Where is Northeast Guizhou?

Northeastern Guizhou Province, the middle and lower reaches of the Wujiang River

Northeastern Qianbei is one of the main areas in China where the Tujia people live, with high mountains and lush forests, long ravines and valleys, and sparse villages and uninhabited areas. Due to historical reasons and geographical conditions, the transportation here tends to be backward, the economy is still underdeveloped. However, there are many advantages here: beautiful and charming scenery, mild climate, warm and cold, simple and friendly people, is a good place to develop ethnic tourism. In recent years, Qianbei region counties county commissions, governments are fully excavating local tourism resources, to create local tourism highlights, playing tourism and culture cards. Sinan County launched the "Changba Stone Forest", "Wujiang Mountain Gorge", "Haojiawan Qing Dynasty Residence" and other tourist attractions, Yinjiang County in the focus on building the Fanjing Mountain tourism brand at the same time, launched the Red tourism centered on Muhuang, the meeting place of the Second and Sixth Red Army Corps. Shiqian County, on the other hand, focusing on building Yao on, upstairs and other folk culture tourist attractions, Dejiang, Yanhe, Fenggang and other counties have also launched their own tourism tourism highlights.

Relying on natural scenery, the development of tourism is indeed a good way to promote the development of the local economy, however, just rely on natural attractions to attract tourists, is not enough, as a minority region, should be the natural beauty, lake and mountains and simple and heavy folk customs organic combination, become a whole, the formation of a unique ethnic customs tourism. Tujia in northeast Guizhou, with a long history and numerous folklore, has a profound accumulation of national culture, clothing, entertainment, food and other aspects have their own national characteristics. Especially in terms of diet, Tujia food culture has a long history and distinctive national characteristics, which is an important part of Tujia culture. With the current development of tourism, Tujia food culture resources as an important tourism resources in the tourism industry, the status and role of the Tujia food culture is becoming more and more prominent. Tujia food culture in real life to play the material and spiritual functions continue to increase, Tujia food folklore excavation and development, has far-reaching historical significance and great practical significance

I, Guizhou Northeast Tujia food culture main features

Ancient Chinese saying: "food is the only thing that matters to the people," food is the *** same physiological needs, but the food is not the same as the food, but the food is not the same as the food, and the food is not the same as the food. * * * the same physiological needs, however, different regions, different ethnic groups have their own unique food culture, the Tujia also. Tujia food culture has a long history, is a kind of comprehensive national culture system including food customs, taboos, beliefs, food system. Tujia food culture is characterized by its intuitive, distinctive and participatory features, and has a strong national character. The dietary customs of the Tujia in northeast Guizhou are influenced by the natural environment, ethnic culture and the food customs of neighboring provinces and districts, forming a unique sour, spicy and waxed food customs. The Tujia people like sauerkraut, noodles in sour soup, fried rice with sauerkraut, tofu and sauerkraut fish are all good snacks. Tujia people often pickle many vegetables and meat into sour ones, such as "sour chili", "sour cowpeas", "sour eggplant", "sour fish ", "Sour Quercus meat" and so on, pickled vegetables appetizing and healthy out of the mouth, promote the thirst, can enhance the appetite, the Tujia people almost every meal must be eaten, where the repair of houses, weddings and funerals, or festivals, there are one to a few pickled vegetables on the table. Sinan County, Yangjia Au Township, Tingziba Township and Fenggang County, Yonghe Township, Stone Trail Township around the pickled fish is a little famous, where to come to visit friends and relatives, sightseeing or doing business with people, often buy some back to their families, friends and relatives to share. In addition to eating sauerkraut, the Tujia people also love to eat chili peppers, they call chili peppers, they can make chili peppers many kinds of patterns, such as "bad sea pepper, paste sea pepper, poop sea pepper, face face sea pepper (chili powder), soak the sea pepper, dry sea pepper," and so on, they are more tender to the fresh sea pepper frying, called the They fry the fresh and tender sea pepper and call it "Haijiao Waer", "Haijiao Waer" is fragrant and tender, but not spicy, many Tujia people like to eat. In the Tujia feast or usual table, almost every dish with chili pepper as a companion, visible chili pepper on the Tujia people's life is important. Tujia people also like wax food, in this regard to "Tujia bacon" is the most famous, the lunar month, the Tujia people will be fresh pork cut into about seven, eight inches long, four, five inches wide block, mixed with salt and pepper surface wipe evenly, placed in a large pot or iron pot marinated for a few days, and then hung in the fire kang long smoked by the smoke that is into the bacon, and a little bit more sophisticated will also use Cypress branches and leaves plus citrus shells and other burning smoke to smoke, so that its color, aroma are to achieve the best. Tujia bacon is not only pure flavor, but also easy to save, usually can be stored for more than a year, the Tujia people usually use this as the main dish to entertain guests, loved by guests.

