"You don't need to worry about this as an adult, right?" Dad said, "How old are your elbows?"
"The elbow is old, but Xiaomiao is not big." Mom couldn't figure out the situation: "Is Xiaomiao chasing after the elbow? Otherwise, why would you go to Liangshan with him? And stay together every night..."< br>
"Isn't this a case of children working together in a career?" Dad didn't take it seriously: "I've been so busy with just a business management system. Do you really think they still have time to fall in love at night?"
"That's a problem. Mainly, I don't know if American girls know what it means here for a boy to take a girl home to meet relatives..." Mom frowned again: "How about we give it to us too? The elbow tip reminds us that we like Xiaomiao very much and are very satisfied. If they want to go further, the family will only be happy to agree?”
"You must not!" Dad was startled: "Let's just believe that things will fall into place."
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"A big family is quite fun." In the Guardian car, Mai Xiaomiao was also summarizing the novel insights brought to her by her trip in recent days.
"I'm even worried that you won't be able to stand their excessive enthusiasm." Zhou Zhi smiled and said, "Especially my mother and my aunt's character."
"Aunt and aunt are both very nice." Mai Xiaomiao was still playing with a panda stone in one hand. When she heard this, she remembered what aunt called Zhou Zhi and couldn't help laughing: "Heirloom, hahahaha..."
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"Be careful not to drop the family heirloom in your hand." Zhou Zhi resented the title of aunt the most, but he already accepted his fate.
"This is you, this is me." Mai Xiaomiao put the two panda stones on his knees, then brought his knees together, and while Zhou Zhi was concentrating on driving, the two stones touched lightly: "My godmother said, we want to Have a good life.”
"Are Xiaomiao interested in dinosaurs?"
"Dinosaur?"
"Ah, there is a dinosaur museum in Zigong, as well as a well salt base that you can visit, and a lot of delicious food. By the way, the lantern festival should also start to be decorated recently, why don't we ask when we get there?"
"Well, it's all up to you."
It avoids the highway under construction. Although a section of the road from Manzhou to Yanzhou is under construction, it is generally easy to walk.
Zhou Zhi and Mai Xiaomiao were not in a hurry and just walked and played along the way.
Some villages and towns we passed were having markets and it was before the festival. Not to mention the excitement, and the firecrackers in the countryside exploded earlier than in the city. Children were throwing firecrackers from time to time along the way, which scared Mai Xiaomiao into screaming.
The Dinosaur Museum is actually not big, but there are quite a few types of dinosaurs inside, including basically all species. There is also a Mamenchisaurus, a type of Diplodocus, which is the largest dinosaur fossil discovered in China. Its neck stands upright. It's as high as two floors.
There is no Salt Industry Museum yet, and Senhaijing is still a factory of Yanzhou Salt Industry Company, but it has only undertaken some tasks that are open to the public.
The depth of the wells here is more than a thousand meters, and the salt wells in Yanzhou have been drilled as early as the Han Dynasty. Natural gas was first discovered in the Eastern Han Dynasty. Natural gas was used to boil brine to produce salt, which greatly reduced the dependence on firewood. In that era, these two items were considered black technologies.
Until now, these wells still maintain traditional brine mining operations and still use natural gas to boil brine, but the gas is sent from the natural gas company.
But these did not affect Mai Xiaomiao's shock and amazement at the wisdom of the ancients. Although she always heard Zhou Zhi praise the Chinese nation as the most intelligent and diligent nation in the world with the earliest civilization, in her most exaggerated imagination, she could not imagine the Han people thousands of years ago. It has been able to dig wells thousands of meters deep and use natural gas to boil salt.
There is also a set of purification methods for this salt. The resulting salt is white and clean. Even if it is an indigenous method, the result is almost the same as that extracted by modern technology.
The two bought some salt at the canteen at the exit of the tour. Zhou Zhi told Mai Xiaomiao that this was the best pickling salt, and the pickles made with it were especially crispy and refreshing. After inquiring, the two learned that although the lantern festival had begun to be decorated, the lights had not been turned on at night, so they could only watch it during the day.
With the thought of coming here, the two of them also ran to the park to have a look. Sure enough, there was nothing interesting about the lantern festival during the day. They were all papery animal figures, some of which looked quite scary.
The only thing worthy of praise is a pair of porcelain dragons made of porcelain such as tea jars, plates, bowls, and spoons. They are about the same size as the Mamenchisaurus fossil and as high as two stories.
But the shape is the traditional Ming and Qing dragon shape.
The porcelain is uniformly made of blue and white porcelain, so these two dragons are also dressed in beautiful blue and white.
"Is this considered an intangible cultural heritage?" Mai Xiaomiao looked up at the only two highlights of the lantern festival and expressed his admiration again: "Their hands are so skillful!"
"This really tested me. Ancient porcelain is not cheap, and no one would use so much porcelain to stab a dragon, so this practice will definitely not last long."
"However, there is indeed something special about bundling porcelain. In the old days, porters did not use baskets when transporting porcelain. The porcelain workers had a set of bundling methods that could bundle dozens of kilograms of scattered porcelain together and let the porters carry it for dozens of miles. None of them fall apart.”
"It seems that the first Yanzhou Lantern Festival was held in 1964. At that time, there was an old employee of the daily miscellaneous company who was good at binding porcelain. The company leaders chose to use porcelain to tie the lamps. After careful design, the old employee chose bowls with leaky flowers and tied them according to the pattern. The lamps are made of porcelain, and a small light bulb is installed in the bowl. After the electricity is turned on, the whole pattern lights up, which is well received by the audience. After the exhibition, the porcelain can be taken back to the company for further sale, which is also very economical.”
"Every year after that, this porcelain lamp was left behind, and the lamp became bigger and bigger. But it is really hard to determine whether it is considered an intangible cultural heritage."
"It must be calculated. It's been thirty years!"
There is no mistake in every song, one post, one content, one 6 one, one book, one book, take a look!
Thirty years of intangible cultural heritage... Zhou Zhi decided to skip this one: "But there is one skill that must be designated. Let's go, let's go now."
"What?"
"There are three factions in Sichuan cuisine. Among them, Xiaohe Cuisine has its birthplace in Yanzhou, and is also known as 'Yan Cuisine'. The boiled beef and rabbit with ginger and fresh peppers that I made for you were all first made here. ”
"Then where are we going to eat?" The two of them had bean curd rice at noon in Fushun. Although the seasoning was very different from the one in Jiachuan, Mai Xiaomiao still thought it tasted pretty good.
I just ate too early. Now that I have visited so many places, I am really hungry.
"Like Jiazhou, this is a city of gourmet food. If you find any restaurant, the taste will be good." Zhou Zhi suggested: "But we can walk around the city and find a restaurant that seems to be doing a lot of business. ”
After getting in the car and driving around the outskirts of the city, Zhou Zhi suddenly found a restaurant with the words "Qiaotou Sannen" written on the sign. He slapped his thigh and said, "This is it!"
"Is it famous?"
"Quite famous." Zhou Zhi said with a smile: "Today I want to show you what 'table cooking' means!"
When he came to the store, Zhou Zhi sat down and the waiter came up to greet him. Zhou Zhi asked which son of Lao Xie's family owned the store.
The answer was the second child. (End of chapter)