The Supreme Leader’s Memories of the Spring Festival in 2008 ＂Taste＂
In China, where "food is the most important thing for the people", "eat, drink and be good" is an important event for the people at home during the Spring Festival. General Secretary Supreme Leader’s previous investigations on the eve of the Spring Festival left many stories related to the taste of the year on the tip of his tongue.
On the eve of the Spring Festival in 2016, in the villagers’ home in Shenshan Village, Jiangxi Province, the general secretary and the villagers sat in a circle, and some fellow villagers brought over the freshly steamed rice fruit and introduced that they were going to relatives’ homes to celebrate the New Year. The general secretary savored the taste and praised "this custom is very good."
On the eve of the Spring Festival in 2017, by the kitchen stove of the villagers’ home in Desheng Village, Hebei Province, the general secretary held chopsticks in one hand and a colander in the other, and blew up the rice cake, which meant rising year by year. The golden rice cake smells sweet and fragrant, and the oily smell rises with the festive taste of the year.
On January 24, 2017, General Secretary of the Supreme Leader fried rice cakes at Xu Xuehai’s home in Desheng Village, Xiaoertai Town, Zhangbei County, Zhangjiakou City, Hebei Province.
In Zhanqi Village, Sichuan, eating glutinous rice balls during the Spring Festival is a traditional folk custom. On the eve of the Spring Festival in 2018, the Supreme Leader General Secretary visited Zhanqi Village and saw the villagers making dumplings. He gave a thumbs up and said to everyone in Sichuan dialect: "I wish your life as comfortable as eating dumplings!"
In Huozhou, Shanxi Province, as soon as the steamed buns are steamed, the flavor of the year comes. On the eve of the Spring Festival this year, in Fengnanyuan Village, Huozhou, Shanxi Province, the General Secretary of the Supreme Leader made a jujube year steamed bun three or two times. Looking at all kinds of steamed buns made by the villagers, such as jujube flowers, rabbits and small fish, he praised them as "very auspicious" and "giving people a feeling of getting better every year, representing the yearning for a better life for the majority of the villagers."
It is the romance of China’s traditional food culture to associate expectations and blessings for the future with the names and forms of food.
On January 26th, 2022, General Secretary of the Supreme Leader made New Year’s Eve buns with Shi Hongbing in Fengnanyuan Village, Shizhuang Township, huozhou city, Linfen City.
"Today is the 23 rd day of the twelfth lunar month, which is a small year. I am here to visit you." On February 3, 2013, the figure of the Supreme Leader General Secretary appeared in Yuangudui Village, Weiyuan County, Dingxi City, Gansu Province at an altitude of more than 2,400 meters. He came to visit the needy people.
After the off-year is the year. When chatting with the villagers, the general secretary talked with great interest about the custom of spending the New Year in northern Shaanxi: "We spend the New Year in northern Shaanxi, mainly grinding millet into flour, making it into steamed buns in the shape of tigers and rabbits, and adding colors and colors."
Before the arrival of the Spring Festival in 2015, General Secretary of the Supreme Leader ran his own Spring Festival and returned to Liangjiahe to visit his fellow villagers. At noon that day, at the home of Liang Yuming, the old branch secretary, the general secretary and a group of old friends, such as Shi Chunyang, Lv Housheng and Zhang Weipang, sat together and ate Liang’s "annual tea meal". In northern Shaanxi, people refer to the food they eat during the Spring Festival as "annual tea rice".
Oil cake, chicken, mutton, sauerkraut, Hele, pumpkin … … At the dinner table, all the authentic farmhouse meals are the annual flavor of the people in northern Shaanxi, and it is also the hometown flavor that the son of the yellow land misses.
On January 24th, 2017, on the 27th day of the twelfth lunar month, General Secretary of the Supreme Leader walked into Desheng Village, Zhangbei County, Zhangjiakou City, Hebei Province, with concern for the needy people.
