Xinhua News Agency ｜ When people mention Shanxi, they will think of Lao Chen vinegar

On the morning of January 27, 2022, General Secretary Xi Jinping, who was inspected in Shanxi, came to the East Lake Old Vinegar House in the ancient city of Pingyao to learn about the national intangible cultural heritage old vinegar brewing skills and the development of characteristics.

The antiques of the East Lake Old Vinegar Square built by the old workshop, which can be called "the complete living specimen of Shanxi Old Chen Vinegar." Here, Guo Junlu, a national -level intangible cultural heritage old vinegar brewing technique, brought his apprentice to show and introduce General Secretary Xi Jinping.

A drop of vinegar, after careful brewing of the process of "steaming, yeast, smoking, leaching, and Chen", and then the aging of the winter and summer sun in winter, it can be called Shanxi Old Chen vinegar.

Guo Junlu introduced to General Secretary Xi Jinping that Shanxi Lao Chen vinegar selected sorghum, peas, barley, bran, bran, and bran as raw materials. The essence of crafts is the red heart of a variety of microbial bacteria, which are inseparable from the birth of the Loess Plateau.

The fermentation and rake of vinegar technology pays attention to temperature and humidity. This process must be manually operated. The masters wear copper fingers on their fingers to protect both fingers.

"It is both technology, learning, and art." General Secretary Xi Jinping sighed carefully and experienced the fermentation of vinegar in person.

After the sales counter, General Secretary Xi Jinping saw a kind of dumpling vinegar with garlic cloves. He bought a bottle and said happily that eating dumplings on New Year's Eve would use this bottle of vinegar.

"Thank you General Secretary's encouragement and support for us! From 'jealousy on vinegar' to digging vinegar culture, vinegar's wonderful use and craft characteristics, Shanxi Lao Chen vinegar must be based on the whole country and go to the world." Guo Junlu reported his efforts to General Secretary Xi Jinping direction.

General Secretary Xi Jinping cordially instructed: "Healthy China, vinegar can play a role."

The combination of the protection and development and use of intangible cultural heritage to achieve the creative transformation and innovative development of the excellent traditional culture of China is a major event that General Secretary Xi Jinping attaches great importance to it.

"As a national intangible cultural heritage inheritance, I must keep in mind the entrustment of General Secretary Xi Jinping, strengthen cultural self -confidence, tap the historical and cultural connotation of Shanxi old vinegar, and come out of a new path of the development of old vinegar." Guo Junlu said confidently.

Time is a loyal recorder, engraved with the pace of the governor. From April 18th, Xinhua News Agency has opened a "near -lens • warm moment" column. Since the eighteenth National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the wonderful moment of General Secretary Xi Jinping's governance of the country tells the warm story behind each photo.

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