Why is PI County bean paste so famous?

In recent years, the Chinese food system in the hottest one of the dishes should be the Szechuan cuisine, mention the Szechuan cuisine you think of what will be the first? The first thing that comes to your mind when you think of Sichuan cuisine is what? The colorful boiled fish fillet? Or is it the Ma Po Tofu that is available in all stir-fry restaurants? A dish a frame, a hundred dishes, whether it is a hot Sichuan hot pot, or spicy and fragrant authentic Sichuan cuisine, a variety of delicious Sichuan cuisine is basically inseparable from a classic seasoning credit, not chili, not pepper, but is known as the soul of the Sichuan cuisine of the bean paste, in particular, Pixian bean paste.

Not as famous as pepper and chili pepper, PI County bean paste became famous a little later, but it is the status of Sichuan cuisine seasoning, but even chili can not be replaced. Qing Dynasty Jiaqing nine years (1804), the Chen family in PI County, founded the sauce garden, initially specializing in brewing bran vinegar, soy sauce, and then because of good business, business is booming. After several generations of unremitting efforts, and ultimately the original salted red pepper brewing improved with "the soul of Sichuan cuisine" reputation of the PI County bean paste, famous throughout the world. The birth of PI County bean paste plus and pepper complement each other, and ultimately bred shape to spicy taste, known as the Sichuan cuisine, a large series, and the bean paste has also achieved the Sichuan cuisine in the eye of the stroke of a pen.

Today there are many places in Sichuan has been a brand of bean paste, but in the eyes of the old Sichuan food, bean only PI County production is authentic. PI County is located in the middle of the Chengdu Plain, is located in the mysterious north latitude 30 degrees, shaved off the Dujiangyan dense fog and strong light outside the basin, the formation of the most suitable for the natural fermentation of beneficial bacteria of the two major factors: the right temperature and just the right amount of sunshine. Coupled with the fact that it is located in the area of the first living water downstream of Dujiangyan, it has the benefit of irrigation from Dujiangyan, and produces abundant crops such as rice, wheat, Hu beans (fava beans), and marijuana. Local beans of excellent quality, with it as the main raw material and processed made of bean paste, petal fragrant crispy, red and oily, spicy flavor fast. PI County bean characteristics can be traced back to the raw material chili. Chili pepper in July and August is the whole basin area of the boon. Sichuan Tianfu abundance of chili peppers, and a variety of varieties, such as big red robe, seven star pepper, bully pepper, millet hot, two thorns and so on. And PI County Douban must be used two wattle, take its fat weight, viscous moderate, capsaicin-rich advantages, become one of the essential raw materials.

Traditional "PI County Douban" need to specialize in Douban cylinder, will be properly proportioned production of raw materials in the order of the cylinder, every day before sunrise to open the Douban cylinder to accept the morning sun's nourishing baptism, and then draw the sun's bath sun, take the spirit of the earth and sky, dyeing the essence of the sun and moon. Ancient technology, skillful techniques, day after day turning sun processing until 360 days of extraction and integration, the ancient brewing of the flavor is about a kind of timing, geographical and human harmony. And now three hundred years, after countless people on the bean process of refining pure, "PI County bean process" has become a major intangible cultural heritage, in this small bean paste contained in the cumulative years of the long history of flavor.