Leisurely Cultivation Time

Chapter 227 Cultural Heritage
Besides, Ye Fei's movements were a little clumsy at the beginning, and he was a little timid, afraid of hitting Ye Jinglu's hand.

It was only later that I slowly mastered the rhythm, coupled with Ye Jinglu's teaching, the hammering was quite impressive.

Ye Xue on the side thought it was very interesting and clamored to play, so Ye Jinglu had to give up his seat.

It's just that she was a little timid, just as Ye Fei was about to hammer down, Ye Xue had an expression as if she was about to be hit.

With a "pop", Ye Xue shrank back when Ye Fei's wooden pestle hit the rice ball.

"Hurry up and get wet." Ye Fei reminded.

"Oh." Ye Xue responded, dipped some warm water in her hands and wiped the wooden pestle.

Then Ye Fei raised it high again, and hit the rice ball with the middle one. At this time, without Ye Fei's reminder, Ye Xue quickly wiped some water on the wooden pestle.

Slowly like this, Ye Fei and Ye Xue's movements became proficient. At about the same time, Ye Jinglu stopped the two of them, then turned the rice ball over, and asked Ye Fei to continue hammering.

In this way, hammering the rice balls took half an hour before stopping. Ye Jinglu pinched a small piece off the rice balls with his hands, and then rubbed them with his hands. There were no more rice grains.

Then he put the rice ball into his mouth and chewed it twice, nodded and said: "There are no more rice grains, the elasticity is good, it's ok."

"Grandpa, you can eat like this." Ye Xue asked.

"Of course you can eat it. This glutinous rice is already cooked." Ye Jinglu nodded, and then said: "But what we are making is Qingming fruit, so this is only a semi-finished product."

At this time, Chen Bizhu and Wu Xueyan came out of the house, and at the same time took out the Qingming grass balls that had been squeezed out.

Ye Jinglu took the Qingming grass, scattered the squeezed grass balls into the stone mortar inside, and after throwing all the grass balls in, he asked Ye Fei to continue hammering.

In this way, after another ten minutes of hammering, the Qingming grass has completely merged with the rice balls.

Chen Bizhu just took a big basin and packed the whole ball of rice balls and took them to the back kitchen.

The sesame oil has been prepared inside, wash your hands, and then apply a little sesame oil, then buckle a small ball of rice balls and make a ball, a Qingming fruit is ready.

In fact, Qingming fruit can also be filled with sweet and salty ones. Generally, the salty ones are dried with fried shredded white radish.

The sweet one uses bean paste, but this bean paste is not the kind of packaged bean paste sold outside, but made by myself with red beans.

First take the red beans to soak in water, then take them to steam, drain after steaming, and then put them in a pot to dry.

Use a small fire to dry the pot first, and then take out the firewood, leaving the charcoal in it.

Then pour in the red beans, crush the red beans into sand with a shovel, and then spread them evenly in the pot, let the charcoal dry them slowly.

During the period, turn the bean paste inside from time to time so that he can be heated evenly.

When the moisture is almost roasted, add sugar, stir fry evenly and it can be out of the pan.

The bean paste produced in this way is all granular and looks like real sand.

It's not like the packaged bean paste sold outside, it's lumpy, looking at the black lumps, everyone basically loses their appetite.

So some things are really good by hand, and the machine can't make that effect. Of course, not all things are good by adding "handwork".

There are also some things that are better done by machines, and the reason why the word "manual" is added is just to fool people.

Some people have a high-end atmosphere and high-grade feeling when they hear handmade, and everyone is naturally willing to pay for it.

In fact, the so-called "handwork is high-end atmosphere" is just a misleading businessman.

Handwork is a kind of cultural inheritance, and the most precious thing about it is not the external form and usage form, but the internal cultural inheritance.

Mechanization represents the progress of civilization. Machinery liberates human hands and improves efficiency.

They are all representatives of civilization, but they develop in different directions, and there is nothing to compare them with.

If you really want to compare, there is an example to talk about before, it is Zhangqiu iron pot.

Ye Fei had read an article on Toutiao before. The title was: "Zhangqiu Iron Pot", which has been praised to the sky, what is it like now?
It briefly talks about the comparison between Zhangqiu Iron Pot before and now, and analyzes the needs of the public.

In 18, Zhangqiu Iron Pot entered the public's field of vision with "A Bite of the Tongue 3".

In the Spring Festival of 2019, "Zhangqiu Iron Pot" entered the Forbidden City. At that time, Zhangqiu Iron Pot was still selling well.

Twelve processes.

Eighteen times the heat.

1000 degree high temperature smelting.

36000 blows...

It is indeed a cultural heritage, but it is not suitable for modern kitchens.

Zhangqiu iron pan is a pure iron pan, which is basically heavier than modern non-stick pans. Most people still prefer light non-stick pans.

Another thing is maintenance. If you are not an expert, how can you understand maintenance, but if you don’t maintain it, the pot will be useless after a long time.

Unlike non-stick pans, they basically don’t need to be maintained. You only need to scrub them clean at ordinary times, and you don’t have to worry about it getting rusted.

Such a comparison, isn't it that non-stick pans are more dominant, so non-stick pans are better than Zhangqiu iron pans?
Of course not?It mainly depends on the occasion and the person who uses it. Zhangqiu iron pot is not necessarily suitable for everyone, and not everyone knows how to use it. Use it well.

This handcrafted Zhangqiu iron pot represents a kind of cultural inheritance, while the non-stick pan represents social progress.

Let people's cooking methods become simpler, and they are not afraid of sticking to the pan when cooking.And it's easier to use.

Therefore, when you choose products, don’t choose “manually” because it’s just a trick for merchants to fool people. The most important thing is to be suitable.

Back to Ye Fei, Chen Bizhu had already made a plate of Qingming fruit, the duck was almost smoked, and Ye Jinglu had already sharpened the grass cutter.

Put the duck, Qingming fruit and some biscuits into the basket, and then took a set of firecrackers, candles and other things into it.

It was almost ten o'clock, and Ye Jinglu and Ye Rongtian took Ye Fei and Ye Xue off to visit their great-grandfather and great-grandmother's graves.

Since Ye Jinglu has no brothers, only one elder sister and one younger sister, and women are not allowed to visit the grave, so only the four of them went to visit the grave.

"Grandpa? Why are the tombs of grandpa and grandma built in two different directions?" Ye Fei asked Ye Jinglu as he walked.

"Well, I don't quite understand what Mr. Feng Shui is looking at." Ye Jinglu, who was carrying the burden with a grass cutter, replied.

"It would be much more convenient if they were built in the same direction. You don't have to make two trips, but just come here with two sets of things."

"It's just once a year. What's the inconvenience? It's so lazy." Ye Rongtian said to Ye Fei.

Seeing that his father had opened his mouth, Ye Fei quickly shut his mouth, and obediently followed behind his grandfather with the grass cutter on his shoulder, so as not to be accused again later.

(End of this chapter)