Villagers serving the Winter Olympics grow Italian coriander for the first time
On December 13, the arugula in the greenhouse was thriving.
At 8 o'clock in the morning on December 17, the Xiuping snack bar ushered in a peak of passenger flow.
On December 13, workers were working on the assembly line of the processing workshop of Daxing No. 1 Vegetable Base.
On December 13, the incense in the greenhouse was growing vigorously.
At 4:30 a.m. every day, the warm yellow lights of the "Xiuping Snack Bar" in Zhangshanying Town, Yanqing District will be lit by the proprietress Sun Xiuping on time.
The breakfast she cooked was delicious and cheap, and the customers were mostly construction workers at nearby Winter Olympic venues.
Business is good, earning not much money, for so many years, Sun Xiuping has not had the heart to increase more than a penny, it is not easy for everyone.
In Xinjiapu Village, villager Guo Leqin participated in a volunteer service team, making dumplings and making rice dumplings. Every important holiday, the busy Winter Olympic venue builders can always taste the good craftsmanship of Guo Leqin and the folks.
Hai Tuo Mountain is very cold, the dumplings are hot, and the dumplings are sweet and fragrant.
In Daxing, Beijing, Chi Xueli wandered around the vegetable base in the village every day to check the growth of vegetables, such as Italian coriander, dill, angelica, carnivore... He has grown vegetables for decades, and many of these Chinese vegetables have never been heard. All "niche" vegetables will be served on the tables of athletes from all over the world during the Winter Olympics.
In the much-anticipated 2022 Winter Olympics, some people are silently caring about food and vegetables. The vast countryside of Beijing has supported the hot fireworks of ice and snow sports.
Story 1
I make breakfast for Winter Olympic workers
Early shop is a veritable "diligence". Sun Xiuping's daily work starts at 4:30 in the morning.
Making noodles, cutting vegetables, mixing stuffing, steaming tofu, boiling marinade... At dawn, the store will welcome batch after batch of diners, both new faces and regular customers.
"Two bowls of rice porridge, two pies, two tea eggs, and a bowl of old tofu."
"A total of 12 yuan. There is not much left in the old tofu, so I will give you this, and you will not be charged."
At 7 o'clock in the morning, the "Xiuping Snack Bar" in Zhangshanying Town, Yanqing District ushered in the most popular time of the day.
Sun Xiuping, a villager in Shuiyu Village, Zhangshanying Township, Yanqing District, ran this small restaurant after he married her husband.
The fire is 1 yuan a piece, oil cakes 2 yuan a piece, old tofu 3 yuan is full of a big bowl, the food is delicious, the price is not expensive, 13 years, Sun Xiuping's shop has been booming.
After the successful bid for the Winter Olympics, in addition to the villagers living nearby, there were a lot of migrant workers wearing hard hats and plain clothes in her shop. Some of them participated in the construction of the Winter Olympics venues, and some were in the resettlement housing projects for the Winter Olympics. Work.
For these strangers, Sun Xiuping is always extraordinarily enthusiastic.
"The Winter Olympics are at our doorstep. People have worked so hard for the Olympics all the way, and they have to let people feel the enthusiasm of our people in Yanqing, Beijing."
In addition to the proprietress Sun Xiuping, there are also four waiters in the store, all of whom are rural women from different places. Most of them have worked in the store for four or five years.
Like Sun Xiuping, 50-year-old Sister Ke arrives at the store at 4:30 every morning to make noodles, wrap stuffing, and bake stuffed pie. “The craftsmanship is learned from the lady boss.” Busy past the peak of breakfast, around 9 o’clock, Sister Ke is about to start arranging the big pot dishes for noon with the sisters.
When she chose to settle in Zhangshanying Town, she did not expect to be able to catch up with Beijing to host the Winter Olympics, and she was so close to the small shop where she worked.
After the successful bid for the Winter Olympics, sister Ke saw the prosperous scene in the store.
"Especially during the peak construction season in the summer, batch after batch of customers in the store are all construction workers. Our store is cheap. Breakfast is a few yuan, and lunch can be full. It has been several years. The boss did not have the heart to raise the price. The workers earn hard money. Watching them eat up a pie in two or three bites, I feel a sense of accomplishment, especially when some of the masters are going to leave me I waved my hand to say that the stuffed pie is so delicious, and I feel quite warm in my heart."
Story 2
The villager service team went up the mountain to make dumplings
"Sister Li, you have to make your skin bigger!" Guo Leqin, 50, lives in Xinjiabao Village, Zhangshanying Town, and is also a member of the Qingrun Haituo Women's Volunteer Service Team in Zhangshanying Town, Yanqing District.
