Chapter 49: Spring
The next day was the first day of the new year. He rarely slept for a while, and only got up three poles in the morning.
In the past year, he urged himself every day to get up early to exercise, then military training, depending on the situation, he was busy, and there were few rest periods like this.
After washing, he put on a Ming scholar's clothing, a handsome young man, with a handsome maidservant and old servants, under the protection of dozens of domestic servants (actually hundreds of guards), he went to Tainan's Mazu Temple to burn incense. .
Tainan was originally a Dutch territory, after being occupied by Yan Changwu, it moved to a population of 20,000, becoming one of the four southeast towns and the headquarters of the Southeast Military Command, where the fleet was also anchored (in fact, it is the Dayuandao Military Port) Although it was the first year of the port’s establishment, its temple fairs were very lively. The closer you walked to the Matsu Temple near the sea, the more people there were. Almost half of the people in the entire Tainan area came.
Mazu Temple looked over from a distance, and the incense burned straight into the night sky, like a fire, showing the prosperity of its incense!
This Mazu Temple is a house for Chinese gods, which is essentially a Dutch mansion. It was converted into a temple with a statue of Mazu.
There is a lot of people in front of Demiao. The adults look at the heads and the children look at the bottoms.
Mazu is the **** of the sea, and his worship comes from southern Fujian. There are many people who go to sea in southern Fujian. With the typhoon raging, people there need to pray for Mazu's blessing, and there are many believers.
After the Southeast Military Mansion was established in Tainan, it was tantamount to designating Mazu as the **** of the country. It is clearly stipulated that military and political personnel can only believe in Mazu. From then on, Mazu worship has flourished.
People go to the Matsu Temple, mainly to burn incense to worship the gods, watch the gods and go out, perform in front of them, and eat and drink!
There was a long line in front of the temple gate. There were volunteers and clergy to maintain order. People were put in to burn incense in batches. Looking in from the temple gate, a group of believers inside were kneeling piously towards the statue of Mazu, with large piles in their hands. The incense, some people even burned a high incense, cigarettes lingered in the hall, and the grand occasion was unprecedented!
Burning incense to Mazu Since midnight, people almost didn't fight in order to grab the burning head and inject incense!
Ju said that rushing to burn the head and putting incense is the most blessed by Mazu. This sticking incense focuses on the first day of the Spring Festival and attracts everyone to scramble.
In the daytime, the main brigade arrived, and the Matsu Temple was very lively.
"Master, shall we go in and burn incense?" Shuang'er asked.
"No!" Yan Changwu shook his head.
He saw so many people, if forcibly stoppering would certainly not be a problem, I am afraid it would cause a lot of commotion, and it would not be good for the Spring Festival to become a tragedy.
Why deprive the people of their joy? He wants to go in and worship, but he can choose another day to do it alone.
So they stood on the side of the temple and watched the front performance.
Front is the folk art of Southern Fujian, a unique local sacrificial culture, and one of the indispensable folk arts in Southern Fujian. The ninety adults in the southeast army are from Southern Fujian. The temple fair on the first day of the Lunar New Year is indispensable for performances.
The temple invites the crowd to perform to help the fun, in addition to rewarding the gods, because the crowd performance will attract many believers to watch and make the temple even more lively.
The formations are divided into literary formations and martial formations. The literary formations have car drums, peach blossom transitions, cattle plows, cloth horses, stepped feet, drum formations, diseased songs, and eighteen touches. Wu formations have Songjiang formations and eight generals. , Lion Array, Dragon Array, Seven Masters and Eight Masters, etc.
In addition to the local teams in Tainan, there are also high-priced teams from Taiwan’s high-tech teams. The money paid, in addition to donations from believers, and government funds, will bring some of the prestigious teams on the mainland to the mainland. Get Tainan to perform.
The front performers painted face masks, wore colorful robes, and danced vigorously, like a dance of demons, entertaining the people and the gods, and the actions are wonderful. The audience broke their hands and praised: "It's so lively, there is nowhere else!" "
When the twins were young, they followed the clapping and shouting. As for Yan Changwu, there was a smile on his face. People were happy and peaceful watching the society he dominated.
"I'm hungry, go eat!" He dragged his hands and went to catch the temple fair food stall.
The fragrance is everywhere, which makes people salivate, and the scene is very popular.
A variety of special snacks in the Southeast Military Mansion have sprung up, and they are extremely outstanding. In addition to the beef soup, rice cakes, oyster fried, meatballs, etc. listed above, there are:
Boil the fish rolls, then add the crushed yam and water chestnuts, stir into fish cakes, and then spoon into the water to cook.
Fried shrimp cakes, shrimp meat and sweet flour are fried together, extremely fragrant.