In the long-term production, life, the Tujia people also created a lot of special food, such as: Sinan flower sweet poi, mung bean flour, Yinjiang red camphor, dried bean curd along the river, Sinan, Dejiang, Fenggang, Buchuan area of the oil tea rice, and the whole of the Tujia of the northeast Guizhou region, commonly eaten by the "bubbling soup meat" are good! Ethnic food. At present, the development of tourism in northeast Guizhou, these can not be considered as an important factor.

Two, Qianbei region to dig, develop and protect the value and significance of the Tujia food culture

Qianbei region belongs to the old, less, border, poor areas, affected by transportation and other factors, the economy is not developed enough, in all aspects are still relatively backward, in order to change the face of poverty and backwardness of the region, to build on the strengths and avoid the shortcomings, and make full use of the advantages of its resources, as I said earlier, the beautiful natural scenery and rich ethnic customs of the northeast region of Qianbei. As I said earlier, the beautiful natural scenery and rich ethnic customs in northeast Guizhou, is a huge wealth, the region's tourism industry space is wide, large potential, it is worth making full use of and digging. From the region's counties, county committees and governments to develop some of the county's economic strategy, it can be seen that the tourism industry has been highly valued by the leaders. It has been put as an important industry on the working agenda of the governments around the world.

So, how can we develop the tourism industry in order to promote the development of the region's economy, the author believes that the correct approach should be to explore, open up natural attractions and create a Tujia characteristics of the food and drink organically combined. Beautiful landscape, beautiful natural scenery is certainly pleasing to the eye, giving people a good visual enjoyment, but this is not enough, we want to let the guests to come, guests to stay, which requires a brainstorming. If we make good use of the local simple and rich Tujia ethnic customs, mining Tujia food culture resources, Tujia specialties to create a series of Tujia flavor snacks, will make the guests in the tour of the region, not only to obtain the visual enjoyment, but also a great feast, and to achieve the purpose of coming to this tour.

Explore the Tujia food culture, to play two cards.

(1) playing cards, such as Tujia "bubble soup meat", "oil tea", "green bean powder", etc., at present, most of these foods are still family consumption, did not become a commodity, did not play its due commercialization. At present, most of these foods are still consumed at home and have not become commodities and have not realized their due commercial value. "Soak soup meat" is common in the Tujia people on New Year's Day when the pig was killed to eat, the Tujia people warm, kind, in the Tujia cottage, which killed a pig, must be invited to eat a meal on the right and left, this meal, the main dish must be "soak soup meat". "bubble soup meat" practice is very delicate, meat to choose the buttocks of the pig, to be fat and thin, meat should be cut into thin slices, to be boiled dry water, and then fried, to be the meat into a roll, into the sour sea pepper, pepper (granular or powdered can be), ginger, garlic cloves, add the right amount of water, cooked until. Cooked "bubble soup meat" strong flavor, color and luster, people want to eat at first sight. If the Tujia "meat in soup" is put on the official table, used in hotels and restaurants, as a special dish, it will be loved by the guests. Like "meat in soup", Tujia "green bean noodles", "sour fish", "red camphor noodles" "dried bean curd", "flower sweet rice" and so on are also very ethnic characteristics, worth developing and recommending.

(2) playing the green card, Qianbei region is not industrially developed, so the agricultural pollution is not big, a lot of food are authentic green food, health food, which in the rapid development of industrial civilization, food hygiene and safety issues are increasingly prominent today, green and healthy food is undoubtedly very popular. Tujia region around the green food to make a big article, should be a big gain. Not far from the northeast region of Guizhou Province, Hubei Province, Enshi County, Wufeng County and Changyang two Tujia Autonomous County on the achievements of green agriculture: by the national and provincial departments to organize a comprehensive assessment of experts certified by the end of April 2004, Wufeng Tujia Autonomous County, agricultural products, pollution-free food to reach 100%, 63% of the green food, organic food to reach 15%. Green brand Wufeng mountain goods doubled in value. Wufeng tea is recognized as meeting international standards of organic tea, the price per kilogram rose from dozens of dollars to hundreds of dollars. Wufeng potato is recognized as green food, its processed products in the international market price per ton up to 2000 U.S. dollars. It has produced a great effect on the economic development of Wufeng County. Northeast Guizhou development of green and healthy food and Wufeng County, the same unique environmental conditions, can refer to the successful experience of others, the stone of the other mountain, can attack jade, we are in the development of food culture, add into the "green concept", I believe that will play a good food culture of this card.

In the tourist areas, if there is no food industry accompanied, is inconceivable. In the tourism people in the appreciation of the natural beauty and cultural attractions, elegant food environment, rich and characteristic food and drink, is obviously an important choice of content. Qian Dongbei region, if you can seize its favorable factors, dig and make good use of Tujia dietary characteristics, the development of its tourism industry must be very promising, tourism development, the local economy will also be driven and developed.