Will the world accommodate a bamboo steamer in the future?

China people always cherish food and are good at cooking, steaming, stewing, frying and burning. With the understanding of ingredients, different ingredients, with the corresponding cooking methods, with the corresponding cooking tools, pursue the delicious food to the extreme.

Lin Guilan, a writer in Taiwan Province, compared the wok to the heart of the kitchen in China, while the bamboo steamer in China is another poetic wok.

Steaming is a favorite way of breakfast in China. With the steamer, steamed bread and steamed buns can keep warm and China people can enjoy the warmth of breakfast.

when the lid of the steamer is lifted, the fog is dense, and the fragrance of steamed objects is mixed with the bamboo fragrance of the steamer. This is the festival memory of almost all people in China, and it is also our daily life in the streets. Early in the morning, when the boss lifted the lid of the steamer, white smoke curled up and held hot steamed buns, I really felt that a breakfast with enough food and clothing was a major event in life.

The steamer originated in the Han Dynasty, in which bamboo steamer is famous all over the world for its original flavor, no backflow of steam and water, and all its colors and flavors. As an ancient handicraft of Han nationality, such a bamboo weaving gadget can be said to run through all fields of the eight major cuisines.

On an ordinary street in the western district of Hong Kong, there is an old steamer shop-Dechang Sen Ji. This time-honored brand has a business history of more than 6 years, with ancestral skills and solid workmanship. It is a small number of manual steamer workshops in Hong Kong.

An old man with silver hair sat in the shop, occasionally listening to the radio, surrounded by large and small steamer. Lin Yinghong, the owner, is the fifth generation descendant of hand-made bamboo steamer.

in the late Qing dynasty, the Lin family began to make a living by bamboo weaving in the countryside of Guangzhou, and later opened a treasure name in Xinglong Street, Guangzhou, named Dechang. All parts of the Pearl River Delta come to Guangzhou to pick up the goods, and a steamer bearing the name "Dechang" is shipped to Jiangmen, Zhongshan, Zhuhai and other places. Due to the spread of war, the industry was transferred to Hong Kong in the 194s.

In the 195s, there were a large number of tea houses in Central Sheung Wan, Hong Kong, and the steamer business in Dechang Sen Ji was booming. A large number of apprentices come to learn the craft of making a steamer. After opening bamboo, bending bamboo and drilling holes, they can gradually become masters, and a steamer can be completed in one hour after the full teacher. At that time, you could support yourself with this.

After that, with the immigration tide from Hong Kong, the steamer business expanded overseas, with more varieties and wider uses. In the 197s, the store moved the factory back to the mainland to save costs. At present, the factory in Guangzhou is mainly responsible for making the steamer with normal size. If there are guests in Hong Kong who order the steamer with special size, there are still experienced artists who make the steamer at the headquarters of the West Ring Road.

The practice of traditional steamer was fully reflected in Dechangsen. Hong Kong Dechang Sen Ji is just like a museum. They make steamer according to traditional techniques, using bamboo knives, wooden clips and sleepers, from bamboo breaking to weaving, and with skillful hands honed in half life, they will also make bamboo cups and bamboo tubes from leftover materials. Even the same rice spoon, each shape is slightly different and unique.

With the development of industrial technology, more and more traditional crafts are disappearing in people's sight. It is difficult to find a successor to the traditional old craft of bamboo weaving in Hong Kong. The master said that no one wants to spend his whole life learning an ancient craft, especially one that doesn't make a lot of money.

After the changes of the times and the challenge of stainless steel steamer, Lin Yinghong said a slightly sad sentence:

"No one can say for sure whether the world can accommodate a bamboo steamer in the future."

condensed the painstaking efforts of five generations, Dechang Sen Ji is still an indispensable inheritor of tea-drinking culture in Hong Kong, and the steamer, large and small, seems to bear the memories of the economic transformation and changes of the times experienced by Hong Kong people in the past.

Because of the small steamer, the whole process of tea drinking culture in Hong Kong has also become fun, and every steamer is expected. Tea house snacks, one cup and two pieces, dense water vapor, rose with the fragrance of food at the moment when the steamer was opened.

For drinking tea, the teahouse in the eyes of the older generation of Hong Kong people should be sold by someone. They carry a tray with leather straps on their backs, and stacks of steamers are placed on the tray.

"spicy shrimp dumplings, barbecued pork buns, and freshly baked snacks." Sometimes, before seeing the steaming steamer, there was a loud cry of selling.

"At that time, life was not as good as it is now, so I was satisfied to go to the teahouse often. At that time, happiness was very simple satisfaction, as hot as the heat in a steamer. "

The color change of bamboo steamer is a natural process of bamboo color evolution. With the reflection of bamboo and water vapor, the steamer will change from bamboo cyan to black, which is a gradual change process.

We don't just smell the long-lasting fragrance of smoking food in bamboo cages, it seems that there is always a taste of worrying about time, which lasts forever, and our hearts are nostalgic with our stomachs.

Hand-woven bamboo steamer, after steam heating, makes the food inside full of warmth, and the people who eat it are also full of happiness through the warmth of food.

since ancient times, China's diet has been well versed in the way of color, smell and shape. Although it ranks last, it can best reflect the spiritual needs, cultural accomplishment and lifestyle of human beings in an era.

I hope China's excellent history and culture will be passed down all the time.