Southern Fujian Zongzi, with a strong southern Fujian flavor, there are also many varieties, including white rice dumplings, mung bean dumplings, barbecued pork dumplings, eight treasures rice dumplings, and roasted meat dumplings. Among them, roast pork dumplings are the most popular. They have rich and colorful fillings, including pork, scallops, taro, dried clams, and duck eggs.
Danzi noodles, although the noodles are in a small bowl, the ingredients are attentive, a bowl of noodles are topped with meatballs, shrimps, meat slices, topped with secret sauce, and an egg, it is delicious!
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In addition to the snacks produced by the people of the Southeast Army, there are vendors from southern Fujian who cross the sea to set up their stalls and bring more food, such as Taiping Yan!
Taiping Yan, also known as flat meat Yan, is a famous Han flavor snack in Fuzhou, Fujian, and it is also a famous festive dish in Fuzhou customs. People in Fuzhou celebrate festivals, weddings and funerals, and their relatives and friends must eat "Taiping Yan", which means "peace" and "peace" are auspicious. Therefore, "no swallow does not make a feast, and no swallow does not grow up."
Yanpi is made of selected lean pork hind legs, remove the tendons and periosteum, cut into thin strips, pound it into a mashed meat, slowly add potato flour sifted through a fine-hole silk sieve and appropriate amount of water, and stir repeatedly. Continuously press evenly to form a hard billet, then place it on the strip and roll it into thin slices. Spread a thin layer of potato flour, fold it, and dry it into fresh bird skin. Continue to dry to dry the bird's nest skin, and generally the packaging will not be damaged when stored for a year. Before filling, use a knife to cut the swallow skin into two-inch square pieces, set aside. For the stuffing, chop lean pork, dried shrimps, water chestnuts, seaweed, etc. into a sauce, then add a little soy sauce and light on white to taste. Take the square slices of swallow skin and wrap them into small flat sheets, like a pomegranate, and steam them to make the meat swallows.
There is a popular saying is "meat with meat"!
The shop here uses boiled pork broth, puts a little green onion, oil, puts in several shelled duck eggs, with vermicelli, shiitake mushrooms, yuba, etc., plus the steamed flat pork yan is a bowl of steaming, tender and delicious The "Peace Yan" is now.
The taste is amazing! (Recommended! Recommended!)
Before wearing it, Yan Changwu had eaten Taipingyan, because Taipingyan is not eaten very often (unless you are from Fuzhou). Compared with wontons and dumplings, which are a bit close, he admired Taipingyan. Today I have the opportunity to eat it again. Naturally, I will bury my head with Shuang'er. Hard work and ate three bowls in a row!
They didn't eat breakfast, they happened to eat all the way, and all they ate were for money!
To be honest, Yan Changwu didn’t show up much in front of him. During the Spring Festival, the owners of various food stalls were busy getting on fire. The diners were greedy, and everyone was staring at the food. Who is this handsome young man, so he was not recognized.
The people didn’t recognize him, but Chen Zhongji, Yang Tiansheng, and police chief An Changqing recognized him. They were surprised to see him and Shuang’er chewing together and piled up a pile of bowls next to him!
Mazu Temple Fair is the most lively place. An Changqing did not have a holiday. He organized manpower to ensure safety and was personally leading a patrol. Chen Zhongji was giving himself a holiday and went to the temple fair with Yang Tiansheng. They happened to see An Changqing, so they went for a threesome.
"That's Shuang'er!" Chen Zhongji pointedly said.
"Shuang'er!" Yang Tiansheng's eyes were deep, and then he sighed slightly!
Yang's daughter did not marry into Yan's family for a few years. Unless she was too stupid, her influence was deeply rooted and hard to shake!
But Yang Tiansheng was in his son-in-law's land and couldn't be rough on his son-in-law's concubines. After all, Yang Tiansheng was a generation of great tycoons who could not be capable of it. He went to meet Yan Changwu with Chen Zhongji, but An Changqing did not pass.
As soon as the two big tyrants passed by, their guards unceremoniously cleared the surroundings. The diners complained. The stall owner wanted to protest, and threw a few silver oceans to him, saying, "We are all covered!"
Seeing their strong appearance, even the police stood on the sidelines, and the stall owners and diners were afraid to say anything.
Seeing Chen Yang approaching together, Shuang'er quickly stood up and said: "Yang Ye, Chen Ye!" The two masters nodded to her.
Before, the maid didn't even have the qualifications to greet them, and the two masters would never greet her.
Yan Changwu said without raising his head: "Come on, sit down."
was lamenting in his heart, it won’t work if you want some freedom!
As expected, Chen Zhongji, who sat down, entered the advice!
