[Well-off China] Visiting the "Mooncake Town" in Guizhou: Traditional food drives villagers to get rich
[Explanation] The Mid-Autumn Festival is approaching. In the canteen of the Phosphate Fertilizer Factory, Longchang Town, Fuquan City, Qiannan Buyi and Miao Autonomous Prefecture, Guizhou Province, Liu Xiying and her colleagues began to get busy.
The 53-year-old Liu Xiying has been making mooncakes locally for 25 years. From the initial “canteen Mid-Autumn Festival food”, she has developed into a pillar industry in a small town with a population of about 20,000. She has witnessed the growth of the “mooncake town”.
[Explanation] Making noodles, mixing stuffing, baking...Through the skillful cooperation of Liu Xiying and colleagues, in a short while, the golden mooncakes are freshly baked.
In Liu Xiying's memory, every Mid-Autumn Festival as a child, she looked forward to eating moon cakes produced in the canteen of the local phosphate fertilizer factory.
[Concurrent] Liu Xiying, a resident of Longchang Town, Fuquan City, Qiannan Buyi and Miao Autonomous Prefecture, Guizhou Province
When we ate this moon cake when we were young, the conditions were not good at that time.
A moon cake was broken in half, and the sisters shared it among themselves.
It was delicious and warm. My parents bought it for us and felt that the annual holiday was here again.
I feel that the family is very warm and happy together
[Explanation] During the interview, Liu Xiying quipped to the reporter: After eating Longchang moon cakes for more than 20 years, she did not even expect that she would become the maker of the moon cakes, inheriting the taste of food.
[Concurrent] Liu Xiying, a resident of Longchang Town, Fuquan City, Qiannan Buyi and Miao Autonomous Prefecture, Guizhou Province
When I made this mooncake, I needed to be transferred to the logistics department. The logistics department came to the canteen to take part in the work. When I worked in the canteen, I came into contact with this mooncake.
Just follow the teacher and learn this year after year.
[Site] This sand washing is mainly about heat, and the fire cannot be big or small.
It takes two or three hours to fry until a certain time.
If it's mung beans, it will take longer, and it will take five or six hours to fry.
[Concurrent] Liu Xiying, a resident of Longchang Town, Fuquan City, Qiannan Buyi and Miao Autonomous Prefecture, Guizhou Province
From eating moon cakes when I was a child to making moon cakes now, we have always inherited this pure handwork, without any machine, from cutting, entering, and selecting, all are handmade.
[Explanation] The original Longchang moon cake was just a delicacy for the locals during the Mid-Autumn Festival.
After the reform and opening up in 1978, the unique delicacy of "canteen moon cakes" attracted many people to learn how to make moon cakes.
Learn the technique, cook it yourself, and sell it on the market.
After more than 30 years of development, the taste has been improved, and the puff pastry Longchang moon cake with unique flavor has been loved by local and foreign people.
During the Mid-Autumn Festival, you must eat moon cakes, and even the moon cakes just baked at your door. This small canteen moon cake has become a "taste of childhood" that the locals can't forget.
[Concurrent] Chen Haoran, a resident of Longchang Town, Fuquan City, Qiannan Buyi and Miao Autonomous Prefecture, Guizhou Province
Now that I have eaten this moon cake, I think of sitting on the table inside my house, watching the TV.
Or go out to play with children, with a feeling of (going out to eat).
It reminds me of the square outside my hometown when I was a child, the old-fashioned Longchang. This smell brought me back to the scene at that time.
[Explanation] Nowadays, 5 moon cake production enterprises have been developed in Longchang Town, with an annual output of 235 tons and a sales value of approximately 5.25 million yuan.
In the eyes of the locals, making moon cakes not only inherits the Mid-Autumn Festival culture, but also the best testimony to their happy life.
[Concurrent] Liu Xiying, a resident of Longchang Town, Fuquan City, Qiannan Buyi and Miao Autonomous Prefecture, Guizhou Province
The taste of the mooncakes that have been with me over the years has not changed, and I still feel so happy. These sisters and colleagues who have been with me are still the same, but our friendship has grown deeper.
At this time each year, these sisters will spontaneously make us mooncakes, and it feels like this thing is going to be passed on.
Wang Xi reports from Qiannan, Guizhou
Editor in charge: [Ji Xiang]