Changning in Yunnan: Thunder Sounds Chicken Fragrance

Starting from mid -to -late June of the lunar calendar, with the "popularity" of high temperature and high humidity and strong convective weather, folk legends such as chickens need lightning to wake up. The flavor of the fireworks of the mountain village.

Among the many wild edible fungi in Changning, the chicken is undoubtedly the most popular. The reason why chicken is popular is because of rare things, on the other hand because of its unique deliciousness and value. "Compendium of Materia Medica" records that the chicken cymbals have the effect of "benefiting the stomach, clearing the gods, and treating hemorrhoids." Modern medical research has proved that chicken gangsters have the effects of enhancing human immune function, preventing bowel cancer, nourishing blood, moisturizing, and spleen and stomach. Moreover, chicken crickets are rich in nutrition and have a very good nourishing effect on the human body.

"Chicken, fungi. However, Yongchang produces beauty and many." The "South Garden Man Lu", which was written in the five years of Jiajing, recorded that the ancient belonging Yongchang's Changning was the ideal place for chickens to grow. "The old lady was amazed. What kind of chicken is this chicken? Boneless is skin, without blood is meat, fresh in the brocade cream, and is inseparable from the natron belly." After joining the army with the army, he also admired after eating chicken gangsters, winning more "fans" for the chicken.

There are many types of chicken groceries in Changning, including black chicken grocery, green chicken buns, white chicken buns, yellow chicken buns, red chicken buns and so on. Generally, from June to September of the lunar calendar each year. The most loved black chicken pheasant is generally concentrated in the two lunar calendars in the "Fire Hard Festival" and "Monthly Half Festival". "Sanji".

The yellow chicken has the largest head and the longest cycle. Generally, there are yellow chickens from July to the end of the lunar calendar to the end of September, and a "chicken pond" will be released multiple times. Even in the autumn and winter turn of the "yellow sky", there will be "earth yellow chicken", and the older generation says "Tuyao Chicken" can be used as medicine. After the big yellow chicken "open the umbrella", it can be as big as rain cap.

Rural people eat chicken gangsters and go to the mountains to find. To find a chicken 不, you must not only know the "chicken pond", but also master the chicks of the chicken. Sometimes the difference between the sections and the climate will be different, but the difference is two or three days.

Chicken is very spiritual, and it usually comes out of the soil after thunderstorms. As for the principle, no one has made it clear so far. Looking for chicken, as soon as the chicken season, as long as the first night of the night, the next night, whether it is rain or sunny the next morning, you will put on the clothes and put on the rain cap. I am happy again and again.

Chicken cymbals need a specific environment. Generally speaking, chicken gangsters are common in the ground, deserted land, and random graves and valleys in the device, and the base handle is connected to the termite nest. Under natural conditions, the chicken and termites are symbiotic, and the termite nest is the "chicken soil pot" that Changning people are used to.

The chicken is good, nutritious, and safe. Every time this season, cold raw chicken raw, green pepper fried chicken, chicken stewed eggs, boiled chicken 枞 ... All kinds of ways to eat are suitable for all ages. Of course, the favorite of the Changning people is to stir -fry the fresh chicken with green pepper, green pepper, garlic and other condiments. The delicious taste makes people never forget it again.

Chicken is not resistant to storage. Although people in the past do not use freezer to freeze, they can come up with a way to save. The generation of generations inherited from generation to generation is not just a food, but also a special cultural symbol.

"Wash the soil and cook it with salt ..." The most primitive method is dried chicken. It is to wash the chickens after the soil, add an appropriate amount of salt once, and then dry it under the sun or use the traditional firewood residual charcoal, or bake it with the remaining fire in the large iron pot. To make dried chicken, you usually use the small black chicken bones that are just unearthed. Take out the dried chicken sturgeon when eating. After soak in warm water, use the tree tomatoes that are called eggs and fruits with a cold and related seasonings. You can also cook soup, stewed eggs, etc. It is particularly chewy to eat. Essence

On the basis of dried chicken, Changning people made delicious chicken pheasants in the way of halogen. Like other ways to eat dried chicken, making water chicken must also "wake up" with warm water, and then use soaked chicken pupa water for about 12 hours. Add Zuo during the cooking process. It is expected to "boil" slowly. Making water chicken sturgeon not only must be a good bone, but also the pepper used must be good, otherwise the water chicken crickets made not only do not look good, but also feel bad. Do not touch oil during the production process, as long as it encounters oil, it is easy to rot and deteriorate.

The most common chicken food in Changning people is to count oil chicken. Whenever the chicken launch season, whether you walk in rural, collective towns or counties, restaurants, hotels, special processing workshops, and one household will fried more or less oil chicken crickets. The restaurant operating room and processing workshop exudes, seductive appetite. After the oil chicken is made, it is usually used to mix rice noodles and noodles when eating early, or pick a few shreds when mixing cold dishes.

The requirements for making oil chicken are not as high as dried chicken and chicken chicken. When making, you only need to wash the chicken buns and tear it out, and fry it with an appropriate amount of heat. Those who need to be stored for a long time will be frying. The smell of oil chicken can be said to be the most memorable fragrance in many people's memory.

To this day, every season when the chicken is produced, there will be many people who collect chicken and sell chicken crickets in the towns and villages in Changning.枞, oil chicken 枞, water chicken 枞, "chicken economy" has also become a source of income for farmers in Changning Mountains. Chicken products have also become a "luxury goods" for Changning people to give their relatives and friends.Although science and technology have developed, many wild bacteria, including chickens, still cannot achieve artificial planting.These spiritual things such as chickens are still a gift of nature to human beings.These treasures in the mountains are worthy of slow taste and cherish.

Figure/Wen Wu Zaizaizhong

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