Introduction: In the summer of 1956, the chairman received a letter from Cao Yunfang, the widow of the martyr Luo Zhe. Cao Yunfang shared her recent life situation with *** in the letter, and especially greeted Mao Anying and Mao Anqing.
The letter evoked the sentimentality of the past in the chairman, and he took a few deep puffs of his cigarette before writing a reply.
While eating breakfast, he found that his favorite braised pork was not on the table. He asked Li Yinqiao why, but Li Yinqiao did not answer. After some inquiry, ** learned the reason, and it turned out that ** opposed him to eating braised pork, saying that it was a farmer's habit.
Angry when he heard this, he said, "She doesn't have to worry about my business!" "Actually, it's not a bad thing to like braised pork, it's just a personal eating habit.
** likes to eat braised pork, this news is almost everyone knows, but few people know why he likes to eat braised pork. According to his classmates, the first time he ate braised pork was when he was studying at Hunan No. 1 Normal School, when the cafeteria would make braised pork once every Saturday, and the students loved it very much.
**When I was young, I had a soft spot for the braised pork made in Xiangtan, which is a three-layer pork cooked in Xiangtan dark soy sauce, rock sugar, cooking wine and star anise, which is four catties per table.
However, in that era, braised pork was not something that could be eaten if you wanted to, especially after participating in the revolution, the living conditions were extremely difficult, and many times you couldn't even eat enough, let alone braised pork.
After arriving in Yan'an, although braised pork is still rare to taste, you can at least eat one or two meals. Just after New Year's Day in 1939, the Second Company of Guards was transferred to *** to do security work.
When the Spring Festival was approaching, the cook killed a pig for ***, but the chairman took into account the difficulties of the soldiers and decided to distribute half a pig to the second company of guards. This was undoubtedly a big surprise for the second company of guards, who were extremely short of meat, and they were deeply moved.
The Chairman's imgeneity aroused the gratitude of the soldiers of the Second Company, and they decided to invite the Chairman to a meal in return.
Zhang Jihou walked into the cave and brought the hearts of a group of warriors. ** Declined the invitation with a smile, indicating that the fighters would enjoy themselves. However, Zhang Jihou and the soldiers were unable to resist their hospitality, and they were finally invited to the second company of the guards for dinner.
During the meal, ** also invited *** Ren Bishi and other leaders to enjoy it together. Although the second company of guards was happy, they did not have full-time cooks and masters.
For this reason, they chose Yang Qiyun, who basically knows how to cook, to cook. In accordance with the habits of the people of northern Shaanxi, Yang Qiyun set up a table of "eight big bowls" for the chairman and leaders to taste.
These "eight bowls" are the delicacies of the people of northern Shaanxi, which are divided into "soft eight bowls and hard eight bowls", "soft eight bowls" have four bowls of meat dishes and four bowls of vegetarian dishes, and "hard eight bowls" are eight meat dishes, such as crispy chicken, meatballs, roast meat, etc.
Among the eight dishes in Yan'an, ** favorite is braised pork. Although the braised pork in northern Shaanxi is different from that in Xiangtan, *** has a soft spot for it. Seeing the fist-sized braised pork, full of big fat pieces, and more than one or two pieces of meat, I couldn't help asking: "Who can eat such a big fat piece?" ”
Hui Jinxian beside him said: "This is to northern Shaanxi, let's follow northern Shaanxi!" * When he was happy, he picked up a piece of braised pork and sent it to Hui Jinxian's bowl: "Then you take the lead and give us a piece." ”
Hui Jinxian hurriedly waved his hand: "I'm not good at eating meat, I'll find someone for you." * Then he asked, "Who did this?" Everyone called Yang Qiyun over.
Yang Qiyun, an eight-foot-tall man, picked up a piece of big fat meat and sent it to his mouth, swallowed it in his stomach after three times and divided five by two, and everyone was greedy. **Very happy, applauded Yang Qiyun: "You really can." ”
After that, everyone let *** eat, ** looked at the huge fat meat, and was still a little hesitant, so they said: "Let's eat it separately!" "Although the meal seemed sumptuous, it was a rare treat for the conditions at the time.
1.*The earliest record of eating braised pork during the Yan'an period. This is the scene where he gently clamped it with chopsticks, and it was divided into two halves at once, and half of it was given to Hye Jinxian.
He licked it with his tongue, and the taste buds on his tongue were opened at once, and he bit again, and the strong aromatic taste spread out in his mouth, and it was delicious. 2.*Capture Liu Ziqi alive,**Use braised pork to replenish the brain.
