Jianchangying zhuanzi

Jianchangying Town, north of Qian 'an City, has a unique food in JD.COM area-Xunzi. Jianchangying's prickly heat is yellow in color, as thin as paper, and the thinnest part is translucent. It tastes crisp and delicious, fragrant but not greasy, and is an excellent nutritious food. The prickly heat can be stored for a long time without deterioration, usually for half a month in summer and two or three months in winter. Scorpion has a long history. Qu Yuan of the State of Chu mentioned the oldest scorpion in "Evocation of Songs of Chu" during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period. After Su Dongpo, a great poet in the Song Dynasty, ate the prickly heat made by an old lady, he wrote a poem praising: "Hand in hand, the jade color is even, and the blue oil is tender and yellow." I didn't sleep at night, and I crushed my family and wrapped my arms. " The characteristics of fine, clean, bright, fragrant and crisp, as well as the hard work of the producers, are written. Li Shizhen, a medical scientist in the Ming Dynasty, said that because it was crisp, it was "easy to dissipate". This is the origin of the name. There are also two nicknames for the scorpion, one is called "Twisted Head", and it is necessary to "twist its head" when making it; It is called "cold utensil" because the ancients ate it during the Cold Food Festival. The specific method is: use the super flour ground by stone mill, salt water and flour, knead and stop, knead and stop, 5 kg of flour for about two hours. Rub the mixed noodles into finger-thick noodles by hand and soak them in oil for one hour. Then, pinch the soaked noodles into your hands, make them into chopsticks, and make five or six strips into a handful. Use two chopsticks to hold them in the oil pan and fry them. Oil is a mixture of sesame oil and peanut oil. Watch the temperature when frying, if the fire is big, it will be broken, but if the fire is small, it will not blow up. Prickly heat has medical value. In Compendium of Materia Medica, it is said that it can "facilitate defecation, moisten intestines, warm the middle warmer and replenish qi". Therefore, people in Jianchangying buy it to visit patients, parturients or make supplements for the elderly. Jianchangying's scorpion has a history of at least 200 years, which can be said to be a long history, with exquisite materials and fine production. Since the resumption of production in 1979, its reputation has spread like wildfire. Besides being sold in large quantities locally, it has also been exported to Beijing, Tianjin, Tang, Shanghai and Inner Mongolia, and has become a favorite food.
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