The snow is getting colder, and everything is hidden in winter;The fireworks in the world are delicious.
The cold weather can't be stopped, in addition to the food, there is also love.
On the afternoon of December 11, the final of the "First Fireworks Chengdu Medicinal Food Competition" was held in Dongmen City. Whether it is an individual group or a professional group, the contestants carefully prepared and showed everyone the charm of food and spread the ancient Chinese medicine culture with exquisite cooking skills and unique and innovative medicinal diet recipes. The audience at the scene not only feasted their eyes, but also feasted their mouths, and appreciated the rich taste and health effects of medicinal food.
Pyrotechnics, Chengdu flavor. From the launch of the competition on November 14 to the finals held yesterday, this medicinal diet competition is not only a feast of taste, but also a fusion of the city of food and medicinal diet culture, but also a collision of urban fireworks and traditional Chinese medicine culture, which shows the vivid application of traditional Chinese medicine culture with a long history in daily life.
Innovation and integration
Let more people feel the charm of medicinal diet
It is baked over low heat, golden in color, and rich in egg aroma ......At yesterday's finals, a "Yuling Egg Baked Cake" became the most popular item.
As a unique Chengdu snack, egg baked cake is a happy memory of many Chengdu people in childhood, and under the whimsical ideas of citizen Wu Wenzhi, egg baked cake can also be innovated and improved into a medicinal diet. "Using everyone's childhood snack egg baked cake as a carrier, and adding the jade spirit paste sauce with the same origin as medicine and food, it brings a different warmth in winter. "Wu Wenzhi's Yuling Egg Baked Cake, which adds Yuzhu on the basis of Yuling paste, has the effects of nourishing yin and moistening dryness, moistening the lungs and relieving cough, and calming the nerves and strengthening the heart.
I hope that through this entry, we can change everyone's stereotype of medicinal diet, and don't think that medicinal diet is light and bitter, but in fact, it can also be delicious. "This is the original intention of many contestants to participate in the competition, whether it is an individual group or a professional group, they are racking their brains on innovation, hoping to present everyone with delicious, nutritious and good-looking medicinal diet works.
Break stereotypes. Li Jun, the person in charge of the Diet Center of Chengdu Xinjin District Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, said bluntly that this time as a professional group of contestants to participate in the medicinal diet competition, their team's main focus is an innovation, with the current young people like to develop medicinal diet, the purpose is to let young people also feel the charm of traditional Chinese medicine. In the finals, Li Jun's team amazed the judges with a dish of "Fresh Three Eats of Fish Banquet" composed of fish bean curd, fried fish steak and fish and shrimp sandwiches, and finally won the second place in the professional group.
Fireworks Chengdu has the title of "World Food Capital", hot pot, strings of incense, husband and wife lung slices, mapo tofu ......While the various flavors of spicy and fragrant make visitors from all over the world linger, the strong food culture also provides a solid foundation for the development of medicinal diet. The cooking methods of various delicacies such as stir-frying, stewing, soup, desserts, and drinks have also become innovative methods for the production of medicinal diets.
This medicinal diet competition also clearly stipulates that the presentation methods of medicinal diet include but are not limited to traditional methods such as frying, stewing, soup, desserts, drinks, etc., and all medicinal diet makers can also combine solar terms, seasons, physique, etc. to develop, and can innovatively integrate medicinal and edible homologous ingredients with modern diet.
Encourage innovation, dare to innovate, and the medicinal food works that are brilliant because of innovation are just like the characteristics of the city of Chengdu, which is inclusive, inclusive, culturally prosperous, and has a myriad of atmospheres.
The smell of fireworks
Happiness is the participation of everyone
In fact, in the context of the country's vigorous promotion of the inheritance, innovation and development of traditional Chinese medicine culture, many cities across the country have held traditional Chinese medicine diet competitions since the beginning of this year. As the "hometown of traditional Chinese medicine", Chengdu is also the world's food capital, and it is also a happy city with unique fireworks. In terms of how to run the competition and who to run the competition, the instructor and the organizer have a special consideration.
Chengdu is the first time to hold a medicinal diet competition, we believe that Chinese medicine is the best in life, and should also return to life and return to the side of the citizens. The relevant person in charge of the Department of Traditional Chinese Medicine of the Municipal Health Commission told reporters that compared with other cities that are basically professional competitions for professional institutions and industry associations, Chengdu's medicinal diet competition has set up a special individual group track, so that the majority of Chengdu citizens can participate, "Everyone participates, lively, tasteful, we hope to hold a competition that combines the city's fireworks and traditional Chinese medicine culture." ”
Seeing that this competition is called 'Fireworks Chengdu', as a Chengdu person, I think it is very interesting, and I usually like innovative snack practices, so I signed up immediately. Deng Li, a contestant in the individual group, shared the reasons why he was attracted to participate.
