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Chapter 400 A pig's life and death

An article about the Chinese Baroque pearls missing in 2014 has attracted the attention of netizens. The owner is the unmovable cultural relics of this country. The "pearls" are two huge flower basket sculptures located on the roof at the corner of the building. The flower basket is filled with fruits of harvest, which conveys the simplest yearning for a happy life by the Chinese people.

Pomegranates and grapes symbolize more children and blessings, peaches symbolize longevity, and grains and fruits symbolize prosperity... Because of their complex carvings and finishing touches throughout the building, they are known as two pearls on old buildings.

The two large gray sculptures of the flower baskets suddenly disappeared from the roof one day in April, which was shocking. After investigation, it turned out that because the building was disrepaired, the two flower basket sculptures were tilted by lightning strikes. The staff of Daowai Real Estate 4 were worried that the fall and injured passers-by in the wind, so they demolished the flower basket sculptures. The flower basket sculptures were severely weathered and fragile, and they could not be restored after being removed.

Moreover, the entire process was not reported to the document protection unit, and it was characterized as private demolition and destroying the symbols of the city's culture. The flower blue sculpture was piled up by cement. At that time, it was made of lime, tung oil, glutinous rice juice, etc., and craftsmen shaped it with their hands, which was a burst of inspiration for craftsmen.

Although it has been less than a hundred years since the manufacturing process of gray sculptures has been lost. The cement sculptures imitated by modern people have lost their original vividness and delicateness. So to this day, these two old flower baskets have not been restored, which is considered a permanent loss.

The major issue of conservation and development is also placed in front of the people of the whole country. Too many fake antiques have occurred after demolishing real antiques in the future. However, many old houses have experienced the changes of the times, and the original owner has long been gone. The poor people who turned over to become owners have converted the original house into another style, such as some gorgeous gates built on red bricks to a room.

The old houses that are neglected to maintain have become dilapidated houses that are difficult to repair. The storefronts have changed various forms of signs with the changes of the times, and the materials of the doors have been replaced countless times with the times, and the color of the walls has also changed with the aesthetics of various merchants...

The dilapidated windows, faded wooden doors, and arched roofs are not just historical and cultural districts, but also firmly engraved the history of Harbin. Time flies, it is here, which is why I like it, just like an old man, telling the story of this city like us, and this story firmly attracts himself.

In the Northeast, there are two most authoritative gathering centers for food, one is Shenyang and the other is Harbin. In addition to the regular Northeast diet, another unique blood is injected here - Russian flavor, making the city's diet more important.

The name of pork chops is well known to everyone in the Northeast, and is probably one of the hard dishes to eat in my mind. Johnson feels that it is similar to the common meat in Shandong, and it is inevitable that people will not think of the inheritance relationship.

Choose large pieces of pork belly, add various spices to stew, the color and flavor of the soup seeps into it, and finally it is a piece of stewed meat with a thin and thin skin. Take a big bite with your mouth and feel the impact of these layers of texture, and unconsciously eat bowls of rice in the salty, fragrant and oily package. Perhaps the biggest praise for this piece of stewed meat.

Of course, the foods that can compete with the stewed pork are probably all kinds of sauce meat. Common ones include sauce bones, sauce elbows, sauce pig's trotters, sauce spine, etc. There are various choices and each one should choose. The taste is salty and fragrant, and the meat is soft and soft. Careful sip can taste the deepest sauce aroma. Sucking hard can wash out the thick oily smell of the lips in the bones. It has a good taste and can always make people feel comfortable and happy to eat.

If casseroles are spread all over the north and south, they have developed different meanings here, which is actually one of the breakfast choices for many people. It is impossible to imagine what it would be like to use such a pot of pot of pork as breakfast for a long time, but you can completely imagine how warm and smooth a bowl of hot casseroles can be brought to you in the cold morning.

If you initiate a vote for native Northeastern people, the theme is the most inseparable northern cuisine?

The final result is that even if the pot and pork meat cannot top the list, it will at least make it to the top without any suspense.    3. If you want to eat the best pot and pork meat, then its origin and the city that has the most old-fashioned pot and pork restaurants so far, there is no doubt that it is here.

