Beijing has a very "next meal" of the old brand, named "Liu Biju", the main business of pickles, is one of the oldest and most prestigious old brands in Beijing. Many people do not know that the birth of "Liu Biju" may be the foreshadowing of a man named Wang Baobao in Jin Yong's novel. More people can't imagine whether there would have been these stories if there had been no large number of Shanxi people "immigrating" to Beijing.
<h1 class="ql-align-justify" > Shanxi people migrated to Beijing, creating many long-established brands</h1>
In history, there is indeed a character of Wang Baobao, but it is very different from the stupid and lustful people in "The Book of the Dragon Slaughtering in the Heavens", and the real Wang Baobao is quite talented and strategic. In the last years of the Yuan Dynasty, Wang Baobao occupied the north and was the strongest opponent of Zhu Yuanzhang, Chen Youyu and so on. At that time, Shanxi was Wang Baobao's territory, and unlike the situation of war and chaos and the people's lack of livelihood, Shanxi under his rule was smooth and rainy, and harvested abundant harvests year after year, which showed greater economic prosperity and prosperity than neighboring provinces. A large number of refugees from other provinces have flowed into Shanxi, making Shanxi a densely populated area.
The relatively stable and prosperous social landscape has spawned a more active business thinking and more exquisite craftsmanship of Shanxi people. After the overthrow of the Yuan Dynasty, The Ming Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang implemented the policy of "emigrating to tuntian and reclaiming wasteland", coupled with the "cutting of the domain" measure, the Yan king Zhu Di set off a war, and there was a large-scale migration under the "big locust tree" in Shanxi. According to the data, from the sixth year of Hongwu in the Ming Dynasty to the fifteenth year of Yongle in the Ming Dynasty, there were more than ten large-scale migrations, and a large number of people arrived in Beijing.
At that time, Beijing was sparsely populated due to the chaos of war, and a large number of immigrants just filled this gap. Today, many of the villages on the outskirts of Beijing called "Camps" are related to former Shanxi immigrants. The Shanxi people who migrated to the outskirts of Beijing were mainly engaged in farming, and their hard work turned the former "Bitter Sea Youzhou" into a rich agricultural area.
Scholars have roughly estimated that during the Ming and Qing dynasties and even the beginning of the Republic of China, one-fifth of beijing's population was composed of Shanxi people. In addition to farming, they set up shops and demonstrated excellent business ideas. In the "Hundred Words of the Old Capital", it is written: "The industrial and commercial circles of the old capital have been almost all the forces of Shandong and Shanxi people for hundreds of years. There are more laborers in Shandong, and more trade in Shanxi. "The brands created by Shanxi people have become old brands in the future, and the most famous ones include "Liubiju".
<h1 class="ql-align-justify" > what is the relationship between Shanxi people and Beijing wei'er? </h1>
In addition to the "Liubiju" pickles, old Beijing also has a unique cuisine called Autumn Pear Paste. Among them, "Tong Sanyi" was also created by Shanxi people. According to folklore scholar Wang Yongbin, the owner of "Tong Sanyi" is a native of Taigu, Shanxi, surnamed Li. Although the seafood and dried fruits sold by his family are no different from those of ordinary shops, the autumn pear cream for curing cough is made of "palace secret recipe", which has good curative effect and quality, and has been selling well in the market for more than 100 years.
Shanxi people are also subtly integrated into the lives of old Beijingers. For example, many old Beijing people like to "drink two sips" when people want to drink for recreation and "rely on" Shanxi people to provide drinking places. During the Qing Dynasty, there was a very grounded drinking place in Beijing called "Big Wine Tank". It was a good place for the middle and lower classes to entertain, there was no table in it, the wine jar was buried in the ground, and the lid on the wine tank was used as a wine table, and everyone guarded the large wine tank and sat around to drink.
"Big wine tank" also has a conventional habit, every morning, the treasurer will take out the wine from the wine tank, put it in the wine altar, take care of the master's coming, from the wine altar to drink, absolutely not from the big wine tank. Because the wine tank is also called "wine sea", in front of the owner of the drinking wine to open the wine sea, there will be a metaphor of "jumping into the sea", which makes people feel unlucky. Most of the people who open the "big wine tank" are Shanxi people, among which the more famous ones are "Hengheqing" in the East Fourth Arch Building and the "Yijucheng" in Dong'anMen. In addition to selling shochu and dishes, such "two meat shops" are also mainly engaged in Shanxi knife cutting noodles.
The "old brand" of Shanxi people, in addition to eating and wearing items, also dabbles in some daily necessities, such as "Wang Mazi knife scissor shop". Wang Mazi's knife and scissor shop was opened in the eighth year of Qing Shunzhi (1651), and in the twenty-first year of Jiaqing (1816), the "Three Generations of Wang Mazi" signboard was officially hung up, and "Wang Mazi" was used as a commercial symbol.
<h1 class="ql-align-justify" > Shanxi is going to Beijing to "visit relatives"! </h1>
It can be said that the migrating Shanxi people have shaped the appearance of Beijing in some fields. At the same time, Beijing's inclusiveness has also brought more taste and possibilities to this ancient city. To this day, between Beijing and Shanxi, lifestyles are still colliding and merging. On November 10, 2019, Shanxi is going to Beijing to "visit relatives"!
On November 10th, the "Walking Fenjiu" 2019 Fenjiu Culture Tour Exhibition will enter Beijing. This surprise "Beijing Fensi Festival" is full of fragrance, from experience to interaction, from temperament to connotation, from skill to culture, all bring different temperatures to Beijing in early winter.
At 9:30 a.m. on November 10, remember to come to the CCTV Tower (No. 11, West Third Ring Middle Road, Haidian District, Beijing) to watch wonderful performances, experience the brewing process, taste the mellow original pulp, and learn professional tasting methods... All kinds of wonderful things are far from being described in words, so it is better to go to the scene for yourself!
Source: Food Review Journal