What are the delicious snacks in Ninghai, Zhejiang?

In my opinion, compared with the king in the north, the snacks in Ninghai, my hometown, are always the "empress dowager" or something, or compared with the wildness in the south, cockroaches and mice can sit on the table. It is a kind of free alternative, which not only benefits from the wild interest of mountains and seas, but also is saturated with profound and profound cultural atmosphere. In recent years, this ancient city of the Western Jin Dynasty, backed by the sea and surrounded by mountains and rivers, has been crowned as the largest county in marine aquaculture in Zhejiang, but what remains in the mouth and cheeks of Lao Ninghai, or in the memory of old overseas Chinese, are wheat cakes on the road and dumplings on the East Road, as well as glutinous rice balls and spicy soup that make your weight loss plan run aground.

"The east gate drips slurry, and the west gate sticks a gun; South gate melon eggplant, North gate gold and silver baby. " In the humid air in the south of the Yangtze River, the natural regionality and rich cultural tradition of Ninghai snacks are freely embedded in historical time and space like stars. Between Xiushan in Ninghai and Lishui, there are many literati, warriors, talented people and beautiful women scattered. The aloofness in front of them or the empty name behind them are gradually disappearing in the dust of history. Only the hometown snacks they have eaten are fragrant all the way into modern society, into the bookshelves of scholars, and even into the White House, the presidential palace of the United States. Food is the most important thing for people. How to resist the temptation of "Heaven"? As the head of a province, Tong Bochui, like his childhood friends Zhang Carpenter and Li Tailor in his hometown, put the wheat cakes on the road into his cheeks, and also put his heroic spirit into his heart and lungs. As car-scrapping as Fang Xiaoru, Rou Shi, like Chunbaoniang in Slave's Mother, ate unique moon cakes on August 16th and bowed her head to miss her relatives in her hometown.

Standing behind these spectacular snacks, we can easily find that this is a treasure house where space and time, romance and reality, spirit and matter collide and blend. On the road in Shui Han, the mountains are all dry land, that is, producing 18 kinds of wheat cakes. The East Road in Daoxiangli permeates the delicacy of rice culture into the delicate groups of the Chinese zodiac. In order to commemorate the push of the ancient sage Jie, Ninghai has a unique cold food festival to eat a Qingming steamed stuffed bun. When the flowers bloom in spring, the tender seeds of Shan Ye are collected, cooked and mashed, then mixed with steamed glutinous rice flour, mashed in a mortar, then rolled thin and sliced. Shan Ye, stone mortar, firewood ... This is really a "green food" coming down from the thread-bound book. Not only do adults and children scramble to eat, but they also can't forget to let the deceased ancestors share it. Every family offers a few pieces at the grave. At this time, Qingming steamed bread has become a spiritual intermediary to communicate with Yin and Yang and a realistic overpass to realize the ideal of harmony between man and nature. Similarly, in the snowflakes flying all over the sky, the family boiled or fried glutinous rice around, and the fire reflected the popularity, and reunion replaced parting. "It feels like snow outside at dusk. How about a glass of wine inside? ? "Even if there is no good wine to accompany the meal at this time, people have already drunk themselves first!

Of course, if you think that Ninghai's snack culture only stays on location advantages and emotional accumulation, then you are all wet. Ninghai people, praised by Mr. Lu Xun as "Taizhou-style car-scrapping", not only manage their homes and enjoy delicious food, but also endow snacks with a mighty and unyielding masculinity, so that they can bear the arduous and magnificent historical time and space. In the long summer festival, Ninghai people have the habit of eating rotten summer eggs and broad bean skewers. This seemingly trivial custom contains the history of blood and fire. According to legend, when Qi Jiguang fought against Japan, the imperial court gave the Japanese a head. Soldiers, with their heads inconvenient to move, went to Houying to exchange Japanese heads for broad beans, and later rewarded them with the number of broad beans. This is the origin of Ninghai Long Street calling broad beans "Japanese beans". Tracing back to Qi Jiguang's theory that the protagonist cooks wine with broad beans, people can also get an exclusive news: Mid-Autumn Festival is celebrated in Ninghai on August 16. Here, Zeng Gaoshu raised the banner of opposing national oppression: At the end of the Yuan Dynasty, in order to resist tyranny, the Han people used bread and put a note on it, calling on people to work together on August 15th to "kill Tatars every family". At that time, the traffic was inconvenient, and it was already August 16 when it spread to Ninghai mountain area, and the flag of the uprising was unveiled one day later. This custom continued until the Republic of China, and there were notes in the moon cakes, but the uprising slogan written on it had been replaced by auspicious congratulations.

Ninghai snacks, after experiencing great sufferings in blood shed, also ushered in the great joy of daring to teach the sun and the moon to change the weather. 1949, Tong Shilin, the first county magistrate of Ninghai County People's Government, carried an old bamboo tube stuffed with wheat cakes on the road, read the rules of entering the city, and rode into the ancient post station in the west of the city ... In the rolling era of Shang Chao's reform and opening up, Ninghai people who worked hard moved delicious Ninghai snacks to Xinjiang in the desert and Hainan Island in the middle of the year, which was beyond the reach of strangers born and raised here.