The title "Miaozilao" was somewhat pejorative in the past, but in today's social development, these most primitive national cultural materials have been transformed into an economic benefit.
In Mayang, Huaihua, there is a food brand called "Miao Zi Lao", which makes the bacon in the township its own specialty, buys pigs raised by farmers, and smokes the bacon with oil but not greasy with firewood.
Xiaoxiang Morning News reporter Chen Xiaoying intern Yin Ying Changsha reported
The origin of the old bacon of the Miao family
Bacon has a history of more than 2,000 years, Hunan Tujia, Miaojia bacon is the Tujia people and Miaojia people to extend the shelf life of pork, and the original flavor of a unique local famous product, which is characterized by: rich fat, yellow skin, meat like fire, delicious taste, with high development value. In Hunan cuisine, there are winter bamboo shoots fried bacon, bitter melon stir-fried bacon, bacon flavor steamed (bacon, bacon, bacon, bacon), white pepper fried bacon, etc., Du Fu has a poem: "The daily warmth of the wax is still far away, and this year's wax day is frozen." ”
Xiangxi is an alpine region, rural people have a long time to roast the fire, and the time of smoked bacon is also long, and the bacon can be hidden for a long time, and it can always be eaten until the next year. Don't look at the Xiangxi bacon its appearance is not proud, but eat good, chew in the mouth, full of mouth, between the teeth to leave fragrant, steamed bacon, can be a piece, a trace of tear to eat, washed fat bacon, clear and transparent, placed in the sun, can see the shadow, oil but not greasy.
Xiangxi Miao family spent Chinese New Year's Eve night, when the whole family ate a reunion dinner around the table, a bowl of bacon was indispensable, eating fragrant bacon, drinking a large bowl of rice wine brewed at home, singing mountain songs, and enjoying harmony, which means looking forward to the next year's wind and rain, and the grain is abundant.
Xiangxi mountainous, Xiangxi people make bacon has its own unique process and technique, during the wax moon, people will feed their own pigs slaughtered, most of them are used to make bacon, first cut the meat into strips, weighing four or five pounds, light also one or two pounds, and then smear the meat with salt, and then put into the jar or barrel, let the salt penetrate, generally to marinate for five to seven days, and then take the meat out, hang in the ventilation, drip water, make the meat shrink, so that it can be smoked. During the Waxing Moon, the Xiangxi farmers often dig a fire pit in the church house, and the meat is hung on the fire pit, and some are hung on the stove, while burning wood for heating and cooking, while the meat can be smoked, killing two birds with one stone.
Marinated and smoked with free-range pigs
Shu Xiangkui, the boss of the Miao ZiLao, told reporters that the title of "Miao Zi Lao" was a derogatory term for the Miao people in the past, describing the Miao people as arbitrary and unreasonable, of low quality, and relatively backward in economy and culture, but in today's social development, these most primitive and backward national cultural materials have become the historical heritage and culture recognized by the people, so that the three inconspicuous so-called derogatory terms of "Miao Zi Lao" have also been "rehabilitated."
Shu Xiangkui introduced that the biggest feature of "Miao Zi Lao" is bacon, and compared with ordinary bacon, what is the difference?" Meat are from the people's free-range pigs, not captive, eat wild food, we bought it, smoked with firewood, the taste of firewood smoking will be better, the people can feel it after comparison, we are listed in September of the previous year, the annual turnover is about one million. ”
"Miao Zi Lao" original ecological chain store site selection also has a lot of exquisite, must be in the crowd gathering, convenient transportation, decoration to the Miao family's daily life equipment as the background, national head and ethnic representative building as the theme, to "Miao Zi Lao" to reflect the fullest, so that every customer has an immersive feeling. The store decoration is mainly divided into two categories: one class occupies two-thirds of the food, and one-third is the handicraft class; all employees from the factory to the store are wearing Miao ethnic costumes, the company adopts computer networking and modern self-selected shopping mall mode, humanized management mechanism, institutional settings, take the form of joining or agency to join, the product must be straight line management, the price must be clearly marked nationwide, and it is not allowed to sell at will or at a low discount.
