Qingyan Ancient Town is one of the four ancient towns in Guizhou, located in the southern suburbs of Guiyang City, Guizhou Province, built in the 10th year of Ming Hongwu, originally a military fortress. Later, in September 2005, the Qingyan Ancient Town Scenic Area was announced by the Ministry of Construction and the State Administration of Cultural Heritage as the second batch of Chinese historical and cultural towns. In 2013, it was hailed as one of the most attractive towns in China in the Summit International Intangible Cultural Heritage Protection and Inheritance Tourism Planning Project. In 2010, Qingyan Ancient Town won the honorary title of "Hometown of Chinese Poetry" awarded by the Chinese Poetry Society, and took the lead in becoming the hometown of poetry in the country. In 2016, it was listed by the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development as one of the first batch of towns with Chinese characteristics. On February 25, 2017, it was rated as a national 5A level tourist attraction. The ancient ming and qing dynasty buildings with exquisite design and exquisite craftsmanship in the ancient town are interlaced with dense fabrications, and the temples and pavilions are painted with carved beams and flying corners. The town is a collection of people, including the historical celebrity Zhou Yuhuang and the late Qing Dynasty Emperor Zhao Yijiong.
Qingyan Ancient Town
Strolling through the streets of Guiyang Qingyan Ancient Town, in addition to the antique buildings on both sides and the bluestone slabs polished by time, there are a variety of local specialties, with the development of Qingyan Ancient Town, whether it is culture or cuisine has been greatly improved, the Qingyan pig's feet that people used to talk about, now such as cake porridge, tofu fruit, chicken spicy horn and pea flour and so on. Among them, the cake porridge is particularly beautiful, he is one of the few sweets in Qingyan, and it is also a delicacy that has been passed down for a hundred years.
Qingyan Ancient Town Street
Whether it's in the streets of Qingyan Ancient Town or Downtown Guiyang, if you see a vessel like a teapot, steaming hot, and a wooden zhen in the lid of the pot, the steam bubbles out through the white cake, which is where the cake porridge is sold.
Cake porridge steamer
Cake porridge is composed of two parts of cake and porridge, cake is the first grinding of coarse grains of glutinous rice flour, sticky rice flour, mixed in proportion, put into the wood Zhen steamed. Porridge is mixed with some lotus flour with cold water, and then add boiling water to stir. When eating, they are all hot cakes, now stirred lotus flour, so the pot has been on the stove, has been steaming, cakes as for porridge, add peanuts, sesame seeds, rose sugar, soybean flour, raisins, walnuts and other preserved fruits, you can eat.
A bowl of authentic cake porridge mainly includes sticky rice, roses, peanuts, sesame seeds, sunflower seeds as raw materials, and rose sauce is the most important thing in this.
Burn a pot of boiling water on the fire, the spout of the pot is steaming, with a small wooden Zhen placed in the position of the kettle lid, the wood Zhen has an egg-sized round hole inside, a small round piece of rice cake-like things are filled into the small wooden Zhen, through the kettle steaming. Then use a soup spoon to scoop a spoonful of food similar to flour in a bowl, pour brown sugar water to disperse, and then use boiling water to flush in, stir into a thick paste, add sesame seeds, walnut kernels, peanut seeds, sunflower seeds, rose gem sauce, stir well, then a bowl of cake porridge is ready. Its taste is light and fragrant, sweet but not greasy, healthy spleen, young and old.
Cake porridge has been accompanied by the growth of generations of Guizhou people, Anshun's chong chong cake refers to the cake porridge; the wind blows, the leaves fly, you are that piece, I am this piece, the years are traceless, but in the heart carved a mottled vein, each vein records a period of the past, hand pick up a fallen leaf, through its mottled, the past will emerge, the taste of home is so profound.