Chapter 17 Grain wine·running boar·jumping sesame

People in Shennongjia like to call hot pot a pot. When diners enter the restaurant, they will shout: "Here is a pot."This tone is close to Qinba language, the sound of "guo" rises and rises, and the word "zi" suddenly stops, which means not only wanting a hot pot, but also wanting to have a drink.The hot pot, called a pot, has a stove below it, which burns solid alcohol (burning charcoal in the countryside), and a small pot is placed on it. Various things can be cooked in the pot, and the content is very wide.After drinking in Shennongjia for more than ten days, I found that every table here must have a hot pot, and there are many hot pots, but there is one main pot. The diameter of the main pot is larger than other hot pots, and the content is diverse.Around this big hot pot, other dishes can be placed around it.

When I first arrived in Shennongjia, after visiting Banbiyan and Scenic Ya, I went to a drinking place called Xiaolongtan. This place is also called "Savage Dream Garden". It is said that there was a cage in the iron cage by the river earlier. The golden monkey is gone now, and a few macaques and a black bear have become the last watchmen.Black bears are polite, because they have been with people for a long time. When I saw it, it did not get up, but raised its left hand slightly to say hello (the bear is left-handed). For a bear, it has done a good job.After saying hello to the black bear, we went to the stream to wash our face. The stream water is clear and cool, which is extremely refreshing. After washing, we entered the restaurant very cool, and we asked for a private room.As Ms. Shen Shoumin from the Office of the Forest Ecological Management Bureau was the tour guide, the dishes in Xiaolongtan were also a bit unique.

As usual, a pot is served, and the pot is filled with hearty content, which looks like ribs to me.The soup is a little red, because there are some red peppers floating in it.Everyone in Shennongjia eats chili peppers. Generally speaking, it belongs to the mildly spicy category. It lacks the lush greenness and majesty of Shennongjia mountains, and it is a kind of spicy with a little tenderness.So, pour the wine and drink it up.Li Yuanhui, a colleague, is good at talking and can drink some wine, but he likes not to drink on purpose, while Xiao Wang does not drink.The wine is Shennongjia's local brewed grain wine. This grain wine is of very good quality, strong in nature, straight in taste, and refreshing in breath.Breaded corn and potatoes are the main grains of Shennongjia, which are dry land crops on hillsides. Mr. Bi Ye, an older writer, wrote an article about the corn in Shennongjia. He went to Qingfeng Town in Fangxian County. Qingfeng Grand Canyon is famous in the field of geology. Mr. Li Siguang also visited it. Look at the Quaternary glacier scratches.It is said that the early mountain people in Shennongjia would dance around a bonfire with straw burning on the hillside after harvesting the corn on August 15th, roast and eat the corn, drink corn wine, and celebrate the harvest of the year.

The pork ribs we ate this time are pork chops, which exude a strong aroma of pork and pork bones. According to Ms. Shen, the pork ribs we eat are obtained from wild pigs raised in the mountains of Shennongjia. They are wild boars, which are sub-wild animals. Eating wild vegetables in Shennongjia and drinking mountain streams, they are very good pigs.This is the first time I ate such excellent pork and pork ribs after I ate pork from pigs raised in grasslands in Ordos. A plate of wild vegetables.This plate of wild vegetables was temporarily assigned by Ms. Shen to the tour guides to pick them on the hillside. They called them wild sesame seeds. After my research again, Shennongjia is more commonly known as bungee sesame seeds.Jumping sesame is derived from picking the seeds, letting go of the heart, and the shell will explode automatically when it is warm, and the small green sesame seeds will pop out from the shell, so it is called jumping sesame.In summer in Shennongjia, the air is cool and pleasant. It is often sunny in the morning, rainy in the afternoon, and clear again in the evening, washing away the heat and making the forest verdant.The way to eat sesame leaves is also very simple. Put the leaves of sesame seeds into the pork rib soup, rinse them, and the sesame leaves will be cooked. After dipping in the pork rib soup, with its own smooth, tender and green taste, it is very delicious Refreshing, the pork rib soup becomes green and fresh, and all the boredom of visiting Banbiyan and Scenery Ya is dispelled.I thought, if I knew that sesame leaves can be eaten like this, why not pick them by myself while playing on Banbiyan, or it will be more interesting and fragrant, and this kind of wild boar should be named It is Shennong pig.

Taiyue drank four or two packs of grain wine, and the feeling of alcohol rose quietly. It rained suddenly outside the window. The weather in Shennongding area was changeable. After the anger in my heart dissipated, the sun was shining brightly, and there were only a few floating clouds on the mountain top outside the window. The faint fog covered the valley lightly, and the cool wind also came. The ribs of the wild boar were also gnawed, and I went out with a little drunk. There are chestnut trees in bloom, with white spike-shaped flowers, and red birch and Bashan fir standing in front of them, with raindrops on the tip of their leaves.