[Opening words] Food can comfort people's hearts the most. The steaming sweet potatoes in winter, the cold plum wine in summer, and the sweet and honey grapes in autumn... These small and beautiful details of life allow us to resist all external things. Through mother's hands, th

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Food is the most comforting person.

Sweet potatoes steaming in winter, cold summer Plum wine , sweet and honey grapes in autumn... These small and beautiful details of life allow us to resist all external things.

Through the mother's hands, the ingredients will become warm pots, turn into banquets like thirteen flowers, and turn into beef rice cut into rice grains. This is the taste and experience of love.

We once thought that " Intangible Cultural Heritage " is far away from us, but when it comes to food, it is so close again.

Those stoves are smoky and fire-like, white air rises in the wilderness, and smiles in the solar term - food, through the verification of time, has begun to become part of the "intangible cultural heritage". This is the warmth retained in the long agricultural civilization, engraved in our DNA, at some point, it is about to break out.

Starting today, the Gansu Provincial Intangible Cultural Heritage Protection Center will launch the "Taste Gansu·Tips of the Tongue Intangible Cultural Heritage" series of columns, focusing on the intangible cultural heritage foods scattered on the Longyuan land. They are so specific and real, and we are responsible for displaying them in front of all readers.

This column is produced by Zhang Ziyi Studio.

Wushengyi hand grabs the supply station on a long journey

Author: Zhang Ziyi

​​ Depart from Xi'an to Gansu, every time more than 200 kilometers, you will encounter a city, Baoji , Tianshui , Lanzhou, this is the famous Silk Road .

travels through Lanzhou and enters the westward Silk Road. The arrangement of Hexi four counties is more obvious. Oasis and Gobi are coming one after another, and people can usher in the baptism of an oasis when the complete fatigue is approaching. This passage that was dug out during the Han Dynasty of , passed through Xingxing Gorge , becoming the only passport to enter Xinjiang.

People say that this is simply a passage for self-driving tours.

Under the large channel, there are countless vital capillaries. With them, the whole world can run well and transport nutrients to the terminal nerves.

For example, Wushengyi.

This is naturally a station. It was named in the Ming Dynasty and has been used to this day.

新年, forks, and other words are dots drawn on the map. Chinese civilization has lasted for thousands of years. The Chinese people safely use square characters from thousands of years ago and call the names from thousands of years ago. Looking around the world, only Chinese civilization has such a long life, just like a river.

The past days were very slow. The foot strength of the mule and carriage was only a few dozen kilometers a day. People were in a daze in the bumps. It was almost evening. There was always a shop to rest and play the top, right? If there is hot water, it can be regarded as an unexpected surprise during the journey.

So place names such as Mule and Horse Shop, Xinjia Dian, Zhumadian were born. People inexplicably hope for some moments of rest in the dust of the journey. "Home at home" is a goal that these places have been pursuing for thousands of years.

Stable Agricultural civilization Under the thinking, "change" is a short and daunting word.

But cars were still invented, and horse-drawn carriages and donkey carriages gradually withdrew from people's lives. Those place names remained unmoved. They already belonged to that land completely. As for the change of tools, they were just an inevitable change brought about by social development.

In the early 1990s, Gansu Province Road Lanzhou to Wuwei . The old-fashioned car full of guests slowly looked like an old cow. Although people could also choose some tractors, ox carts, and bicycles, it was also the smoothest means of transportation at that time. It is more than 200 kilometers, and only a car that has been shaking all day can be completed on the same day.

must have a lunch outside.

Wusheng Post is still the same post station, because it happens to be located in the middle of this journey, which just happens to solve the problem of lunch.

The outstanding performance of Wushengyi lamb and the rise of Jingning roast chicken are based on this path that has been chiseled from Han Dynasty and has been used to this day.

Jingning roast chicken between Xi'an and Lanzhou became famous during the truck driver's journey, and the mutton in Wushengyi was particularly popular at lunch every day. The buses were parked at the door of a row of restaurants. People took advantage of this rare opportunity to get out of the car and stretch their arms, stamp their feet, and stretch their bodies.

People with sufficient budget will choose a store to open the curtain. It is best to be in winter, the weather is cold and the heat in the house is "booming", and the whole person is bathed in the heat and fragrance. This is the smell of the northwest and the mutton.

is nothing more than a few, plain noodles, meat noodles, hand-clipped or braised lamb .

The commonality brought by the boring journey will make people particularly interested in the rich and colorful meat. Braised lamb is a method of braised braised. Compared with the lightness of boiled lamb in white water, braised lamb with rosy color is like a bomb, exploding this yin winter day. If snow falls outside, the braised lamb in the house will be particularly fragrant, spicy, and even hot. ​

must be mutton that is almost bone-free. After stewing the sauce, it has penetrated into the tissue of the meat, and the whole piece of meat is wrapped in the sauce. The folk customs are simple, and people don’t use side dishes to pretend to be raised high hills. Side dishes are real side dishes. There are only a few green peppers, and even vermicelli are pitifully few. The protagonist of everything is mutton.

mutton ribs or mutton leg meat are the best choice.

Most people prefer ribs. The ribs are a sandwich-shaped combination. The outside is covered with a layer of white oil, a layer of lean meat and tissue in the middle, and the bottom layer is a more flexible and chewy part. A piece of sheep rib can enjoy a feast full of oil. Moreover, if you encounter a piece of cartilage, the sudden happiness is incomparable. ​

The whole world is filled with heat.

People without a budget come to ask for a cup of hot water and can sit in front of the uninhabited dining table for a while.

Maybe he can be moved by this steaming way of eating. He needs to serve a bowl of vegetarian noodles and finish it warmly. After a while, he can sleep well in a coat wrapped in his car.

The cold air hits, and the warm window and outside are two worlds. People cannot understand each other and cannot support each other. But I briefly spent the same day on the car. When the car reached the destination, the bridge returned to the bridge and the road returned to the road, it was just a matter of a traveler.

Wushengyi is famous in short.

The place name Wushengyi is closely linked to the "Wushengyi Lamb".

Whether it is hand-grabbing, braised or even stir-fried, the cold place name Wushengyi is covered with a warm and warm taste.

Later, national highway passed, and Wushengyi on the side of provincial highway was gradually ignored by turbulent vehicles on the expressway. It can arrive from Wuwei in three or four hours. People do not need to stay in the middle to beat the tip.

But Wushengyi mutton is still stuck in people's hearts, on the tip of their tongues and in their words, and people were surprised to find that on the smooth highway, it only takes more than an hour to reach Wushengyi from Lanzhou.

People have seen the mountains, rivers, lakes, seas, seas, tides of the sea, sunrise and sunset in Guancheng, and when they arrived in Lanzhou, the hearts of tired birds returning to their nests were everywhere, especially in the evening.

Then, go to Wushengyi to eat mutton. ​​​​