Chapter Forty-Eight: Ancient Oroqen
People have seen butchers kill pigs, debone and cut meat, but they have never seen such a knife technique of the Oroqen people, who are known as the "kings of the forest".
The Oroqen word for 'Ashku' means highly skilled hunter, or a highly skilled hunter!
Indeed, at first glance, Ashku is a brave and excellent hunter with a strong experience in surviving in the wild.
It can be said that every Oroqen man is an excellent hunter.
The bonfire, which was dying just now, crackled and burned in just a few minutes.
Without asking anyone to help, the smell of fish stew in the iron pot filled the entire shack.
The fish on the bonfire were roasted golden brown and squeaked, and the rabbit oil brushed on the fish dripped, crackling on the coals.
Everyone was stimulated by the original and delicious things.
Mu Yu swallowed and foamed at the mouth and said very puzzledly: "Isn't there still badger meat and lynx meat?"
This was exactly the question Han Fei wanted to ask.
Ashku flipped the grilled fish, glanced at the badger meat and lynx meat that had been skinned, and then glanced at the animal skin hanging on the side and said: "To make badger meat and lynx meat, you must first soak it in cold water for at least a few hours, so that you can get rid of the earthy smell and peculiar smell in the badger meat and lynx meat, and it will taste delicious!"
When it comes to the word 'delicious', not only the audience in the live broadcast room can't stand the stimulation of this delicacy, but everyone in the shack is even more salivating.
Han Fei sniffed hard and said, "Ah, the taste is really good, tsk, can you eat it now?"
Ashku smiled honestly, "It's ready to eat." Then he took down the big bag of animal skin on his body and opened it, and there were several large pieces of warm roe deer meat and three oil cakes, and said: "There is also roe deer meat, and Kabu Sanen (oil cake) is hot, delicious!"
Everyone was moved by Ashku's sincerity and simplicity, Mu Yu said to the camera with emotion: "In the past, I only knew about Oroqen in books, saying that Oroqen people are hospitable, bold and honest, and now I am deeply touched, everyone knows that this may be a lunch for people to hunt in the mountains, and now it is given to us, he may not have anything to eat at noon!"
Han Fei rotated the camera according to Mu Yu's request, not letting go of the details of every shot, this trip to the wilderness allowed him to recapture many precious moments, from hares, badgers, to lynxes, and the vast forest and snow fields, all of which they had never experienced before.
Ashku warmly invited them to their home on the other side of the mountain, and Mu Yu and the others were eager to see what life was like for the real Oroqen people.
Ashku said that the adult men of the Oroqen nationality are good at drinking, and there are two kinds of liquor they drink: one is mare's milk wine, which is fermented together by the Oroqen people with Ma Oroqen milk, millet, and millet rice for more than a week, and then steamed in a wine steamer, so that every family can brew it themselves; and the other is liquor, which is mostly imported from other places. Before hunting in the harsh winter, Oroqen hunters often drank a bowl of bear oil to enhance their ability to protect against the cold.
Everyone pricked up their ears and listened with wide eyes, as if listening to a magical legend.
In the live broadcast room, many people are taking screenshots and taking pictures, and everyone feels very special and novel when they see the hat made of roe deer on Ashku's head, as well as roe deer skin clothes, and roe deer leather boots.
Suddenly, the number of followers and fans in the live broadcast room rose sharply.
Seeing that they were so interested in the life of Oroqen, Ashku took a few sips of Ma ** wine placed in the antlers and opened the conversation.
"In the past, we Oroqen people have always eaten all kinds of animal meat as our staple food, generally eating one or two meals a day, and the meal time is not fixed. In winter, they eat before the sun rises and go out hunting after the meal, and in summer, they go out in the morning and have breakfast after they have returned. Sometimes they also spend the night in the hunting area. Morning and evening meals, both prepared by women at home. The staple food of both meals is mainly lean meat. The daily diet of the Oroqen people includes many varieties of rice and noodles, such as sumisun (porridge), Lao Kuatai (sticky porridge) and dry rice made from rice or millet, Gaolubuda (noodles) and kabushanen (oil cakes) made of flour, bread dumplings are also common, and the Oroqen people eat a wide range of meat-eating noodles, and in addition to various wild animals in the forest, they also hunt birds and fish in the river. ”
"DXAL's specialty Wyvern (grouse) is the most famous for its tender meat. The most common thing to eat is roe deer meat, followed by vein, and the rhino nose is regarded as a delicacy. When the meat of the beast is boiled in the pot with the meat with the bone joint, it is taken out after it is half cooked, each person uses a knife to cut and dip it in salt water and eat, especially like to eat the meat with blood tendons, think that the animal meat with blood tendons is tender and delicious, rich in nutrition, and has the therapeutic effect of enhancing eyesight and eliminating fatigue. When eating roe deer meat, they like to chop and mix the boiled meat and its liver and brain, and then add wild boar fat and wild green onion to eat.
The Oroqen people are also accustomed to finely processing or stir-frying or frying all kinds of animal meat to make various wild dishes. It is also becoming increasingly common to make a variety of stir-fried dishes with meat and vegetables. The Oroqen people keep their prey, most of them use the method of drying, especially in summer, the Oroqen hunters mostly cut the animal meat into small strips, dried it semi-dry, and then cut it into small pieces, put it on the curtain made of artemisia rods, burn charcoal below, smoke it, and keep the meat unchanged for a long time.
In the past, there were many taboos in food and drink. For example, when eating bear meat, you should learn to crow call, which means telling the bear in the mountains that it is a crow eating bear meat. After the death of one spouse, the other spouse is not allowed to eat the head and internal organs of the animal for three years. In some places, it is forbidden for women to eat bear meat, and women are not allowed to eat animal heads and hearts during childbirth. Today, these taboos have changed.
When he was only 8 years old, Ashku followed his father into the mountains to hunt.
Later, most of the Oroqen people have moved out of the forest and settled down in the mountains. Their original tribe, as well as several tribes from the nearby river basin, were resettled in the former village of Teqi in Tuohe Township, Oroqen Banner. In the Oroqen Banner, there are a total of 7 Orion villages where Orion is housed in this way.
Despite having descended from the mountains, living at the bottom of flat rivers and valleys, and having fertile black soil in the northeast, the Oroqen people are still not accustomed to farming. The men still went up to the mountains to hunt and brought back to the village for everyone equally. Nothing has changed except for a change in the place of residence.
Hunting is the way of survival of forest hunters. The Oroqen quietly marched in the forest sea of Daxing'an, approaching wild boars, deer, roe deer and even bears and other animals, and then released guns and hounds.
Han Fei's eyes flashed with excitement: "Xiao Mu, I dare to pack tickets, our show, not to mention the skyrocketing ratings when we go back, we will definitely get the grand prize!"
"What prize? How come I don't know anything?"
Mu Yu and Lin Lin were both in a fog, but Han Fei smiled and didn't say a word, just pointed the camera at the vast mountains.