The sweet and sour taste of the old-fashioned pot meat comes from sugar and vinegar. There is a clear difference in the color of the pot meat meat seasoned with tomato sauce. One is golden and bright, and the other is deep. A plate of freshly released pot meat meat is served on the table, and the strong sweet and sour taste comes to the face with the heat. Just smelling it makes people salivate, let alone taking a big bite.

The crispy texture on the outside and tender on the inside, paired with a sweet and sour taste, plus some salty and fresh flavors and the spicy ginger. There is no need for rice at all. A plate of meat can make people forget time and space. A person enters an alien dimension of no one, and wanders around in it and never returns.

Although various variants of pot dumpling meat have been derived from now, in addition to the second generation pot dumpling meat seasoned with tomato sauce, it also produces the third and fourth generation of yellow peach pot dumpling meat. Many people, including Johnson himself, prefer the taste stimulation brought by the most primitive sweet and sourness.

Therefore, in the Northeast, pork cooking is an indispensable part of life. I carefully care for my piglets in the bitter and cold environment until the family gathers for dinner during the Chinese New Year to slaughter pigs and cook dishes to celebrate the reunion festival. This is a great joy in life.

Almost every household in the countryside raises pigs. Compared with cattle and sheep, pigs have mixed food properties, fast slaughtering and high meat yield, so people are more willing to raise pigs.

In early spring, piglets are bought and raised in pigpens. Many pig farmers use corn and other grains as main feed, accompanied by wild vegetables and slurry to raise pigs. This kind of pig is also called Stupid Pig. Compared with pigs fed with feed, the nutrient content is higher, the flavor substance accumulates longer, and it tastes like meat.

The old saying goes: 26: Slaughter pork. When the pig grows up and becomes a fat pig, it can be slaughtered and slaughtered smoothly. In the cold winter, every household must sharpen the knife and slaughter the pigs and sheep, which is a major event in preparing New Year’s goods.

The day before slaughtering the pig, the owner would fast the pig to clean the intestines. At this time, the pigs often begin to feel their unfortunate fate and become anxious. By the time people go to the pigpen to catch the pigs, the pigs have become very manic.

The strong laborers from the neighbors will come to help. After making an appointment with the pig slaughter master, boiling water, and preparing the utensils, 5 to 6 strong young men will join forces to knock the pig down and tie the pig's mouth and limbs with ropes. In order to tie the pig and successfully slaughter, the experienced master will tie the live buttons, making the pig scramble tighter and unable to escape.

After the pigs were tied up, people worked together to put the pigs on the scale and made a preliminary measurement of the pig's weight. After weighing, people carried the pigs onto the case and held them down, and the butcher was responsible for sending the pigs to heaven. At this time, the assistant placed a basin containing light salt water under the pig's neck to hold the pig's blood.

After everything was ready, the butcher held a slender sharp knife and stabbed it into the aorta of the heart, and saw bright red blood gushing out. At this time, the pig's screams were the most shrill. Because of this, people often use "screaming like killing a pig to describe the singing of some people.

In some areas, the degree of blood gushing is also said. If the pig blood squirts very quickly, it indicates that the family will be very prosperous in the coming year. If the blood flows intermittently, it indicates that it is not ideal. In order to get a good reputation, people often give the master some lottery, hoping that the master will take action and get it in place in one step.

After the blood was released, the pig also lost consciousness. The group began to water the pig's body to shave the pig's hair. In the past, the butcher would cut the pig's mouth and blow the pig's skin, and then pour hot water on the pig's body to shave the pig's body, so that it is easier to shave it clean. Because this work is very cumbersome and has a high technical content, basically no one is doing it now.

After collecting the shaved bristles, the master began to divide the pork. He first cut off the pig's head with a big knife, then cut the pig's internal organs open, then divide the pork into two halves, and divide the pig's trotters, pig's elbows, tenderloin, pork ribs and other parts into fine parts. At this point, the pork division has come to an end.
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