There is also a Valentine's Day narrative that says that Valentine was a Christian martyr.

Valentine is said to have been one of the first Christians, and at that time, being a Christian was a very dangerous thing to do because that meant danger and death.

During an operation to escape capture by the Roman authorities, Valentine was captured by Roman soldiers and thrown into prison to await trial in order to protect other Christians.

While in prison, he meets the warden's daughter, a blind blind girl. Valentine helped the blind girl heal her eyes (there is also a theory that when she was about to be executed, Valentine discovered an herb that could heal the blind girl, and then the blind girl's eyes were restored), so that she could not live in the dark.

Soon, the warden's daughter fell in love with Valentine. Valentine also developed a crush on this beautiful girl, often telling her stories about herself and the teachings of Christ.

Unfortunately, it was not long before the rulers of Rome heard about this, especially the fact that Valentine could cure his blindness, and was very frightened, so he ordered Valentine to be executed immediately.

Legend has it that on the morning of his execution, Valentine wrote a heartfelt farewell letter to the warden's daughter, signed FromyourValentine.

Later, the prison warden's daughter, the former blind girl, planted an apricot tree with red flowers in front of his grave to express her grief.

Because that day was February 14, Christianity later named this day St. Valentine's Day to commemorate Valentine, which is now known as Valentine's Day.

This statement is very much accepted by some sentimental modern young people, especially women, and this kind of twisted love story makes them believe it. Especially in the United States and other places, the concept of Valentine's Day can be said to have been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.

However, abroad, there is another version of the explanation for the origin of Valentine's Day related to the customs of ancient Rome.

It is said that in the ancient Roman period. February 14 is a holiday to show respect for Yona. Yona was the queen of the Roman king of the gods, and the Romans revered her as the god of women and marriage at the same time. The following month, February 15, is known as the Feast of Lupathalla, a festival of reverence for the other gods under Yona.

In ancient Rome, boys had extremely strict rules of life, and they had to undergo various trainings from an early age, and their lives were completely separated from those of girls.

However, on the day of the "Lupasara Festival", the lads can choose a girl of their choice and engrave her name on the vase.

In this way, wait until the time for the festival again. Lads can dance with their favorite girls, enjoy delicious food, and celebrate the festival together.

If the chosen girl is also interested in the young man, they can be paired up and eventually fall in love, enter the temple, and become husband and wife.

As a result, later generations designated February 14 as Valentine's Day.

Even in the West, Valentine's Day was truly universally accepted after the 17th century.

As for the spread to our country, it is a matter after the reform and opening up, but the development of this festival in our country is extremely fast. In the eyes of young people, attaching importance to Cheng dù can almost be compared with the Spring Festival and the Mid-Autumn Festival.

Generally speaking, on Valentine's Day in our country, it is traditional for boys to give roses and chocolates to girls. And girls don't have to give boys gifts back.

In addition to giving gifts, the two usually find a more romantic place to enjoy a delicious meal for two people. In the later programs, it depends on each person's wishes, depending on what the men and women think.

However, it is precisely because this festival is so valued by young people that it has also aroused doubts from some domestic conservatives. The main reason is that I am worried that it will dilute the celebration and importance of young people to our country's traditional festivals.

In addition, the interpretation of the word lover in China is also easy to cause misunderstanding. Lover in China mainly refers to the mistress, the meaning of the lover. It means a relationship between a man and a woman other than a legal husband and wife, so it is inevitable that it will be criticized.

The country that likes Valentine's Day the most is probably South Korea, and they have set up an exclusive Valentine's Day on the 14th of each month, which is very strange.

For example, January 14 is diary Valentine's Day, March 14 is White Day, April 14 is Black Valentine's Day, June 14 is Family Valentine's Day, October 14 is Wine Valentine's Day, and so on.

This strange country is definitely an incomprehensible existence for ordinary people! Arrogance and inferiority coexist, and he is extremely insecure, and at the same time he is good at self-hypnosis, and he has a fight with the ancient Yelang country in our country!

Xiao Zheng's speech stunned everyone present! This shy little man who usually doesn't talk much and always does the work in his hands is so knowledgeable? Where did he know that?

Looking at the people standing there talking eloquently, everyone couldn't associate the previous image of Xiao Zheng with him. Could it be that this is the legendary mode of pretending to be a pig and eating a tiger?

At the end of the meeting, the uncle directly made a decision to let Xiao Zheng take charge of the show and become the director of the show. Gao Feng was appointed as the show's executive producer, which was a kind of comfort to his wounded heart and self-esteem.

After two days of intense production, the show was completed quickly. After the broadcast, the effect was not as good as expected, and subsequent follow-up visits and random sampling surveys showed that less than 10% of the villagers felt that the program was very good.

Most people, especially the elderly, think that this Valentine's Day is something to teach bad children, what are you doing with this thing?

So many people simply changed the channel when the TV station broadcast this program, which made Gao Feng very depressed, and sighed: The generation gap is too deep and too wide!

Wang Yong didn't watch this episode either, in fact, his views on Valentine's Day are similar to those of the village elders.

