"The old man has a chicken millet, invite me to Tian's house", this poem was written by Meng Haoran, but according to the wording of "chicken millet", it can be pushed to Feng Menglong at the bottom, and "Book of the Later Han Dynasty" at the top.The relationship between Fan Shi and Zhang Shao is as high as mountains and rivers, but the props have changed from Boya Ziqi's zither to chicken millet. But when it comes to Meng Haoran, you have to deliberate: What does the chicken mean?Why eat a meal of chicken and millet, and you can make an appointment "on the day of the Double Ninth Festival, if you come, you will have chrysanthemums"?In the meantime, there is also "green trees close to the village, green mountains and guo slant outside", what does this mean? In "Book of Jin", it is written that a beautiful man is drunk like a jade mountain is about to fall, and the two of you will fall in the shadow of the green trees by the village when the green hill tilts?It's still "close", what are you going to do?Compared with Wei Yingwu's metaphors such as "the spring tide brings rain and comes late", this poem can be accompanied by some stories of broken sleeves...

Uh, I’ve said too much, let’s not express this... When I read this poem when I was young, I didn’t know Fan Zhang’s appointment, but I only had a feeling for the word “chicken and millet”. In my impression, I immediately baked a bowl of buttery chicken soup with rice.The cool breeze in the fields, the green trees and the autumn fragrance are enough to make people drunk without drinking. Life is beautiful.There is a similar wonderful feeling, only at the end of Xin Qiji's words "Speaking of a good year in the fragrance of rice flowers", the twists and turns suddenly saw that the old hotel was comparable.The old days are warm, and the old days come back, and they are as sweet and warm as chicken soup.

Usually, when the ancients wrote about autumn, they were always elegant and bleak, and they danced to clarify the shadows, as if they were in the world.Using wine as a prop is not tasty enough, and maybe a few cold tears of lovesickness will be drawn.Lin Jiaotou Fengxue Mountain Temple, it is cold and snowy outside, and there is cold wine in the gourd, but I still feel better because he has beef to eat. People in the south of the Yangtze River eat less beef and mutton than those in the north. Pork is the favorite food of homely men, and it is somewhat fatter and more vulgar.Only chicken is delicate and cheap, so both men and women kill it.The chicken neck meat tastes delicate, the chicken wings are slender and tender, the chicken breast and back meat is thick and delicious, the chicken bones are soft and crisp, the chicken legs are healthy, and the chicken feet are chewy. All the internal organs of the chicken can be used with wine, especially for southerners. Favorite cold dish.From top to bottom, without leaks, and with the best of all: chicken soup.

Where my grandma lives, there is a chicken farm around the bend when I go out, and a small bridge next to it spans the river, which is called the Chicken Farm Bridge.My dad often jokes that I have lived for more than 20 years, and the chickens I eat probably don't go down to a chicken farm.Let’s talk about my family’s practice. The chicken is stewed in a crock pot. The fire is started in the morning and the pot is turned on in the evening. The chicken oil is all boiled out, and the soup is golden and rich. There is no heat, and the oil is heavy.The chicken is so crispy that you can cut apart the bones, and the taste is thick and fragrant.Chicken soup can be stewed with bamboo shoots, louvers and even mushrooms, and it is perfect when poured on rice.Although my mother repeatedly reminded me that soup soaked in rice is not good for digestion, but seeing that chicken soup can trick me into eating two more bowls, she always let it go.According to Chinese chicken soup, it can be called the cultural heritage of mankind.In the food list passed down by the literati, how many things can be eaten if you want it?Chicken soup is a versatile fetish. It does not overwhelm others, but also quietly contributes its fresh and sweet taste. Therefore, literati and bureaucrats love it, and feel that it is a gentleman, and it is more gentle than pigs, cattle and sheep.And the chicken is very good. The clean stewed chicken soup can be elegant and sweet, and it can be crispy and delicious when used as beggar chicken. Braised chestnut chicken and deep-fried chicken are so delicious that it can accept it calmly.The hall above, the kitchen below, and the height of the temple far away from the rivers and lakes are suitable.So Yuan Mei said: Chicken is the most powerful, and all dishes depend on it.

