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Eat a meal of Chongqing rural damba seat, found that this is the real fireworks of the people!

Chongqing dam seat is now less and less, only in the rural areas of the county can see the run of the dam.

In the past, if a family had a full moon wine, marrying a daughter-in-law, marrying a daughter, etc., basically in front of their own dam set up a borrowed table and benches, and then invited some of the surrounding collars to help play the hands of the strong neighborly love to show off If you want to list the most lively collective activities in Chongqing rural areas, the dam seat can be a high vote. "If we were to list the most popular collective activities in Chongqing's rural areas, the Ba Ba Xi would definitely be high on the list. When I was a child, I heard these words, and I couldn't sleep at night, so I was looking forward to following the elders of my family to eat at the damba seat tomorrow! Chongqing people Chongqing things, some time ago, I had the honor to participate in a wedding in the countryside, their banquet is in front of their own home set the dam feast.

Regardless of how many young people are now scoffing at dam banquets, but I'm still good for that bite of nine bowls, that table full of specialties always have a kind of magic that allows me a second soul through the past. Ten o'clock in the morning when I arrived at today's destination, have not yet entered, I saw a crowd of people clustered in the distance, vaguely feel the townspeople have come to help, set up a stove set up a stove, wash vegetables wash vegetables, set the Dragon Doctrine of the Dragon Doctrine, the kind of bustling scene. The table built in the dam, has long been occupied by the elderly full, waiting for the first round of seating, in the countryside to eat dam feast, that is to be active on the table, not active people, may change a few rounds can not take your turn. In the corner of the dam dam, with something like a mat to temporarily build a cookhouse, temporary cookhouse to have a very large panel used to set the dishes, today's meal is also all done here.

At about 11 o'clock, the cookhouse was already frying food one after another. The cookhouse was not big, and three women with nimble hands and feet held up a piece of the feast.

The super-sized wooden products like this one contain rice in a cauldron, and the steamed rice is clear and full of grains.

Take a closer look underneath, and it's still wood-fired rice.

This is a look inside the burnt white, this dish is one of the Chongqing people's favorite dishes, but also a steamed dish that is indispensable to the table!

This large dustpan is an essential kitchen tool for rural families. A dustpan can wash the food of a dozen people, and hold the dishes of several tables...

The dishes in the kitchen are being cooked in an orderly manner, and outside the dam feast, everything is also in order. Plastic benches borrowed from the surrounding neighbors are also a must-have at the dam feast.

The tea is served in a thermos, and the heavy wooden tray is used to serve the first cup of tea, and then the refills are done by the person himself.

In the absence of electric stoves, we all use this fire pit to roast fire, fire is good, we sit around together to start the Dragon Gate, this sit down and then someone yells at you to get up is difficult.

The temporary kitchen of the dam did not have a faucet, so it moved a pipe over, and the water used for cooking and washing dishes was scooped from a bucket.

At eleven-thirty, they began to lay the table, put on a very eye-catching disposable red cloth, after eating a table to change the tablecloth, along with the tablecloth on the garbage together with the drop Can.

A table should also be equipped with drinks, beer, and liquor. I remember drinking a lot of beverages such as fresh oranges, and then there were various kinds of beverages such as peanut milk.

As 12 o'clock approached, it was time to start the meal. The women in the kitchen take the unheated cold dishes out of the big bags and plate them up. And the chef in the kitchen starts to stir-fry some of the fast-cooking dishes.

The wood fire in the countryside was so powerful that it was turned over in three or two seconds after being placed in the pan. When they are cooked, they are put into small, bite-sized pots and pans like this.

When seated, smart people usually don't sit on the pass-throughs, or else they spend most of the meal turning around and picking up the food.

Daba Banquet, flowing banquet such things are never to line up the wheel, the first to sit in the location of the first to eat, and then later will have to watch others eat a round and then to their own. I was slow, so I didn't even make it to the second round of the banquet, and I finally made it to the third round.

After sitting on the table, the first thing to come up is the cold dishes, and there is a small stove pot, the pot inside the pickled radish is really too much rice, just have this pickled radish I can dry a bowl of rice.

Then is the hoof this hard dish, the elderly prefer to eat, mainly because the meat is very rake, very soft, eat up no effort.

There are more types of chicken, either one is stewed at a table or the chicken is slaughtered to make a big dish. If there are chickens, there are fish, and the fish are braised and steamed, one whole fish per table, signifying a good year.

Hi sand meat is a lot of people sit down eyes staring at the most tightly a dish, although it looks very greasy, but eat up, only to feel the bean paste and meat chewed together in the soft sweet flavor.

There is no specific limit to the number of dishes in a dam feast, each place has its own rules, some places are 4 cool, 8 hot, 6 steamed bowls and 2 soups, a **** 24 dishes, some are more than a dozen dishes.

The only thing in common is that there are so many dishes that the table can't hold them...

At the dam feast, it doesn't matter if you are a big shot or a dignitary, we are all crammed in next to each other, sitting at a big round table, gossiping and talking about the family, unknowingly eliminating the food.

Of course, each to a Damba seat, are less money. No matter where you are, the host family will set up a "gift book," specializing in recording the accounts of the gift money, to facilitate after the "return of love".

You send me 200, I return you 300. in Chongqing, the return of love is generally only a little more, you send me ten, I return you eleven, one more point is the love points, but also the ancestors handed down the gift of exchange.

Now, with the improvement of life, in order to figure out the convenience, people choose to hold a seat in the luxury hotel.

While the dishes are sumptuous and exquisite, they are no match for the touch of my taste buds brought by the buckling bowls on the dam, and there is no more enthusiasm to go to eat the dam. More is more "should cooperate with your performance of how I should perform" feeling of powerlessness, every time, I am incredibly nostalgic for the rural Dambashi, simple and free.