Monday, February 12 Fine.
In Hongshazhou Village, Rucheng, Hunan Province, where the half quilt occurred, the most solemn affairs of the Spring Festival are killing New Year's pigs, stir-frying peanuts and beans, making tofu, and frying rice flowers. These thousand-year-old traditions are grand events in the village. A person, and even a family, attaches great importance to the Spring Festival, all in the manual work before the holiday, and these ancient traditions give new life to the red sandbar.
Shazhou fried rice is selected from the early rice grown in the water and soil of the sandbank. A stone mill and a pot are all old objects at home, and the facilities are so simple that they have been ground out of the world's deliciousness. The Yao people of Shazhou, who love to eat, know how to eat, and pay attention to eating, every time they bring out the rice flowers, they use them to entertain guests at home, and they all have a smile on their faces.
Shazhou fried rice flowers, used for early rice, are the original ecological food in the village. The main raw material is taken from early grits rice, and the materials are simple. However, its manufacturing process is delicate and exquisite, and it has its own special production process. After grinding into powder by stone grinding, then mixing with water and stirring well. After the rice noodles and water are neutralized, start to stir vigorously until the rice noodles form a ball and are not sticky, then cut into small strips, rub well with your hands and pinch into a plum blossom shape. After the wood is hot, pour in the lard until the oil is steaming, and then put the kneaded rice into the pan and fry it. To fry the rice, pay attention to the heat of the oil temperature, and do not fry the old and make the rice black. To fry the rice flowers well, you must have good eyesight and quick hands and feet. There are dozens of fried rice flowers in a large pot, and the oil is bubbling in the pot, and the hostess is quick and fast, constantly flipping. A good rice flower needs to be fried twice to make it crispier and sweeter. Families with a more affluent family would fry the rice in tea seed oil, and the fragrance of tea seed oil could pass through the smoke window behind the house and waft over the village. At this time, the children in the village play games outdoors, shouting and singing: "The rice flowers are fragrant, the rice flowers are sweet, the rice flowers are good, and the New Year is good."
In Shazhou Village, as soon as the Cold Dew Festival is over, those who do happy events in the village, those who make tooth sacrifices, and those who have relatives in the distance will fry rice flowers. As soon as the freshly squeezed tea seed oil came out, the people in the village were busy grinding and grinding. Shazhou people are hospitable, and fried rice is also a kind of folk food custom that maintains neighborhood relations and yearns for a better life. In the era of large collectives, every household ate the rations in the production team, as well as the distributed miscellaneous grain crops, and in addition to food and clothing, fried rice was a happy thing. In the slack season, women show their talents, not only sewing clothes and shoe soles, but also a variety of farm cooking skills are also the direction of a better life.
The fried rice is put out of the pot and put on a plate, and it should be distributed to the relatives around you to eat it while it is hot, and when you get it to your mouth, the heat is still rising. When you bite into it, your teeth will be full of mellow flavor. When swallowing the mouthpiece, the kind of unstoppable, unstoppable hot energy that makes people cry and laugh, and it makes people cry and cry. If you are not in a hurry, let it cool for a while, it is just right. Even in winter, the wax moon, the fried rice that does not seem to be steaming is fragrant. The golden skin is crispy on the outside and tender on the inside, and the eaters all have an endless aftertaste.
When you meet a hospitable person, the person who comes to help will bring a basket home. For a time, the village was full of sweet fried rice flowers. At the head of the village, among the alleys, the aroma of walking rice flowers has become the most precious memory in the village. Every time someone gently blows away the heat of fried rice with their mouths, they eat it one by one, chewing and swallowing it slowly, so that other people's fine men can see it drooling. When they finish eating, wipe their mouths, and they will be thrown into a more light-hearted and carefree childlike fun.
Nowadays, the life of the people in my hometown has improved significantly, and the products of every household have also become richer. On the contrary, the new generation of people will make fried rice. They are good at innovation, adding sesame seeds and beans together to make the flavor richer. The new generation of sandbank daughters-in-law and girls have made sandbank fried rice a highlight of sandbank red tourism. In the core area of the Red Sandbank Scenic Area, there are many stalls with fried rice in front of them.
In the eyes of tourists, although fried rice cannot be compared with the delicacies of the mountains and seas, shark fin and bear's paws, it is precisely because of its traditional authentic and civilian identity that it can go in and out of ordinary people's homes and be loved by the people.