Why do Sichuan people always like to hang sausages in windows or on the outside of air conditioners?

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Yes, in the winter in Sichuan, the windows of every house will be covered with sausages in a tacit understanding, no matter which street you walk on Looking up at the alley, rows of sausages are hung as artistically as postcards. The sausages hanging on the hangers, the bacon hanging on the water heater, and the sausages hanging on the air conditioner have unknowingly become a sense of ritual for the Sichuan people. .

What’s even more terrifying is the vegetable market, with row after row and an overwhelming number of shops, especially when the sausages are just hanging out. There is a scent wafting from the farmer's market that makes people salivate!

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Every winter After filling the sausage, you first need to let it float on the balcony to dry. This is simply a pleasing thing to see. If you pinch it quietly when you have nothing to do, you will really feel like you are celebrating the New Year!

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When I was a kid, in the courtyard, sausages, bacon, sauce, and meat were all that looked up. From time to time, we would discuss, "Where do you see it?" The sausages at home are so fat!" "The ones on the third floor look better." "The colors on the fifth floor don't look right."

If it were an old building, you wouldn’t even dare to hang the laundry if the people upstairs were filled with sausages.

Not anymore. Fill the sausages, hang them on the windowsill, and spread newspapers underneath to catch the dripping oil and sauce.

Waiting for the dry north wind to drain the moisture of the fresh meat little by little, and waiting for the "baking" sun to bring out the rich aroma of sea pepper and Sichuan pepper, it will be perfect.

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What I remember most when I was a child was stealing sausages and bacon from home with my friends, and finding a small corner on the roof. Light a candle and bake it. Or find a corner and bake it. My cousin is still saying that it tastes best when baked with a Chinese and mathematics book. In the end, everyone turned into a black mouth when they got home.

Da Bang’s favorite thing every winter is to sit on a small bench next to her grandpa and make “Qiu” (actually it means “火” next to Qiu but I can’t type it out) sausages with her. , I could finally play with fire again. I felt very satisfied when I handed two pieces of wood and two cypress branches. At that time, when the cypress branches were burned into white ash, Dabang would twist my grandpa and ask her to bury it for me. Put a few sweet potatoes in, wait for twenty minutes, and then dig out the sweet potatoes. Oh my God, they are a hundred times more delicious than those bought outside! At this time, they lit a fire and had a great time eating beside them.

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Now every year when I go home for the family reunion dinner, the meal is not ready and the people are not here yet, the big list will be First he ran to the kitchen and chatted with the adults, and then his eyes rolled to the sausages that were steaming in the pot. At this time, the sausages and bacon that had just been steamed were steaming, and they were just thrown away. If you want to slice a piece on the cutting board, you can rub a piece of it and steal it, or if you are cutting, you can quickly pull a piece from under the knife. Only the sausage that burns your mouth and emits oil can be called the most delicious sausage in the world!

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Great taste, so spicy—— Taste of the New Year, drying cured meats

Drying Sichuan sausages on the balcony in Shenzhen~

Marriage is a ceremony, and so is Chinese New Year. Reunion is indispensable without a wax incense.

Eating preserved meat during the Chinese New Year is a long-standing traditional custom in Sichuan. Even if you are far away from home, you will still find ways to make sausages and bacon in the warm Shenzhen. After working hard all year long, making cured meat is the highlight of the year for people. The taste of cured meat is no longer as simple as "the taste on the tip of the tongue". Carrying the memory of the family, everyone will use their special skills to make this "cultural heritage".

On December 28, 2017, in Shenzhen, the recent temperature was 15-22 degrees. I bought local pork stuffed with sausages and cured bacon. This was the third time I stuffed sausages in Shenzhen.

This year I am stuffing sausages with my sister-in-law. When my sister-in-law was in Sichuan, she helped people stuff sausages in a market one winter and earned more than 10,000 yuan. Fourteen pounds of meat, my sister-in-law filled it up in more than an hour. I was responsible for taking photos and videos for the children to watch when they came home from school. Sausage is delicious, you need to know why and how it is. Food culture needs to be passed down from generation to generation, starting from childhood.

Hang it on the clothes drying pole on the balcony to dry in the shade. Today is January 4, 2018, exactly one week ago. The sausage is already relatively dry. I steamed it for a while and tried it. It tastes good. When dry and wet, store in the refrigerator.

