A large copper pot with a dragon's mouth at the end of the Qing Dynasty
The snacks of Nanshi Sanwu have impressed the people of Tianjin, including Mu Ruiting, Ma Fuqing's tea soup and oil tea noodles. In particular, the large copper pot with the dragon's mouth in the tea soup can be called the best beauty in snacks. In the mid-1980s, after the completion of Nanshi Food Street, Ma Fuqing's son Ma Zhenting opened a snack bar called "Ma Ji Tea Soup", also known as "Xiyu Zhai", the longzui large copper pot that disappeared for many years reappeared in the jianghu, and The Tianjin writer Mr. Zhang Zhong wrote the novel "Longzui Big Copper Kettle", which was filmed into a TV series, and for a time the Longzui Big Copper Pot became famous in the world.
Ma Fuqing is a native of Baxian County, Hebei Province, earlier to the Nanshi stall to sell tea soup, the main ingredient is from Duliu specially customized rice noodles, the rice noodles are first mixed with seven hot warm water, brewed with boiling water, brewed tea soup is very viscous, straight into the small shovel does not pour, sprinkled with red sugar, white sugar, mixed with osmanthus flowers, raisins, green plums, melon strips and other eight treasures, the taste is smooth and soft.
Tianjin, Republic of China
Ma Fuqing ordered a large copper pot in the copper pot shop in the north of the Drum Tower, made by hand, with a thickness of one to the top, and there were more than ten circles of thousands of regular and light hammer marks on the pot, the pot was one foot eight inches high, one foot and five inches in diameter, the spout was slender, the outer skin was carved with the pattern of the dragon, the body of the pot was polished brightly polished, and the top was also inserted with fine spring wire, tied with red mane flower Aya. The large copper pot weighs more than 20 kilograms, holds more than 30 kilograms of water, and there is a carbon stove in the center of the copper pot chassis, and when the charcoal is burned, the water temperature can reach 150 degrees. The tea soup master holds the bowl in one hand, lifts the copper pot handle with the other hand, tilts it 45 degrees, and the spout of the pot flushes into the bowl with a stream of boiling water, and the water is full of tea soup, like "acrobatics".
Tea soup was originally a snack for the people to warm up in winter, and later many famous corners of the pear garden line also came to eat his family's tea soup, and "Ma Ji Tea Soup" became more and more famous. Ma Zhenting began to learn the craft from his father at the age of 13, and after the public-private partnership in the 1950s, the tea soup could not continue, so he had to change careers.
Tianjin tea soup
In the 80s, Nanshi Food Street opened, Ma Zhenting returned to the old business, the family heirloom of the dragon mouth large copper pot has long been broken four old, Tianjin can not find a craftsman who can make a large copper pot, Ma Zhenting found a retired worker in Yi County, Hebei Province, spent more than 700 yuan, ordered two large copper pots. The unique dragon's beak large copper pot appeared in people's sight again.
In addition to tea soup, there are more than 20 kinds of snacks, such as pot cakes, steamed on a steamer with a mud pot with eyes at the bottom, the sticky rice noodles in the mud pot are dry, mixed with cooked red adzuki beans, sprinkled with a layer of dried dates, relying on steam to wet and steam the sticky rice noodles. The steamed pot cake is sticky and fragrant, ribbed and chewy. Beef rolling is made by rolling red jam or date puree with sticky rice slices and then rolling over a layer of cooked soybean noodles, which tastes like a bean.
After the opening of Nanshi Food Street, Zhang Zhong, a writer familiar with the life of Tianjin Wei, wrote a novel "Dragon's Mouth Big Copper Kettle" on the grounds of tea soup, which was adapted by Tianjin Television into a six-episode TV series "Dragon's Mouth Big Copper Kettle", with the help of the tortuous story of the big copper pot and a few gains, describing the tragic life of Yang Si, the owner of the tea soup stall.
Dragon's mouth large copper pot
In order to make this drama well, Tianjin Television Station set up an exterior scene in the compound of this station for the first time, reproducing the old appearance of the old northwest corner, with trams running on the street, flanked by small alleys like sheep intestines, and old houses entering seven times and eight. The main street is lined with shops, next to the Baoxiangyi Silk Cloth Shop is The Longyu Cream Pharmacy, and there is a couplet on the left and right of the store: "The elixir is secretly stored in the bottle, and the shelf is stored in Bulaodan." "Next to the drugstore are blacksmith shops, grocery stores, and preaching houses.
The silk cloth shop is opposite, leaning against the gable of an earthen house, two bamboo poles supporting a pergola, an old table and old stool, an old porcelain bowl, a large copper pot with boiling water rolling, a tall and thin old man sharply rushing to the tea soup, the soup is not spilled, a good sound, it is Yang Si's actor in the play, Beijing ren artist Niu Xingli.
Clay man Zhang Cai plastic dragon mouth large copper pot
Niu Xingli grew up in Tianjin and went to school at the Chenghuangmiao Primary School not far from the northwest corner, when she went to the old tea soup stall in the northwest corner to drink tea soup. This time in order to shoot a TV series, he specially went to The Food Street in Nanshi to find Ma Zhenting of the "Western Regions" to learn the craft, and only took half a day to learn to make tea soup, perform on the spot, and sold more than sixty bowls in a short time. When filming the TV series, the dragon mouth large copper pot and tea soup raw materials were also provided by "Xiyu Zhai", and "Xiyu Zhai" was also rewarded, and more than 3500 bowls of tea soup were sold the day after the TV series was broadcast.
At the Spring Festival Gala of Tianjin Television Station that year, the skit "The Legend of the Dragon Kettle" was also broadcast. Niu Xingli still plays Yang Si, who sells tea soup, Wang Ye, played by Huang Zongluo in the TV series "The Legend of Zhang the Clay Man", carries a bird cage to the stall to drink tea soup, meets the fifth master played by Feng Gong, and the traitor Guo Yunqi played by Jin Shugui in "Blood Splash Jinmen" also comes, saying that Yang Si occupied the road and wanted to punish a "Wanbao Road", and finally snatched the big copper pot, and shot at the sky before leaving, which frightened Yang Si...
Longzui large copper pot tea soup with the influence of the TV series more and more deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, Nanshi Food Street Co., Ltd. in a timely manner launched the "Dragon Pot brand tea soup powder", this kind of bagged instant tea soup powder to solve the regret of not being able to carry, instant food, retain the original taste, the tea soup sold now, pushed to the food market. It is a pity that the tea soup powder did not develop in the end, which is a pity.