The owner of the snuff bottle discovered by Chen Wenzhe is really not simple.
Because through looking back, Chen Wenzhe discovered that he had inherited more than one of the top craftsmanship in the Boshan area.
Even in terms of cooking skills, he is also very good.
For example, Qingmeiju's crispy meat jerky craftsmanship originated from the Western Regions and was formed in the sacred capital of the Qing Dynasty.
Later, Wang Wanqi, the founder of Qingmeiju, founded Qingmeiju in Xiye Street, Boshan in 1936, and began to make crispy beef jerky.
Today, Qingmeiju crispy beef jerky is still produced by hand.
Products are sold throughout the country through specialty stores, supermarkets, and e-commerce.
Since you are good at cooking and make a living from it, you will naturally be able to make banquet tables.
Therefore, the four-four-seat food custom that is very popular in Boshan area is doing very well.
It can be said that this is also a traditional craft that the master was very good at back then.
Boshan's "Four-Four Banquets" is a dish regulation used by Boshan people to entertain guests in the past hundred years.
This type of banquet can accommodate eight people at a table, with four flat plates, four large pieces, four rows of pieces and four meals, totaling sixteen items.
From a gastronomic perspective, the "Four Four Seats Food Customs" adapt to the changes in the four seasons, and the raw materials and cooking techniques of Shandong cuisine change with the seasonal cycle.
This caters to the natural law of "four seasons change" and "the four seasons are always fresh";
From the perspective of beautiful utensils, the "Four Four Banquets Food Customs" includes the standards for the use of food utensils and wine utensils, and pursues the unity and perfection of the dining style and banquet style.
"Four Four Seats Food Customs" was founded in 1919 at the Jule Village Restaurant in Boshan.
It perfectly integrates many essences of the dish system and banquet pattern in Shandong cuisine culture, and has become the most influential and vital provincial-level intangible cultural heritage representative project in central Shandong and even in the Shandong cuisine cultural system.
Since he can even make the entire banquet, he can also make some unique dishes very well.
When making banquet noodles, meat dishes are the most cooked.
So I can also cook fried meat and barbecue.
Boshan’s traditional fried meat making technique is one of its unique skills.
Boshan cuisine is salty, fresh and mellow, and has a unique style of its own.
Boshan Fried Pork is the most representative traditional food of Boshan.
The browned and crispy fried meat is evenly coated with peppercorn noodles. When you take a bite, the thin and crispy dough and the tender meat are full of flavor.
Nowadays, Boshan Fried Pork, with its unique flavor, has entered thousands of households in Boshan and has even been included in the state banquet.
Therefore, Boshan’s traditional fried meat making skills have also been included in the list of representative projects of ZB City’s intangible cultural heritage.
In addition to fried meat, there are also Shunxiangzhai barbecue making techniques.
In the early years of the Republic of China in the last century, a top chef mastered a craft and improved it on the basis of learning. He used a small oven to roast meat and carried a load to sell it. Because of his exquisite quality, he was very popular among customers. People gave him "
Zhou's Shunxiangzhai was praised as "Shunxiangzhai", and Shunxiangzhai barbecue became famous from then on.
Boshan barbecue has crispy and tender skin, fragrant smell, and is not greasy after eating. It is very popular among people and is well-known in the mountain city.
The skin is crispy and the meat is tender, not greasy in the mouth, and delicious.
Add sugar to the hot barbecue and wrap it in fresh lotus leaves before eating. The meat will be crispy and tender and taste delicious;
Add cold roasted meat to mung bean noodles and add eggs to make a soup, which tastes even more delicious;
In addition, it can also make various cold and hot platters, stews, etc.
In addition to making various kinds of dishes, there are also pastries and puff pastry.
Jingdedong pastry making skills are also intangible cultural heritage.
Jingdedong pastry making skills originated from Boshan, radiate to the ZB area, and have a long history.
This kind of pastry has various varieties, many styles and different tastes. It has the characteristics of crispy and soft, pure sweet and pure salty taste, and has become the memory and favorite food of a generation of taste buds.
The long-standing Jingdedong pastry making skills, whether it is passed down from handicraft workshops and families to the current corporate level, refined inheritance methods, or innovations in production techniques, have gathered the wisdom of generations of workers.
Whether it is brand culture or traditional skills, they are all etched with distinctive local characteristics.
Then there is the crispy pot. This delicacy is now spread throughout central Shandong, but this traditional dish originally originated in Boshan.
The crispy pot originally tasted salty and was served as a New Year dish in winter. A large casserole can be eaten by the whole family for a long time.
There is a folk proverb in Boshan: Being poor is also a hotpot, and being rich is also a hotpot.
The raw materials for making crispy pot can be freely mixed and matched according to your own situation.
Rich families make crispy pots and place whole chickens and fish in a casserole;
Pengmen Pihu makes crispy pot, fish heads and tails, and minced chicken racks stewed in the same pot.
As the saying goes, "Every family makes crispy hotpot, and every family has its own taste."
Chen Wenzhe felt that this time he had learned something, not only craftsmanship, but also cooking skills.
Fortunately, the master lived in a special era. Otherwise, many of them had unique skills. Why would they leave them to him?
The 1960s and 1970s were truly a magical era.
In that era, many secret recipes were likely to be spread.
Of course, cooking is the capital of survival, you have to learn it and you have to do it.
But handicrafts were the old man's hobby. Now we all know that hobbies are the best motivation for learning.
The same goes for Lao En, his top skill is still handicraft.
For example, the old man is very good at Boshan paper-cutting.
Paper-cutting is a folk art that uses scissors to cut patterns on paper and is used to decorate life or cooperate with other folk activities.
In Boshan, paper-cutting has a broad mass base, is integrated into people's social life, and is an important part of various folk activities.
Its vivid visual image and modeling format contain rich cultural and historical information.
There are many styles of paper-cutting, generally divided into single-color paper-cutting and colored paper-cutting.
Each style includes a variety of paper-cutting techniques, and their uses are also different.
But in modern times, although paper-cutting has a long history, its practicality has declined with the changes of the times.
Coupled with the meager profits, the paper-cutting craft fell into the embarrassing situation of having no successors.
Now that Chen Wenzhe sees this kind of craftsmanship, he can be regarded as learning a unique skill.
In addition, there are also techniques for making tiger-head hats, tiger-head shoes, stilts, dragon lanterns, and big-headed dolls originally used by rural children.
Of course, Chen Wenzhe just learned these things casually, after all, this was not his hobby.
Chen Wenzhe's real hobbies include porcelain, calligraphy, painting, carving and other crafts.
He usually learned very little about calligraphy and painting, mainly because it was an indispensable skill in making porcelain.
It can be said that making every piece of porcelain is a painting experience.
Therefore, Chen Wenzhe still attaches great importance to the skills of calligraphy and painting.
And that old man has the most advanced interior painting technology.
The art of domestic painting in China originated from snuff bottles, which is a comprehensive art that integrates calligraphy, painting, utensils, etc.
In the process of its development, four major schools were formed: Beijing, Shandong, Hebei and Guangdong.
Lu style inner painting uses a special curved brush, which is inserted into a pot with a mouth as small as a bean and painted in reverse direction.
The techniques of chaffing, rubbing, dyeing, dotting, hooking, and tearing of traditional Chinese painting are introduced into the interior painting, creating an elegant style, exquisite brushwork, and rich regional characteristics.