What does winter wind pickle refer to?

Winter wax wind pickling refers to what is as follows:

A, winter wax wind pickling

After winter, Yangzhou households have to pickle a variety of vegetables and fish, the most common is pickled pickles, pickled radish, pickled salted meat, pickled salted fish. In addition to "pickling", there is also "wind", you can wind vegetables, but also wind chicken, wind goose, wind meat ...... . All of these, Yangzhou people collectively referred to as "winter wax wind pickling". This custom has a long history, the Qing Dynasty Li Tigizai "real state bamboo stick words" that is recorded: "after the snow, people pickled vegetables, said 'cold vegetables', ...... storage to winter."

Two, the origin

The origin of the winter wax wind pickling, is the ancient wax festival. If there were more prey, which could not be eaten for a while, they were washed, rubbed with salt and air-dried to preserve them so that they could be eaten slowly over a longer period of time. Later, people found that the air-cured meat has a special flavor, these meat is wax sacrifice, it is called "wax flavor". Nowadays, the winter wax wind curing has become a traditional food processing methods, although some people think that the cured products are not healthy, but "wax flavor" is still a common favorite.

The pickled "pickles", Yangzhou is also called "big vegetables". Suburban farmers planted this kind of vegetable, seems to be specifically for pickling, vegetable head fat, vegetable stems long and thin, vegetable leaves broad, white, tender, green, one or two feet high, weighing two or three pounds, so it is called "big vegetables". This "big vegetables" to take its tender burned to eat, but also very fresh, because of its tender, a burn on the soup overflowing, so it is also called "soup vegetables".

Pickled pickles, or pickled vegetables, in Yangzhou, also known as "pickled horse dish", what is "horse dish"? Today's young people must be unknown, but the old people over sixty or seventy years of age are remembered.

Before the 1980s, the sanitation facilities in the old city were far less advanced than today's, and households had to use a wooden toilet commonly known as the "Ma Zi" toilet. Every morning, farmers in the four suburbs would collect feces and urine from the streets and alleys of the city, which was called "pouring feces" and "pouring horse".

Feces and urine are disliked by people in the city, but in the countryside is a treasure, you can fertilize the field, increase production, especially in the suburbs of the vegetable fields, but also inseparable from the manure, vegetable farmers often say: "planting vegetables, no other trick, as long as the manure watering." The importance of manure can be seen. At that time there was not much chemical fertilizer, "pouring horse" is the main source of fertilizer.