China News Service, Fujian Shishi, July 20th (Reporter Sun Hong) The water radish and bamboo shoots are in the same soup, which is fresh and delicious, called "Jade Belt Soup"; the aroma of orange and crab are blended together, the fragrance is fragrant, and it is called "crab stuffed" Orange"; white radish and sugar cane are boiled with water, pure as dew, it is the "slurry" for sobering up...

  Fujian Shishi, a hometown of overseas Chinese who are good at creativity, "resurrected" the delicacies from the ancient book "Shan Jia Qing Su" and gathered them into a "Song and Yuan Sea Silk Banquet", giving the "Talk Aesthetics" vigorous vitality for the living inheritance of the world heritage. .

"Crab Stuffed Orange" written in "The Mountain Family Clearance".

Photo courtesy of Shishi Propaganda Department

  On July 25, 2021, the project "Quanzhou: The World Marine Commerce and Trade Center of Song and Yuan China" was included in the "World Heritage List", becoming the 56th World Heritage Site in China.

The project consists of 22 representative historic sites and their associated environments and spaces, of which the Wanshou Pagoda, Liusheng Pagoda and Shihu Pier are three of them.

  During the Song and Yuan Dynasties, Quanzhou Port, as the world's largest port, was one of the earliest ports and international cities opened to the outside world in history.

The stone lion as a "sea silk beacon", due to the collision and blending of cultures, has created a multicultural coexistence and inclusive urban feature, and the "stone lion on the tip of the tongue" is a vivid embodiment of this multiculturalism.

"Jade Belt Soup" is the same soup with water lily and bamboo shoots, which is fresh and delicious.

Photo by Sun Hong

  "Shishi people are born to the sea and brave the world. In the long process of foreign economic and cultural exchanges, they have formed a food culture that combines ancient and modern, and integrates Chinese and Western food culture." One of the earliest recipes in history, "Shanjia Qingyi", was written by Lin Hong, a gourmet from the Southern Song Dynasty, who is a master of folk recipes in the Song Dynasty and a treasure house for us to explore the cultural roots of Fujian cuisine."

  Located at the starting point of the ancient "Maritime Silk Road", the food culture of Shishi has a profound origin with "Maritime Silk Road".

Zheng Tianzhu introduced that, for example, beef soup is based on the popular eating habit of the Arabs to eat beef.

  The unique geographical location also allows Shishi to have a unique flavor of "freshness".

Surrounded by the sea on three sides and adjacent to the Taiwan Strait, it is one of the important fishing grounds in China.

Not only that, the solid and profound industrial foundation has also made Shishi an entrepreneurial paradise for gourmet masters and a gathering place for southern Fujian cuisine.

Liusheng Pagoda, located in Kangjiang Town, Shishi, is the landmark of ancient merchant ships sailing from the main channel of Quanzhou Bay to the inland port.

Photo by Sun Hong

  It is understood that at the end of July, Shishi will also hold the Song and Yuan Sea Silk Banquet and the Southern Fujian Cuisine Inheritance and Creativity Competition, integrating the classic Chinese food culture "Mountain Family Clearance". The representative dishes of the cultural connotation of the Maritime Silk Road and the aesthetic characteristics of the Song and Yuan Dynasties will eventually form a "Song and Yuan Sea Silk Banquet" with the characteristics of stone lions. With the culture of the tip of the tongue spanning thousands of years, it will inherit and innovate the culture of Fujian cuisine, and will be included in the World Heritage List for Quanzhou. "The first anniversary gift.

  In the view of Huang Chunhui, Secretary of Shishi Municipal Party Committee, "Song and Yuan Sea Silk Banquet" is not a simple "physical restoration", but from the height and perspective of culture, it uses culture to empower food and industry, and the past serves the present, forming a new inheritance.

  Today, in Shishi, the hometown of overseas Chinese, Wanshou Pagoda and Liusheng Pagoda stand majestically; take a trip to Linluan Ancient Ferry and look at Shihu Wharf not far away, still busy.

It is no longer difficult to taste the famous dishes of Song and Yuan Dynasties and get a glimpse of the prosperity and delicacy of a thousand years ago.

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