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Bacon, a local delicacy in southern Shaanxi

Bacon, also known as bacon, is a local specialty in Qinba Mountain area of southern Shaanxi and a traditional gift of people in southern Shaanxi. According to legend, it has a history of thousands of years. According to records, as early as 2,000 years ago, Zhang Lu called Hanwang, and when he was defeated in southern Shaanxi, he was entertained by Hanzhong people with fine bacon. It is also said that in the 26th year of Guangxu in Qing Dynasty, Empress Dowager Cixi took refuge in xi 'an with Emperor Guangxu, and local officials in southern Shaanxi paid tribute to bacon for imperial use. Cixi was full of praise after eating it.

The traditional habit of processing and making bacon not only has a long history, but also has universality. Every year1February, that is, before "Xiaoxue" and "beginning of spring", every household has to kill pigs and sheep. Except for fresh meat enough for the Chinese New Year, the rest are preserved with fresh salt, with a certain proportion of spices such as pepper, star anise, cinnamon and clove. After 7 ~ 15 days, hang it with palm leaf rope and drip dry water to make it. Choose cypress branches, sugarcane skins, Chinese toon skins or firewood to smoke and bake slowly, and then hang them up and smoke slowly with fireworks. Or hung on the top of the stove burning firewood, or hung on the oven burning firewood and smoked slowly with fireworks. There are abundant forests and grass in Qinba Mountain area, and almost every family burns firewood for cooking or heating, which is a favorable condition for bacon. Even city people don't kill pigs and sheep, but every December, we should pick the best white pork in the market, fat or thin, buy some, pickle it at home as usual, smoke a few slices of bacon and try it. If you don't burn firewood at home, ask your relatives and friends in the countryside to smoke a few.

Smoked bacon is consistent in appearance, cooked and sliced, transparent and shiny, bright in color, yellow in red, mellow in taste, fat but not greasy, thin but not stuffed, not only unique in flavor, rich in nutrition, but also has the functions of appetizing, dispelling cold and promoting digestion. Bacon in southern Shaanxi has always maintained the characteristics of good color, fragrance, taste and shape, and is known as "one cook the meat fragrant flowers blossom".

Bacon has the characteristics of constant meat quality, long fragrance and long storage from the processing, production and storage of fresh meat. This kind of meat is smoked by cypress branches. Mosquitoes and flies don't climb in summer, but it doesn't go bad for three days. It has become a unique local flavor food. It is said that Xi's famous "Fan Ji Bacon" is a skill handed down by people in southern Shaanxi.

Sheep slaughtered in the Year of the Pig in southern Shaanxi are all self-supplied, thriving year after year and enjoyed by people all year round. Bacon is essential for eating, drinking, banquets, friends and festivals. Therefore, ordinary farmers regard this as a necessary rural food, and it becomes a local delicacy. Especially in the deep mountains, the number of bacon at home is a symbol to measure the rich and the poor. Hanyin County Records includes:

"Although the tent room is Chai Men, the food must be meat." The meat here refers to bacon.

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