Source: Dongguan Time Network-i Dongguan
Thousands of miles away, a bowl of steaming set powder, enough to soothe the wind and dust.
Guests from afar, a joyous family dinner, find a sense of belonging to home.
Blessed with unique landscapes and rivers, Dongguan is a dynamic member of the Pearl River Delta cities. Tradition and modernity, where they blend. The crowd gathers and disperses, bringing the flow of taste. The code of food follows in the footsteps of human beings, colliding and changing, from the depths of history, all the way to today.
The third episode of "Taste of Dongguan" "Happy Family Banquet" (video screenshot)
After a year, the Dongguan food documentary "Taste of Dongguan" was once again on CCTV, bringing people back to the feast of dreams. In the chapter of the third episode of "Taste of Dongguan" that has just been broadcast, "Happy Family Banquet", the family banquet of the ancestral hall of Longbeiling Village in Tangxia Town is too centimeter pork, uncle Mu's fresh rib rice, Anan's supper, Dongguan roast goose powder and other foods that have both Dongguan characteristics and local feelings have appeared one after another, and many food lovers from all over the country have been hungry.
The reporter returned to these merchant stores that had landed on CCTV and said that they had a "sweet burden". Uncle Cai said: "You know how many people come to eat my rib rice in the morning, they are all from other places, many people have eaten my rib rice from far away, and my rib rice is nothing but fresh." "Versailles" with a face of Uncle Timber.
The rapid development of manufacturing has reshaped the city of Dongguan and attracted people from all over the world to gather here. The flow of people brings different styles of cuisine, side by side, mixed together, colliding fermentation. As the conclusion of the documentary says: Countless people have set off and settled here, and they have never stopped.
Dongguan, this vast feast, the stars and the moon flow, the flavor lasts forever.
Dongguan covers an area of less than 3,000 square kilometers, but at the same time has hilly mountains, plain water towns and pearl river estuary, complex and diverse terrain and landforms, giving birth to different textures, different flavors of food; in recent decades, Dongguan people have gathered, from the whole country and even the world", bringing different living and eating customs; although the proportion of urbanization in Dongguan population is more than 90%, the older generation of Dongguan people still arrange their traditional lives according to the ancient seasons... Dongguan, tradition and modern narrow road meet, magical integration, people look back at the tradition, while actively seeking change, delicious circulation, non-stop. People meet because of food, and food changes as people move. The city's face is changing with each passing day, and the interweaving of the new and the old together creates the thousands of flavors of Dongguan today.
For a long time, Dongguan has been showing the image of the manufacturing capital, "Taste of Dongguan" starts from food, shows Dongguan human fireworks, and uses food to create regional business cards, so that many people re-understand Dongguan from a new perspective.
Dongguan's town streets are scattered, the town streets are far apart, each town street has hidden a lot of food treasures, each with its own flavor, Dongguan is a "bulk food paradise". Grilled goose powder in Guancheng, Yin cai beef soup in Dongkeng, salted ginger water in Shilong, banana seaweed sugar water in Ma Chung, Xian sand fish balls in Gaobu, roast goose in Daling Mountain... Each has its own most unique taste.
Dongguan is not only responsible for making the world, but also responsible for making delicious food.
On July 16, staff were making braised pork at the "Inheriting Hakka Culture and Tasting Hakka Cuisine" activity in Longbeiling Community, Tangxia Town (infographic)
Cultural heritage in the world's factories: Ye Weichi and his Taigong pork
Too much pork, everyone has a share. Every Chongyang Festival, in the Ye Ancestral Hall of Longbeiling Community in Tangxia Town, Dongguan, a family banquet will be held to make this Hakka village with a history of more than 200 years lively and once again stage the scene of "too centimeter pork".
At every family banquet time, in the back kitchen of the ancestral hall, there is a seventy-year-old man busy, sharpening knives, washing boards, washing pork, cutting pork, seasoning, and preparing dishes. He was Ye Weichi, the head of the Ye Ancestral Hall.
Ye Weichi's identity as the spoon holder was selected, he told reporters that the clan will choose the ancestral hall family banquet spoon person every five years, he has been re-elected for two consecutive terms, and has been doing "too centimeter pork" for ten years. "My father is very good at cooking, and he has always been the head of the ancestral hall family banquet, and I am considered to be the son who inherits his father's business."
According to the custom, the Longbeiling community will hold a family banquet in the ancestral hall every year during the Chongyang Festival, "In the past, the ancestral hall merit money was used to prepare the family banquet, and then the overseas Chinese paid for it, and then our own villagers raised money to hold it, and now we have the venue and funds to specially organize the family banquet," Ye Weichi told reporters, the family banquet was not only because of the delicious taste of the main material braised pork and steamed goose, but more importantly, the inheritance of culture and the cohesion of the family affection of the clan.
Ye Weichi introduced that for many years, the descendants of the Ye clan in the Longbeiling community will carry out "too centimeter pork" every year after the Chongyang worship ceremony, and the pork in hand is like "lucky meat", which means to take good fortune and be blessed.
After the broadcast of "Taste of Dongguan", the Longbeiling community in Tangxia Town was on fire, the "Taigong pork" was on fire, and Ye Weichi was also on fire, "Now many people have invited me to do dishes, and there are lectures, but I don't go, I want to eat you in the ancestral hall, how much I eat, how much I do, but don't go outside to do" He said, "Taste of Dongguan" The more important significance of the fire is that more people have seen the cultural customs of the Longbeiling community, seen the charm of Dongguan traditional culture, and the culture has been better inherited and protected and carried forward.
Text: Xiang Lian Feng Huan
Photo: Chen Fan
Editor: Li Shiying
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