In February of this year, it was bitterly cold. In the evening, Guo Leqin and members of the service team went up the mountain to make dumplings for the winter Olympic builders who stayed in Beijing for the New Year in the canteen of the Yanqing Winter Olympic Village and the Project Department of the Mountain News Center.
It was getting dark, and the workers rushed to the cafeteria one after another.
Plates of hot dumplings came out of the pot, and the aroma came out along the window where the rice was cooked.
In fact, for Guo Leqin and the entire female volunteer service team to show off their good cooking skills to the Winter Olympic builders during the holidays in the past two years has become the thing they are most accustomed to.
The construction period was tight and the epidemic was caught up again. Workers always celebrated the festival on the construction site, and the good taste in the festival is always related to the service team.
On the eve of the Dragon Boat Festival this year, under the organization of the town’s Women’s Federation, Guo Leqin went to the big supermarket in the town to buy fresh glutinous rice, zongzi leaves, and jujube with a few sisters from the village. Because of the relatively large purchases, she also specialized I found a car and brought all the ingredients back home.
This time, I went to the resettlement housing project department of Xidazhuangke Village to make rice dumplings so that the migrant workers involved in the construction of their hometowns could eat sweet rice dumplings on the Dragon Boat Festival.
Washing rice, jujubes, and zongzi leaves. Pots, buckets, and buckets were placed on the ground. They worked from 8 in the morning until the evening... On the Dragon Boat Festival, the sisters of the service team delivered the wrapped zongzi to the laborers. Staff canteen.
Cui Yanying, chairman of the Women's Federation of Zhangshanying Town, Yanqing District, told the Beijing News that in 2014, the Qingrun Haituo Women's Volunteer Service Team was established. The members are all women from 40 to 60 years old in various villages in the town.
After the successful bid for the Winter Olympics, the volunteer service team immediately participated in the construction services for the Winter Olympics at their doorstep.
In addition to delivering meals to the workers on holidays, the team members will regularly go to the construction site to give everyone a haircut, looking at the New Year, and the volunteer service team is busy again.
Story 3
What is parsley?
At the Winter Olympics table, the tastes of athletes from all over the world should be taken care of. The problem is that athletes’ "hometown dishes" and "common dishes" are often "niche dishes" in the eyes of vegetable farmers in Beijing, even unheard of.
At around 10 o'clock in the morning on December 13, the outdoor temperature was only a few degrees Celsius. Chi Xueli wore thick cotton clothes and walked into a greenhouse at the Beijing Daxing base. He was immediately sweating again.
There is plenty of sunshine in the shed, and the dill grows in the right direction. The air is filled with a special fragrance. This is an annual herb and one of the common coriander in Western food.
Chi Xueli has been working at the base for many years, dealing with land and vegetables every day, and the farmers nearby call him "Master Chi."
"The temperature in the shed now is 25 degrees Celsius, which happens to be the temperature that dill likes." Master Chi pointed to the thermometer in the shed to the reporter, then leaned down, squatted on the edge of the field, and touched the plant in the ground. Dill, carefully check the leaf shape of dill.
Soon, these dill will be sent to the Winter Olympic table together with a dozen other spices.
Master Chi now lives in the villages around the base. He goes to the greenhouse every day to check the growth of vegetables, reminding farmers that watering, weeding, and temperature control are his daily tasks.
After receiving the task of planting vegetables for the Winter Olympics, this veteran who has been planting land for decades is really a little nervous.
Master Chi said that his base has experience in the supply of vegetables for the 1990 Asian Games, the 2008 Olympic Games and the 2014 Nanjing Youth Olympic Games. However, due to uncontrollable factors such as the epidemic situation, the task of ensuring the supply of vegetables for the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics It is still very difficult. The number of athletes, officials and staff participating in the competition is still unknown before the opening.
"For example, the name of the Winter Olympics needs'Italian coriander'. We checked the information and found that Italian coriander was originally the most important raw material for pickling pickles in some European countries. The scientific name is flat-leaf parsley. Some five-star restaurants have it. Cannot form a large-scale supply."
Although I have a preliminary understanding, where can I find the seeds?
In the end, the seeds were found by experts from the Beijing Academy of Agriculture and Forestry Sciences.
The company immediately arranged a production base and just finished planting and planting in September.
Under the guidance of experts, Italian coriander is growing well at the base.
Beside Master Chi, several farmers are squatting in the field to do artificial weeding for dill.
“Film mulching is carried out before normal planting, so that there will be fewer weeds. However, because the winter Olympics vegetable supply time is relatively tight, the base adopted a'live broadcast' method that does not raise seedlings in advance after the final vegetable order is confirmed in mid-November. Save a lot of time."
