The taste of the year in the sweet capital
Zeng Yunyi. Entering the sweet capital of Neijiang in the harsh winter, the cold is pressing.
Dazhou Plaza, located in Shizhong District, is crowded and lively. It turned out that the 4th Neijiang E-commerce New Year Festival and "Sweet" Production and Marketing Matchmaking Conference was happy to visit.
My eyes were opened. The theme of the New Year's Festival is "Sweet Neijiang Tesco New Year". Adopt the "1+N" innovative exhibition mode, that is, one exhibition area and several first-class trading areas, which are carried out in a combination of online and offline. In other words, the New Year's Festival keeps up with the pulse of the times, blending tradition and modernity, and has a strong New Year's flavor. That's nice.
I leisurely immersed myself in the noisy scene of this gathering of goods.
Looking around, Chengdu and Chongqing, foreign, local, bacon, sausages, dried fruits, daily necessities and so on are dazzling. Mixed with the idea of welcoming the New Year, online "City New Year's Flavor", offline supporting activities, and city-wide linkage, its sweet, new, and potential consumption are competing to be released.
There was a large group of people in front of me, busy going to take a look, oh! The famous specialty snack "Banbanqiao fried cake" comes into view. Deep-fried baba is an intangible cultural heritage of Sichuan Province, which comes from the Daoguang period of the Qing Dynasty and has a history of more than 180 years.
Townspeople are whispering. In 2019, the CCTV - Discovery Channel column team made a special trip to Banbanqiao, Zhenmu Town, Neijiang to shoot "Banbanqiao Fried Ba" and broadcast it; In 2020, the news channel of ** TV station invited it to broadcast live on the southern Sichuan prairie with the theme of "Night Tour in China"; Menyuan, the inheritor of production skills, was rated as a rural culture and tourism talent with outstanding contributions in Sichuan Province in 2021.
One honor after another, I was lonely and unheard. Although I usually refuse fried food, I didn't hesitate to buy two. As soon as I bit it, it was "crispy on the outside and soft on the inside, oily but not greasy, chewy and fragrant". Although the fried rice is small, it is full of the wisdom and innovation of Neijiang people. If you can come, why not try this delicious food?
Deep-fried baba (**Neijiang**melt**).
Sugarcane plays an important role in the history of the development of the sugar industry in Neijiang, and it can also be used to make wine.
I stopped in front of the booth of "Neijiang Tiancheng Cane Wine Agricultural Science and Technology", and the unique packaging of "Tiancheng Cane Wine" is novel and pleasing to the eye. I learned a touching story about sake brewing.
Chen Gang, the sixth-generation inheritor of the municipal intangible cultural heritage "Sweet City Cane Wine Brewing Technique", returned to his hometown in 2008 to start a business. Humility, hard work, struggle, and I have personally felt the joy of making wine: the first sugar cane juice was extracted. When making liquor, it is different from the solid fermentation of grain winemaking, and adopts the unique art of ancestral ancient liquid fermentation. And no excipients, no blending, completely controlled by the process, no more substances are added after distillation. The made wine does not contain methanol, and it is not dizzy after drinking, and it is a real puree wine.
Chen Gang said that sugarcane wine is not only a kind of wine, but also the history and culture of Neijiang, which has been inherited for hundreds of years. And specially invited me to taste the product. Its wine is rich in aroma and leaves a fragrance in the empty glass. If you pour a full glass of wine and drink it dry, and smell the empty glass, the aroma will remain for a day or two. I call it amazing, "If you don't get drunk, everyone gets drunk." Today, "Sweet City Cane Wine" is sold inside and outside the province. Not long ago, I also walked into Bangkok.
"Sweet City Cane Wine" is definitely a treasure for a good banquet and a gift for relatives and friends.
Cheerful and melodious Xinjiang music came from the stalls of "Xinjiang Cake" and "Xinjiang Mutton". The two Xinjiang boys walked on the dance steps, enjoying themselves beautifully and wildly, and the deliciousness and deliciousness of "Xinjiang naan cake" were also told in the music. The warm atmosphere of music, dancing, and cake fragrance attracted many citizens to come forward to taste and buy.
*, I met Mrs. Li from the same community. The old man was in good spirits, clasped my hand, and told me in a loud voice, "* Do good and practical things for the citizens, and buy New Year's goods at the doorstep." Like!Like!As he spoke, the old man paced in front of the fruit stall, bought a large bunch of bananas, and exclaimed, "The yellow banana means a good harvest, so I will buy it." Looking at the old man's wrinkled face, I said excitedly, take care, I wish you a long and healthy life.
Coming to the right front of the exhibition area of the New Year's Festival, the Neijiang Federation of Literary and Art Circles' "Writing Spring Festival Couplets and Sending Blessings" literary and artistic activities to benefit the people was right in front of me, and my heart was shocked. With the long queue of two, I met the expectant eyes of many citizens.
But seeing the two calligraphers surnamed Pan and Huang, splashing ink, the force penetrates the back of the paper, and many auspicious and blessed words flow. "36,000 days of wishful thinking, east, west, north and south people auspicious", the banner is "five blessings", this Spring Festival couplet from the rhythm of words and sentences, the battle, its vision, pattern, love, especially accurate, especially bold, I especially appreciate.
Mr. Huang told me that Neijiang is the hometown of Chinese calligraphy and painting, and it is a beautiful scenery to express the beauty of the citizens with calligraphy and traditional culture, and the city's communities and villages have also carried out the activity of "writing Spring Festival couplets and sending blessings". During the Chinese New Year, Neijiang citizens do not have to pay for Spring Festival couplets.
What an affectionate way to wish the New Year, what a unique New Year's flavor. At the bottom of my heart, there was a burst of warmth.
The New Year's Festival is a blend of consumption and traditional culture, and its strong festive atmosphere and immersive experience make me linger. I have faintly heard the New Year's bell, "the dragon and the tiger leap, the head of good luck", right in front of me. I sighed, "the country is safe and the people are happy", this is what China looks like today.
Special Tips. **Please specify: "*Fang Zhi Sichuan".
*: Sichuan Provincial Office of Local Chronicles.
Photo: Zeng Yunyi.
Contributed by: Neijiang Municipal Party History and Local History Research Office.