Don't mention Jiangyou, just know fat intestines.

▲ Jiangyou Wu Jia Houshan Xinyi Flower Sea. Photography/Liang Yan

-Wind, scenery and words-

Nezha and Li Bai, do you like fat intestines?

The breeze wrinkled a pool of spring water in Fujiang. Indigo buds have been brewing for a winter and burst into a smile overnight. The clear spring drips from the stone, and the woodcutter and tiller paint the screen. Countless scenery, falling from heaven to Jiangyou in spring.

▲ Aerial photography of Taibai Park flowing through Minjiang River. Photography/Liang Yan

It's not that spring favors Jiangyou, but that Jiangyou's spring is amazing. When the eyebrows of the Six Gorges of Fujiang River become stretched, the posture of Chu 'an Mountain becomes more elegant. Jiangyou, a small town located in the northwest of Sichuan Basin, wakes up on time every spring, with boundless poetry and a bowl of fat intestines, which has lasted for thousands of years.

▲ Jiangyou Lily Base Love Valley. Photography/Zhang Xiaoping

"Alas, the danger is high! It is difficult to go to the sky! " -Li Bai

Going south from the fertile Chengdu Plain, the earth folds and bulges, drawing long and pure lines. Fujiang River spews out of the valley, embracing light green mountains and green weeds, and Jiangyou is embedded in this landscape.

▲ Jiangyou geographical location. Cartography/Chili powder

"Flowers are far away and trees are heavy, and clouds are light and mountains are everywhere." The mountains in Jiangyou and the mountains in spring seem to be laughing. Behind Ming Xiu, there is a "gentle knife" adventure. Douyong Mountain, consisting of three peaks, namely Dongyue Peak, Feixian Peak and Shenfu Peak, stands on the northern edge of the western Sichuan Plain, just like a natural screen embroidered by immortals, but behind the screen, there is a cave.

▲ Douyu Mountain, where Li Bai once left, "The woodcutter and the tiller went in and out of the painting screen." Jueju Photography/Liang Yan

Three completely different buttes are elegant and bright from a distance, but there is only a faint skylight under their feet. The more mysterious a secret is, the more people will be curious. However, if you want to climb Kuangshan, there has only been a trail of Dongyue Peak since ancient times.

When you set foot on this bluestone path, you can easily think of what Li Bai wrote that year, "The Great White Mountain, to the west, still has only a bird path, reaching the peak of Emei".

▲ Betta Mountain in the morning light; Winter scenery of Doukuang Mountain. Photography/Zhang Xiaoping

"All the way from ancient times" is just a microcosm of Jiangyou Shudao. As the two most prosperous areas in ancient China, Guanzhong Plain and Chengdu Plain were separated by Qian Shan and Wan Ren, and countless people wanted to connect these two places in series.

The construction of Shu Road is solemn and stirring, as Li Bai said, "When a shock breaks, the brave will die, and then the stairs and stones will overlap". Among the numerous Shu roads, compared with the officially recognized Jinniu Road, Yin Ping Road, which starts from Longnan, Wen Jing County, Jiangyou and goes straight to Chengdu Plain, has more dangerous terrain and more beautiful scenery. Except for local ethnic minorities such as Yi and Qiang, it is almost impossible to enter.

▲ Jiangyouguan. Photography/Liang Yan

Everything in the world is always so paradoxical, and the more nobody cares, it will often become the decisive key at a critical moment. It is also this neglected Yinping Road that became the yellow road of Shu Han's demise during the Three Kingdoms period.

According to the Records of the Three Kingdoms, in 263 BC, Wei, who occupied Guanzhong and Zhongyuan, planned to attack Shu Han, who occupied the land of abundance. Wei wanted to think, and fixed his eyes on Jiangyou Pass, which is close to the mountain and waters on the road. Faced with the fact that the Shu Road is "so high, the yellow crane is sad, and the poor monkey's paw is hard to use", Wargo took risks, "wrapped in a blanket", took a short rest in Yangmaxia, Jiangyou, and immediately set off, attacking Fucheng and Mianzhu all the way, and taking Shu Han directly.

The special experiences of childhood are always unforgettable. Speaking of the hazards of Shu Dao, Li Bai's difficult Shu Dao is second to none. Speaking of reasons, apart from his extraordinary talent, it has something to do with his family coming to Jiangyou via Shu Road when he was a child.

▲ Li Bai Memorial Hall Juvenile Li Bai. Photography/Song Tianxi

Li Bai spent his youth in Jiangyou before "serving the country with his sword and traveling far away from his relatives". "Tianbao Luohan powder bamboo building, red rock night rain lying cow stone", a folk song circulating in Qinglian Township, Jiangyou, is a portrayal of Li Bai's life in Jiangyou.

▲ Fenzhu Building, located behind Longxi Courtyard, Li Bai's former residence, is said to be the place where Li Bai's sister Li lives. Photography/Wind chimes in the breeze

Kuangshan, his hometown, is the place where Li Bai studied in seclusion. The brook under Tianbao Mountain witnessed Li Bai's deep thought. The pink bamboo building in Longxi compound is a portrayal of Li Bai's affectionate brotherhood; From the Pink Pearl Building to the east, there is a well with black in the green, which is said to be the place where Li Bai wrote poems and washed inkstones.

In Li Bai's works, Jiangyou in the rain is "covered by ancient caves and clouds, and the empty court weaves broken cigarettes", while Jiangyou after the rain is "10,000 Li Shu towers, one river is horizontal". The beautiful Dougong Mountain, "the woodcutter and the tiller go in and out of the painting screen", the quiet Kuangshan Mountain, "the dog comes from the wild path, and the firewood comes with people in the evening", and the leisurely pastoral scenery is like the Peach Blossom Garden.