"For the green and healthy winter Olympics table vegetables, manual weeding is the safest. It takes about two days for five or six people to hoe a shed of one acre of land." Master Chi said that dill is the fennel that people often say in the past. , It is an important ingredient to increase the flavor of dishes in Northern and Eastern Europe.
According to the current order demand, the dill in the greenhouse will be supplied to the Winter Olympic table on time in January and February next year.
"From the perspective of the current situation, there is no problem at all in ensuring quality and quantity for the Winter Olympics." In order to continue the supply, Master Chi intends to harvest in a small number of times.
In the greenhouse of the base, the ingredients for the table for Winter Olympic athletes are far more than dill. Among the currently confirmed varieties, some vegetables have not been planted by Master Chi in his life, such as lemongrass, angelica, and horseradish. , Chewocao, so Master Chi now wanders in these vegetable sheds whenever he is free, and he will spend a little longer time observing them.
In the perilla planting shed, the reporter came across the base's agricultural technical consultant, Master Wen.
"Perilla and basil like long daylight, high temperature can grow normally, but Beijing's winter climate obviously does not meet this condition." According to Master Wen, compared with dill, which requires manual weeding, perilla and Basil is the two most challenging varieties in the Base Winter Olympics vegetable supply.
“Beijing’s night temperature is very low, which is not conducive to the growth of two kinds of vegetables. Especially for basil, when the sunshine is short, it will only bloom and not grow, so sufficient sunshine must be ensured." Considering that these two kinds of vegetables like the characteristics of long-day sunshine. , The base specially installed supplementary lighting equipment in the greenhouse, and made up for the shortcomings of Beijing’s climate by continuously increasing light and heating measures.
Master Wen said that in order to ensure a sufficient supply of vegetables, the base will reasonably arrange the planting stubble and planting area of various vegetable varieties according to the holding time of the Winter Olympics and Paralympics and related test competitions, and the estimated results provided by the catering service provider The number of participants, based on the ration of the menu, requires that the output of each vegetable variety in the production base be guaranteed to be more than twice the demand of the caterer.
Story 4
Vegetables and meat of "passing five stages and cutting six generals"
Not far from the base shed, in a processing workshop, the staff wear overalls, masks, hats, and gloves, and work "fully armed" in a completely enclosed operating room.
Enterprise treasury management, quality control, and government regulators each have a lock and a key. Only three people are present at the same time to open the vegetable storage warehouse to ensure storage safety.
"The guaranteed products are delivered by a dedicated car and installed with video monitoring and GPS positioning. A 360-degree video monitoring system without blind spots is installed in the workshop to monitor all key production links such as planting, processing, storage, and transportation in real time. All those involved in the supply of vegetables The personnel must strictly abide by the anti-epidemic regulations in every link." The person in charge of production safety at the base introduced.
For the vegetables provided for the Beijing Winter Olympics, all inspection records, samples and reports must be kept for three months after the end of the supply, so that each variety of vegetables can be traced to ensure product safety.
Vegetables need to "go through five stages and cut six generals" to grow out of the base before they can be served on the Winter Olympic table, and the meat is naturally the same.
The entire industry chain including feed feeding, slaughter, and processing has strict operating standards to ensure the absolute safety and health of the ingredients for the Winter Olympics table.
Story 5
I want to go to the city to develop after the Winter Olympics
"The temperature in Beijing has been relatively low these past two days, so you have to monitor the greenhouse temperature." On December 24, the temperature in Beijing dropped sharply. Master Chi and Master Wen arrived at the base half an hour earlier than usual.
The pace of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics is getting closer, and it is their most urgent desire to make the vegetables in the greenhouse grow healthily.
In the Winter Olympics town north of the city, Sun Xiuping quietly planned the future.
On December 24, a day's worth of water was added to the bill at Xiuping Snack Bar.
"My sister's salary, rent, etc. should be enough this month, and the mortgage should be repaid on time." Sun Xiuping tapped on the calculator while chanting to the reporter.
Sun Xiuping's family is in Shandong and has not been back to her family for some time.
But the parents, brothers and sisters in their hometown all received good news from Sun Xiuping that she bought a new house in Yanqing City.
More than 80 square meters is not too big, but it is enough for a family of a few.
Sun Xiuping thought, the Winter Olympics are coming and the business at the door is getting better and better. When the Winter Olympics are over, one day in the future, she might transfer the business to Yanqing City and buy a new car for her son and daughter.
Regarding future plans, Guo Leqin said that what is right in front of him is to do his best to help during the Winter Olympics. “I always give haircuts to the workers. My haircutting skills are getting better and better. This is a good day. , Even if the Winter Olympics are over, it is still a good memory."
B06-07 edition written by Cao Jingrui, reporter of Beijing News
B06-07 edition photography/Beijing News reporter Wang Wei and Wang Ying