[Haichuan Food Talk] Xuzhou is not afraid of the heat, and thousands of people eat Fuyang in the streets
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The so-called "Fu Sheep" refers to the mutton after entering Fu. There is a saying among the people in Xuzhou that "Pengcheng Fuyang has a bowl of soup without a prescription from a miracle doctor". "Book of Han, Biography of Yang Yun" records: “The Tian family is hard at work, and every year they cook sheep, fish and lambs, and fight with wine to work themselves out. ” A Sheep Festival lasts for about ten days. How much mutton will be eaten in 10 days? Someone calculated a figure that 1 million kilograms of mutton will be eaten in 10 days. On the Fuyang Festival, the whole city of Xuzhou will be filled with the aroma of mutton, and everyone is eating mutton. * * You can eat mutton in small restaurants, mutton restaurants, barbecue stalls, and food stalls, and people come here to drink mutton soup in droves. There is a huge Fuyang Festival every year in Xiao County, Anhui Province. Another city not far away from it, Xuzhou, Jiangsu Province, was because it was close to Xiao County in the past years. During the Fuyang Festival, Xuzhou people would go to Xiao County to eat Fuyang Festival. Sheep, later on, we simply created our own Fuyang Festival, which became bigger and bigger and more famous. Every year when the Fuyang Festival comes, diners from all over the country make a special trip to Xuzhou just to attend the Fuyang Festival feast.
Good guy, I ate 1 million kilograms of mutton in 10 days, that’s nearly 10,000 sheep.
In fact, it’s not much even if you calculate it. With a population of tens of millions, one person only needs one tael on average, which is just a bowl of mutton soup.
It seems like it’s also a food culture
On July 11, 2002, Xuzhou held the first Fuyang Food Culture Festival, officially named Fuyang Festival. In 2009, Xuzhou City was recognized as the "Hometown of Chinese Fuyang Cuisine" by the China Cuisine Association. On May 24, 2021, "Xuzhou Fuyang Food Custom" was included in the fifth batch * * List of intangible cultural heritage items. Nowadays, the custom of "eating Fuyang during the dog days" has spread from the Huaihai region to the whole country. Shanghai, Shandong, Anhui, Jiangsu, Liaoning, Hubei, Zhejiang and other provinces and cities hold Fuyang Festivals during the dog days. Fuyang Festival has become a "rooted ancient festival" * Customs, forming a typical representative of the new festival.
In fact, the Fuyang Festival is a festival created based on the Xuzhou folk food customs with Pengzu cultural connotations. During Pengzu's time, sheep-eating was common in the Xuzhou area. * According to custom, the "Yang Fang Hidden Fish" created by Peng Zu was the sublimation of the sheep cooking skills of that era. According to the "Book of Han" records, the emperor "gave meat to his subordinates in the late morning." The "official meat" at that time was mutton, the first of the "three animals", and there was no doubt that Emperor Futian shared mutton with his ministers. Not only were sheep eaten in the palace, there was also a record in the "Book of Han Dynasty" that "the Tian family worked hard, and when they were old, they cooked sheep, canned lambs, and fought with wine to work themselves out." Before the Song Dynasty, palace banquets * Most of the dishes here are mainly mutton. From the perspective of the structure of Chinese characters, from the aesthetic judgment of "big sheep is beautiful", to the food pursuit of "fish and sheep are fresh", to the health concept of "eating sheep to nourish", all imply the pursuit of mutton delicacies and the understanding of mutton cooking by our ancestors.
If you have the chance, go somewhere to eat Fuyang.