Sichuan Szechuan is famous for its spicy, oily and richly-flavored dishes made from chicken, pork, shellfish and river fishes and featuring sauces made with hot Sichuan peppers, star anise, garlic, scallions, fennel seed, rice wine, soy, ginger, garlic, vinegar, soy bean pastes and Sichuan Well Salt a distinctly flavored salt mined in Sichuan in places such as Ziyong. Sichuan cuisine tends to use chicken, duck, and meat rather than fish. The main flavoring includes brood-bean sauce, hot pepper, Chinese prickly ash, red oil, mashed garlic, dried orange peel, and aromatic vinegar.
The basic characteristics of the taste are sour, sweet, rough, hot, fragrant, heavily oiled, and strong flavor. The major cooking techniques include frying, frying without oil, pickling and braising. Sichuan dishes are often are quite salty and are spiced with tongue-numbing Sichuan pepper derived from peppercorns from a prickly ash tree and are known for their multiple rather than singular flavors.
It is said that within Sichuan cooking there are 23 flavors and 56 cooking methods. Sichuan cooking has been famous in China for centuries. One ancient document traces its origin back to the 7th century B. A multi-volume Tang Dynasty A. The liberal use of spices dates back to a time when the poor consumed things like chicken feet, fish heads and intestines and used hot peppercorns and other seasonings to mask the taste.
Sichuan dishes are difficult to prepare at home because they often employ numerous steps. Smoked duck, for example, is flavored with peppercorns, ginger, cinnamon, orange peel and coriander, marinated for 24 hours, steamed for two hours, and finally smoked over a fire made with charcoal, camphor wood and tea leaves. Among the popular spicy Szechuan dishes are chicken with peanuts; stir-fried chicken and hot sauce; sizzling rice and chicken; eggplant Szechuan style; squid rolls with dried pepper; chicken baked in salt and served with peanut oil sauce; salt-baked chicken livers; stir-fried pork and hot sauce; dan dan noodles noodles, pork cooked in a hot sauce ; ma po dofu a famous Chengdu dish made with dried tofu, and a hot sauce made with chilies and Sichuan peppers ; hot and sour soup filled with Sichuan pickles and strips of pork , spicy tea mushrooms pork pot; red hot sesame noodles; duck smoked in camphor and tea; Man and Wife meat slices; Pockmarked Lady's bean curd; crispy roast duck, and Husband and Wife pork lung slices.
Hot pot is summer dish in Sichuan, and the hotter it isboth in terms of temperature and spicinessthe better. The idea is that if you eat a very hot dish, it will make you sweat and keep you cool.
One man at a hot pot restaurant in Chongqing told the New York Times, "If you want to get cool, you have to get hot. Hot pot in Sichuan is made in an iron pot filled with boiling oil and hot chili peppers. Ingredients include pig's or cow's brains, cow's throat, calf's liver, seaweed, vegetables and most anything that a cook wants throw in. Pig's blood is often added to give it body. Sometimes the selections are dipped fondue-like into the pot. According to local lore, Sichuan hot pot developed in the 19th century in Chongqing, where laborers who pulled river boats upstream on the Yangtze River were based.
The laborers were poorly paid and lived in camps. The first hot pots were pots placed on campfires and filled with water and whatever the laborers threw in. They generally have no air conditioning and each table has hearth that emits heat like a small furnace. One of the diners said "There is no way you can feel hot when you leave here, because every place else feels cool.
Describing the inside of the Jin Jianglan Hot Pot restaurant in Chongqing, Seth Faison wrote in the New York Times, "Meng and his pals took of their shirts and hung them on a hook on the wall, as though it were time to get down to business, which in this case simply meant eating and sweating. So accustomed are they to the ritual, however, that none of the friends showed more than a thin bead of forehead perspiration until well into the meal. Among these are Mount Emei, known as the most elegant mountain; Qingcheng Mountain, the most secluded mountain; Jianmen Pass, the most magnificent pass; and Jiuzhaigou Valley, a jaw-dropping scenic marvel.
On top of this, over 85 percent of wild giant pandas in the world are found in the high mountains in northwest Sichuan. Sichuan is also rich in cultural and historical sights that reach back several thousand years. Among these are the Dujiangyan Irrigation System, an ancient water conservancy project; the hometown of Su Dongpo, a famous writer of the Northern Song Dynasty ; and the former residence of Du Fu, a famous poet of the Tang Dynasty , with pavilions and towers shaded under cypress trees.
The Sun and Magic Birds, excavated in Jinsha County, has been designated the symbol of the Chinese cultural heritages. Sanxingdui is over 3, years old. According to historical records, several dozen ethnic groups have lived, expanded and merged with each other in Sichuan since ancient times. Sichuan is home to the second largest number of Tibetan people after Tibet. There is a large community of Yi people as well as Qiang people who have lived in Sichuan since ancient times and found almost exclusively in the province.
It is said that is more difficult to get to Sichuan than it is to get to heaven. From Tibet that used to be the case. The twisting 2,kilometer 1,mile road that links the two regions used to take two weeks to traverse by truck. Crossing Sichuan rivers is almost as difficult. On the Dadu River, for example, there are few bridges and people cross the river by pulling themselves on a cable.
Chengdu-Kunming Railway runs through very mountainous terrain and was considered impossible to build. Completed in after 12 years work, it contains bridges over deep ravines, tunnels bored through solid rock and tracks placed on cliffside supports. The railway's tunnels and bridges cover 40 percent of the route. There are so many tunnels in fact that some tourist claim they don't get a chance to see anything.
The railway was constructed by tens of thousands of laborers, soldiers and convicts who could be shot for not working. It is not known how many or even if workers were indeed shot, but alongside the track are some small graveyards with dead railway workers, most of whom died in accidents. There is now fast-train service between Kunming and Chengdu. At present, about five high speed trains run each day each way between Chengdu and Kunming, taking around 5. The normal speed trains that made the trip in 17 - I assume the route for the fast train and the old trains is the same and the track was modified to handle the new fast trains.
Catholicism has penetrated into some remote places in China. Cizhong, a village in Yunnan near the Tibetan border, three hours on a bad road from the nearest town, is the home of a European-style Catholic church built more than a century ago by missionaries. They go to church every Sunday and sing chants from, hymnal called "Chants in Religeux Thibetan. Many members arrive at the church on Sunday after walking for more than an hour from their mountain homes.
Travelers to the area can find centuries-old Tibetan and Taoist temples standing alongside mosques and churches. The first Catholic missionary known to have reached the province was an Italian Jesuit named Lodovico Buglio, who spent much of the s proselytizing there. Eventually, in , the Paris Foreign Missions Society, a Catholic lay organization, took over responsibility for the Catholic missionary presence in Sichuan. By , there was a small but growing community of Sichuanese Catholics, including 18 Chinese priests and four French missionaries.
A Catholic church I visited in the town of Moxi was preserved because Mao Zedong held a meeting there in Another church in the area was saved, because it had once hosted a Red Army party.
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