I want to go to Dali, Yunnan for a self-help tour in early April. Have a local one and tell me how to eat, live and play. 30 points are all yours!

Bai people get their name because they like white, and elegance is the eternal pursuit of Bai people. It is this pursuit that makes the Bai people pursue elegance and lightness in their diet, and cauliflower is rooted in the pursuit of elegance and lightness, which came into being.

When you visit Dali or other Bai areas, romance will make you linger, and flowers and delicious food will make you have a full meal. Bai people eat flowers. The ancient and traditional azaleas are white azaleas, which grow over 2500 meters above sea level in Cangshan Mountain. Rhododendrons can be divided into white rhododendrons and red rhododendrons. Is the red azalea poisonous?

Walking into the ancient villages and touching the living fossils, we walked live on foot during the Golden Week of May 1, 2007, and walked out of a blue sky, focusing on well-known domestic enterprises for dinner, but the flowers were full of flowers and could be seen; The white azaleas, like the Bai people, are elegant, fresh and refreshing, and they are even better flower food.

Every March and April, the melting snow on Cangshan Mountain soaks the whole mountain like jade. At this time, the white azaleas all over the mountain will bloom from time to time, singing a strong Bai accent on the back, picking the white azaleas on the mountain and watching the sea of flowers will definitely make you intoxicated. Take a big backpack home, because it's too expensive, it won't take long to take a big backpack. No matter how much you walk, you won't feel too tired, but in the pleasant sea of flowers, between Cangshan Lake and Erhai Lake, and in places full of vernacular, you will feel that time passes too fast. Go back to the three-in-one wall or four-in-five patio (the three-in-one wall or four-in-five patio is a Bai folk house, and the three-in-one wall refers to three two-story big tile houses in the west, south and north, with various patterns and characters painted on the east side, referred to as "three-in-one wall"); Four-in-one five-in-one patio means that there are houses in the east, west, north and south. When they are surrounded together, they will form a square space with a large center, which is called a patio. There are four small open spaces in each corner, adding up to five patios (referred to as "four entrances and five patios"). Remove the stamens of rhododendron, then rinse with clear snow water from Cangshan Mountain, blanch with boiling water and soak for three days and three nights, mainly to prevent poisoning and drain water, so as to make delicious dishes. If it is dry, in case "friends come from afar" and share it with the guests, it can show respect for the guests. If you like it thick, you can fry it, and if you like it light, you can stew it with broad bean rice. That wild force will still be fresh in your memory years later.

Another kind of flower food can only be eaten by the Jinsha River. That kind of flower is called Panzhihua, which grows on the high Panzhihua tree by the river. You have to take some risks to eat this kind of flower, because Panzhihua tree is too high to be picked easily. In hot summer, Panzhihua is full of flowers. At this time, you can climb the Panzhihua tree with a bamboo pole on your back, pick it off and air it. In winter, although Yunnan has four seasons like spring, it occasionally rains on cloudy days and small snowflakes fly. This is a family can take some dry Panzhihua and soak it in natural mineral water flowing down from Cangshan Mountain or Yulong Snow Mountain. From a corner of the cupboard or kitchen, find a wax trotter, put it on a loose fire for a while, burn the unshaven hair clean, and remove all the moldy things outside, and the trotter will be dressed yellow and bright. I hate chewing it before cooking. Don't use a modern pressure cooker or something like a pot. You must use the clay pot burned by Xiangyun people in Yunnan to stew slowly on the chestnut charcoal fire. At this time, the whole building or the whole yard is fragrant, and then the washed Panzhihua is boiled in, and the red Panzhihua is put in the milky pig's trotters juice. It's really a beautiful still life painting. I'm afraid that the colorist can't combine the beautiful, milky white and red together no matter how skillful he is. When I meet my neighbors at this time, I will ask, "Please (Yunnan dialect: please, eat). The same below. ) what? Too fragrant! "

"Please cook Panzhihua! Please eat and be sensible, and it is not easy to catch a cold. " You're welcome. Just come around and eat together. The sum of heaven and earth is self-evident. All the happiness in the world cannot be expressed in words.

The more common flower food is when the vegetables are wrapped in flowers, which means "Winter is over, can spring be far behind?" In this season, after a winter's growth, vegetables have matured, like a girl ready to get married. Bees all over the sky are humming the music of spring. At this time, rape flowers, cabbage flowers and green vegetables all opened their thick eyes and rushed to see the spring in this mountain. The plump bud is supported on the stem, which really has the power of explosion. You should pinch it quickly. It's still early, and I don't feel full; If you are late, you will be thin and lonely. It's really "yellow flowers are thin". This dish is called "Cai Chong" in Bai dialect. Take the tender cauliflower home, but pay great attention to moths, clean it, put the cauliflower in boiling water, cover it and turn it over twice, and there will be a particularly pungent smell. It's so hot that I sneeze a few times and feel loose all over. How comfortable!

