Taste intangible cultural heritage food and feel the traditional Customs. Every New Year, people from all over the world prepare food full of local specialties in advance. In Sanhui Town, Quxian County, there is a custom of eating "eight pieces of water" for the New Year. This kind of "eight pieces of water" that uses rooster as raw material, full of color and flavor, spicy mouth is not spicy, and the mouth is not numb, has become a must-have food for local people to celebrate the New Year's Festival, and has also become an intangible cultural heritage to be inherited.
In Sanhui Town, at the confluence of the Ba River, the Zhou River and the Qu River, there is a famous delicacy - "Eight Pieces of Water". People here have a very exquisite practice of eating chicken, they often chop the whole chicken into eight large pieces according to the part, and then eat it cold, because its entire production process is mainly water, "water eight pieces" is named after it. Yang Chunli, who is more than 60 years old, was born and raised here, and he has dealt with this cuisine for half a lifetime.
Yang Chunli, producer of "eight pieces of water" in Quxian County, introduced that when cooking chicken, the fire cannot be too big, it can only be simmered on a small fire, the integrity of the simmered chicken is better, and the slices cut out should look better.
Yang Chunli said that the main ingredient of "eight pieces of water" is generally selected from local farmers' free-range roosters, boiled and dried, and then chopped the chicken into eight pieces with a knife, and then cut the chicken pieces into slices, supplemented by homemade unique seasonings, made into spicy, hemp, fresh and fragrant chicken nuggets, spicy and delicious, endless aftertaste.
Nowadays, Lao Yang has been engaged in the "eight pieces of water" industry for more than 30 years, because the customer of door-to-door customization is endless, and Lao Yang has not opened his own store to open the market. Due to the long history of the development of "Eight Blocks of Water", after several generations such as Yang Chunli, the refinement and inheritance of the production process, now, this cuisine has become a necessary cold dish for local households to celebrate the New Year, and it has become the most beautiful memory in the New Year goods.
Eating "eight pieces of water", eating history, eating is memory, eating is culture, eating is feeling, eating is a blessing for a better life in the future, and eating is a strong taste of the New Year. In 2006, "Eight Blocks of Water" was awarded the first batch of intangible food cultural heritage in Qu county.