The guests came from afar, and the villager Xu Wan took out his own new year’s entertainment. The golden-colored, sweet and crisp "open smile" is a must-have new year’s goods for every family in Bashang, Hebei Province. The general secretary tasted a piece and said it was delicious.
"I’m celebrating the New Year every year now. I buy some glutinous rice strips in the street, and there’s another one called Fried Row Fork … …” The general secretary shared with you the favorite bite of Chinese New Year. "There is a lot of oil, so you are not allowed to eat more. Anyway, eat a little during the holidays."
Food and beauty can’t be disappointed. Behind the different flavors are similar emotions.
Ciba is round cake-shaped, white and soft, which means round and round, and it is also a favorite of people in Shenshan Village, Jiangxi Province.
On the eve of the Spring Festival in 2016, when the general secretary, the supreme leader who came to visit the people in the old district, and his party walked into Zuo Xiufa’s house, everyone was busy fighting.
The general secretary smiled and said, "Let’s play together, shall we?"
"Good." Li Zongwu, a villager with a gavel, rushed to answer.
The general secretary played a dozen times in a row and asked everyone how long it would take to play at a time. Li Zongwu remembers, "He also said humorously that he could exercise".
On February 2, 2016, General Secretary of the Supreme Leader fought Ciba with villagers in Shenshan Village, Mao Ping Township, Jinggangshan City, Jiangxi Province.
A variety of distinctive New Year snacks and delicious New Year delicacies not only satisfy the enjoyment of taste buds, but also are filled with the joy of the New Year and nourish the sweet days.
"I’ll come to see you and pay a New Year call to everyone!" In four hutongs in Caochang, Beijing, General Secretary of the Supreme Leader who came to pay a New Year call was invited by Zhu Maojin, a resident of hutong, to package jiaozi together.
The Zhu family recalled that the general secretary picked up chopsticks and rolled dumpling wrappers to wrap jiaozi, and then put the wrapped jiaozi on the panel, "acting like an elder next door".
Chatting at home while wrapping jiaozi, the general secretary said that his family also loves to wrap fennel stuffing. "Over the years, because of my work, I didn’t package jiaozi. You see, the more packages, the better. Our life is the same, the better! "
On February 1, 2019, General Secretary of the Supreme Leader visited Zhu Maojin’s family in Sihutong, Caochang, Qianmen East District, Beijing.
In the Wa village of Simola, Yunnan — — In a village whose Wa language means "a happy place", villager Li Fashun invited the Supreme Leader General Secretary to make rice Baba, a traditional food for the Wa people in the New Year.
Pick up a mass of rice Baba in your right hand, press it hard on the mold, and work harder with your left hand … … The general secretary made two red rice Baba in a row. He smiled and said, "Press a word of happiness, and then a word of happiness." Li Fashun felt, "This red and sweet rice Baba, which is blessed and happy, is like today’s Smola."
On January 19th, 2020, General Secretary of the Supreme Leader made rice Baba, a traditional local festival food, with Li Fashun’s family in Mora Wa Village, three village, Qingshui Township, Tengchong City, Yunnan Province.
In Huawu Village, Guizhou Province, the villagers invited the general secretary to make huang ba together — — A traditional specialty food that is indispensable for Guizhou people to celebrate the New Year.
Pick up a zongzi leaf, put a sticky rice yellow bean on it, roll up the zongzi leaf, and tie it tightly with thread … … General Secretary of the Supreme Leader personally packaged a huang ba. He smiled and said, "I wish you a happier and sweeter life in the future!" " Everyone present also laughed.
On February 3, 2021, General Secretary of the Supreme Leader made huang ba, a local traditional festival food, while chatting with Zhao Yuxue, a Miao villager in Huawu Village, Xinren Miao Township, qianxi county, Bijie City, Guizhou Province.
In today’s great changes in China, the life of ordinary people is getting better and better, and it is very convenient to buy food from all over the country. But there is always some flavor of hometown. On this special day, it will string up our homesickness and memories and bring us warmth and joy.
In the new year, work together.
(Central Radio and Television General Station CCTV Network)