Li Keng

Li Keng

Li Keng

It is an ancient village mainly inhabited by the surname Li. It is 12 kilometers away from Wuyuan County. It has the architectural landscape of Wuzhen and the strange stone landscape of tuerling. It is a national AAAA tourist attraction and the closest scenic spot to the county on the east line of Wuyuan. The architectural style of Li Keng is unique. It is a famous Hui style building, giving people a quiet and peaceful feeling.

Since ancient times, Li Keng has had a prosperous style of writing and a large number of talented people. From the Song Dynasty to the Qing Dynasty, there were more than 100 officials, and the village scholars left 29 works handed down from generation to generation,

During the Southern Song Dynasty, there was a champion named Li Zhicheng.

Historical evolution

Surrounded by mountains, the village has beautiful scenery. In the village, the ancient buildings of Ming and Qing Dynasties are all over the village, and the residential buildings and courtyards are built along the stream. They stand close to the mountain, with white walls and tiles, and are scattered. The streets and alleys of the village are connected with streams, with nine bends and ten bends. The bluestone road is crisscross, with dozens of stone, wood and brick bridges connecting the two sides. There are also two streams, LiuJie feiqiong, Shuangqiao duosuo, jiaoquan Jinyue, Daoyuan Zhongming, Xianqiao Yuxiu and other scenic spots in it, which a beautiful landscape is built Small bridges, flowing water and beautiful paintings of other people are a bright pearl on Wuyuan boutique line.

Village food

specialty

Fried pork with plum pit

Created in Likeng village, Wuyuan County, it is a famous dish with special flavor, which began in the Tang Dynasty. According to Zhu Zi Yu Lei: "Wuyuan custom, on the 26th day of the year, cooks a pig to sacrifice to the family first." It is also served with grilled meat and fish. " How to do it: wash the pork, cut it into half an inch thick and about the size of palm, dip it in the seasoning (cinnamon, fennel, pepper powder, sugar, soy sauce) with bamboo string, then put it on the newly burned ash, turn it over on both sides and roast it until the oil drops into the ash. Roasted streaky pork, body shrinkage, charred yellow slightly red, crisp outside and loose inside, its special flavor

Stone chicken with mushroom

Li Keng is a famous product. This dish is steamed with mushroom and chicken. Huagu is the best of the nine mushrooms. It is rich in protein, fat, carbohydrate and vitamins. It has the effects of lowering blood pressure, reducing cholesterol and anti-cancer. This dish can be regarded as a delicacy of mountain treasures and is very valuable.

Specific measures: put the stone chicken leg into the boiling water pot, wash it slightly, mix it with ginger juice, refined salt, sweet wine and monosodium glutamate, marinate it and taste it, remove the pedicel of the mushroom and wash it; arrange the stone chicken leg in a bowl, put the mushroom on it, add the cooked lard and chicken soup, steam it for 15 minutes, take it out and buckle it into the plate.

This dish is fresh, sweet, crisp, tender and refreshing with a long aftertaste.

Braised poached carp

Raw materials: a kilogram of red carp, 50g meat oil, a spoonful of rice wine, 9 mushrooms, a little salt, ginger, onion. Specific production: clean the fresh fish by laparotomy, leave the scales, cut the willow leaves on both sides, and then put in 9 mushrooms, oil, salt, rice wine, ginger slices, etc. Cook and serve with scallion.

"Qingpu Hebao carp" has the characteristics of red and mellow color, tender meat and fresh soup, strengthening yang and tonifying kidney.

Li Keng steamed chicken

Use a hen weighing three catties, including chestnut, shallot, ginger, salt, soy sauce, Shaojiu, rock sugar, chicken soup and vegetable oil.

The chicken is slaughtered and scalded to remove the hair, cut it from the back, take out the intestines and wash the sewage. Chop the chestnuts horizontally, boil them in a cold water pan until the chestnuts are cracked and the flesh is exposed. Peel the chestnuts and remove the underwear. Use the back tip of the knife to prick the chicken ribs a few times (without breaking the skin). Draw the inside of the chicken thigh along the leg shape with the knife. Put it into the boiling water pot. Cook until the chicken skin is tight and the foam floats. Quickly remove the water and apply a layer of soy sauce while the chicken skin is still hot. Put the frying pan on the high heat, add the vegetable oil, and when it is seven years old, put the chicken with soy sauce in the pan. When the skin of the chicken is red, remove the oil. Take a large bowl, put in onion and ginger, put chicken breast down into the bowl, put on chestnut meat, sprinkle salt, rock sugar, Shaojiu and chicken soup, steam the chicken with high heat until it is cooked and rotten, then take it out and buckle it on the plate.

This dish is a traditional delicacy during the Spring Festival in Likeng. The color of chicken is red and the color of chestnut is yellow. The chicken is crisp and mellow. The chestnut is soft and fresh.

Village culture

Nuo dance

Nuo dance is very popular in Li Keng Village. It used to be a popular dance in the Yangtze River Valley in ancient China. The dancers wore a variety of simple and exaggerated masks, with a distinctive color of witchcraft. It was originally a kind of blessing and prayer ceremony, and later gradually developed into a folk dance. There are 40 or 50 kinds of masks in Nuo dance, which are generally carved in wood. The masks are vivid, and the themes of loyalty, treachery, virtue and ignorance, happiness, anger and sadness are all expressed. There are dozens of traditional programs of Nuo dance, such as the creation of heaven and earth, Bangxi Jinchan, double monkey catching lice, etc.

