Huzhou City is located in the north of Zhejiang Province, east of Jiaxing, south of Hangzhou, west of Tianmu Mountain, north of Taihu Lake, and Wuxi, Suzhou across the lake, is the only city in the Taihu Lake area named because of the lake. Since ancient times, Huzhou has been known as the silk house, the hometown of fish and rice, the reputation of the state of culture, and is known as the pearl of South Taihu Lake. In 2010, Liupuchang had a population of 2.894 million, most of whom were from Jiangsu and Zhejiang ethnic groups and spoke Wu. Huzhou is an ancient city in Jiangnan with a history of more than 2,300 years, with an area of 5,818 square kilometers, beautiful natural landscapes and many historical and cultural landscapes.
Huzhou is a famous cultural city and is known in the sea.
Located on the south shore of Taihu Lake, Huzhou is named because of Hucheng, Industry because of Huxing, Wenyin Huchang, and people because of Huhui. The creation of heaven and earth given by the water of Taihu Lake has given birth to a cultural Huzhou of "qingyuan mountains and rivers, equal emphasis on agriculture and commerce, reverence for culture and education, and gentle wisdom and change", so that Huzhou is known as the "house of silk, the land of fish and rice, the land of beautiful, and the state of culture", and has the advantages of "good place, thick culture, excellent ecology, stable foundation, and social harmony", and has become a place of cultural exchange and integration between Wuyue and Vietnam, becoming a holy place of calligraphy and painting represented by Hubi culture, Zhao (that is, Zhao Mengfu) style characters, Wu (that is, Wu Changshuo) door paintings, and Lu Yu's "Tea Classic". Tea cultural resorts represented by purple shoot tea and the birthplace of silk culture represented by the Qianshan Yang ruins are unique and far-reaching. In the process of development, Huzhou has formed the traditional humanistic spirit of "bright body, reverence for culture, eclecticism, and spiritual beauty and flexibility", which has concentrated on various cultural accumulations.
Although I am not from Huzhou, but today I want to recommend to you a food leader in the minds of Huzhou people - Ding Lianfang thousand buns, don't underestimate this bun, he is not an ordinary bun, it is a treasure with a century-old Chinese snack title on his head!
Ding Lianfang, originally a small trader in Huzhou City who picks onions and sells vegetables for a living, has a hard time, but always has to support his family. He felt that buying vegetables in this line, there is no big future, you must change your career to do something, think about it, or think that this line of "eating" is the most suitable, you can do a small business, set up a stall to pick up the burden, the Japanese Dynasty has an income, decided to start from the "snack" piece.
When the industry is chosen, then what to do well? Look at the lake city noodle soup buns, burnt cakes, raw frying, rice dumplings, tofu paste, fritters, rice dumplings, wontons, sweet potatoes, diamond horns, tea eggs, it is really dazzling. If you do these similar things again, there is not much novelty, diners do not like, make it bad and lose money. Although Ding Lianfang's culture was not high, she still knew to do market research in that era. At that time, beef shredded flour and oil tofu shredded powder were prevalent, and since the Lakers liked to eat vermicelli ~ he had a sudden idea: adding a thousand buns to the silk powder, becoming a thousand bun silk powder, the portion was sufficient, and the flower head was thorough (the meaning of the Huzhou dialect is rich) is also different. And to make new varieties, the materials must be selected well, otherwise the Huzhou people's mouths will be harsh and will not be pleasing to people.
Ding Lianfang had put a lot of thought into a thousand buns. The thousand buns in Huzhou are not steamed buns made of flour fermentation, but a thousand buns dressed as thin as cicada wings, exquisite and transparent, and burly square buns. At that time, folk home-cooked bags were rectangular, vegetables and meat were stuffed, and changing to squares was also to attract popularity, Huzhou liked to watch fresh rolling (dialect "join the fun"), with new dim sum always have to taste.
Speaking of this thousand sheets, the guest officer in the north should ask, what is a thousand sheets? Qianzhang is a kind of soy products, Huzhou is located on the south shore of Taihu Lake with beautiful mountains and clear waters, and the unique geographical environment makes the qianzhang here thin and full of tenacity, this bun wears this coat but it is dense and tight, warm and foreign!
In order to make a thousand buns stand out among many folk cuisines, Ding Lianfang not only designed a good-looking shape, but also the filling is also ingenious: fresh pork leg meat must be pure lean meat, dried scallops, Kaiyang (that is, dried shrimp) plus fried sesame seeds, lake fresh with seafood, this flavor should only be in the sky. Good horse with a good saddle, Ding Lianfang is worthy of a master, he wants to simple buns although good-looking but one or two can not eat enough, more I am afraid that the general people can not afford to eat, (maybe Ding Bo also understands the knowledge of nutrition collocation, with animal protein and lack of carbohydrates), he found mung bean fans to match it, but the traditional mung bean fans are too thin, and the shape of a thousand buns is not matched, and the slender traditional fans are not tough enough, easy to cook, Thinking about going to order coarse mung bean silk powder is the best policy (you know the originator of private customization), whimsy + wonderful ideas, exquisite ingredients, novelty of collocation, a century-old Chinese snack has come out of nowhere, with today's fashionable words is the wonder of food! Since then, Ding Lianfang has walked the streets with a thousand buns, he not only does it in the city, but also takes a thousand buns to the countryside to catch the temple fair, not only in the fields, there is a market for ordinary people, but also among the rich brothers and sisters, for a time, Ding Lianfang's thousand buns became famous in Huzhou City, and the good business increased from more than a hundred customers (dialect "bowls") to more than two hundred customers a day, from early morning to dusk, sometimes supper is crowded.
Now, many old Huzhou people start their day with a bowl of steaming thousands of buns, long-boiled mung bean vermicelli, eating slippery, many children like to eat vermicelli first and then eat buns, because they save the most delicious until the end.
Many times, parents usually use Ding Lianfang's thousand buns as a prize to reward children for getting good grades, and it is a very luxurious consumption to be able to eat a bowl of Ding Lianfang's thousand buns in that era when there is no kfc. Just as when Taiwanese people return to the island, they always have to be busy to eat a bowl of beef noodles, just as Huzhou people who live outside the city must first eat a bowl of Ding Lianfang's thousand buns when they return to Huzhou, and then satisfactorily say "the taste is really praised" (praise is the ultimate expression of "good" in the Huzhou dialect), but the Huzhou people are worried about their homesickness.
Time flies, from the Qing Guangxu in 1878 along the street to set up stalls so far, now Ding Lianfang has long carried out the model of shop operation, since the Hongqi Road (formerly Huangsha Road) opened the first shop, since then opened a new chapter, from the small family jasper leapt for everyone to show, in order to better entertain the diners, Ding Lianfang in the center of the store placed a copper cauldron, hot buns and fans stewed, overflowing with incense, passing by guests always can't help but enter the store to relieve hunger.
In recent years, the media at home and abroad have made special reports on Ding Lianfang, Zhejiang Television has also come to the video, "Chinese Cooking" has made a special introduction, and Ding Lianfang's thousand bun shops have also opened more than a dozen branches in Huzhou, truly realizing chain operation.
The famous calligrapher Mr. Fei Xinmei (a native of Huzhou) once wrote a banner in his own handwriting, "Fresh and refined, famous is Yang". Ding Lianfang's thousand buns have become the traditional famous spots of Huzhou and are famous all over the world. Juxtaposed with Zhen Yuantong, Zhou Shengji, and ZhuDazi, it is known as the first of the four major snacks in Huzhou.