Enshi cuisine introduction

Tujia oil tea soup is a snack similar to tea soup. It is fragrant, crisp, smooth, fresh, beautiful, refreshing and thirst-quenching. It is a traditional flavor food that Tujia people love. Therefore, there is a folk saying: "If you don't drink camellia soup, your heart will panic" and "Three meals and three bowls a day, it's hard". At the same time, drinking oil tea soup is a traditional etiquette for Tujia people to entertain guests. Whenever a guest comes to the door, Tujia people will offer a bowl of fragrant oil tea soup to entertain them.

2. Zhang Guan slag

Slag, also known as lazy tofu. Tujia people in Enshi have deep feelings for slag, especially in the years of war. Due to the shortage of food, dregs saved many people's lives. There is a folk saying that "Chili is salt and dregs are used for the New Year". Nowadays, it is no longer a "luxury" for Enshi people to eat dregs on holidays. They can eat dregs at home at ordinary times, and many restaurants regard it as a special dish, which is very popular with customers.

3. Dried white poplar bean curd

Dried white bean curd is named after it is produced in Baiyang Village, Baiyangba Town, Lichuan City.

Since the Ming and Qing Dynasties, Bai Yang Town in Lichuan has produced a large number of dried tofu. Among them, the dried bean curd produced by Ji Shen Haochipo Workshop is the most famous, which is listed as a tribute by local officials and deeply loved by the royal family. Emperor Kangxi personally wrote a gold plaque for the dried beancurd of Ji Shen's delicious woman, named "Strange Food in the Deep Mountains". Since then, the dried beancurd of Ji Shen Haochipo has been renamed as the dried beancurd of Shenchipo, and is proud of its royal gift, making it a traditional craft.

Poplar bean curd is mainly made of high-quality local soybeans, Longdongwan spring water and a variety of natural spices, and is processed by more than ten unique processes, such as washing, soaking, grinding, filtering, pulping, boiling, wiping, pressing, roasting, marinating and sealing.

4 shefan

Social dinner has existed since ancient times, and it is a kind of food for Tujia, Miao, Dong and other ethnic minorities to sacrifice to the motherland. Eating club meals is mainly held on club day (the fifth day after beginning of spring), which is called "crossing the club" and "stopping the club" in folk customs. May Day belongs to the earth, so this day is a day to worship the earth bodhisattva. People pray for a smooth year, a bumper harvest and family harmony.

Tujia people attach great importance to "crossing the society", and every family enjoys it. When crossing the society, they are always happy to cook delicious social meals. Social Day in Tang Dynasty "The rice and grain under the Ehu Mountain are abundant, and the finless porpoise is semi-hidden. Sang Zhe's shadow is scattered in the Spring Society, and everyone is intoxicating. " And Qing "Tan Yang Zhi Zhu Ci", "Five years later, it is good to cure deafness. Ten thousand years later, the smoke started and the rice was sweet. " Poems like this are a true portrayal of Tujia people's "crossing society".