Sanming, February 9 (Lei Chaoliang, Xu Yan) Shaxian snacks are famous. On February 9, the thirtieth day of the Chinese New Year's Eve, about 40 minutes' drive from Shaxian City, Sanming City, Fujian Province, came to Yubang Village, Xiamao Town, the first snack village in Shaxian County. As soon as I walked into the village, I saw that every household here was preparing for the Spring Festival, pasting Spring Festival couplets, cleaning, and cooking Chinese New Year's Eve ......With the sound of firecrackers, the smell of the New Year in the village is getting stronger and stronger.
Xiamao Town is the birthplace of Shaxian snacks, where the area is flat and vast, and the products are abundant. In the 80s of the 20th century, the people of Yubang Village took the lead in going out of the mountain gate and bringing Shaxian snacks to all parts of the country, known as "the first village of Shaxian snacks". Rice cake, taro dumplings, gold and silver, tofu balls, rice jelly ......In addition to a variety of snacks, the all-beef banquet in Yubang Village is sought after by many tourists.
Beef tendon stewed in clear spring, beef pith red mushroom bud, bullwhip fighting phoenix, ox luck thousands of miles long ......The beef series delicacies, which symbolize good omens, are distinctive, aromatic and mouth-watering. From horns to tails, from heads to hooves, from beef to bones, each part can be dished, and blanched, fried, stewed, steamed, boiled and other techniques are cooked, with more than 60 varieties.
Yubang Village is the birthplace of Shaxian snacks, and the picture shows the Shaxian Snack Memory Museum located in Yubang Village. Photo by Lei Chaoliang.
The people of Shaxian County have had an indissoluble bond with cattle for a long time. The Shaxian Whole Cattle Banquet originated from the sacrifice of the Song Dynasty. According to records, Hong Mao, the ancestor of the surname Hong in Xia Mao Town, Sha County, served as the governor of Sha County in the Southern Song Dynasty, and brought the sacrificial custom of "Spring Cow Tour" in southern Jiangxi into Xia Mao.
In the era of material shortage, the cattle after the sacrifice evolved into the food of the local villagers to receive the blessings of the gods, and then gradually evolved into a table delicacy. Nowadays, every time the town of Xiamao feasts on festive occasions, the beef series must be indispensable on the table, which has also become a local tradition. Among them, the most famous are beef jerky, stewed beef brisket, fried beef tendon, the most affordable is scalded beef shutters, tripe, and the most famous street snacks are rice milk enema, rice milk beef blood, etc.
The picture shows the whole cattle banquet in Shaxian County. Photo by Xu Yan.
In recent years, the Shaxian District Culture, Sports and Tourism Bureau and other departments have attached importance to cultural excavation and enriching the connotation of dishes while promoting the development of the cultural tourism industry while promoting the whole beef banquet to promote the development of the cultural tourism industry, so as to build the whole beef banquet in Shaxian County into a "Manchu and Han full banquet" of "food + culture + tourism".
On the one hand, the local catering chefs, folk experts, and cultural celebrities were invited to optimize the description of the beef series dishes, inject Shaxian elements, enhance the cultural connotation of each dish, and excavate, sort out and compile the history, customs, legends or stories of the selected ingredients and dishes, and arrange a professional team to make the promotion of each dish of the whole cattle banquet, so that tourists can experience that eating is not only a dish, but also a "cultural feast" of Shaxian folk customs.
At the same time, in the order of spring, summer, autumn and winter, combined with the characteristics of seasonal diet, the display effect of each dish of the beef series is refined, and the whole beef banquet serving ceremony with a unique and heavy cultural sense is created.
Not long ago, the Fujian Provincial Department of Culture and Tourism released 10 Spring Festival tourism boutique routes, Yubang Village "Whole Cattle Banquet" with its unique flavor and long history successfully selected as the "Blessing Banquet" fireworks New Year flavor tour, this Spring Festival will attract many tourists to experience. (ENDS).