Chapter 11 part

When I was young in the countryside, I knew that those who made wooden utensils were called carpenters, those who weaved bamboo utensils were called bamboo craftsmen, those who forged iron were called blacksmiths, those who chiseled and milled stones were called stonemasons, those who built houses were called plasterers, those who dyed clothes were called dyers, and those who sewed clothes were called tailors. In short, only those with craftsmanship can be called craftsmen. Craftsman is a commendatory term. Only in the more elegant art circles can craftsmen have a certain derogatory meaning. For example, calling a writer a writer means that he will never be successful in his life. up.Of course, the craftsman can also jump one level higher, and add a giant character in front, such as the giant of science, that is amazing. You must not add the word xiaogong in front, and the little craftsman will be finished.Craftsmen in the countryside, and most of them are delicious. For example, blacksmiths like to stew soup, carpenters like to stir-fry, and plasterers like to braise braised pork. It seems that each has its own convenience.

When I grew up, I went to a factory that actually had small workers, but found that the word "craftsman" was gone. The carpenter was renamed carpenter, the plasterer was called mason, and the blacksmith in particular was called blacksmith.For a long time, I couldn't understand blacksmiths, why isn't it called ironworkers?Since wood is capable of carpentry, clay is capable of masonry, and iron is called blacksmith instead of ironworker. Isn't blacksmith obviously also blacksmithing?When I first joined the geological team, there was an apprentice blacksmith, and we were not allowed to call him a blacksmith, as if blacksmiths were very contemptuous of people, so we insisted on calling him a blacksmith, which made us quite unhappy.

After changing writing to make a living, I studied characters and found that forging is really forging iron: forging, Xiaoye also. - "Shuowen".Press, melting and casting gold is metallurgy, and putting gold into fire and quenching it is small metallurgy.It turns out that there is nothing wrong with blacksmithing. The name of blacksmith is a rural folk language, which cannot enter industrial civilization.Forging, that is, forging, that is, raising a hammer and hitting it clangingly, causing sparks to fly everywhere.Later, when we met, Duan Ye was familiar with the word "Duan Xiu". When I read Duan Xiu, I was puzzled, what kind of thing is Duan Xiu?Duan Xiu is a good thing. For ordinary people, Duan Xiu may be difficult to eat.Duan Xiu said that in ancient times, people put meat on stone slabs, then put ginger, cinnamon and other spices, beat them with wooden sticks, beat them into meatloaf, and then dried them. This is called Duan Xiu, the original meaning of Duan. It means beating on the rocks on the cliff. In the oracle bone inscriptions, 殳 refers to weapons, and beating on the stones with a weapon in hand is a paragraph. Now I understand that the weapons in the past are nothing more than this, such as axes or meteor hammers.

However, as far as Duan Xiu is concerned, there is still a kind of knocking fish in Wenzhou. It may have been passed down from ancient times, but it is just called knocking fish.Knocking the fish means removing the bones of the grass carp and pounding the meat into cakes.The process of knocking fish is roughly like this, remove the bones of the fresh grass carp, put the starch, and then knock it up, put the starch while knocking, knock, knock, knock!The fish meat and starch are pounded thinner and thinner, and the cake is bigger and bigger, and then cut into slices.Put the fish fillets and green cabbage hearts into the boiling water pot for a while, pick up and drain the water, pour them into the clear soup frying pan, add the fish slices, green cabbage hearts, refined salt, and cooking wine, bring to a boil over medium heat, skim off the foam, and then Put shredded shiitake mushrooms, shredded cooked chicken breast, shredded cooked ham, topped with cooked chicken oil, and put it into a soup bowl. The yellow croaker in the sea is delicious. Choose the fresh yellow croaker, that is, the yellow croaker with a layer of light golden yellow on the scales. The scales of the first fished yellow croaker are silvery white. After a while, the yellow croaker will turn from white to yellow. Yellow croakers that turn from yellow to white, and then turn white are not delicious, and early white yellow croakers are also not tasty, so it is delicious to cook the yellow croakers during the period of time.Knock fish tastes tough and fresh, so it can be called a traditional delicacy.

In addition to Wenzhou, there is a kind of flat meat in Fujian, which can also be called section meat.Fujian is called Daweibian, which means that pork is beaten into meat stuffing with wooden sticks and wrapped into wontons. It is called flat meat, and flat meat is Fujian wonton.The meat filling of the flat meat tastes crispy, which is also amazing.Only Duan Xiu, who did it, has not been eaten so far, has it been lost?It’s hard to say, given China’s vast land area and large population, it’s also hard to say whether there is still a tradition of making Duanxiu in some mountains. Only by actually investigating it can we determine whether there is one or not.Duan, it has something to do with food, I never thought of it before, and after knowing it, I suddenly wanted to be a "Duan craftsman".