Valentine is not a good word in the eyes of many people in China, but after the reform and opening up, in the eyes of many people, even the moon abroad is rounder the influence of the social trend of being rounder than the domestic one, Valentine's Day has been accepted by many fashionable people.

After that, many businesses hyped up Valentine's Day in China for the sake of their own interests! Like many festivals, this day has become a day for merchants to make a fortune.

But in Wang Yong's impression, lovers are generally with a third party, the junior. Bad people who destroy the relationship between husband and wife are linked. Even after he learned about the origin of Valentine's Day and had two episodes, this idea never changed.

Sometimes he also thinks about the question of why he thinks this way. Later, after thinking about it for a long time, I figured out that it was probably because he was a nationalist, he thought everything was good for his country, and he was very disgusted with foreign things from the bottom of his heart, including these foreign festivals.

In the past two days, Wang Yong has been pondering a delicacy in addition to working in the mountains and looking at his animals. A delicacy that was only possible to eat every year during the Chinese New Year a long time ago.

There are many specific names, but the most common one is called bracken roll (that is, sauerkraut roll, and the locals call sauerkraut bracken). A wonderful and time-consuming dish at the same time.

It's easy to do, but it's a bit time-consuming and laborious to do. Probably this is why this dish has rarely been seen in recent years. Because money worship is prevalent in the whole society, everyone is impetuous and no longer willing to spend a little more time enjoying food.

First of all, choose a pickled sauerkraut, a knife in the middle, as long as the leaf part. Peel off the leaves one by one and lay them flat on the board.

After that, it's minced meat, so there's nothing to say about that. It's just the ordinary minced meat used to make meatballs. After the meat filling is ready, you can make zuò sauerkraut rolls.

Scoop out a piece of minced meat with a spoon or hand and place it on top of the sauerkraut leaves, folding the sauerkraut leaves like spring rolls. Wrap the minced meat.

The wrapped sauerkraut rolls are not boiled in water or fried, but are rarely steamed! It's similar to steaming dumplings, usually fifteen minutes is enough.

The sauerkraut rolls are delicious. When you bite into it, you will have a strong aroma of the meat filling in the sour taste, and the juice from the sauerkraut and meat filling will be mixed with steam. The taste is definitely unforgettable for those who like to eat sour!

The key is that this dish makes you not feel greasy at all, the sourness of the sauerkraut neutralizes the oiliness of the meat very well, and there is a hint of sweetness in the sourness, so that people who like to eat it once will never forget that taste for the rest of their lives.

Because this method is really time-consuming and laborious compared to the dumplings, there has been no trace of this dish at the banquet during the New Year for many years, and Wang Yong only found this dish when he occasionally ate at a restaurant in the town.

Two days ago, Wang Yong went to the town to run errands, and happened to meet Zhu Wei, an old classmate who was the director of the town's police station. To say that this old classmate is definitely young and promising, although there are people above him, but to be able to become the director of this department before the age of thirty, the ability is still necessary.

After a conversation between the two who hadn't seen each other for a long time, the enthusiastic old classmate said that it was rare that both of them were free today, and they had to invite Wang Yong to eat in the town.

It is difficult to resist enthusiasm, and Wang Yong is very responsible for this, and at the same time, he also attaches great importance to this classmate, plus when the village once found the wine cellar with a century-old two-pot head, this classmate stood up for the first time to support his platform, and he pulled out his gun for practice.

No matter what I said, I also owed someone a favor, thinking that I would have nothing to do in the afternoon anyway, so I followed him into a restaurant in the town.

According to Zhu Wei, the restaurant was opened by a master in a village below the town. In his early years, he worked as a chef in the canteen of the town government and in a series of factories opened in the town.

Later, after he was laid off and returned to the village, he often went from village to house, and people often asked him to help him buy banquets, and he was still very famous near their village.

Now this restaurant is run by his youngest daughter and son-in-law, it just opened this year, because the price is fair, and the meals are also very good, so the business has been very good since it opened.

The food here is different from other restaurants in that it is made of local home cooking, especially some dishes that have been left in people's memories, and there are several dishes on their menu, among which sauerkraut rolls are the most famous dish.

It was at this meal that Wang Yong tasted a lot of the flavors of his childhood memories. In addition to this impressive sauerkraut roll, there is another dish that also makes him memorable.

It has a very common but vivid name, which is called egg wrapped meat. The method is also very simple, it is to boil the eggs, peel them, then cut them in the middle and scoop out the yolks.

Then stuff the meat filling into the egg white depression, smooth it out, and then sprinkle some of the broth of the stew on the basket and steam. Two pairs of two or flat sides are stacked down and placed in a bowl and served.

This is one of the more creative dishes in local cuisine, right? And in terms of living conditions at that time, this was definitely a big dish of luxury!

Eggs and meat, which were considered luxury ingredients at the time, were combined to make a dish, and at the banquet, it was not the kind of family that lived a very prosperous family, and it would definitely not have this dish in the era when they were just full of food. (To be continued......)

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