Northeast people produce soybeans and soy sauce.

Northeast Miso On April 28th, the last day of the temple fair, housewives of every household in towns and villages in Northeast China were almost busy making a homemade miso called "Xiajiang". Choose this day, not only with the help of the homophonic "hair" of the word "eight", but also with the help of its "hair" with sticky copper, so that the sauce pieces that had been put aside at that time can be smoothly "fermented". More importantly, due to the solar terms-around the Dragon Boat Festival and before the rainy season, the best season in Northeast China comes, and the stable and rising temperature can ensure the normal and rapid fermentation of Mucor in soy sauce. According to legend, the tradition of cooking sauce originated from Manchu people. Just like eating hot pot, it has been circulating for a long time. Manchu people still cook authentic "vegetable sauce", that is, fry soybeans first and then cook soy sauce, and the rest of the practices are not much different from ordinary soy sauce. Because the temperature in northeast China is low all the year round, which is not conducive to bacterial reproduction, people have the habit of eating vegetables raw, so it is not surprising that eggplant, celery or kelp are dipped in sauce. There is a big plate of seasonal pickles on the dining table of each family. Those vegetables are fresh and attractive, and the green leaves are about to drip. Dip them in the golden sauce in the blue and white platter, which is appetizing and delicious. If you can eat a bowl of rice, you must at least have another bowl. Northeasters like sauces. In the past, the living standard was not high, and vegetables and shallots were the main dishes. Now, even if there are seven dishes and eight bowls for three meals a day, there are very few stir-fry dishes, even the big stew in the northeast, but there is a dish of salty and delicious sauce. My parents are both southerners, but they have lived in the northeast for more than forty years, and they have already done as the Romans do, except for sauce. Perhaps it is because there is no inheritance from the older generation at home, or because of their deep-rooted concept, our family basically does not eat lettuce and never leaves sauce. I remember my mother tried the next time, and it was just one attempt, which was very unsuccessful. The seemingly simple process of adding sauce actually has many skills and secrets. There are factors passed down from generation to generation, as well as factors of self-understanding and proper play. Stir-fried beans, boiled beans, twisted beans, made sauce blocks and sealed sauce blocks until April 28 th. In this series of specific operations, the mastery of temperature, humidity and intensity, the choice of well water and tap water, the difference between iodized salt and non-iodized salt, the ratio of salt to water and so on. Be sure to grasp it. When the above-mentioned tasks are completed one by one, in the first month or two, at least one patient person needs to sit next to the sauce jar every day to "climb" and "skim". This task is equally arduous and cannot be ignored. As for covering the sauce jar in rainy days, it is not a difficult technical job to uncover the lid in sunny days. In the north, at the entrance of the vegetable garden, Chaoyang District on the south side of the yard, and on the balcony of the building, sauce jars of different sizes are placed all the year round. If you don't move for three days, the sauce jar will certainly not freeze. An important criterion to measure whether this housewife is qualified is to taste the sauce, pickles and steamed buns made by her "hands-on". Especially the smell of raw sauce that her family has thoroughly smelled. There is a folk saying: the sauce of a big family must be delicious. More precisely, the housewife has a large population and a relatively timid environment, and the sauce below her is more fragrant. It sounds counterintuitive, but many things are so wonderful at first, and then they become natural. Although we don't have sauce at home, we can't break the sauce for seasoning. Neighbors often sincerely invite us to go to the knife sauce when their soy sauce is just ready, boasting how delicious their soy sauce is. The tone and expression are no less than praising one's children. My brother and I often discuss which one to go to before going out with an empty bowl, because begging for sauce is also learned: everyone who invites us to go to the knife sauce must visit, and we must take turns to go several times at regular intervals. No matter how the sauce tastes, eating more and eating less is the second. In this way, everyone will feel that their soy sauce is good. Look, it takes a lot of brains to harvest crops that you didn't grow yourself, although you saved your strength in advance.