Braised pork is in the eyes of most people to satisfy cravings, but *** uses it to "replenish the brain". In 1947, the Kuomintang authorities carried out a "key offensive" against the CCP in the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningbo border area, and Hu Zongnan ordered the elite 230,000 people under his command to attack northern Shaanxi.
In order to smash the Kuomintang's plan of "key offensive", the Northwest People's Liberation Army adopted movement warfare and successively won victories in the battles of Qinghuatou, Yangmahe, and Panlong Town, and surrounded Yulin, an important town in Saishang.
**The chairman visited the third production exhibition of the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningbo Border Region, and when Hu Zongnan heard the news, he immediately dispatched the 36th Division to Yulin for assistance. The 36th Division was reorganized, Hu Zongnan's elite unit, but the division commander was a stubborn temper who did his own thing, and he was obsessed with the CCP intelligence personnel lurking inside the troops, so he changed his plan, avoided the main ambush area of the Northwest Field Army, and successfully reached the southern suburbs of Yulin City, and started a fierce battle with our army.
The intentions of our army did not stop there, but skillfully distracted the attention of the Kuomintang army in order to ensure the safety of the CCP. **The general skillfully confused the enemy and made Hu Zongnan mistakenly believe that our army was going to cross the Yellow River eastward.
Hu Zongnan really hit the plan, he thought that the Northwest Field Army had been defeated by him, so he ordered the troops to pursue it with all their might. However, this caused the 36th Division to be exhausted, and when they actually arrived in Yulin, they suffered heavy losses, and compared with when they came, they no longer had the momentum they had in the past.
Hu Zongnan ordered the 36th Division to go south, but because of the shortage of food, they could only borrow money from banks in Yulin to buy grain. Hu Zongnan promised to transport grain from Xi'an, so the commander of the 36th Division led part of the troops to continue the pursuit, leaving part of the troops to wait for food in Yulin.
However, the commander of the 36th Division did not realize that ** had already set up an ambush in Shajiadian and was just waiting for them to take the bait. On August 18, the 123rd Brigade fought with our army, and the Battle of Shajiadian began.
Our troops fought and retreated, and finally lured the 36th Division to the north of Wulongpu at dusk. The commander of the 36th Division saw that there was a large number of the main forces of the Northwest Liberation in front of him, and immediately ordered the 123rd Brigade to support Shajiadian.
However, Liu Ziqi, the commander of the 123rd Brigade, feared that the march at night would be ambushed, so he only sent one regiment to support in advance, and as a result, the 36th Division was successfully divided into two parts by our army.
On August 20, ** launched a general offensive, and the 123rd Brigade engaged in fierce fighting with our troops. Liu Ziqi ordered the mountain artillery battalion to open fire, but found that there were only 3 cannons around, and there were only 40 shells in total.
The battle lasted until the afternoon, and finally the 123rd Brigade was completely annihilated by our army, and Liu Ziqi was also captured. In the evening, the commander of the 36th Division could only flee, and this battle successfully crushed the Kuomintang army's key offensive in northern Shaanxi.
The meat is delicious, but don't forget to fry the peppers. ”
**He likes to eat braised pork and chili peppers, and he is happy to see the food, but he feels uneasy that the front-line soldiers cannot enjoy such treatment. The 6,000 enemy annihilators were also moved by his leadership spirit and said that they would do their best to meet his request.
*I don't like ***'s frugal life and eating habits, but *** insists that she doesn't have to worry about her own affairs.
During the period when he moved to northern Shaanxi, although Chairman *** was busy every day and often stayed up late to work, he still maintained his unique style. Although he loves to smoke, he has little time to exercise due to his busy schedule.
Out of concern for the health of the chairman, the health care practitioner developed a diet plan for him with three meals a day. According to Zhou Fuming, the chairman's guard, in order to ensure the healthy diet of the chairman, each meal has a detailed recipe, and the doctor not only considers it from the perspective of nutrition, but also takes care of the chairman's eating habits and personal preferences as much as possible.
For example, fatty meats that are high in cholesterol will be avoided in recipes. In addition, chef Cheng Ruming also recalled that before each cooking, he would write a menu and wait for the approval of the chairman before starting to make it.
This menu is to be destroyed immediately after the meal is completed to ensure the security and privacy of the Chairman's eating plan. However, despite the fact that Xu Tao, the health care doctor of the chairman, had tried several times to get him to follow a healthy diet, the chairman did not care too much about it.
Once, when Xu Tao emphasized the importance of nutritional balance to the chairman, the chairman replied: "I'm used to it, if everyone pays attention to balance like you, then how can ordinary people live?".
