Years are long and bacon is fragrant.

"Qifeng 3,000, Xiushui 800, famous at home and abroad, all over the world"! That's my unforgettable hometown-beautiful Zhangjiajie! A delicious meal is also a landscape for her! Thousands of years of inheritance, Tujia bacon, fragrant everywhere, mouth-watering, endless aftertaste!

Even in the hard years of childhood, people will put delicious Tujia bacon, sausage and blood tofu on the table during the Chinese New Year, which is also a big dish for entertaining guests at ordinary times. Unforgettable nursery rhyme "I can't think of it without customers" highlights the hardships of life in that era!

Today's life is booming, chicken, duck and fish have already been put on the usual table, and people no longer look forward to the big dinner for the New Year. But the flavor of Tujia bacon is still lingering and unforgettable! Just after the winter solstice, people are still keen on making Tujia bacon.

Through the visit just now, back in the 1970s, the kang was filled with bacon, sausages and blood tofu, which was intoxicating! In autumn, people will go out to buy piglets and raise them carefully. In that era when everyone didn't have enough to eat, when the food was squeezed out through his teeth, the pigs were fed white jade rice paste and newly picked tender pig grass every meal. Just for the pigs to grow sturdily, a fat and drooling pig will be raised next December. When the pigs grow to about 30-40 kg, the special treatment for pigs will be cancelled. Three meals a day is a spoonful of rice bran, with coarse pig grass stewed for a long time. At this time, it is difficult for the piglets to have anything delicious. Simple tea and light rice are enough to fill their stomachs. This is a pig rack to make pigs grow thin and tall, and then fatten Cui Zhuang after the autumn harvest next year. Sweet potato rice and corn paste are poured into the pig feeding trough, and only a small amount of pig grass is added. In 2008, pigs ate, slept and ate, getting fatter every day, and people were full of joy! There will be pigs and bacon to eat during the Spring Festival this year. This is what adults and children have been looking forward to for a year, and they can only eat meat on the first day of the New Year.

It wasn't so early then. At the earliest time, people went into the twelfth lunar month to kill pigs and make bacon. Sometimes you have to wait until the 24th of the twelfth lunar month to kill pigs. We killed it early, for fear that we could not help being tempted and greedy. Cut a little today, cut a little tomorrow, and eat it before the spring season. When I work in spring and summer, I always want to improve my food after I work hard. In those days, it was a luxury to be able to bacon under the kang!

Killing pigs is a very happy thing. The whole family, old and young, and the neighbors are happy! When you kill pigs, you should invite your neighbors' whole family to help you at home, set up three or two tables and share the harvest and joy of the year. While tasting the fresh pork on the table, I look forward to the beautiful vision of next year!

About a week before killing pigs in 2008, people went to the accounting department of the brigade to get back the tax stamps for killing pigs. By the way, they bought enough coarse edible salt in the brigade office, fried it in a pot, and ground it into fine salt at home with a stone mill for later use. After the pig is slaughtered, the butcher first cuts off a piece of meat and cooks for the host family to entertain everyone to enjoy a happy life! When the master butcher comes home, the host family must give the master a loin as a reward. The host family must not be stingy, otherwise it will not be smooth to feed the pigs in the coming year. This killing pig can make people forget the hardships of life! Killing pigs, in addition to making bacon, sausages and blood tofu are also necessary December goods, and the taste is by no means inferior to bacon. The pig butcher will first prepare sausages from the leg meat cut by the owner's family, and then cut the remaining meat into 3-5 kg strips. It is absolutely not allowed to cut the pork belly horizontally or break the waist. After the pork is cooled, the host puts enough coarse salt on the inside and outside of the pork strips, then puts them into a ceramic water tank, covers the cylinder head, marinates them for ten and a half days, and then hangs them above the barbecue pit for smoking. On the day of killing the pig, after curing the bacon, pour sausage and make blood tofu. Cut the left leg meat into large pieces, mix well with salt, Chili powder and pepper powder, wash the pig's small intestine, pour the mixed leg meat into the pig's small intestine, tie it into small pieces with string, hang it directly on the top of the barbecue pit and smoke it slowly; After this process is completed, the prepared tofu is mashed in a pot, mixed with salt, pig blood and minced meat, then kneaded into bowl-sized balls by hand, placed on a bamboo rack, and hung above the fire pit for smoking. Every night, when the family sits around the fire pit to keep warm, they are full of happiness when they look at the bacon, sausages and blood tofu full of kang! Heartbroken grandparents occasionally take a kitchen knife, cut off a small piece of bacon and bake it on the tongs. That's really delicious! Adults swallow saliva and smell the smell of bacon, which is enough. The bacon on this kang is a symbol of happy family life!

"Twenty-nine, wash the pig's head", when the bacon goes down to the kang in the New Year, adults and children can taste delicious bacon sausages and blood tofu full of oil stains. In the early morning of the 29th, people picked pig's head, bacon, sausage and blood tofu early, roasted the skin with firewood red charcoal, scraped off the skin with a kitchen knife after burning, leaked golden yellow, washed it with hot water, put it in a firewood stove and cooked it with strong fire. Chopsticks can be easily inserted into the skin of bacon and cooked. Then turn off the fire, remove the blood tofu from the bacon sausage and put it in the wooden shed for later use. Pork soup must not be wasted. Put radish slices in the hot soup. In the early morning of New Year's Eve, the cooked bacon, sausage, blood and tofu were all served on the table, and the happiness of the year finally landed! After the fifteenth day of the first month, most of the bacon is left to guests, and they dare not expect to eat more.

Years are long and bacon is fragrant. Bacon is still on the table today, but it tastes tasteless! I can't smell bacon. The bacon of that era was full of pure nature and temptation! Do not contain Dingdianer growth hormone, feed a pig from the beginning of the year to the end of the year, at least for more than one year, or even two or three years. Bacon is delicious, don't be greedy! Nitrite in bacon is very unfriendly to health! Especially today, the progress of modern civilization has given birth to many negative effects of bacon, and Tujia bacon can only solve the problem occasionally.