My daughter is allergic to milk and eggs, so in order to let her eat the birthday cake on her birthday, I developed this 'yam red purple potato cake' by myself, hoping to share it with more people through the medicinal diet competition. Citizen Wen Hongyan signed up for the competition with her love for her daughter.
In the finals, the citizens who participated in the individual group came to the scene early, either with their husbands and children, or with their parents and friends. During the competition, the group of relatives and friends shouted and cheered for the contestants, and when the awards were awarded, the onlookers and the group of relatives and friends broke out into bursts of cheers and applause, so that the atmosphere of the game was directly full of ......
There are not only high-level works of the professional group, but also works of the public's hearts full of love and warmthThere are not only practitioners competing on the same stage, but also the masses participating in the joy. Chengdu's medicinal diet competition is not a different annotation of "Chengdu-style happiness".
Last month, the list of "China's happiest cities in 2023" was announced, and Chengdu still held the top spot. Dai Mingming, spokesman of the China Happy City Forum, believes that Chengdu-style happiness is a kind of happiness that is both soft and hard. In addition to taking a walk on the streets of Chengdu, visiting interesting shops, eating roadside hot pot, and taking a look at the happiness of cute pandas, and behind the "comfort" and "Bashi", there is the unremitting energy of "rolling up your sleeves and working hard", and the happiness of Chengdu is spelled out and done.
Cultural dissemination
What is national is what is global
Sichuan is a major province of traditional Chinese medicine, and Sichuan cuisine is one of the eight major cuisines. Separate medicine and food, Sichuan is famous in the country and even the world, and we can definitely do very well in the combination of medicine and food. "The judges of this competition.
1. Dr. Hu Peng of Chengdu University of Traditional Chinese Medicine spoke highly of the holding of the Medicinal Diet Competition. Many contestants also believe that the holding of this medicinal diet competition has truly promoted the traditional culture of traditional Chinese medicine.
With medicinal diet as the medium, inheriting treasures, keeping integrity and innovating, behind the holding of the medicinal diet competition is the inheritance and dissemination of traditional Chinese medicine culture.
At the beginning of this year, the General Office issued the "Implementation Plan for Major Projects for the Revitalization and Development of Traditional Chinese Medicine", and coordinated the deployment of 8 key tasks, including the "Traditional Chinese Medicine Culture Promotion Project", which clearly stated at the beginning that the inheritance, innovation and development of traditional Chinese medicine is an important part of the cause of socialism with Chinese characteristics in the new era, and it is a major event for the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.
What is national is what is globalMany cities, including Chengdu, frequently hold medicinal diet competitions, with different themes and forms, but the core is the same and the purpose is the same - to promote the inheritance, innovation and development of traditional Chinese medicine, and promote China's excellent traditional culture to the world.
In August this year, the Chengdu Universiade was successfully held. In addition to the wonderful events, the cupping, acupuncture, and massage of foreign friends in the traditional Chinese medicine corner of Universiade Village became popular all over the Internet, becoming a classic "case" of Chinese traditional culture out of the circle. At the same time, the Municipal Health Commission and the Municipal Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine also released the Universiade Chinese medicine cartoon, which was jointly "starred" by the mascot "Rongbao" of the Chengdu Universiade and the treasures of traditional Chinese medicine, making the traditional Chinese medicine culture more fashionable and youthful, attracting the attention and love of many young people at home and abroad.
The holding of the first Fireworks Chengdu Medicinal Diet Competition allows people to see a "new track" for the dissemination of traditional Chinese medicine culture. Relevant people in the field of traditional Chinese medicine and catering in Chengdu said that through the integration of food and traditional Chinese medicine, it can better promote the integration of traditional Chinese medicine culture into the lives of the masses, and will have a positive and far-reaching impact on the protection, inheritance and dissemination of traditional Chinese medicine culture, promote the "going out" of traditional Chinese medicine, build a healthy China, and promote cultural self-confidence and self-improvement.
Chengdu **Jinguan News Reporter Cao Yuyang Photography Wei Linxiao Editor-in-charge He Qitie Editor Wang Qi Part of the pictures are based on the organizers.