What are the famous customs and customs in Liuzhou? The more the better.

If it is your first time to visit Sanjiang Dong Autonomous County in Liuzhou, Guangxi, you will find that no matter you enter any hotel or street food stall, or visit a friend’s house, the host will definitely recommend it to you. There are a wide variety of meat and vegetable sauerkraut that can be eaten right out of the bowl: the meat ones include sour fish, sour chicken, sour duck, sour pork, etc.; the vegetarian ones include sour peppers, pickled green vegetables, pickled cabbage, pickled cucumbers, and sour bamboo shoots. Radish, garlic sprouts, wood ginger, onions, taro, etc.

Newcomers look at these various colors of meat and vegetable sauerkraut that have not yet been cooked in the pot, and dare to use their chopsticks to taste the vegetarian pickled cucumbers and pickled radish that are eaten in both north and south China. ; I really don’t have the courage to eat the raw red, white, or green sour fish, sour duck meat, and sour pork.

The Dong people are different. Their eyes will light up when they see the sour food, especially the sour fish, sour duck, and sour pork that have been sealed for three to five years or even longer. They often laugh and mutter while eating sour food: "If you don't eat sour food for three days, you will be knocked down when you walk."

There are two ways to eat sour food of the Dong people, raw and cooked. It is almost always eaten raw. When you want to eat it, you can pick it out of the sour jar and eat it immediately. It is salty, fresh and has a strong taste. If you feel that the food is too large and uncivilized to eat, you can use special scissors instead of a kitchen knife to cut the food into small pieces.

On September 25, the reporter in Gaoyou Village, Sanjiang, adjacent to Hunan, truly understood why the Dong people have such a unique appreciation for sour feelings. Gaoyou Village is located in the green mountains and green waters about 800 meters above sea level. As the reporter drove along the winding road, the first thing he saw was the Dong family’s homes that have been inhabited for generations, nestled in bamboo, pine or fir forests. The unique Dong wooden houses are either single-family houses or built in groups of three or five families. Most of them are built against the mountains and are scattered in an orderly manner.

Since the highway has just been opened here, the most primitive Dong customs are still maintained. After more than two hours' drive, the reporter arrived at Gaoyou Dong Village at exactly 11 a.m. Most of the middle-aged and elderly people here can only speak Dong, so it is a bit difficult to communicate with outsiders, but their sincere and friendly smiles are still there Make visitors feel very happy.

The Dong people are really a hospitable nation. As soon as the reporters entered the Dong village and sat down for a rest, three or four families came to give the reporters tea and invited them to their homes for lunch. At noon, the reporter and his party chose to have lunch at the home of an aunt named Yang. At Aunt Yang's house, the reporter carefully counted the sour jars in her house, and there were more than twenty. Aunt Yang told us that all the children in her family have left the village to study and work outside. There are not many sour jars. Most families here have thirty or forty sour jars, with special rooms for storage.

According to Yang Shunfeng, deputy director of the Propaganda Department of the Sanjiang County Party Committee, who accompanied the reporter, the Dong people have a long history of eating sour food. There are sayings that "Dong people can't live without sour food" and "no vegetables can be sour and no sour food can't be eaten". This is mainly because for a long time, most Dong people live in the mountains and live a self-sufficient life. They are relatively scarce in materials. They mainly eat the vegetables, pigs and cattle they grow. Since these foods are easy to rot and spoil, they use pickled and sour foods. method for long-term storage. In particular, pickled vegetables are rarely eaten on weekdays and are mostly reserved for entertaining guests and giving gifts. Sauerkraut is also indispensable for weddings and weddings here, as well as for worshiping gods and ancestors.

In addition, the Guibei mountainous area where the Dong people live in Guangxi has long days with low temperatures, so they can only grow glutinous rice. Glutinous rice is not easy to digest, so it is eaten with sour food, which can improve digestion and refreshment, which is good for health. Although they now have more communication with the outside world and their lives are easier, the Dong people's long-term eating habits make them still have a soft spot for sour food.

The enthusiastic Aunt Yang quickly prepared a table of pickled bean soup, pickled radish, pickled cabbage stewed with sour pork belly, raw sour fish and sour duck. Maybe she was afraid that we would not be used to it, so she even made it specially. A fresh pork stir-fry.

From time to time during the meal, people would bring food and home-brewed rice wine. Deputy Minister Yang told us that this is also a custom of the Dong family. On weekdays, whenever someone in the village has a guest, everyone will take the initiative to bring out the only good food and wine at home for the guests to eat. This is also the Dong family's "hundred families". The origin of "banquet".

Vice Minister Yang told reporters: In the eyes of Dong people, glutinous rice is the most fragrant, sweet rice wine is the most mellow, and sauerkraut is the most delicious. When you are a guest at a Dong home, you don’t need to check whether there are delicacies on the table. As long as you see sour fish and sour meat, you will know that the host regards you as a precious guest.