Chapter 25 The golden rooster sings Wan Jiachun

The sun and the moon change, and the order of the years is updated, scratching your head and scratching your head.The hesitant and changeable Year of the Monkey has finally gone through all kinds of hardships and survived safely. The year is Xinyou, and it is time for the Pleiades Star Officer to be on duty again. The rooster has a loud voice, straight to the point, what to say, and don't think it's a ghost or a dog in the heart, so it is said that the rooster crows and the world is white. In those days in the Mainland, a long time ago, I heard that there were cockfighting games in the south of Lingnan and west of Fujian, but I never saw how to fight.One year after I came to Taiwan, I went to Douliu Township and had lunch in a small restaurant next to the market. The guys in the restaurant were talking about watching a cockfight after dinner.As soon as I inquired, there was an ancient house behind the market, and there were two cockfights at three o'clock in the afternoon.Cockfighting is not illegal, but the cockfighters and spectators on both sides bet a lot of money on winning or losing, and the police are about to ban it.

The arena is about five pings in size and is surrounded by plywood boards. Both sides put their roosters on the field for display.The two sides negotiated a good condition and put the cocks into the fighting arena. The two fighting cocks immediately raised their crowns and flapped their wings, fierce and fierce. After the fall, the loser bows his head and sprints away, while the winner sings loudly, it can be regarded as the end of a fierce battle.Because the fighting is fierce and fierce, it is different from watching crickets.An old man who watched the battle said: "During the prosperous Tang Dynasty in China, there were cockfights. During the Kaiyuan period, the Ming emperor was very interested in cockfights. He set up a chicken workshop, selected famous breeds, and sent special staff to raise and train them. Chunqiu Jia used to watch cockfights as a daily basis. Le. At most, there were more than 5,000 famous birds of different species, all of which were golden and iron-segregated, with high crowns and tails. As for Fujian, Guangdong and Nanyang, the style of cockfighting has been passed down from the Tang Dynasty!"

Cockfighting is very popular in Thailand, and the layout of the cockfighting ring is as exquisite as that of a boxing ring. Both sides of the competition must weigh their chickens in public, and they belong to the same weight before they are allowed to fight.The chicken's beak has been quite honed, and it is as sharp as a hook. If it pecks it, the skin will be broken and blood will flow immediately.There are incomparably sharp steel blades tied to the feet. When fighting, the battle will not stop until one side flees.This kind of gamecock eats a lot. It is said that Thai gamecocks come from Laos. A pair of strong gamecocks is dozens of times more expensive than ordinary broilers. After special training and breeding, although it costs a lot of money, it can also bring infinite wealth to the owner!

In the rural style of Beijing, the party is the lightest for happy events, slightly heavier for funerals, and heavier for imports when it comes to additions.It is said that when the Yuan Dynasty entered the Central Plains, they hoped that the branches and leaves would flourish, so the members were particularly generous. During the puerperium period, relatives and friends would not only send millet, crock pot, eggs, and brown sugar, but also a nine-pound yellow The old hen gives tonic to the mother.The so-called nine-jin yellow, although not as heavy as nine catties, is freely raised outside in the countryside. It grows up eating caterpillars and is strong enough to be strong and fat, much stronger than the current mutant chickens.When stewing chicken soup, the chicken head should be removed first, which is said to dispel wind and evil.The simmered soup has a layer of chicken oil as thick as a copper coin. The chicken oil must be skimmed off before it can be given to the mother. Otherwise, the mother will become obese after a full moon.Although there are still people talking about the term Jiujinhuang, it’s been a long time since I’ve seen a Jiujinhuang chicken.

During the Beiyang period, Meng Enyuan, the governor of Heilongjiang, loved to raise strange birds and animals. He built a small zoo in the Bukui Governor's Office, and raised a pair of tigers in the garden, so it was named Fern Garden.He was hunting in Suifenhe, and accidentally got a pair of "snow chickens with short legs".It is said that it is warmer than fire jujube, and the old and weak people cook it with ginseng, and the hands and feet will not be cold in severe winter.After careful feeding by him, there were actually 20 or 30 bred.He also has two pairs of long-legged chickens, three feet high, with thick hocks, golden spurs and strong shins, and they are soaring and hesitating, as if they are soaring into the sky.When Meng Enyuan was in office, he gave it to Chang Saji, the director of the Beining Road Bureau, to raise it. Chang's uncle suffered from soft feet. Someone told him that stewed long-legged chicken with aconite and dried ginger could cure it. Chang's uncle ate it. After the four long-legged chickens, they walked with the help of a stick.But the long-legged chicken is a different species of chicken, which can be encountered but not sought after. Since then, I have never heard of long-legged chickens appearing anywhere, and the species is probably extinct!

