In Zhengyang County, Zhang Li's steep ditch handmade bun shop is full of freshly released New Year's buns, which is very spectacular. Zhang Li led more than 10 workers to rush to make handmade New Year buns, and the steaming heat from the layers of steamed buns wafted the sweet fragrance of New Year buns.
I moved to the county seat from Steepgou Town last year, and I also have a steamed bun shop at home, which is also working overtime to steam New Year's buns. Zhang Li said that her mother Zhou Yuqin is the non-genetic inheritor of the steep ditch handmade steamed buns in Zhengyang County, steamed steamed buns for decades, and watched her mother hand-make the steep ditch handmade buns since she was a child.
Like Zhang Li, every year in the lunar month, the New Year's steamed buns in the steep ditch town on the bank of the Huai River are steamed, and many steamed bun shops begin to steam the New Year's buns day and night, and the intoxicating fragrance of New Year's steamed bread is filled with the bazaar.
New Year's bun is one of the folk symbols of the New Year in Steep Gou Town, the history of steaming New Year's bun is long, and Nian Bun has grown up with generations of Steep Gou people. Steep ditch town is located on the north bank of the Huai River, the climate dividing line of the Huai River endows the steep ditch with a unique natural environment, as early as the early years of the Qing Dynasty, its unique Huai River water transport has attracted merchants from all directions, known as "Little Hankou" reputation. Steep ditch handmade steamed buns are favored by its unique traditional craftsmanship and its strong gluten and nutritious characteristics, and visitors from all over the world flock to it in autumn and winter every year, especially during the Spring Festival.
In the folk legend, "the wheat of the steep ditch, the noodles of the steep ditch, and the steamed bread of the steep ditch are really sweet." The handmade steamed bread in Steep Gou Town, Zhengyang County has a history of more than 100 years, and the handmade steamed bread of Steep Ditch that inherits the "old taste" is also an intangible cultural heritage. It is characterized by insisting on manual fermentation, manual kneading, steamed handmade steamed steamed bread is soft and sweet, there is fermented fragrance, wheat fragrance, the taste is chewy, very marketable, attracting many outsiders to come.
Boss, are the 1,000 steamed buns I ordered ready? "Alright, I've got it for you. Zhang Li responded while busy kneading the dough in her hand. "Boss, we order 100 big buns. "I'm sorry! We are no longer accepting orders, and the orders in hand can be steamed until the Chinese New Year's Eve. In Zhang Li's steamed bun shop, there is an endless stream of customers who come to buy New Year's buns.
Steamed buns are hard work. Zhang Li said, especially for steaming New Year's buns during the Spring Festival, workers are kneading dough all day and night, and their hands and necks are swollen.
Nowadays, in addition to opening stores in this town, county seat, Zhumadian City, Zhengzhou City, Luoyang City and other places, the fame of Steep Ditch Mantou is getting bigger and bigger, and the sales scope is all over the market town, county seat and Zhumadian urban area, and radiates to Xinyang, Wuhan and other places around Zhengyang. In the supermarkets and streets and alleys of these urban areas, you can see steamed buns with the sign of "Steep Ditch Handmade Bun" everywhere, especially during the Spring Festival, people who come to buy Steep Ditch Handmade New Year Buns are in an endless stream, and there is a long queue for driving. Zhengyang steep ditch handmade New Year's bun fragrance floats north and south of the river, put on the shelves of supermarkets in many cities across the country, and serves more and more family and restaurant tables. "Steamed" out of the good days of the people in the steep ditch, and also steamed out the happy years of the people.
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