The conversation between Boss Cheng and He Chaoqun attracted everyone, and at this time Song Zisu said: "I checked it on the Internet last night, and I heard that I want to feed the cattle with herbs, and it seems to be true today!" No wonder Boss Cheng has always said that this hot pot needs to be booked to be eaten! ”

Boss Cheng nodded, agreed with Song Zisu's words, and then accepted this cow deflated hot pot for everyone.

Cow dung hot pot is the Miao and Dong cuisine in the southeast of Guizhou Province and the southwest of Guangxi, also called the cow deflated hot pot, which is the best for the southeast of Guizhou Province, and has the effect of strengthening the stomach and helping digestion.

Before the hot pot base is cooked, there is a faint smell of rotten grass, and then the beef offal is poured into the hot pot, just like Chongqing people eat soup pots, but there is a little smell of cow dung when cooking. It tastes like medicine and is a little bitter. Although you can make your own dipping dishes, you still can't suppress the taste, and the soup base is filled with spices such as calamus and Huoxiang Chuanxiong, and the more you eat it, the more fragrant it becomes.

Before slaughtering, feed the cattle with high-quality grass and Chinese herbal medicines, take out the incompletely digested food in the cow's stomach and small intestine after slaughtering, squeeze out the liquid, add cow bile and condiments and put it in the pot and simmer slowly before eating.

A long time ago, a Guizhou people often have diarrhea, stomach pain, begged for medicine and ate a lot but it didn't work, he saw that the cattle and sheep ate a hundred herbs and were healthy, so he tried to eat the cow, ate a few times, and the diarrhea was cured. As soon as the news spread, everyone began to follow suit, and gradually perfected the production process, adding spices constantly. Since then, this eating habit has been passed down from generation to generation, and every New Year's holiday, cattle and sheep are killed and eaten, and it is used as a delicacy to entertain guests.

Cattle are ruminants, rumination is what we call chewing, cattle after eating for a period of time, will return the semi-digested food to the mouth to chew again, "cattle generally eat grass, most of them are swallowed without full chewing, into what we call "honeycomb belly", in the food after vomiting back into the mouth will be mixed with saliva and gastric juice, the local people also call 'herb soup'."

"Beef deflated hot pot" is a very peculiar food in the southeast of Guizhou, which is difficult for many outsiders to accept, and is actually a hygienic, scientific and delicious dish. The so-called "cow deflated" is not a certain part of the cow's body, but between the cow's esophagus and the "honeycomb belly", the liquid extracted from the incompletely digested substance, and then mixed with some fresh mountain spices for cooking, because of the unique taste, it is still relatively common in the southeast of Guizhou, "the cooked cow deflated is yellow-green, the entrance is bitter, and many people are not suitable for eating too much."

Boss Cheng carefully explained to everyone what the cow deflated hot pot is, and finally didn't forget to joke: "Now I see that there are a lot of this kind of fast beef hot pot on the Internet, buy it back and cook it directly and eat it, many of them are not authentic cow deflated hot pot!" Our beef hot pot is yellow-green with a faint smell of herbs, and many of those are directly cow dung, which is really cooking feces to eat. ”

"Gwoon~ Boss Cheng, don't say it, these unscrupulous merchants, I will report them sooner or later!" Song Zisu was listening to the origin of this cow deflated hot pot with great interest, but suddenly heard that the cow deflated hot pot on the Internet was a fake cow, and his heart was filled with nausea.

After chatting for a while, Boss Cheng went to beckon someone to slaughter the cow.

Bai Ye looked at it from the side and said, "The people here are really powerful, such a professional thing as slaughtering cattle can be done by calling a few villagers." ”

Dong Ge explained: "Of course, the Miao and Buyi people have a custom every year, when the New Year is approaching, they have to eat a pig-killing meal, that is, every family has to kill pigs for the New Year, invite someone to help kill the pigs, and then cook and eat together, so every family has a middle-aged man who knows a little bit." ”

"Killing Pig Rice" is composed of six characteristic series: "Head Knife Dish", "Pig Killing Dish", "White Three Princes", "Gong Burst Meat Tendon", "Old Bacon" and "Pork Knuckle Boiled Green Vegetables".

The "head knife dish" consists of blood wangzi and fresh tofu with coriander; "Pig killing vegetables" are composed of three parts: pork liver, loin, and kidney flower, accompanied by some traditional Chinese medicine seasonings; "The Three White Princes" is made of a three-part platter of three-part meat, noodles and sausages, and pork belly; The selection of "palace fried meat tendons" must be the two tendons on the two tenderloins of the pig, which need to be just right for frying, and even the pot is selected when it is soft and fried; The selection of ingredients for the "old bacon" dish is to have more than one year of aged 100 kilograms of pork; the second is that the bacon must be slightly fattened with one centimeter; Third, bacon must be cooked at high temperatures; The green vegetables in the "pork knuckle boiled greens" must be planted with farmhouse fertilizer, and the small greens that have just been sprayed green and spit green, and the lean part of the pig's feet must be removed.

He Chaoqun sighed: "I didn't expect this dinner to be treated, and there is such an exquisiteness, folk culture is really long-standing, this trip, we are worth the trip!" ”

Dong Ge continued: "In fact, many of the folk culture has some mythological colors, but they have been lost in the process of circulation, and now only the form remains, but this is still our national treasure. Before the mission comes, we might as well play here for a few more days, and in a few days there will be a festival - April 8, which is a grand day for the Miao people, we can have a good experience! Although we are not Hmong, the Hmong people are hospitable and will definitely welcome us. ”

It just so happened that Boss Cheng beckoned people to come back, and he was very happy to hear everyone say that they wanted to stay for April 8th!

"Yes, we wish you would like to stay and celebrate the festival together, the more people will be lively, we will have a bonfire party then, but it will be lively!"

In fact, on April 8th, not only the Miao people have festivals, but also other ethnic groups, especially here, multi-ethnic settlements, if the festivals collide together, it is unprecedentedly lively, and the atmosphere that can be experienced is different!

The "April 8th" celebration of the Miao nationality in Guiyang City is the most grandiose, the most grand, and the most far-reaching. April 8 is the traditional festival of the Miao people. It is the ancestor worship festival, hero festival and celebration festival of the Miao people. People automatically gather to the predetermined place to dance drumming, to the mountain song, dance flower belt; Go up the knife ladder, drill the fire ring.... It was very lively, with tens of thousands of people, and the scene was grand and spectacular, with people singing and dancing to their heart's content until they stayed up all night. Every year on April 8, the Miao people in Guiyang City and neighboring counties should dress up in national costumes and gather in the area of the fountain in the center of Guiyang. They played reed sheng and flute, sang mountain songs, danced Miao dances, and celebrated their traditional festivals.

There are many legends about the origin of "April 8", mainly for the ancient Miao heroes who were buried in the area of today's fountain on "April 8", which has been passed down from generation to generation and has become a custom. Every family of Miao compatriots celebrates this festival by eating black rice and singing and dancing with reed sheng, and pays tribute to Miao heroes and ancestors with melodious reed sheng, flute and crisp and loud Miao family "flying song".