Eating guinea fowl was very popular in Pingtung area of ​​Kaohsiung last year. I remember that in the early years, there were several guinea fowls in Sanbeizi Garden. The head was a bit like a turkey, with gray hair and white spots. , Yidi is docile and cute, unexpectedly the old gourmets will think of it.I heard from old gourmets that when eating shochu chicken in winter, it is best to use guinea fowl for chicken and rice wine head for wine.It's a pity that although I am delicious, I am weird and have very few people, so I haven't tasted delicious food until now. In Changzhi Township, Pingtung, there is a Peng Jun who graduated from the Department of Animal Husbandry of Pingtung Agricultural College. When Laiheng, Luhua, and Luodaohong were popularized in Taiwan, because of the dry climate in Pingtung and the fact that he raised them well, it was very difficult for him to breed. Made a little fortune.In view of the fact that guinea fowls are optimistic, he bred guinea chicks in large numbers.An Indonesian friend gave him a long-tailed chicken. When he started raising it, the tail was only two feet long. Later, the chicken grew bigger and bigger, and the tail became longer and longer. It was more than five feet long. It was difficult to walk on flat ground, so he gave them A few T-frames of dead beech wood were made, the ground was covered with fine sand, and a rockery with towering peaks and steep cliffs was built for habitat.In less than two years, there were as many as forty or fifty long-tailed chickens in his Golden Rooster Garden. Whenever the weather was clear, the long-tailed chickens would stand upright on a T-shaped frame, pick their feathers, spread their wings, and dance to chase after them. Hua Huan died, and he didn't give up too much!

When my grandmother was in Guangzhou, a famous doctor Ding Zhonghe gave a secret recipe: remove the head of a hen, use eight taels of sorghum wine, add one tael of wolfberry, add a little ginger and spring onion to remove the fishy smell, stew the soup and drink it, often eat it It can cure cold hands and feet in winter.When the author was young, he often served his grandmother for dinner. There was often this flavor of chicken wine on the table.Later, restaurants in Guangdong also used chicken wine to appeal to diners, ah, it tasted bland and tasteless, completely different from my family’s chicken wine.

According to nutritional analysis, nutrition experts recently found that beef, pork, and chicken have the same protein, but the fat content is quite different.A tael of lean pork has 14,000 calories, pork belly has as many as 20,000 calories, although the calories of beef are slightly lower than pork, but it is limited, and a tael of chicken has only 5,000 calories, which is only one third of pork. Even a quarter.If you choose meat, you should eat more chicken.There is a dish handed down in the family, celery (formerly known as Chugui) roast chicken, pinch off the leaves of water celery, cut into two-inch sections, braise the chicken in soy sauce and cook it with celery, it is plump and refreshing, and slightly sweet, it is a suitable dish. Food that is suitable for food and wine.Xiao Longyou and Kong Bohua, among the "Four Famous Doctors" in Beiping, all appreciated this dish very much.They believe that the elderly, no matter how fat or thin, should avoid fat and thick, but they are vegetarians all day long, and they are worried about nutritional deficiencies, but celery has a hot effect. It should be cooked with chicken with low calories and low protein.Taiwanese cress is fat, so you might as well use it to stew a chicken.

Wu Peifu's general Hu Liseng (Jing Yi) originally liked to eat, and he had a big appetite.Since Wu Peifu found out that he was single-minded, he was imprisoned in a small room and fed him with lard and rice every day. Although he was released, he has become obese.Once Wang Wendian, the chairman of the Peking Chamber of Commerce, invited him to dinner in Jinanchun. One dish was paper-wrapped chicken.Some accompanying guests watched the host and guest eat like this, and no one dared to open the paper bag, so they had to swallow it whole.Later, Jinanchun was afraid that there would be reckless eaters again, so he fried the chicken and wrapped it in rice paper and served it on the table.

Recently, restaurants with both northern and southern tastes have a dish called Three Cup Chicken. Some people say it is Fuzhou cuisine, and some say it is Henan cuisine.Cao is from Weixian County, Shandong Province, so this dish is of course Shandong cuisine. Chicken Wrapped Wings is a specialty dish of Shexia chef Liu Wenbin.He uses fat old hens for this dish. The skin of native chickens is more flexible and thicker than that of foreign chickens. Therefore, when removing the bones, with a little skill, the chicken wings and legs can be completely removed.If the wings are too long, it is not easy to pack them tightly. It is best to wrap the wings with a small lotus.Shark fins are simmered with abalone, ham and scallops first, then stuffed into the chicken belly, sewn with thin kelp threads to prevent the juice from leaking and reducing the taste, and then add the oil-free chicken broth, simmer over low heat, and use a round porcelain plate for about an hour Serve well.Like a big moon, it is moistened and steamed, with a clear and mellow taste, plump but not greasy.Mr. Han Zishi, a famous person in Jiangsu, ate this dish and thought it was both beautiful and delicious. If he still called it Chicken Wrapped Wings, he would be ashamed of the delicacy.After this dish was tasted by Mr. Han Zi, it has been in the limelight for several years in northern Jiangsu.

