Enshi specialty snacks Enshi top ten famous foods

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 loved by Tujia people. 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 guests come to the door, Tujia people will offer a bowl of fragrant camellia soup to entertain guests.

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, slag saved many people's lives. There is a folk saying that "Chili is salt and slag is used for the New Year". Nowadays, it is no longer a "luxury" for Enshi people to eat slag on holidays. They can usually eat slag at home, and many restaurants supply it as a special dish, which is favored by customers.

3. Tujia bacon

Tujia people are interested in feeding pigs for the New Year, mainly because they want to have meat to eat during the New Year. If they can't finish eating it during the Chinese New Year, Tujia people will make it into bacon, which is not only convenient for preservation, but also more beautiful in color. Boiling bacon in a pot is fragrant and appetizing, and it is the main course for Tujia people to entertain guests at ordinary times.

4. Dried white poplar bean curd

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

Since the Ming and Qing Dynasties, Baiyangji 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 gave Ji Shen Haochipo's dried tofu a gold plaque called "Strange Food in the Deep Mountains". Since then, Ji Shen Haochipo's dried bean curd has been renamed Shenchipo's dried bean curd, which is a proud gift of the royal family and makes the traditional tofu making process.

5. social meals

Social meals have existed since ancient times, and they are a kind of food offered to the country by Tujia, Miao and Dong minorities in China. 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. Mayday belongs to the earth, so this day is a day to worship the land bodhisattva. People pray for a smooth year, a bumper harvest and family harmony.

6. Chili

Tujia people in Enshi Tujia and Miao Autonomous Prefecture especially like to eat hot and sour. There is a folk saying that "if you don't eat hot and sour for three days, your heart will scratch like a cat." Guang Tai Pepper was invented under this background and has a long history in Enshi.

7. Ge Xianmi

Gexianmi is commonly known as Xianmi, ceramium, Shuifa and Tianjun. It is an aquatic algae plant, belonging to a kind of blue-green algae. It is single-celled, rootless and leafless, dark green and beady, pure wild, and it is a veritable pure natural green food. According to legend, in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, Ge Hong, an alchemist, a medical scientist and a Taoist theorist, lived in seclusion in the southern land, and occasionally gained the function of keeping fit during the famine years. Later, Ge Hong went to Korea to present it to the emperor. The weak prince became ill after eating, but he was strong. In order to thank Ge Hong for his contribution, the emperor gave the name "Xianmi" to Ge Xianmi, and has been calling it this way ever since. Zouma town, Hefeng County, Enshi Prefecture is the largest Gexian rice producing area in the world. There are more than 670 hectares of paddy fields and ponds suitable for the growth of pueraria lobata. Because the growth of Gexianmi requires extremely high natural conditions (such as climate, soil, sunshine, latitude and longitude, altitude, etc.). ), there are only a few discoveries in Africa today. Ge xianmi is really rare in the world.

8, rockhopper ginger

Named after the shape of a phoenix head, it is also called "Laifeng Ginger", which is a stable and excellent local ginger variety selected by the people of laifeng county for a long time. Its ginger handle is like a finger, the top is bright red and purplish, and the tuber is white.

The crested ginger is crisp and tender, rich in selenium and juicy, with moderate spicy taste, delicious taste, appetizing and fluid production, unique flavor and strong and lasting fragrance. It is a unique product among China ginger varieties, so it has been a hot product in Southeast Asian market for a long time. 1998 obtained the certificate of "green food" from the Ministry of Agriculture and became the first ginger of green food in China. Dried ginger is rich in vitamins, amino acids, protein, fat, carotene, sugar, gingerol, phenol, alcohol and trace elements such as iron, zinc, calcium and selenium.

9. Fubaoshan water shield

Fubaoshan water shield is also known as horseshoe, nettle and sunflower. It is a higher perennial aquatic plant with oval leaves, green front, dark red back and slender petiole. Fubaoshan water shield is said to be a treasure in the water given by ancient sacred mountains. Since the Jin Dynasty, it has been a tribute to the imperial palace and a delicacy at royal court banquets. It can be cooked, fried and cold, especially mixed with fish, cooked chicken, ham and sausage to make soup. It is tender and delicious, sticky and delicious, with good color, fragrance, taste and shape.

10, Nianrou

According to legend, this year's meat began with a war. One year before New Year's Eve, the Tujia hut was suddenly attacked by the army. Tujia people are preparing a reunion dinner in full swing. They never dreamed that they would suffer such a huge disaster on such a day. They abandoned their homes and businesses one by one, dragging their children around. Some people who escaped into caves in the deep mountains escaped from the tiger's mouth, but they suffered from cold. Fortunately, an old man hurriedly took out a large piece of cooked pork, so everyone got a small piece of meat, which made us spend this sad year in tears. After the war has subsided, in order to remember the lesson of this bloody incident, every family should steam several large pieces of cooked meat during the Spring Festival to prevent similar disasters from happening again. Since then, the annual meat has entered the menu of Tujia people's Spring Festival.