The old Beijingers boiled and smoked pork head meat, which was called "smoked fish" meat. Its color is purple and the taste is pure and thick, unlike the fat sauce elbow, its biggest feature is that it is more edible and not greasy, and it contains high protein and is rich in nutrition. Folk regarded as one of the "hair objects", children eat some when they are vaccinated with cowpox, so that the virus can be fully emitted.
In the streets and alleys of old Beijing, every time the sun sets, there are vendors with red lacquered wooden cabinets shouting "Smoke fish, fry gluten!" Or shout "Rotten meat"! This is the sale of smoked fish and pork head meat, smoked pig crushed. Others lean against a "big wine tank" (tavern) and wait at the door for the main guest. When there is a seller, he uses the back of the wooden cabinet cover as a board, and skillfully uses a knife to cut the meat like a thin piece of paper. People buy it and eat it in a two-layered skin-style "slice of fire" (a kind of fire without sesame seeds), which has a unique flavor.
In the early years, real smoked fish were smoked yellow croakers, which were clipped to straw one by one to prevent them from breaking. There are also smoked shrimp, smoked crab and other seafood. However, in the later evolution, it did not sell smoked fish at all, but mainly sold smoked pig head meat, called "smoked fish" meat, and also sold smoked pork liver, smoked fat intestines, pig brains, smoked oral, smoked chicken or smoked eggs, and brought smoked crabs to sell in autumn. It's all a good dish for people to drink. In addition, there are some other smoked foods, such as smoked bitter intestines, smoked pig hearts, smoked pig lungs, with a slight bitter taste in the incense, the old Beijingers bought it to chop and chop, mixed in white rice as cats and dogs to eat.
Raising cats is a joyous thing in people's lives, and it has been around for a long time, and it is recorded in the Book of Rites. Old Beijing cat breeding breeding, most of the hair elderly are precious, "soft hair has four or five inches of precious." This cat is especially powerful, and the shawl long hair droops, similar to the appearance of a male lion, so it is called a lion cat. In this breed, it is also necessary to distinguish the height of the cat by the quality of the coat color. It is generally believed that white and yellow are the best products, followed by black and variegated. According to the fur pattern, different elegant names are given, such as the white cat with the black tail, which is called "sending charcoal in the snow"; the upper body is black and the lower body is white, which is called "dark clouds cover the snow"; the white cat with the head and tail is black as "whipping hydrangea ball". It is said that there are more than 100 kinds of cats with different colors, but the best ones are rare. In addition, the cat's eye must be the most expensive of the two colors, known as the "male and female eyes". As the saying goes, "one father, one mother", this is the "Persian species". But old Beijingers don't like white-tailed cats, thinking it's ominous.
In the early years, the rich cat owners cooked lamb liver, chopped it and mixed it with white rice, followed by those who smoked bitter sausage bibimbap, and the poor households bought saltless dried fish from oil and salt shops, called "cat fish", which were chopped in warm water and mixed in the crumbs of the kneaded nest, which belonged to poor feeding.
Beijingers believe that cat ownership is a noble interest, and its source is mostly given to each other by relatives and friends as gifts. At that time, the old Beijingers did not sell cats, and they still regarded the sale of cats and dogs as a symbol of bankruptcy, and they would never do anything.
Many well-known people have cats. For example, the famous painter Feng Zikai raised cats and painted cats; the mimi of the old man in Bingxin was named "Charcoal in the Snow" on the cat score; Mr. Lao She raised cats, and Mr. Duanmu Hongliang also raised cats. The cats raised by writers have a kind of "superiority", and they are often the raw flower articles written by famous artists.
Some cat lovers also give a certain breed of cat a special meaning——— Elvis Presley. It is said that the conditions of "Elvis Presley" are: the weight must reach more than eight pounds, which is called "eight pounds of cats can force a thousand pounds of rats"; its skin color is limited to pure yellow or pure fox, and it has tiger stripes, a flattened and round head, small and thin ears; and the eyes must be the so-called "golden-eyed night light". Its face must be a white-billed helmet, a red nose, and a yellow dot the size of a finger belly next to the mouth, commonly known as a "butterfly spot", and the tentacles are as strong as steel needles. Regardless of the color of yellow or tanuki hair, the belly must be pure white. The tail is composed of long hairs, shaped like "flames", called "unicorn tail", and those who do not know are often called "bald tail roots". In total, it is the head of the lion, the body of the tiger, and the tail of the unicorn. In addition, Elvis presley is male, and the females are not on the spectrum.
(Transferred from: Memories of Old Beijing)