Dragon dance in Li Keng Village

A few days before and after the mid autumn festival every year, hardworking Li Keng people hope that the coming year will be a good omen of good weather, bumper crops, a happy life and a safe life. The mid autumn dragon dance activities will be held in the village.

The mid autumn dragon dance starts at the head of the village. The leader is a respected old man waving a round dragon ball. Behind the dragon ball, more than a dozen men holding paper dragon lanterns dance with them, sometimes high, sometimes low and sometimes circling. There are dozens of red candles inside the paper dragon lantern. From a distance, it looks like a legendary dragon. An old man with several posterity is beating gongs behind Drum.

Every time I go to a house, the host will set off fireworks. It is said that how long the firecrackers can be set off in your house and how long the paper dragon lantern will dance at your door means that your family will be safe and happy in the coming year. The whole process of dragon dance goes through every family in the village, and it usually lasts until 2:00 to 3:00 in the morning.

Village rice wine

Specialty: Likeng glutinous rice

Li Keng glutinous rice wine is the most mellow and sweet, the most intoxicating, full of simple and unadorned local flavor. It is the most pure and unadorned delicacy in the wine family.

Erguotou glutinous rice wine, northern people do not seem to be a wine, but a drink, not a good drink, no Baijiu concentrated alcohol, no Moutai state liquor fragrance, but no Erguotou's cruel. There is no seat for it in the north, but it is magnificent in the Hakka mountains.

Glutinous rice wine, called water wine, is a kind of old wine made from glutinous rice. The wine is as light as water. It tastes good. Li Keng glutinous rice wine making: wash the wine jar, measure the best glutinous rice, select the firewood, go to the market to buy back the red yeast, solemnly choose a good day, put the glutinous rice in the bucket for three or two hours, then pour it into the rice steamer, put on the fire, steam the glutinous rice, pour it into the sieve, wait for it to cool, mix with the koji, pour it into the wine jar, let it warm and ferment until the wine is revealed, and add the cooled boiled water, That is the rice wine full of fragrance, which is just like the jade liquor!

Li Keng people use big bowls to drink, and what they drink is glutinous rice wine. If you compete with the northern men, you also use glutinous rice wine, but it can make people drunk and paralyzed for three or two days. When you wake up, you will still have a strong wine aroma in your stomach, leaving the sweetness of rice wine. Happy, warm half pot, shallow consider slowly, in the fragrance of wine, I do not know how much melancholy to release the heart.

It's necessary to have wine on New Year's day. Li Keng people have a saying: men drink the first month, women drink the sitting month (having children). That is to say, men can drink freely in the first month, and soak in the wine throughout the first month, while women who seldom drink usually use rice wine to nourish their bodies and regulate their blood when they have children. A few cups of wine fall belly, then be on cloud nine, have the feeling of far away from the world of mortals, is very happy.

Li Keng people brew rice wine, is a very simple folk custom, as the season of the year, year by year reincarnation. Even if they don't drink, they should serve guests with a jar. If there is no wine, no matter how rich the dishes are, the warm atmosphere will be lost.

Nowadays, the wine market is full of famous and good wines, while the glutinous rice wine is still favored by Li Keng people. Every winter, the sweet smell of wine still permeates the mountain villages, revealing a strong sense of nostalgia.

Likeng glutinous rice wine: sweet and spicy, warm, non-toxic.

Meridian: into the liver, lung, kidney.

Efficacy: menstruation, milk, measles, kidney deficiency, backache, impotence and premature ejaculation.

Note: glutinous rice wine is made by saccharification of glutinous rice and yeast fermentation. It has low alcohol content, rich in sugars, vitamins and other nutrients. It is more nourishing and beneficial to the human body. It is suitable for postpartum or post illness weakness, and can be used with nourishing food to enhance the tonic effect.

Reference of verifier:

1. In a small bowl of glutinous rice wine, add chrysanthemum leaves, mash the juice, and take it while it's hot after boiling.

2. Cut a cock into small pieces, add oil and a small amount of salt and fry it in the pot. Add 1 jin of glutinous rice wine into Shanda bowl and steam it with water to cure kidney deficiency, backache, impotence and premature ejaculation.

3. Take two liang of glutinous rice wine after boiling. It's not enough to cure measles in children. After taking it, you need to lie in bed and sweat.

Village accommodation

Guangming Teahouse

Guangming teahouse used to be one of the shooting venues for the TV series blue and white. Zhao Yazhi and Siqin Gaowa all enjoyed tea here and experienced the charm of a family with small bridges and flowing water.

Address: walk into Li Keng, walk along the stream, pass doctor's brother, Shen MINGTING, and then go up the stream.

Forget the view building

Forget the view building (far away to the inn) living conditions elegant, a variety of guest rooms for tourists to choose, reasonable price. Authentic farm flavor, with local style of green snacks, it is memorable.

Address: opposite Guangming Teahouse

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