Chapter 20 lazy tofu

I thought it was a kind of cool, maybe it is the same in summer and winter, I feel it has a kind of simple mystery, if you don't have interest in it and understand its history, it is completely possible to ignore its existence.When I first arrived in Muyu Town, the owner once asked me what I wanted to eat. I only said Hezi, because I heard that Heyu has been around for many years, but I have not eaten it many times in western Hubei. Hubei writer Yemei, and Huanggang Tian Zhongjie, the old principal of the middle school, has told me about the joint festival. When they talk about the joint festival, they all have a look of infinite yearning.Especially Mr. Tian Zhongjie, who was born in 1915, studied at Zhang Zhidong's industrial technical secondary school, and Hubei Revolutionary University (formerly known as Hubei Normal University), majoring in mathematics.I asked him how he studied during the Anti-Japanese War,

He said that during the Anti-Japanese War, the school moved to eastern Sichuan, and there was no good food, and it was New Year’s Eve if they could eat a meal.This has deepened my impression of He Tan, so if you encounter a place with He Tan, you must eat it. Hequ is the food of the Tujia people, and it is a kind of favorite.The Shennongjia forest area has a population of 80,000, and about 5,000 ethnic minorities, mainly Tujia, are distributed in a forest area of ​​3,250 square kilometers (one said 3,253 square kilometers, of which a quarter of the original forest is still untouched by humans. ), however, in Shennongjia, it is called lazy tofu, which probably means tofu made by lazy people. It means soaking soybeans, grinding them, cooking them with soy milk and bean dregs, adding oil, salt and chopped green vegetables, and eating them. Sure enough, it can whet the appetite, and it will make people eat hot after three or two strokes, and the appetite will be whetted.It's kind of magical, and it's more addictive than the well-made tofu.I ate lazy tofu in the countryside of Muyu Town. This is such a primitive forest, and it is also popular to eat farm dishes. It is to let cooks who have not received cooking training make farm dishes and then taste them.This time I also added Fan Hong's family from Wuhan, who also came here to eat farm food.

After all, I am not from western Hubei. I think lazy tofu is suitable for appetizing and refreshing. I eat half a bowl of it as an appetizer at the beginning of the meal, and eat some of it during the wine break. Especially when eating cured meat, its refreshing effect is very important.The popularity of lazy tofu is limited to western Hubei and eastern Sichuan. In eastern Sichuan, it has another name called bean curd, or bean curd rice. The method is more complicated, adding pepper and minced meat.Local people love it so much, why hasn't it spread?This is a mystery, and the mystery cannot be guessed.Many of the current population of the Shennongjia forest area are outsiders, mainly those who went to the mountains to build roads and clear forests in the early 1960s and their descendants.They are also assimilated now, and when it comes to lazy tofu, they are also fascinated.As for soybeans, which are commonly referred to as soybeans, there are still wild soybeans in Shennongjia, which grow in the Guanmen Mountain and Pingchi area at an altitude of 1200-1500 meters.The vitality of wild soybeans is extremely strong. In the 1950s, the kingdom of soybeans in the world - the United States, soybean cyst nematodes swept across North America. American soybeans were on the verge of extinction. Later, breeding experts came to China to introduce wild soybeans to breed new disease-resistant soybeans. varieties, American soybeans have survived the crisis.

Starting from Muyu Town, I have traveled all over Shennongjia, especially in Niulantou in Xinhua. I have eaten lazy tofu. It is the daily food of Shennongjia mountain people. For the green vegetables in lazy tofu, I think it is better to use slightly bitter radish leaves. But this is also a matter of opinion, only that the mountain and the water come out with that dish, and how that person does it, we can eat it as we like.