Aren't you sabotaging?This made Xu Tao unable to refute, so he had to spread the responsibility of taking care of the chairman's diet to other staff members, and Li Yinqiao was one of them.
One day in 1956, after working for dozens of hours in a row, Li Yinqiao said to him distressedly: "Chairman, you haven't had a serious meal for two or three days. ”
I took a sip of tea and said with a smile: "Okay then, I'll have a meal!."Li Yinqiao suggested following the doctor's recipe, but *** insisted on eating braised pork once.
Li Yinqiao looked at the busy figure of the chairman and decided to go to the kitchen to prepare for him. After that, ** received a letter from Cao Yunfang, the widow of the martyr Luo Zhe, in which Cao Yunfang told about her recent situation and asked Mao Anying and Mao Anqing.
This letter evoked sad memories of ***, he lit a cigarette, took a few deep breaths, and wrote a reply: I heard some news of Comrade Luo Zhe's sacrifice earlier.
I'm glad that you're still alive and have two daughters. The grave can be repaired by the family, and now I will send you three hundred dollars, please dispose of it at your discretion. If you still have difficulties in the future, you can tell me how to ......
After Li Zhengzhong and Cao Yunfang finished the letter, they were ready to eat, but found that there was no braised pork on the table that he wanted. The chairman frowned, and said, "Go and call the chief of the guard." ”
Li Yinqiao walked into the restaurant and heard the chairman's stern question: "Didn't you explain this matter?" Why didn't it work? Li Yinqiao lowered his head and didn't say a word, and the atmosphere was very embarrassing.
The chairman looked at Li Yinqiao's expression and knew that something was wrong, so he let him go down. The next day, before going to bed, the chairman called Li Yinqiao, asked him to sit on a small stool in front of the bed, and asked him softly, "What happened yesterday?"
Can you tell me? Li Yinqiao lowered his head again, tears flowed out, but he didn't speak. The chairman asked several times, but Li Yinqiao did not answer, which made the chairman a little irritable: "If you don't say, how do I know?" ”
Li Yinqiao told the chairman that he arranged braised pork in the kitchen yesterday, and happened to meet **, and after learning that the chairman wanted to eat braised pork, he immediately objected: "Don't do it again, isn't it better to eat other things than braised pork?"
This person is a bun of soil, and he can't change the habits of farmers. ”
There are requirements for a healthy diet because of the fear that the following atmosphere will become excessive due to your own preferences. Although he likes to eat braised pork, he knows that it is not good for his health.
So, he asked the chef to follow a healthy recipe to cook the dishes. Once, he questioned Li Yinqiao about eating, ** bowed his head to eat on the side, and did not speak for Li Yinqiao, which made Li Yinqiao feel very aggrieved.
However, **understood what was going on and decided not to let ** care about his diet. He knows that it is very important to be a good example to those below. Cheng Ruming is the chef who has been in charge for the longest time, and the braised pork he makes is the most suitable for ***.
In the 50s of the last century, the chairman often took a special train to inspect various places. If he doesn't stay in a place for a long time, he often chooses to eat and rest on the train so as not to be disturbed when he gets off the train.
In order to take care of the chairman's daily life, Cheng Ruming was transferred to the special train as a cook. In the process of cooking food for the chairman, Cheng Ruming found that the chairman had ingredients that he liked and disliked.
For example, he does not like to eat soy sauce and it is forbidden to add it to any dish. At first, Cheng Ruming only knew that the chairman did not like to eat soy sauce, but he did not know the specific reason.
Subsequently, the staff asked the Chair about this. It turned out that the chairman's family used to run a soy sauce shop when he was a child, and he liked to eat soy sauce at that time. However, one time, because of the hot weather, he found some small bugs in the soy sauce tank, which caused him to have a psychological shadow.
Since then, the chairman has stopped eating soy sauce. In order to satisfy the chairman's taste, Cheng Ruming carefully cooked a special braised pork. Generally, the cooking technique of braised pork lies in the use of soy sauce, how to make delicious braised pork without using soy sauce?
Cheng Ruming fried the sugar in oil until it turned red, and then added a little salt, so that it had the effect of soy sauce. He then proceeded to cook the braised pork according to the usual method.
The taste of this braised pork is very unique and has been highly praised by the chairman.
Grandpa Mao's method is indeed very effective, he thinks the taste is very good, and there is nothing left. Grandpa Mao's life was dedicated to changing the lives of farmers, he was born in a peasant family, but he brought benefits to farmers.
He was the liberator of the peasants, leading them to overthrow the exploiting class. In the eyes of **, Grandpa Mao's peasant habits are the embodiment of his original intention.