Kill the pig to make bubble gum to keep the luzhou mountain village new year homesickness

The Xuyong Yi family sent blessings to the pigs in the new year

As the Lunar New Year approaches, the traditional handmade bubble gum in Naxi District of Luzhou City uses unique handicrafts and folk culture to retain the Taste of the New Year and evoke the homesickness of the wanderers. The Spring Festival entertains guests, and in the living room of the Naxi people, this sweet and delicious dish is indispensable. Tasting an authentic Naxi bubble gum can make Luzhou people return to their sweet childhood and recall a strong touch of nostalgia. Unlike Naxi, the Yi family pig culture in Xuyong County, Luzhou City, brings a happy and peaceful atmosphere to the cold winter moon through the unique "killing pigs" method of ethnic minorities.

Killing pigs and eating blood is looking forward to "getting more and more prosperous" in the coming year

"Blood is strong, blood is strong, the more you eat, the more prosperous." In Shuiluan Yi Nationality Township, Xuyong County, Luzhou City, when the "Slaughtering Pig" is boiled in a whole pot, the Yi family will repeat this sentence repeatedly, hoping that the coming year will "become more and more prosperous". In January last year, Xuyong County held the first Annual Pig Culture Festival, where thousands of Yi villagers gathered together to kill Pigs and eat whole pot soup to inherit the traditional rural Yi folk culture. Since then, the Yi family's "pig killing" activity has become one of the most distinctive annual activities in Luzhou.

Every year before the Spring Festival, the Yijia mountain village in Xuyong County, the empty dry fields, the logs build a platform, cypress, corn, dried pepper will be dotted with a strong Yi hometown atmosphere. The roaring, firecrackers, cheers, and laughter made the otherwise quiet mountain village full of flavor. Before the slaughter of pigs, the traditional Yixiang entertainment project set up in the dry field turned autumn, which attracted the passionate participation of countless men, women and young villagers, and the scene became an ocean of joy.

"To kill a pig, it is necessary to sacrifice the circle door god first, and then slaughter the ancestors before slaughtering the sacrifice, and also carry out the New Year pig parade, the Annual Pig blessing, and so on." Local villager Li Qianyuan told reporters that the New Year pig culture is sporadically circulated in a few remote mountainous areas, and in Xiongguang Village, Shuiluan Yi Nationality Township, Xuyong County, every lunar month, it still maintains the traditional folk custom of killing pigs to welcome the New Year, sacrificing gods, and ancestral methods of making wax incense, and neighbors and villagers gather together to eat whole pot soup, taste blood and experience traditional rural entertainment.

Make bubble gum products nostalgia on the ancient town of "hometown taste"

"As long as you come, you're my guest." With the Spring Festival approaching, Mu Dajie of Ledao Ancient Town, Tianxian Town, Naxi District, Luzhou City, invited guests to taste Naxi bubble gum. "This is the old craftsmanship of Naxi, and many old people still remember the sweet, crunchy feeling." Naxi bubble gum originated from the last years of the Qing Dynasty, and in 1983, it was rated as a national 'high-quality famous specialty product' by the Ministry of Commerce of the People's Republic of China, and its pure handmade production skills have become the warm memory of generations.

In recent years, Naxi District has excavated and inherited handicrafts and folk culture, implanted many nostalgic elements such as traditional handicrafts and folk culture into the "global tourism", created a unique rural charm tour, awakened the memory of the years, interpreted the new heritage of regional culture, and evoked the homesickness of the wanderers. "When I was a child, I had to eat a piece of bubble gum, so I had to wait for the New Year." Mr. Wang left Naxi for nearly half a century and returned to the ancient town of Ledao, because of bubble gum and Mu Dajie chatted. "With the development of modern industry, this pure handmade bubble gum is afraid that there are not many."

"When the temperature is high, the sugar will melt, and you can only choose to do it in winter." Production master Zou Li introduced. Naxi bubble sugar is made of the best white sugar, maltose and sesame seeds, after boiling sugar, cooling, pulling and other more than 20 processes, the product is finalized with more than 2,000 large and small holes in the cross-section, which is a unique specialty of Luzhou City. Based on the mountain village to see the world, keep the nostalgia of the year. The lunar new year is approaching, and bubble gum is a kind of nostalgia, which carries a strong New Year's flavor.

Yang Tao West China City Reader Zeng Ye Photography Yang Tao