Jiaxing freehand brushwork on the tip of the tongue in Jiangnan

When the leaves of zongzi are fragrant, the protagonist of the Dragon Boat Festival will appear. Zongzi, born in memory of Dr. Qu Yuan, began in the Southern and Northern Dynasties. In the Southern Dynasties, Wu Liangjun's "Continued Harmony" recorded: "Qu Yuan threw the Miluo River on May 5, and the Chu people mourned it. Today, rice is stored in bamboo slips and water is thrown as a sacrifice. " Nowadays, the significance of sacrifice has weakened, and it has been widely known as food for festivals.

Jiaxing people's love for zongzi is not limited by seasons and solar terms. Breakfast, lunch, snacks, dinner and midnight snack take turns. There is a long queue at the entrance of Wufangzhai every day, and people are crowded. Jiaxing Zongzi is famous for its glutinous rice but not paste, delicious fragrance and moderate saltiness and sweetness, and "Jiahu Fine Point" is its nickname. There are dozens of varieties of meat stuffing in jiaozi, such as red bean paste, candied dates, egg yolk, eight treasures and so on, especially fresh meat jiaozi. Fresh jiaozi is made of the best white glutinous rice, thin hind legs and Huizhou Zuo Fu. They are exquisitely crafted, beautiful in appearance, tender and fragrant in meat, fat but not greasy, and rich in fragrance, and are known as the "King of jiaozi".

After eating Wufangzhai Zongzi, boating in South Lake and East Lake is like a duck over the neck, and the scenery is leisurely. South Lake is rich in water chestnut, and South Lake water chestnut chinese odyssey, also known as Yuanbao water chestnut, wonton water chestnut and monk water chestnut. What's special is that its diamond shape has no horns, it's ingot-shaped, and its color is green. Peel off the thin green coat and the white diamond-shaped meat of lotus root will appear. Nanhuling can be eaten raw, bitten, crisp and sweet, refreshing and delicious; You can also cook, peel, stir-fry, sprinkle with chopped green onion, like jade, and smell fragrant. Barbecue or rice with Nanhu Ling is also a unique feature of Jiangnan flavor.

Jiaxing, the land of plenty, is located in Hangjiahu Plain in the Yangtze River Delta, adjacent to Shanghai, also known as Jiahe, he cheng and Xiuzhou. It has jurisdiction over two municipal districts (Nanhu District and Xiuzhou District), three county-level cities (Haining City, pinghu city City and Tongxiang City) and two counties (Jiashan County and Haiyan County). Rich in products and beautiful scenery.

Haining, Qianjiang tidal bore scenic spot, is a treasure-house with outstanding people and outstanding spirits. Known as the "hometown of silk and talents", it is the hometown of many cultural celebrities such as Xu Zhimo, Wang Guowei, Jiang Baili and Jin Yong. Xie Qiao mustard tuber in Haining is not only a tidal place in Qiantang, but also a famous place in recent years, the capital of leather goods. It has a long history, crisp texture, bright color, moderate salty and spicy taste. These twenty words are the key to identify Xieqiao mustard tuber. As one of the three treasures of going abroad, it is really a good snack.

Pinghu bad eggs, made of high-quality glutinous rice, distiller's grains and bad stains, were once a tribute during the Qianlong period and were well known. After the duck eggs are stained, the eggshell falls off, leaving only a thin layer of eggs wrapped around; It is soft and plump, protein is milky jelly-like, yolk is orange-red semi-solidified, and the wine is mellow and rich. Just gently break the soft mashed potatoes with chopsticks or forks and you can eat them. Delicious, flexible and smooth, smooth in mouth, sweet after eating, with a long aftertaste.

A few years ago, I heard a joke about a bad guy in Pinghu, saying that a Shaoxing businessman went to Shanghai Hongqiao Airport via Pinghu and flew north. There is a bottle of bad eggs in the carry-on luggage sent by my friend. When passing the security check, the security inspector asked what was in the bottle, and the businessman replied in Shaoxing Mandarin: "Make" eggs. The security inspector tightened his heart and asked, what's inside? The businessman raised his voice grumpily: "Make eggs!" ! Is to "make" eggs! The result was controlled on the spot. Of course, in the end, things came out and Shaoxing businessmen were cleared. The reason is that the airport security inspector is a northerner and listens to the "made" egg as a bomb, but it is strange that the businessman's Shaoxing Mandarin reads the bad guy's "bad" too strangely.

Seeing this, friends in Jiangnan will probably laugh. I thought of that year, but I laughed until tears came out.

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