This is a special chemical reaction, isn't it? Elegant water and delicate green cauliflower are as spicy as polished rice in the blink of an eye. Let it cool, prepare all kinds of seasonings and mix for a while according to your own taste. That's cool. That's hot. Just like the spicy taste of Sichuanese, it is not the kind that burns people, but the kind that needles you, which can test people.

There is an ordinary pumpkin flowers, which is the most creative food for Bai people. In the midsummer when pumpkins roll everywhere in July and August, some male pumpkins bloom brilliantly and fruitlessly. After completing the sacred mission of pollination, they competed with wild flowers on the hillside and soon ended their gorgeous life. Bai people do not bury their talents, but can use them to make a kind of food called capsule frying. Pick pumpkin flowers, don't break it, remove the pollen. Then stew a pot of glutinous rice in a tribute pot. After the glutinous rice is stewed, let it cool, add evolutionary oil, dried tangerine peel, pepper and Chili powder to taste, make these glutinous rice dumplings as big as pumpkin flowers, wrap them in pumpkin flowers and fry them in an oil pan. This is the source of vivid capsule explosion. Needless to say, the color, fragrance and taste are also delicious!

When the mountains and rivers in Yunnan turned into a sea of flowers, the Yunnan pine trees with slopes began to bloom. The red and yellow pine trees are covered with Yunnan pine, and the breeze blows, and the surging pine pollen covers the sea of flowers with a beautiful golden veil. Bai people have never given up the development and utilization of Songhua food and created Songhua candied cake.

Put the collected pine pollen in a dustpan, dry it and pat it gently with a stick. Pale yellow pollen is like buckwheat noodles in a dustpan. Collect them. When the guests come, use these pine pollen and buckwheat noodles, add honey and steam them in a wooden steamer. Skilled women can also decorate the Songhua candied cake with flowers, insects and birds in edible colors. The faint pine fragrance makes you hungry again and your stomach wide open. Even if you have had a big meal, you still want to swallow a few large pieces.

There are also barbed flowers, sweet-scented osmanthus, roses, lotus flowers and pear flowers, which are too general to be described here.

It is worth introducing orchid food, which may have been introduced by someone. I'm a bit ashamed of teaching others how to teach others how to swim! Since 1999, orchids have been fried here, with a seedling height of more than 300,000, including Yongsheng Red, Cangshan Butterfly, Jianyang Butterfly and Baoding River ... It seems that overnight, these orchids have become exotic flowers and plants worth ten thousand times. Everyone flocked to invest and borrowed money to buy, which really fulfilled many people's dreams of making money! There are hundreds of thousands of orchids that no one wants to eat, but there are also rare orchids to eat! Because there are tens of thousands of kinds of orchids, and orchids of various colors and scents are more traditional snow elements here. This is the Sanjiang Canyon area and the treasure house of orchids. This year, we applied for the World Natural and Cultural Heritage. The plain flowers in orchids are the fine flowers in orchids, which are the result of orchids' upward efforts. Because according to biologists, it takes thousands of years for orchids to evolve into plain flowers, and other primary colors are constantly degraded, so orchids can evolve into pure white plain flowers. Xiaoxuesu is the result of this evolution over thousands of years, and it is also the kind of elegance and simplicity that Bai people like, so it is the custom that "Bai people have running water and raise orchids at home".

The plain flowers in orchids have elegant and noble fragrance, snow-white skin and breasts, and the color of closing the moon and feeling ashamed of flowers. That kind of temperament really makes people reluctant to talk. Even if the orchids are dried up, they still keep the vitality of butterflies flying, with a touch of elegant yellow in their ruddy colors, just like the yellow skin of China people. Of course, such a precious thing can't be as casual as fried cabbage. She can only eat it as seasoning, or as self-esteem, or as a show off. Maybe that's why things value hope. Everyone who eats orchids just takes a sip carefully. No matter how it tastes, nodding will look mysterious and noble. Perhaps even the most vulgar people will be moved by the character of orchids, so many people who have eaten plain orchids can't tell what orchids taste like. Things that are too elegant make people stay away from her, and people keep her away from Wan Li. Still a little ordinary

Well, only ordinary people dare to comment on her.

In any case, careful people will find many unexpected things when they come to Bai areas. Don't stop at the level of taste for diet, think about their connotation!

Dali Qianjia Inn

Personal profile: Qianjia Inn was established in early 2008. This is a comfortable family hotel with favorable price and good service. The inn is located in the ancient city of Dali, with convenient transportation. It also provides travel advice and book bus and train tickets. The inn also organizes Cangshan adventure and Erhai Lake tour for tourists. Visitors are welcome to consult and stay. Old money will take you to the best scenic spots in go to dali. Contact information: 13987226544, 0872-2675562 Address: No.38/kloc-0, Pingping Road, next to the Christian Church at the north gate of Dali Ancient City.