Air-dried bacon marinated with Pixian watercress and Sichuan peppercorns, suitable for the weather in Shenzhen

Sent by my brother from his hometown in Sichuan Let the wax rabbits dry before storing them

Shenzhen is about to cool down again, so I will continue making Sichuan sausages tomorrow. I happen to have some time and happened to see this Q&A, sharing the taste of my hometown in a foreign land.

Yes, this is a traditional food that we Sichuan people must eat during the New Year. I remember that after the reform and opening up, many rural families had to kill New Year pigs and pack sausages for the New Year. At that time, they were packed by hand. , after loading, wash the sausages and hang them on the window to dry the moisture, then use an iron bucket to make a fire, use white branches to make a fire under the big iron bucket, and hang bacon sausages on it. As long as you are a Sichuanese, everyone The sausages made in the Zhibai Branch Kang have a unique aroma and are so delicious. After the sausages are cooked, they hang them on the window or outside the air conditioner. This way they are well ventilated and the sausages are less likely to grow mold.

Nowadays, living conditions are better. Every year when the winter solstice comes, every household starts to pack a lot of sausages. The sausages packed after the winter solstice can be stored all year round and will not go bad. The sausages packed before the winter solstice should not be put away as they are prone to spoilage. Now you don’t have to go through the trouble yourself, just ask the meat vendor to pack and select the meat. Each meat vendor uses a machine to pack sausages, seasonings, and salt into money. The service is really attentive. Books and online say that you eat too much bacon. , easy to cause cancer, now people do not use fire to cook sausages, wait for the butcher to pack the sausages, take it home and wash the outside of the sausages with warm boiled water, hang them on the window or outside the air conditioner, and let them air dry on the balcony, usually for one It took many months to steam and cook until it was ready to be cut into slices.

Nowadays, whether in rural or urban areas, after the winter solstice, sausages are hung on the windows of every house or on the outside of the air conditioner or on the balcony, telling people that the Chinese New Year is coming and relatives are going home for reunion. , the New Year’s goods are ready, the New Year’s flavor is getting stronger and stronger, and it’s very festive.

If you are afraid of trouble, go directly to the farmer's market and buy packaged sausages. There are dried sausages and packaged sausages. You can buy them wet and hang them in the window or outside the air conditioner on the balcony. As long as it can be ventilated, just wash the dry ones and put them in the pot directly.

Many people working in other places go back to their hometown in Sichuan every year to celebrate the Spring Festival. After the Spring Festival, they have to bring a lot of spicy sausages to other places to eat. They can’t get enough of the taste of hometown.

In summary! This is the reason why Sichuan people like to hang sausages outside the window or on the air conditioner. Because if they are not kept dry indoors, they will easily grow mold and smell all over the house! Therefore, Sichuan people are very smart and like to hang sausages outside the window or on the air conditioner to avoid bad air at home. How smart!

Why hang it outside? Because it is hard to see sunlight in winter in Sichuan. It is cold and humid. In the past, it took half a month to dry a piece of clothing. If you put it in the house, it will not dry for a month. If you put it in The sausages will become smelly after a month in the hanging room, so the sausages must be dried as soon as possible. They can only be hung outside or smoked to dry.

This is to allow the sausage to dry as quickly as possible. Because windows and outdoor air conditioners are better ventilated than indoors, the air flows quickly, and some can even be exposed to the sun, so sausages dry quickly when hung on them. Also, if you put it indoors, fresh sausages have a strong smell and the whole room will smell. Leave it outside and the flavor will evaporate. In fact, rural people don't hang sausages outside, they dry them at home by smoking them over fire.

Hanging sausages on windows and air conditioners is a unique scenery in the city, and it is also a different flavor of the New Year. It always reminds us that it’s time to celebrate the New Year and it’s time to go home! Hang sausages, it’s time to celebrate the New Year

< p> Where can I find “New Year’s Flavor”? The red sausage on the window of the outdoor air conditioner in every household is one of the symbols. Where are the sausages?

Not only the windows, but also the outside of the air conditioner is a "gathering place" for sausages. There are many "territories" for them. Let's go and have a look.

