Chao News client reporter Fang Li correspondent Zheng Jingyun.
More than a month ago, I made more than 100 sets of 'Fa Bao' and pinched more than 100 dragons. "Jianfa Yuanzi Shop is an old-fashioned pastry shop that has been open in Sandun Town, Hangzhou for 40 years. Chao News Qianjiang Evening News has paid attention to this small shop many times, and the owner of the old couple has also appeared in the first "Small Store Photo" exhibition.
The couple smiled at our camera with "Fa Bao" Qianjiang Evening News information**.
Ordinary people live with a sense of ritual. Birthdays, beams, full moons, and first birthdays, these balls and cakes have witnessed many happy events in life. This New Year of the Dragon, the shop ushered in another wave of busyness and joy.
All kinds of round shots are taken by Fang Li.
For the people of Hangzhou, all kinds of cakes are indispensable for the New Year's holidays. On birthdays, you should send big balls, small balls, longevity cakes, longevity peaches, and bean paste stuffing made of glutinous rice flour, one green and one white as a group, representing "one green and one white, one hundred years old". When moving to a new house, you need to come to a set of "hair treasure", which is a kind of dragon head shape round with a unique shape - there are two dragons, two fish, 16 ingots, 20 cakes half white and half yellow, one white and one yellow, representing gold and silver.
The shapes are all hand-kneaded by me, and they should be put on a plate for the family to take back, praying for good weather, health and safety, and rolling wealth for the new home. ”
Goldfish shaped balls taken by Fang Li.
Jiang Jianfa is in his 60s this year and is in good spirits in camouflage uniforms. He said that in the past two years, Sandun Town has divided a lot of resettlement houses, and many families have moved out during the Chinese New Year, and a total of more than 100 sets of "hair treasures" have been made in more than a month.
Fa Bao "has very high requirements for workmanship, dragons and fish must be vivid," the shape must be good-looking, I pinch a dragon for at least half an hour, and I am also happy when it is done. With decades of craftsmanship, Jiang Jianfa is often at his fingertips, and it will come to life in a short time.
I also won a gold medal in the West Lake District. "Jiang Jianfa is proud.
Photo by Jiang Jianfa and Fang Li.
There is a particularly eye-catching white signboard on a red background at the door of the old shop, which reads the ** and address of the order. In the hottest days, the old days were reminisced in front of the store, and the pastries were ordered, which was very lively. "This is a real treasure shop, our colleague just gave birth to a baby full moon, found this shop to make balls, and then spread ten to hundred, everyone is going to do it. A female customer said that there are not many old pastry shops like this in Hangzhou now.
We insist on the old foundation, and the ingredients are all handmade, such as the red bean paste is boiled by ourselves, and the ramie used to make green cakes is also grown by ourselves. "For decades, the signature cakes are still the same: big balls, small balls, big birthday cakes, centenarian peaches, big longevity peaches, etc. Whether it is a birthday cake or a large or small ball, it is also in pairs, and people take it back and send it to their neighbors and relatives when they are ready. Jiang Jianfa is also accustomed to taking an old notebook to record orders. Every year in the first month and February, these two festivals are the most solemn, are separated from two separate notebooks, and three A4 size notebooks are always used up in a year.
Jiang Jianfa and his son Xiao Jiang are busy Photo by Fang Li.
Son Xiao Jiang inherited his father's good skills, and usually the three of them work together to divide the labor. Years ago, the business couldn't stop.
The first two years have been busy until the 28th of the lunar month, this year my wife is not in good health, so I rested two days early, and then started work on the fifth day of the first month, and there are already a lot of orders lined up. It turns out that the busiest time for the shop is to be the second dragon of the second month of the lunar calendar, "This is the 'Hundred Birthday Day', many people choose this good day, we have to make a hundred catties of balls a day." ”
Usually, the family cooks while eating, cooking in the kitchen here, steaming cakes on the stove there, and several people take turns to watch the fire and eat. They do as much as the owner wants, and they go home when they are done. The family is neatly performing their duties, and they have been busy for so many years.
Every time the people who come to order cakes are quite polite, and I am happy when there is a happy event at home. Jiang Jianfa said that the year is busy, and having a good New Year can be regarded as a treat for yourself. In his opinion, the Chinese New Year is a reunion, eating and getting together with relatives in turn. Most of the life has passed, as long as the business of the small shop is good, do it with your heart, and rest when you are busy, there is joy in your heart, and people are also rushing.
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