Zhushan County Food Culture
The most popular places for tea drinking are the county seat, Yishui, Baofeng, Leigu, Guandu, and Shangyong. The first thing that residents of Zhushan County and the leisure class in Xiji Town of the county do when they get up is to boil water and make tea. Before liberation, only a few areas produced tea, and fresh tea leaves were hand-fried into green tea. Tea drinkers used to use small clay pots and clay cups as tea sets. The cost of drinking tea is quite high. Rich families drink tea all year round, and farmers only drink tea during festivals or when entertaining guests. After liberation, tea production in Zhushan spread throughout the county, and the county was more than self-sufficient. The tea-making process is exquisite, and the green tea produced is quite famous. Tea lovers are all over the county. Planting rice wine During the rice planting season, people help each other without paying. The host makes rice wine and prepares a banquet a few days in advance to entertain the helpers. In addition to the main meal with rich wine and meat to entertain the helpers, there are also "waist-joining" foods. At about 10 am and 4 pm, the "payment" foods (family rice wine, Tangyuan, steamed buns) are sent to the fields for the rice planters to enjoy. The wealthier farmers also hold banquets to invite neighbors, relatives, and friends to drink "rice planting wine" to congratulate each other and pray for a good harvest. Drinking New Year Pig Soup When farmers kill the New Year pig in the winter and twelfth month of the lunar calendar, they must cook several kilograms or even dozens of kilograms of pork and pig offal (offal) to entertain neighbors, adults and children for a full meal, which is called "drinking New Year Pig Soup". Hui people are more particular about slaughtering livestock and poultry. Whenever they slaughter sheep or chickens, they must ask the imam master to pray first. Lazy Tofu Make soybeans into tofu brain, add rice, and cook it into porridge over a warm fire. When eating, add red pepper juice, sesame oil, salt, and coriander as seasonings. It tastes sweet, salty, and spicy. This way of eating is popular in the west of the county and is a delicious dish for entertaining guests. Noodles rice is the staple food of the mountain people in the southern high-altitude mountainous areas. The method is to mix corn grits with water to moisten them, then steam them in a steamer, turn the steamer over after steaming, sprinkle water and mix well, and then steam them again until they are cooked. This kind of rice is usually eaten with "hezha soup". People say: "noodles rice, hezha soup, eating Ding will make you feel at ease." The method of hezha soup is the same as "bean dregs", but it is not mixed with rice, and it is eaten with thousands of foods. In autumn and winter, soybeans are cooked and then scooped into containers and spread out, covered with branches (choose branches with pure smell) to ferment the beans, and then mixed with dried chili powder, salt and various five-spice condiments to fry in a water jar. Those that are soaked but not exposed to the sun are called "sauce", and those that are dried in the sun are called "dried soybeans", that is, fermented black beans. (No pictures yet, welcome to provide.) (No pictures yet, welcome to provide.)