[Related Links]
Ate the addictive "Viva Dish"
In the "Miao Zi Lao", there is also a dish that people want to eat, that is, "Long Live Dish", also known as "Grandma Dish", the best of the court cuisine, this dish is produced from the hometown of longevity - Hunan Mayang, mainly with radish ten thousand vegetables, bamboo shoots ten thousand vegetables, green vegetables ten thousand vegetables, wild buckwheat ten thousand vegetables, fern ten thousand vegetables, long bean carob ten thousand vegetables, divided into: raw food, cooked food two, different tastes, there are mixed meat, there is salt spicy, is a long history of widely spread flavor cuisine.
It is said that the Ming Dynasty", the "strange minister" Manchu Dynasty (Mayang Lanli), once returned to his hometown to visit his grandmother. At that time, my grandmother's family was in difficulty, and she really couldn't come up with decent things to entertain her grandson, so in a hurry, she had to stir-fry some wild vegetables made in the water pot to the Manchu Dynasty, and the Manchu Dynasty praised this dish after eating it, and also deliberately left some preparations for the Emperor to taste. After returning to Beijing, the emperor immediately ordered the imperial chef to make a good taste, but there was no name for the dish, and he was anxious to scratch his head and scratch his cheeks, and the emperor laughed: "Grandma's wild vegetables are called Grandma's dishes!" Since then, the emperor, who is tired of eating the taste of mountains and treasures and seafood, has become addicted to eating "grandmother's dish", has a good appetite, a tough body, and a better spirit.
Seeing that this dish was so magical, the imperial chef secretly ate a little of the leftover pot washing water from the grandmother's dish, and felt that the spirit was particularly refreshing, so the "immortal soup" slowly spread. People think that "grandmother's dish" is a natural wild vegetable and can nourish the face and longevity, plus it is the name of the dish taken by the emperor, so it has been passed down to this day under the name of "long live dish". "Long live vegetables" has become an important dish for the Miao family in Mayang, Hunan, the hometown of China's longevity, and the raw materials are mostly natural wild vegetables, Miao family native vegetables such as wild onions, bracken, peppers, eggplant, garlic, radish, beans, etc., dried in the traditional folk production method of the Miao family and marinated in the altar, without adding any pigments and preservatives. "Banzai dish" has a very good taste, with spleen and appetizer, reduce blood lipids, soften blood vessels, nourish the face and other effects.
Other raw foods are also special
"Seedlings" has several other special products. "Miao Zi Lao" green pastries, mainly based on various flavors of tung leaf rice and palm leaf rice and glutinous rice dumplings, its shape can be made into 12 zodiac signs, and engraved with auspicious words such as Fu, Lu, Shou, Xi and so on. Its taste can be divided into sesame seeds, red beans, mung beans, sugar, ten thousand vegetables and other flavors. "Miaozilao" environmental protection candy, in the original ecological shape to show some products that are no longer on the market, such as: five sugars, the New Year's Festival to pray for five blessings, as well as orchid peanuts, pine nuts and other sugar products.
"Miao Zi Lao" traditional kimchi unique, kimchi is also known as jar dish, in the metropolis can rarely eat, and "Miao Zi Lao" can be its original taste with the original ecological packaging, its types can be divided into: pickled sour radish, pickled sour cabbage, pickled sour spicy seeds, that is, each can be made into a variety of flavors of the good.
The ancestral weaving products of "Miao Zi Lao" are made of pollution-free bamboo, linen, wood products and other materials into rice spoons, rice baskets, vegetable baskets, insoles, shawls, fans, hats, buckets and other small trinkets, which are classified by the raw materials of trinkets.
Source: Mayang Party Building
Copyright belongs to the original author, a tribute to the original