In addition to stewing chicken in soup, Jiangnan also likes to chop chicken, and Shanghainese are especially fascinated.Tang Lusun wrote that Tanjiacai's boiled chicken was very wonderful in those days. The extremely tender chicken was selected and cooked with hard boiling water. It was tender, sweet and tender without losing the original taste of chicken.The principle of white-cut chicken is actually similar to that of white-cut meat with garlic paste. It is clean, taste-worthy, and delicious, but it is suitable for drinking, not good for eating.When I ate saliva chicken in Chongqing, it seemed that when it was boiled, it had to be lightly salted and lightly marinated, and the red oil was much richer.Fairy in white is covered with powder, tender + spicy, very beautiful contrast.

Roast chicken is the most portable chicken, not so soupy, so it is common all over the world, especially the favorite of uncles who catch the train on business trips, and the flavors of different places are different.Roasted chicken in the south of the Yangtze River is often a little bit sweet and soy. The northern part of the chicken is marinated dry and fragrant, and the roasted chicken in the southwest is occasionally fragrant with peppercorns. Anyway, the chicken has a peaceful personality.But the chicken is not all gentle, the northeast style chicken is salty and fragrant, like a capable girl, not as tender as the southern white chicken, which is like a young daughter-in-law who squeezed out water, and it is a good thing for wine.

When I was young, I ate and drank chicken soup, and my grandmother and mother always complained that the chicken was not as fresh as it used to be.At that time, my tongue was still blunt, and I didn't know the difference between good chicken and bad chicken, fresh and not fresh, and I thought it was probably "one generation is not as good as one generation".When I grew up, I ate a lot, and I probably understood a little bit. When McDonald's and KFC first arrived in Taiwan, all the classical gourmets were heartbroken, thinking that the quintessence of China would be destroyed.Although I don't think it's such an exaggeration, it's true that the fast food chicken is not so fresh.Fast-food fried chicken has a strong taste, it is wrapped in bread, deep-fried, and rich in spices. The chicken only provides a chewy texture, and the taste itself does not seem to be very good.Friends who have returned from abroad lamented that the fast food chicken in China is already good, and accused North American chicken of being so fishy.My mother said that the hormones in chickens in North America are harmful to health. I don’t believe it—the American imperialists have eaten more fried chicken than us for more than a hundred years, and their sex life is not harmonious.It's just that foreign chicken is fishy and monotonous, and it's true that the taste is not as good as Chinese chicken.

The difference between foreign countries dealing with chickens and China dealing with chickens seems to be in the "chicken soup". There is a classic description in "Three Musketeers", saying that a stingy lawyer invites you to eat, "This poor old hen is really thin, with a layer of skin on it, but it has not been pierced by bones. It was waiting to die of old age, and I don't know where to find it for cooking. of".The lawyer and Porthos ate the chicken's head, wings, and feet, and took them down without a seal, but said nothing about the soup.There was a joke in the Republic of China that a German doctor had just come to Beijing and was good at doing experiments, cooking chicken with orange juice.Of course, there is nothing fresh and delicious in the stew.Therefore, the beauty of chicken soup lies not in the chicken, but in the long refinement of the umami of the chicken itself.

Whether the chicken soup is fresh or not can't be analyzed by chemical elements, it can only be understood by feeling and heart.Chicken is very honest. Ordinary people don't use ginseng, longan, wolfberry and other fetishes. As long as they put their heart into it, they can make good chicken soup.Many friends said that when talking about warm memories at home, there is always a pot of steamed chicken soup, which is boiled by mother with all her heart.Then, mothers always carefully set aside the chicken legs, eat chicken necks and wings for themselves, and dad eats chicken feet, and at the same time say with a smile that they love chicken necks and thin meat.This feeling is timeless, and the more time passes, the deeper it becomes.Chicken doesn't have a strong personality or taste, but it is mild and pleasant, with a long-lasting freshness, which is similar to home.Probably the home when I was a teenager was one chicken and one millet, a little rice and grain flavor, and a little light and warm chicken soup.