Essay: There is a delicious food called dried pig blood.

Essay: There is a delicious food called dried pig blood.

Text/Liu Jiarong

Tongqian Pass, located at the junction of China and Qin Chu, has a long history and many special cuisines. One of them is dried pig blood, which is made by rural people here. Unique taste, chewy, the more delicious, as long as you taste it once, you will definitely love it and enjoy it for life. The copper coins are surrounded by mountains and picturesque scenery. Since ancient times, in the twelfth lunar month, pigs and sheep have been slaughtered to process "blood-dried" food with local characteristics. Pig's blood volume is relatively large, and it is rich in vitamin B2, vitamin C, protein, iron, phosphorus, calcium, nicotinic acid and other nutrients. Has the effects of improving immune function, resisting aging, removing toxic substances, clearing intestine, enriching blood, and caring skin. Tongqianguan people use traditional food processing methods to cut pig blood and pig fat and lean meat into small pieces and mix them with tofu, and knead them into fist-sized balls shaped like "hearts". After molding, put it on a bamboo basket, hang it above the stove, smoke it with warm fire in winter, and it will become dried blood in a few days, which can be preserved for many years and eaten at any time.

Dried blood can contain a variety of nutrients and can be mixed with a variety of dishes when cooking. Delicious and delicious, it is a good appetizer for farmers. Dried blood with wine is a wonderful family dinner.

If dried blood is mixed with finished products containing fat, reduce greasy when cooking. Can be fried with sour radish slices, konjac tofu slices and hot and sour shredded pork. It tastes refreshing, oily but not greasy. This dish can refresh your eyes. If dried blood is a mixture of non-greasy things such as tofu, it can be fried with fat slices and bamboo shoots when cooking, which is delicious and moist. Dried blood can also be used to make steamed bowl dishes, with dried bean curd or yellow flowers at the bottom, vermicelli and dried blood slices in the middle, and elbow meat on the top. It is steamed in a steamer with a big fire, and the surface is soup, which is very attractive.

In the final analysis, Guanxuegan is a special food, and its beauty lies in its tolerance to other dishes and its collocation with various dishes, which reflects the diversity and tolerance of Qin Chu's food culture.

Regional cuisine is bound to reflect and represent regional folk culture. Tongqian Pass is located at the border of Qin Chu, which was called "Qin Tou Chu Wei" and "Qin Muchu" in ancient times. Tongqianguan immigrants are diversified, with more immigrants from the south and Hubei, forming a humanistic zone compatible with the north and the south and the root vein of ethnic integration. The Great Wall of Chu in ancient times is the symbol of Qin Chu's demarcation. In the new era, with the changes in Qin Chu's traffic development in the past 40 years of reform and opening up, Tongqian Pass has become a major land passage for the North-South economy.

Dried blood vegetables, an inclusive food, not only represents the profound connotation of Qin Chu culture, but also represents China's Taiji philosophy, which permeates all aspects of people's lives. Ordinary people process pig blood and agricultural and sideline products into round dried blood, but their hearts are full of the totem of Taiji thought. The connotation of dried blood is "five elements" and "eight diagrams", which proves that people often say that "the world is as big as the heart is", just like the boundary and infinity of "morning and evening" and the elevation difference of 550 meters at Tongqian Pass, which constitute the diversity of plants and the richness of products.

It is often heard that tourists taste delicious food and say that there is a kind of food called dried pig blood, which is called human food. In fact, it is said that copper money is closed to pig blood.

We eat copper coins to keep the food blood-dried, praise its delicacy, praise its industrious people for processing food blood-dried copper coins, and treat people warmly. Such a broad and inclusive heart has more spiritual connotation and nutritional value than blood-dried rice.

Brief introduction of the author

Chia Yung Liu

I graduated from Shaanxi Normal University with a bachelor's degree. Published a collection of personal works "Roots" and "Ten Years Interview". He is currently the Deputy Secretary-General of the Philosophy Research Center of Shaanxi International Literature and Art Promotion Association and the President of the Taiji City Cultural Research Association of Xunyang County.