Chapter 1708 Banquet
The fire pit of the Yi people actually has a formal name called "Guozhuang". Dancing around the campfire is called "Guozhuang Dance", which actually comes from the image of eating around the Guozhuang.
The upper end of the Guozhuang, where the distinguished guests sit, is called "Xia'erguo" by the Yi people; the host sits with him on the right side of the Guozhuang, which is called "Nimu" in Yi language; and the other women, who are helping, sit on the right side of the Guozhuang. Next, this position is called "Xia gene".
The proverbs of the Yi people include "wine is for the elderly and meat is for the young" and "farming is from bottom to top and wine is served from top to bottom". These are the rules of banquets.
And the most exaggerated thing is that just as the Han people offer tea when they enter the house, wine is a greeting gift in Liangshan. As long as the guest enters the house, the host must first toast the guest with wine and then start cooking.
Matsui and Jin Chun were both amazed by the structure of the large toast building at the grain depot, the various ritual implements on the old Chiri wall, and the main hall with a fire pit that still retained most of the Yi style.
The folks watching TV in the large conference room surprised the two even more.
This is a completely different ethnic group from the Chinese people they are familiar with. If you don't come here in person, you can even feel like you are in two countries.
But it is very strange to see Zhou Zhi and Wu Renzhong mixing among them, but they are not disobedient at all.
Another thing that makes people feel strange is that in this seemingly primitive "tribe", there are now the most advanced satellite networks connecting the outside world, and there are also "old chiefs" who are good at using audio equipment. There is a group of reading children who are half dressed in ethnic costumes and half in "modern" clothes. They can sing loudly in both Chinese and Yi.
The soup came out quickly. Use the boiling water to boil the lamb bones, sheep heads, and scorpions to make the lamb soup. After frying the clean lamb offal with lard, add the spices and stew it, and then add the sheep blood. , tofu, and put the cooked cold mutton on a plate. This can be eaten cold or hot. Let's start the dinner now.
When Zhou Zhi found Matsui Zuo and Jin Chunyi, the two guys were already red in the face from drinking. They didn’t know how the two foreigners communicated with a group of old Yi compatriots because they didn’t understand the language. Peanuts can be drunk like this.
Even I can only pretend to be drunk when I get drunk with my Yi uncles, let alone you two? !
But Zhou Zhi soon found out the reason. What they drank was the kind of wine brewed by the traditional craftsmanship of the old Yi family and used for drinking pole wine during festivals. The Yi people called "Zhiyi" "soaking water wine" .
This wine is made from corn, buckwheat and koji medicine.
The method of making wine is also completely different from that of Handicraft wine. First, put the grains into a pot and fry them until all the water in the grains has evaporated. Then cool the grains and grind them into fine powder and coarse powder. Then add the ground powder to the tartary buckwheat shells and add a small amount of water. Mix the flour and buckwheat shells thoroughly, put them into a steamer and steam them in the pot.
These steps are all techniques that are not available in Han Chinese brewing, but they are actually quite scientific. Stir-frying, aging, grinding, and adding buckwheat husks are all effective measures to speed up the decomposition of starch by bacteria. In modern technology, There are several techniques, but they are used in the process of brewing alcohol from molasses.
After that, add the grain that has been cooled in the dustpan, add the rice dumplings for fermentation, and mix it thoroughly with your hands.
Then there is another special craft, which involves using red-hot charcoal on top of the mixed powder, and taking 3 to 5 dried red peppers and burning them on top to create a choking effect. The brewed wine is pure and delicious while reciting prayers. After that, the powder is put into the pocket and wrapped with cloth to enter the full fermentation stage.
This step cannot be explained scientifically, but in order to easily observe whether the fermentation is mature, the Yi people will put a knife on the bag and use the thermal conductivity of metal to sense the contents of the bag. temperature.
After fermentation, the raw materials will be poured into a special wooden barrel and sealed. After a seven-day "awakening period", the raw materials in the barrel will be opened and divided into four equal parts with bamboo slices, and then soaked in water for two to three times. Ten minutes. This process is why this wine is named "soaked wine".
Finally, you only need to prepare a bamboo pole that is sharpened at one end and shaped into a cylinder at the other end. Insert one end of the bamboo pole into the small hole on the bottom of the bucket, and the soaked wine will naturally flow from it. There was a gurgling flow from the barrel.
After the soaked wine is taken out of the barrel, a small bowl of soaked wine should be scooped out and poured back into the barrel to show respect for nature. After the ceremony is completed, the taken out soaked wine can be drunk. .
This wine is golden in color and tastes quite good. It is divided into three parts like perfume. The first part is sweet in the mouth, and you will notice some burnt wheat flavor in the middle part, and then it will form a sweet aftertaste at the bottom of the tongue, which is very distinctive.
Zhou Zhi probably knew why the two foreigners liked this kind of wine. Compared with their sake and soju, the alcohol content of this wine was very close, and the taste was more complex. Except for the slightly turbid color of the wine, it was completely in line with the tastes of Japanese and Korean people.
The Yi people like to drink this kind of wine in a jar, and then drink it from a long straw straw decorated with ribbons and painted in colors. This way of drinking is called "pole wine".
However, there is no such requirement for foreign guests, it is true.
This wine also has excellent health-preserving medicinal effects, and is also one of the props in Lao Bimo's recipe.
Lao Chiri would often add something to the tea that Zhou Zhi drank every day. They were chopped plants. The taste was not unpleasant, but Zhou Zhi didn’t know what it was.
Those plants are not the same, because Zhou Zhi can detect the different tastes.
Occasionally in the morning or evening, Lao Chiri would bring over a glass of soaked wine: "Drink this before eating." Or, "Drink this before going to bed."
I don’t know if it has anything to do with this, but these days Zhou Zhi feels that his arms are gradually relaxing, his mood is gradually getting better, and his sleep that has not been good for many years seems to have improved a lot.
Two sheep cannot be eaten by just a few people. There are many people participating in the banquet. Basically, the "heads" of each household who are watching TV in the conference room have become guests.
In addition to mutton soup, the staple food is potatoes boiled in plain water, dipped in a paste made from burnt green peppers and hydrochloric acid ginger.
Matsui Zuo and Jin Chunyi were completely released. Like other ethnic minorities, Yi people love to sing when they are happy, and their singing is very pleasant. They can't understand it at all, but they still dance and sing loudly. go along.
Brother Dayong is not very interested in soaked wine, so he started a high-quality Baogu wine with several old Yi compatriots, and Zhou Zhi couldn't stop him even if he tried several times.
Zhou Zhi even suspected that this child was restrained severely by Sister Xiaojuan'er. In addition, now it is considered a big meeting of the National People's Congress and he has to do everything. It has been a long time since he was as wild as he is now, drinking from a big bowl and drinking a lot. I'm eating meat. Today's meal is comparable to the lively posture of squatting outside the canteen of Jiachuan Waterworks to watch. This is really a feeling.