Chen Banding, a veteran painter in the south of the Yangtze River, first worked on feathers and later on flowers. He said that it is difficult to paint a chicken, but it is even more difficult to paint the front of a rooster with a crown and a golden distance.The head of the rooster's comb is narrow, and the three parts of the comb, eyes and beak are confused when the brush is not careful.When painting chickens, the rooster must have its spirit, the female must show its love, and the young chicks must draw their posture.Mei Lanfang studied painting, landscapes, figures, feathers, and flowers have their own masters, and Chen Banding carefully taught him to paint chickens.Luo Yinggong and Huang Qiuyue thought that it would not be difficult to find Lan Fang for a painting, such as a meticulous Manjushri statue or a freehand Buddha of Immortality, but they would not necessarily respond in the same way to ask him to paint a meticulous chicken. In the mid-winter of the eighth year of the Republic of China, Yuan Hanyun was invited by Zhang Jian to Caicuan, Nantong for a few days. First, he performed "Folding Willows" with Xiao Rongxiang, and then performed "Judging the Head" and "Good Times" with Ouyang Yuqian.Mei Lanfang's new production of "Luo Shen", Zhang Jizhi thought that if Han Yun was to play Cao Zijian, it would be a perfect match, but he was afraid of meeting Yuan's second son, so he entrusted Lanfang to discuss it personally.Han Yun has always regarded himself very highly, thinking that his talent is enough to match Cao Zijian, and he has tried to compare himself to King Chen Si, but for Shen Shou's affairs, he is very grievous on behalf of Shen Shou's husband Yu Bing.He believed that Lan Fang's invitation to play Cao Zijian in "Luo Shen" was definitely not out of Lan Fang's original intention.Lanfang people are very gentle and kind. Later, when they learned about the inside story, they automatically drew a fine brushwork banner "Bamboo Chicken" and gave it to Han Yun. The best imperial product from the inner court.Han Yun got this piece of "Bamboo Chicken", and specially wrote a seven unique inscriptions on the painting: "Xing Si Hua re-announces and scores, the Mei family sees the king again for thousands of years, the male Han and the female Qin Chaoxiang, holding a green broom Fu Qingyun." And added: "Xuanhe painting manual: Mei Xingsi is the best at painting chickens, and the name is Meijia chicken." After the postscript, he stamped his most beloved one "Buddhist disciple Yuan Kewen wholeheartedly supports" Buddha seal, included in the collection.This year is a happy year for Pleiades Sun King, so I specially wrote this story. The author has been to quite a few provinces in China. Except for the Taiyang Palace to the east of the Second Gate in Beijing dedicated to the Sun and Pleiades, I am afraid that there is no temple dedicated to Pleiades.The second day of February is the birthday of Pleiades Xingjun. The sun official held a temple fair for one day, and all the ladies in the southeast city went to burn incense and pay respects. For a while, walking shoes were intertwined, and the strings were noisy, which was more lively than ordinary temple fairs.According to the old people, if you go to the Taiyang Palace on the second day of February to make incense, you can bless your eyes and ears without deafness until you grow old. In addition to bringing their own incense candles, pilgrims also need to buy a sun cake to offer.This kind of sun cake is not accepted by pastry and snack shops, and it is the exclusive business of steamer shops.There are five sun cakes in a stack, and each piece is about the size of a silver dollar. It loses its surface when you bite into it, and has a slightly sweet taste.The most wonderful thing is that each clump of sun cakes is inserted with a bamboo stick, and a colorful big rooster is pinched on the top.When the hero returns home, he dilutes the sun cake with water and eats it as a cake for the elderly, saying that it can improve eyesight.As for the staring rooster on bamboo sticks, it is stuck in the crack of the wall or on the window sill, and it is said that the rooster sits in the city and is invulnerable to all poisons.Although it is a superstition in the agricultural society, in retrospect, it is full of flavor! This year is the season of the rooster, and beauty masters have long been using their brains on chicken-shaped facial makeup.They painted delicate and bright colors on the lower eye area, from the corners of the eyes to the end of the eyes, and turned them up slightly, making up a pair of mysterious phoenix eyes with single eyelids, which is said to be the oriental charm face of the Year of the Rooster.Fashion designers add brooches, necklaces, and hair accessories to embellish the Year of the Rooster with eye-catching feathers.The day before yesterday, at a reception at the State Guest Hotel, I saw an elegant lady wearing a leopard-skin cloak, leopard-skin muff, and a leopard-skin hat. The colorful pheasant tail, Wenjin high bun, leaning against the dust, is very unique and eye-catching. The ancients said that when the rooster crows, the world will be brightened. The rooster is a symbol of perseverance and hard work. I hope that the wind and rain will turn dark, the rooster will crow endlessly, and the years will be bright, so that we can all have a new spirit and a new atmosphere.