the course of the day, the fireworks of life are the first to bubble up from the small restaurants. At this time, eating such a bowl of noodle soup can make the old Suzhou people feel energetic, and the beautiful day will begin like this.
Three meals a day, chai rice oil and salt, are originally ordinary trivial trifles, but Suzhou people have lived this most ordinary day carefully, delicately and delicately.
Suzhou people are not impatient, they are willing to spend a lot of time, wisdom and endurance to study the taste and visual code of food. Suzhou people are not ostentatious, the economic prosperity and property abundance brought by the Grand Canal and Taihu Lake have been sung for so many years, they have their own confidence in living a good life, and the days are leisurely and leisurely, and they are careful to pass by.
Suzhou people follow the footsteps of nature, accurately grasp the roots of the season, and carefully eat spring, summer, autumn and winter into the stomach. They pay attention to the aesthetics of food and insist on a pleasing to the eye.
Behind the exquisite Suzhou cuisine is the attitude of Suzhou people to life, and the poetic life of Suzhou people.
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We often say that one Gusu City, half Jiangnan poetry. From ancient times to the present, Suzhou has been the dream of Jiangnan in the hearts of many people, from emperors, literati, retired bureaucrats, to today's modern people.
The four seasons here are distinct and the products are abundant. There is no hustle and bustle in the ancient city, the river bank is long, the water is beautiful, and the alleys are quiet. This is a gentle and rich village in the world, and it is a dream that many people want to go to. Here, there are real and ordinary human fireworks, but there is also poetry that transcends the ordinary. Just like Ye Zhengting said, suzhou people, like that light rain quietly underground. Suzhou people live a poetic life.
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Sometimes, when we say that we yearn for Suzhou and Jiangnan, we actually yearn for a poetic state of life. I think that today, when we mention the exquisite food of Suzhou people and the care of Suzhou people to life, we can also try to jump out of geographical restrictions.
Suzhou is not only Suzhou itself, but also a pursuit of poetic life in people's hearts. Back to the place of long-term life, back to the established daily life, when we lay elegant tablecloths for our own tables, arrange exquisite tableware, and take every meal in life seriously, perhaps, this is also very Suzhou.
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