Warm reminder: In the picture above, in order to dry sausages, the citizens can be said to be "making the best use of everything" and having "unusual ideas". The sidewalks, football nets, and sculptures are all "occupied" by sausages, but in this way, the beauty of our living environment has been destroyed. Shuangshuang hereby suggests that everyone: Reasonably requisition sausage drying sites to make them "beautiful" in the city "Landscape" instead of "eye-searing" sausage skewers. Sausage also likes outdoor activities?

We often see the folks in Sichuan pack the sausages and hang them in the courtyard, balcony, windows and other places of their homes. The principle they abide by is that they can hang them outside and not put them in the nest. On a sunny day, sausages can be seen everywhere. To exaggerate, they can be seen everywhere. Why is this?

Some people say that this is traditional folk custom. Whenever the Chinese New Year is approaching, the sausage business in the market is booming. Strings of red, shiny and delicious sausages are hung on the balconies of every household, just like an "arena".

Some people say that it is mainly for air drying. Hanging sausages on balconies, windows, air conditioners, and other places that are open to wind and exposed to sunlight can speed up the draining and dry the oil beads of the sausages. When the family gets together, there is no sausage or bacon on the dinner table, and there is simply no sense of ritual during the New Year.

The spirit of the New Year is getting stronger and stronger. How is the drying of your sausages going?

Every winter solstice, people in Sichuan and Chongqing begin to cut meat, marinate the bacon and stuff it with sausages. During the Winter Solstice Festival in the rural areas of Sichuan and Chongqing, the village becomes lively. The pigs fattened in the pens are caught and slaughtered, naturally to make bacon sausages. Some will also go to the market to sell their excess meat.

Put salt in a pot and stir-fry, add Sichuan peppercorns when it is hot, apply it on the fresh meat when it is slightly cold, then put the meat in a bucket to marinate; turn it over after seven or eight days, and turn the meat on the bottom to the top. The marinated meat can be taken out and hung in a ventilated place to dry. The dried meat is smoked with cypress peels and other ingredients to make bacon. In rural areas, just hang the cured bacon above the stove, and the smoke from the stove will cook it.

Cut the fat and lean meat into strips, mix with salt, pepper and white wine (add chili pepper if you like it spicy), and pour it into the cleaned and scraped pig intestines. After filling one section, use a needle or toothpick to prick a hole to release the air, tie it into a section, and then hang it on the window or the outdoor unit of the air conditioner to dry. After drying, it can be smoked with cypress if possible. If it is not smoked, it can be left to dry for a whole year without deterioration.

During the winter solstice, almost every household in Sichuan and Chongqing buys meat to make bacon and stuff it with sausages, so that there will be something to cook in the pot during the Spring Festival. I also buy meat to make bacon around the winter solstice, and sometimes weigh some lean meat and fat meat for stuffing sausages, but I didn’t do it last year during the Spring Festival. People in Sichuan and Chongqing hang sausages and bacon on windows or outside air conditioners to dry out the moisture and to create an atmosphere of approaching Spring Festival.

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Because Sichuan is located in a basin, there is usually a lot of fog in winter, and it is cold and humid, making it difficult to see the sun. Hanging sausages on windows and outside air conditioners allows the sausages to dry quickly and prevents them from getting moldy, smelly and spoiling. This is generally a method used by Sichuan urbanites who want to dry sausages quickly. After the sausages are 7 or 8 layers dry, they will be stored in the refrigerator. But in rural areas, farmers will collect some cypress branches and smoke them to dry the sausages. They usually hang them on the wall of their home or on a bamboo pole. When the sun comes out, they will take them out to dry in the sun. Hang the roof.

At the end of the year in Sichuan, almost everyone in Sichuan will cook this unique Sichuan delicacy. It is simple to operate, delicious and easy to store.

They usually make spicy sausages, but they also make some Baiwei (sweet Cantonese sausages) to satisfy the appetite of customers who can't eat spicy food. Making sausages by Sichuan people also represents a kind of joy, indicating that the arrival of the Spring Festival is not far away. Sausage and bacon are essential dishes on the New Year's table for Sichuan people. They are a formal and ritualistic way of Sichuan people's hospitality during the Spring Festival. This is also a long-standing traditional custom in Sichuan.

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