I don't know if anyone has noticed, just in the street of Xi'an Shuyuanmen, there is a "former residence of a cultural celebrity", although it has not yet been opened, but the name of its owner is a big name, he is the modern great calligrapher, politician, educator Mr. Yu Youren. In his lifetime, Yu Lao ran for the democratic revolution, bowed to the country and the people, and single-handedly walked in cursive writing alone in the world.
Xi'an Academy Gate is located at the Memorial Hall of the Former Residence of Right Ren
In China in the past hundred years, there have been few literary and martial arts functions that have surpassed its right. Among the elders of the Kuomintang, there was only one person who could be called Bo Zhong, whose strength was equal to that of Elder Yu, and who could all be called a figure who was both literate and martial and famous, and that was Tan Yanmin, who was the chairman of the National Government in Nanjing, who had the rank of general in the army marshal, a poet, whose calligraphy was known as "everyone in modern Yanshu" and who was also the introducer of the marriage of Chiang Kai-shek and Song Meiling. Yu Lao is the president of the Supervision Yuan of the National Government, who has run for vice president of the Republic of China, founded Fudan University, Shanghai University, Northwest Agriculture and Forestry Science and Technology and other universities, and is also a famous poet, and the calligraphy circle has the reputation of "contemporary grass sage".
However, it is interesting that these two political leaders are also famous gourmets in the Republic of China period, Tan Lao is a Hunan native, and his self-created "Zu'an Xiang Cuisine" (Tan Yanmin's Zu'an) is still one of the representatives of China's eight major cuisines, and Yu Lao is not only good at food, but also often inscribed poems to decorate all kinds of snacks.
You see, in the old hometown of Mihara County, there is a restaurant called "Mingde Pavilion", where chef Zhang Rong is good at making a good dish - spicy simmered squid. Once in the old back to his hometown, smell the reputation, go to a pint. Although dressed in civilian clothes, but quickly recognized by the local county magistrate, Zhang Rong saw the adults in person in the restaurant, did not dare to be sloppy, used all his strength to burn spicy simmered squid, after the old taste, praised, took out silver dollars to pay the bill, Zhang Rong refused to accept. So Yu Lao asked people to bring paper and ink, waved the three big characters of "Mingde Pavilion" under the inscription, and dropped the "Three Plains in The Right Ren", which was a good story for a while.
The "Matilda Pavilion" restaurant, famous for its inscription on the right
Not only that, in the Xi'an period, Yu Lao also loved his hometown cuisine, and many of the Famous Foods in Shaanxi in today's Xi'an Restaurant are snacks from His hometown of Sanyuan County, which has a great relationship with his active promotion. Of course, Yu Lao not only promoted Sanyuan snacks, but also the whole of Shaanxi, from north to south, such as the Wang family walnut baked cake in nannying county in Shaanxi, which was also famous because Yu Lao personally tasted it.
Shaanxi snacks with yu lao's calligraphy and footprints throughout the southeast coast, the popularity continues to increase. In the summer of 1947, according to the memories of the students of the first batch of Shaanxi Normal College in their later years, they went to the southeastern provinces to observe and study. After arriving in Nanjing, Yu Lao, who was then the head of the Supervision Department of the National Government, specially invited all teachers and students to his apartment to meet and greet everyone for dinner. The courtyard is full of many stalls: there are cold powder, stuffed skin, cold noodles, noodles, mashed troughs, Lantern, Koshiki cakes, baked cakes, bacon and other Shaanxi-style snacks, with various colors and aromas. Yu Lao let everyone be eclectic and eat arbitrarily, just like today's buffet. The teachers and students were emotionally active and laughed continuously. This matter spread in the city of Nanjing, and many local foodies went everywhere looking for Shaanxi snacks to enjoy it.
In addition to the simmered shredded squid, white sealed meat, and knotted noodles, the "Mingde Pavilion" restaurant mentioned above also has a shape like wisps of gold wire coiled, layers of towers overlapping, the taste of oil is not endowed, the refreshing and sharp golden thread oil tower, there is a bubble oil cake evolved from the Tang Dynasty's "Burning Tail Food List" (oil bath cake), the color is milky white, the surface is puffy, such as light yarn, cicada wings, there are dense pearl bubbles, its flavor is fragrant, the entrance is gone, its shape is exquisite, resembling a skillful Ayahua. Both of these have now become the signature dim sum of Shaanxi snacks.
Bubble oil cake
Gold Wire Oil Tower
Another food story was given by Yu Lao, which was the Qingming Festival in 1921, and Yu Lao personally visited the Xu Ji Chou Hotel opened by Xu Renfu in Xi'an Dongguan Changle Fang. This hotel has a yellow gui thick wine that evolved from the "mash" of the Shang and Zhou dynasties more than 3,000 years ago. At that time, the wine of Du Fu's "Eight Immortals in Drinking" in which "the Son of Heaven did not come to the ship, claiming that his subjects were immortals in wine" and the wine of "noble concubines drunk" were "skimmed" thick wine without sizing. The alcohol content of this wine is 15%, the juice is thick like milk, the color is white like jade, the entrance is sweet and fragrant, the wine taste is rich and mellow, and the mouth is fragrant after drinking. The unique flavor of the wine made Yu Laoshu fall for it, and after drinking it, he praised it and improvised it, "Xujia Huanggui Chou Hotel". The Xu family made it into a plaque and hung it high above the door of the store, and its reputation was greatly enhanced.
Yellow cinnamon thick wine
As a foodie, Yu Youren not only eats but also cooks. He once stewed a fresh fish and a leg of lamb in a pot and asked a few friends to eat it. This dish is indeed delicious. It combines fresh sheep and fresh fish, the meat is crisp but not rotten, the entrance is delicious and abnormal, and the soup is milky as white as cow's milk, which is delicious to the extreme. Everyone praised the ability to combine aquatic fish with native sheep as a delicacy, which can be regarded as Mr. Yu's originality. Yu Lao said, "Wherever, this is an ancient way of eating, not an originality." The crowd was puzzled and had no choice but to ask the old man for advice. Yu Lao left the table and wrote a big "fresh" word on the paper. After the book, Yu Lao laughed loudly: "Isn't the ancient artificial word 'fresh' a synthesis of fish and sheep?" When the crowd heard this, they suddenly realized and applauded one after another.
Fresh fish and sheep