One side of the water and soil to support the other side of the people, in different regional environments, the people who grow up have certain living characteristics. It also reveals the gastronomy and environment and the intimacy between people. It is also said that they like to travel and enjoy travel, but not to deliberately go to another strange city, a strange place to see the beautiful scenery.
More importantly, there is the opportunity to experience the local food culture. In the small villages, the brick houses reflected in the evening sun. The scent of snacks from the bustling streets is enough to keep you from moving. In this way, the traditional life patterns and cultural connotations of different regions are given priority to starting from food.
For Qufu, an ancient city with a long history, most people are not strangers, the most famous is qufu Confucius Banquet, every dish in it is mouth-watering, and each dish has a very interesting historical and cultural allusion.
Confucius feast is also the most typical label of Qufu, in addition to the characteristics of diet, there is also a step into this area can feel the exclusive cultural connotation of Qufu, located in The Jining area of Qufu, is also the birthplace of Confucian culture, poetry allusions and some monuments with heavy traces of time, have provided a lot of natural advantages for the development of Qufu, but also established a lot of cultural construction demonstration areas, has become a benchmark for cultural construction in various places.
The delicious dish that I want to share exclusively in Qufu today is a smoked tofu that seems simple, but it makes people want to stop eating it. Tofu is a very traditional chinese soy product, and the forms of production and performance are also diverse, but the smoked tofu in Qufu has created a new model for tofu to open.
Now when many people come to a city, the first thing that comes to mind is to find relevant recommendations from food bloggers on the Internet, and in all the recommendations, you can see that the existence of smoked tofu is absolutely indispensable. Although the Confucius banquet in Qufu is also very famous, with the continuous development of time, it is generally set as the standard of the court banquet, and the average person does not have enough ability to bear these delicacies.
But smoked tofu is completely different, it is a very grounded delicacy, in the corners of Qufu street can be found in it, not only delicious, but also the price is very close to the people. Such a smoked tofu that is sought after by locals and outsiders is also very interesting about its origins.
According to legend, in ancient times, the production of tofu is still relatively simple and simple, when the Qufu Kong family Kongfu rented their own fields to the ordinary people to plant, so there were many tenants, and at that time one of these tenants was the Han family, the family lived in the east of the Qufu village, this Han family has a total of two brothers, the Han family has always been the family to make tofu, their tofu taste is also very delicate, loved by the Kongfu, so every day the two brothers will send a piece of fresh tofu to the Kongfu.
But one day, the original is a hot summer but encountered a rainy weather, and the shelf life of tofu is very short, the Han family's tofu on the day was not sold out, there are a lot of leftovers, but this weather can not be saved tomorrow, but all thrown away then he felt very sorry to be reluctant, so he thought of a way, put the tofu under the sun with cotton cloth covered and dried, the result of the Han family old man's home on fire that day, many things in the family were burned, those tofu that were sunburned were also burned, It became golden.
After seeing the tofu being burned, the Han family was very sad, or these tofu under the pot stir-fried to taste, but found that the taste was unexpectedly good, so he sent this tofu to the Confucius house to Yan Sheng Gong to taste, Yan Sheng Gong also ate it, found it particularly delicious, and later it was said that when the emperor came to the Kong House one year, the Kong House was to set up a table of tofu feast for the emperor, including this smoked tofu, and the emperor was also praised after eating it, so the smoked tofu was also famous and spread to the folk.
The production of tofu is a very exquisite, lean traditional cuisine, using soybean fermentation to make soft glutinous elastic tofu blocks, and then these tender tofu blocks are cut into a uniform size, placed on the iron basket, put on the apple wood, bran and some fuel below, and finally observe the tofu is smoked to a golden brown, and the surface is also permeated with nourishing oil, you can take it out with pepper and other seasonings stir-fry, of course, you can also steam and cold mix, the taste is unforgettable.
With the continuous development of time, the production method of smoked tofu is actually the same as the traditional one, but after the name of Qufu smoked tofu was opened, many regions also saw this business opportunity, so they began to imitate the production for profit, not only in the selection of tofu is not so delicate, and the fuel is also the use of coal, so that the smoked tofu produced will be contaminated with some coal breath, the sense of coke will be heavier, there is no characteristic smoked tofu to eat so refreshing.
The Confucius House in the Shuyuan area of Qufu, as the birthplace of smoked tofu, has the strongest ability to make smoked tofu, and the most important thing is that the taste is also the best, so if you want to taste the most authentic smoked tofu after such a long time, you still have to go to Qufu Kongfu to find it.
Qufu, as a pioneer of China's cultural construction area, attaches great importance to the inheritance of traditional cuisine. Smoked tofu is not only a delicacy of Qufu, but also spread to the rest of the world, becoming a heritage of intangible culture that cannot be measured by money. At the same time, Qufu is also the birthplace of Confucian culture, and the development of smoked tofu in accordance with this historical context is equivalent to witnessing the development and evolution of Confucian culture, so it has a strong historical and cultural connotation.
In addition, the essence of smoked tofu is soy products, which have a very rich protein and potassium and other substances, which can play an effective interpretation, enhance people's immunity, supplement the role required by the human body, and contain vitamins and some plant estrogens, so it can also eliminate reactive oxygen species, very suitable for people with fat loss needs, eating more can also play a role in beauty and beauty.
Feel life in the way of food, witness history with food, and enjoy the best moments of life with food. Tasting a unique and delicious food can often make people forget a lot of unpleasantness, although the current taste of smoked tofu to adapt to people's needs has been adjusted and improved, but the traditional cultural connotation contained in it is kept alive.
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