▲ Taibai Building at the top of Tianbaoshan Mountain in qinglian town. Photography/Zhang Xiaoping

The image of hometown outlined in fallen immortals is fascinating. As the biggest fan of Li Bai, Du Fu once wrote in his poem: "In Kuangshan Reading Room, it's good to have a white head back." Du Guangting, a Taoist priest in the Tang Dynasty who wrote "Biography of Campus Guests", also paid a visit to Li Bai's reading desk: "Kazuki Watanabe musicians are still curling, when will the Qinglian layman come?" About too many people went to Kuangshan to find the trace of Li Bai, and "Kuangxiu Fairy Trace" even became one of the eight scenic spots in Jiangyou.

▲ Qinglian Ancient Town Ancient Village. Above/Liang Yan, above/Zhang Xiaoping

As the "top stream" of the literary world, Li Bai is an impeccable idol. In addition to talent, Li Bai's unrestrained personality has attracted countless fans. This carefree and detached character is mostly related to his "learning immortality for fifteen years and traveling endlessly" in Jiangyou. The phrase "deer in the deep forest, whale in the blue ocean", which is now overused on the Internet, is adapted from Li Bai 15-year-old "Visiting Taoist Dai Tian".

As one of the birthplaces of Taoist culture, there are countless Jiangyou, Taoist temples and hermits deeply influenced by Taoist culture. As one of the legendary hometowns of Nezha, Jiangyou especially worships Nezha, the Taoist protector. In Jiangyou, as long as there is Taoist temple, there is bound to be Nezha's body shaping, while in Chinese mainland, Jiangyou only has Taoist temple, with Nezha as the main theme. As the belief of Jiangyou people, even in the Qing Dynasty, if people encounter diseases, the first thing they think of is not to see famous doctors, but to worship Prince Nezha. "Some people in the city are dedicated to the Prince, and ordinary people are hard to understand. Please ask them."

▲ On Qianyuan Mountain Road, a real Taiyi lives in Jinguangdong, Qianyuan Mountain. Photography/Zhang Xiaoping

For Jiangyou people, what they are most familiar with is the story of Ina's going to the sea to make trouble, eviscerating the bones and returning the flesh, and Taiyi's real person picking up the barren woman. The names of Chengtangguan, Cuiping Mountain and Qianyuan Mountain in the Romance of Sui and Tang Dynasties can also be found in Jiangyou. Perhaps this is also the reason why the real Taiyi was dubbed in Sichuan dialect in last year's blockbuster Nezha.

Perhaps deeply influenced by Taoism, Jiangyou people have the arbitrariness to do whatever they want. In most areas, breakfast means light health, but in Jiangyou, breakfast means eating whatever you want.

A bowl of fat sausage, a bowl of dry rice and a bowl of chopped green onion vinegar soup are the motivation for Jiangyou people to get up in the morning. The unique oil juice of the fat sausage overflows between the teeth and cheeks and sticks to the fragrant glutinous rice between the lips and teeth. Finally, take a sip of vinegar soup and take away the remaining greasy. After the spicy and crispy fat intestines were swallowed, the heart that slept all night was really awake.

In Jiangyou, fat sausage is not only breakfast, but also three meals a day. There are all kinds of fancy practices. It is no exaggeration to say that Jiangyou is the spiritual hometown of fat sausage lovers all over the world.

"It is not Sichuan if you don't go to Jiangyou, and it is not Jiangyou if you don't eat fat intestines." In Jiangyou, the combination of bright braised fat sausage, spicy and appetizing cold salad fat sausage, crispy and chewy dry fried fat sausage, sour and spicy pickled pepper fat sausage, red oil fat sausage floating in red oil, bean curd and fat sausage is called flower fat sausage ... forming a fat sausage river and lake.

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▲ Jiangyou fat sausage and its production process. Figure/Weibo @ Ermao Search

In Jiangyou's breakfast contest, only rice flour can compete with fat sausage.

Jiangyou rice noodles are often eaten and cooked now. When it was first served, you could still smell the smell of rice. The big iron pot in the breakfast shop is boiling in the early morning sun. After the "touch" of the bamboo colander, the chaotic rice slurry is transformed into slender and dexterous rice noodles. The newly formed rice noodles can be "boiled" in a boiling iron pot for more than ten seconds, and then the soup can be taken out.

▲ Jiangyou rice noodles. Figure/Weibo @ Ermao Search

The newly caught Jiangyou rice noodles are generally divided into red soup and clear soup. Chicken soup, bamboo shoots, Sam sun, peas and other flavors of clear soup base make Jiangyou breakfast more delicious. Rice noodle red soup has hot and sour beef, braised pork intestines and other toppings. From this point of view, in Jiangyou breakfast Jianghu, it is still the status of fat intestines, which is even better.

Even if the fat sausage is in Jiangyou, it is no different, and the sticky edge of Jiangyou has not been completely covered up. In practice, Jiangyou is sticky, similar to Leshan cold pot skewers. There are many cooked food dishes on the plate, and various vegetarian dishes such as pig skin, pig liver, potatoes and bean rolls are strung together with toothpicks for the convenience of diners.

▲ Jiangyou is polluted, and Bashi is good! Figure/insect creativity

The secret of sticking is often not the richness of dishes, but the dipping material placed next to the ingredients. Generally, there are two kinds of dipping materials: spicy and not spicy. Dip the selected ingredients in a public bowl, then catch them with your own dish, and then put your neck back in your mouth, bite by bite, very comfortable!

Free and easy, indulge in eating and drinking, this may be the most beautiful time in Jiangyou.

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When Wen Yi Ying Shi

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