Tea porridge in yingde city, Guangdong Province

Tea porridge is a traditional food in rural areas of Yingde, Guangdong Province, which is the most appropriate description of tea porridge in Yingde style. Leicha porridge is a special diet with the deepest foundation and the widest audience in rural areas of Britain and Germany, among which Dadong, Wujiao, Jiulong, Shaba, Shuibian, Xiniu, Shihuipu, Lianjiangkou, Li Xi and Shitutang are the concentrated areas along Xiaobeijiang River or its related tributaries. According to incomplete statistics, including Qingxin yuzhu and Xinzhou, covering nearly 300,000 people and nearly 100 village (neighborhood) committees, the traditional habit of eating "tea porridge" is still preserved. Many people, especially middle-aged and elderly people, have a special liking for it, almost to the point of "eating no meat, eating no porridge (tea porridge)"; There is a popular saying that "it is better to take two tonics than two bowls of tea".

In the local countryside, connecting feelings, entertaining guests and friends, or celebrating weddings are all essential etiquette, commonly known as "half meal".

It is said that people eat tea porridge as far away as Xinjiang, Tibet, Heilongjiang and Hainan. The reason is that many Britons and Germans go out to work now, and they take their hometown eating habits everywhere, so they also bring teapots, tea sticks and tea. Interestingly, some tea farmers in Dadong Town have preserved old tea for more than ten years, and a catty has actually sold for nearly 100 yuan. This shows the charm of tea porridge.

In recent years, savvy merchants have also introduced "tea porridge" into hotels and restaurants, allowing more foreign tourists to taste this traditional food in Britain and Germany. As the name implies, tea broken porridge is a porridge made by grinding camellia into powder with pottery utensils, mixing it with cold boiled water and peanut oil, and then blending it with rice porridge. It can be seen that its manufacturing technology is very high.

First, tool selection. Tool: a special pottery basin (commonly known as tooth basin) covered with cobweb grooves and forming fine teeth, with a large mouth and a flat bottom; A tea beating stick can be used for edible miscellaneous trees, such as alpine tea tree, alpine Cang Shu tree, black persimmon tree and black catalpa tree. It is the size of a teacup, about 1.5m long, and the lower end is round for easy rolling. The sawdust of these tea sticks contains cellulose and xylose, which is sweet and salty, non-toxic and has the effect of clearing away heat and toxic materials.

Second, choose tea. Camellia picked around the vernal equinox and Tomb-Sweeping Day are the best, followed by Bitter Girl, Leigong Bowl, Dog Sticker Ear, Bull's Head Foam, Lacquer Barge, Cloth Mirror Ear, Sugar Pear Leaf and Maple Leaf. After picking the tea leaves, first knead the tea leaves, then put them in a casserole and slowly fry them with slow fire for dehydration. After natural cooling, put it in a sealed jar or dried grapefruit peel and take it out for later use. It is said that the better the preservation, the longer the year, the darker the color, the mellow the taste and the more remarkable the health care effect. Some tea farmers in Dadong Town have sold the old tea preserved for decades to several hundred yuan per catty.

Third, the production process. First, wash the tea leaves with water and put them into the tooth basin, hold the tooth basin with your thighs, hold the broken tea sticks in your hands, rotate clockwise and reversely, and wipe them while wiping them to the end. After the tea leaves are mashed, appropriate amount of water and peanut oil are added and ground into tea pulp. Yingde has a modern version of "Tea-smashing Song": "Hakkas enjoy happiness and smash tea porridge twice a day; Hold the tea bowl with your legs, and' press down' with your hands (meaning to shake and shake). Seasonings such as sesame, fried peanuts, mint and dried tangerine peel can be added according to personal taste. In the process of making tea porridge, "thunder" is the core of kung fu, showing the characteristics of Britain and Germany, and other words will be eclipsed and trite.

Fourth, porridge cooking skills. Tip: When the rice is 78% ripe, scoop up two-thirds of the rice residue with a wooden spoon. Porridge should be thin, and it is best to show it to people. After the rice porridge is cooked, pour it into a tooth basin filled with tea pulp, add the rice residue just picked up, add salt and stir well, and a unique tea porridge is finished. If you only drink tea, you can use porridge soup or boiled water. When a bowl of tea is smashed into the stomach, the fragrance of tea in the mouth, the smoothness of porridge and the warmth of the stomach are simply wonderful! Describe various metaphors just to highlight the word "cool"! . When it comes to the origin of tea porridge, there are many beautiful and interesting legends, and there are roughly three versions.

Version 1:

According to the legend of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the hero was Ma Yuan, the general of Fu Bo. He led the army south, when the weather was hot, miasma filled, plague raged, and hundreds of soldiers fell ill. Just as the general was thinking hard about a good strategy, a local old woman was moved by the strict discipline and correct behavior of the army and offered the secret recipe "Sansheng Decoction" to treat the soldiers. The old lady released tea, uncooked rice, ginger and so on. In a dental basin, they were ground into paste with Cang Shu, and then boiled water was used to make soup for the soldiers to drink. It's just amazing. After drinking this "Sansheng Decoction", the soldiers can recover quickly from illness, and those who are not sick can also resist infection. Because it has the functions of dispersing stagnation, resolving food stagnation and clearing heat, it has achieved the effect of treating diseases and preventing diseases, and it has spread widely. The soldiers named the old woman "broken tea soup" for saving her life. The locals also imitated it and evolved into tea porridge.

Version 2:

In the story of the Three Kingdoms, the hero is Liu Bei. Fighting Cao Cao, the plague swept through the camp because of the long drought and heat. Liu Bei's army ate tea porridge made by local people, cured the plague and won the battle.

Version 3:

Legend of northern song dynasty. The hero is Pan Renmei, whose reputation is not very good. He was ordered by Song Taizong to conquer Nanhan. When he arrived in the south, the soldiers vomited and diarrhea. An old woman in the area also cooked tea porridge to help soldiers heal.

From War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression to the War of Liberation, the team doctors of the British and German guerrillas all treated soldiers with the therapy of broken tea porridge.

There are all kinds of legends, the core of which is one: tea porridge has a long history, different production styles and certain health care functions. According to the examination, tea porridge has many functions, such as clearing away heat, relieving summer heat, promoting fluid production to quench thirst, helping digestion, strengthening physique and prolonging life. It has become one of the recipes of local people and has been enduring for a long time. There are a large number of elderly people in the countryside, and they are uncomfortable and listless if they don't eat tea and porridge for a day. People in this area, although in town, have always maintained the habit of eating "tea porridge".

From the natural conditions, Hakka dwellings are mostly mountains and rivers, and boils are popular. The history book says: "If my husband suffers from boils ... it will be called grass boils in March, yellow bud boils in May and June, and new valley boils in September. After beginning of winter, the cold gradually recedes, the haze begins to fade, and the boils disappear." It can be seen that these places have boils for half a year. Under such harsh natural conditions, in order to survive and develop, Hakkas will naturally try their best to take various preventive and therapeutic measures. "Lu Chunqiu" puts forward: "... five grains are for nourishment, five fruits are for help, five animals are for benefit, five dishes are for stuffing, and the smell is fine." Explain the homology of medicine and food and the relationship between medicine and tonic. Tea porridge made of ginger, salt and herbs has pharmacological effects of preventing furuncle.