In my hometown of childhood, every once in a while, my mother took us to the grandmother live a day. Grandma's home in the old city chapter grave, not far away from our village, about half an hour to walk there. Grandmother home the two pomegranate tree, a tree planted in the Wells fang shan magmatic head next to her maiden taimu is two, long more big, and the roof almost high, "of pomegranate and red and big, taste sour and sweet. Grandmother home the pomegranate tree in front, to smaller, "pomegranate head also is not big, but number, pomegranate skin green appearing in white, pulp is white, tastes very sweet. When the conditions of life is not rich, pomegranate is also XiHanWu, every year, pomegranate ripe, grandmother and uncle are reluctant to pick to eat, all we keep, each fall to grandmother home, you can see the tree MiMiDe caked with many pomegranate, very appealing, grandmother home to the first thing is to pick the pomegranate eat, in the mind very glad.
Old chapter grave city is a city, is located the old chapter grave official, according to the record was founded in the southern and northern dynasties period, it has one thousand four hundred years of history. The old city and WaiCheng city chapter grave not share, inner city cover an area of an area is not large, was something from south and across the article is divided into two main road in the northeastern corner of the east, the northwest corner of no.107, southwest and yu, around ten metres high, two or three meters wide LeiQi brick wall, the wall is a moat, city the thing north and south each have two gates, the gate on the moat of a bridge, the walls, gates said as NaGuan shang, and BeiGuan, have built around the walls of the soil tired, eight meters high of more than two meters wide of the right, above to walk, the wall with one of SheKou, to fight with the war.
In the southwest corner of maternal grandmother of home, our home is in the south of the city, go home of the time want to after basking NaGuan and moat's NaGuan bridge, from the south gate into the city. The age when small, in the image of the walk in the bridge to moat look both ways, the channel of the river is very wide, river plate also very deep, the river shallow, high walls, two gates, tall and big very solemn, two cities it was deep, the light some dark, walk in the city in the total feeling some fear, always to step up and in behind with her mother.
Grandmother home and two live with a maiden taimu yard, grandmother live in the backyard, grandmother home to follow two after basking's small's brothers and young aunt play together. Remember the time go out to play with them, and came to the walls near a place of trimming place, outside is moat, can not remember clearly is in the moat or in the river in the paddy fields of a large area of lotus root, water MiMiDe is growing and round and big green leaves, lotus leaf out some down in the I. Moat is the town of one scene, the military has defense effect, the ancients in construction, lead JiangHeShui embroider into moat, belt a week to flow to the north.
The Chinese New Year when grandmother home to go to, will follow's younger sister to yu head to play. Yu head is something from south and across the two roads cross, the center of the city, the most popular of the most prosperous places. Remember there are department store, grocery store, post office, restaurants, and the butcher, and sell all kinds of pasta and butcher's shop snacks, the street also has a lot of very, have sold in hawthorn, sell the water, sell meters of flowers sugar, round m dyed red flower sugar color looks good. From the corner of the head to the east go, have XiYuanZi, chapter grave one also in that street.
Yu head department stores's pretty big, all kinds of goods is complete, our children have nothing like in book hunting, see a strange. I like going to the grocery store, have inside a lot of delicious, spicy tofu, a knot in one's heart skin, requirements, little dried fish, sesame paste, these are his favorite, and xiajiang, foul smelling, Fried green Onions very sweet.
Of burning flesh is chapter grave specialties, and that barbecue. The most famous of the city is home of burning flesh yellow, skin is crisp tender meat, fat but not greasy, unique flavor, very delicious. Come near to burn the butcher's, the smell of burning flesh made PiHuang meat white flesh burning on the hook, selling cooked meat man with a long sword, by go up and down "Chi" sound and cut off a burning flesh, that voice are feeling particularly good to listen, have a bite of burning flesh, feel fragrant pole, it is a delicious!
The origin of burning flesh, legend as early as in the yuan dynasty, the city HuangGuWan have a is huang sat in the military do, because lose be demoted return to their countries of origin. The other, a Mongolian people often eat roast mutton lit up the branches, delicious taste attracted many people. Yellow house so is inspired, will cut into pieces roast pork to eat. To the Ming dynasty, the development in special baked into the whole pig and to make a living. Since the Ming dynasty to date, yellow house barbecue with the history of over three hundred years. Producing method for is that the medium pig take grow, killing five zang-organs, except to go after suet, remove SiTi bone and part of his ribs. To draw the sword in the meat pumped-up one small mouth, with Chinese prickly ash, clove, cinnamon, sand benevolence, size fennel, nutmeg, at the end of the CaoGuo seasoning and so on, salt formula, ground to a powder, work it into the way way in value, then use Shu straws to prop open wall, into a semicircle arch, and put HuoZhi touch water to stick to the site in KaoHua. With the burning the bamboo piece roasted red chamber, in addition to smoke, and then the prepared the whole pigs, hangs in the oven for sealing bake. In the 1956 years in Beijing at the national food expo was awarded the first prize.
The restaurant didn't get in the city, from the doorway was just pass by, saw the guy in DaLuMian filled. Memory in pastry shop there are many delicious, which makes semi-finished, moon cake, fire, yellow cake, GuoBing. GuoBing with fresh is grinding wheat powder make, large diameter, not much smaller than pancakes, stiff, about a centimeters thickness, skin and some sesame, sold to sell piece, eating a little bit of a gnawing, TianSiSi taste the very faint scent.
On the north side of the town is a mountain, commonly known as the north the mountains, and is not high, we in the village north to see clearly see mountain Outlines. To the north of the mountains and called girl mountain, it is said that because of the western han dynasty TaiShou chapter two daughters of hai drown in east of embroider rivers and buried in the north mountain, named girl mountain, the name chapter grave is "chapter of the tomb of the Ohio woman" means. PuSongLing once successively two swim girl mountain and chanting, among them a poem wrote: "was buried, the double loop lines by the tears melanin, and far cui fluttering green guo outside, small grave cloud, a tumult autumn rural gauze stockings fan hazelnut terrier, air cooled, JiuJi PeiHuan moonlit night cream don't know where to go, at empty said girl mountain."
Listen to the mother and grandmother said, a year before the north mountain all have mountains, very lively, sell or something. According to records, the annual young woman will mountains, began in the northern and southern dynasties, the fashionable Buddha FengRi quickly, girl mountain area daxing temples, visitors, pilgrims follow, after increasing vendors have joined form temple fair, the height of the early in the republic of China period, the mountain built Taoist empress palace, the jade emperor cabinet and other buildings, there are a number of stages. Girl mountains will be held once a year, from the lunar March 28 to start the day, seven days or so general session. Mountain will be held during, from the top to BeiGuan street, line for booths, visitors and, inside, pedestrians, are very busy. After the warlords, the mountain scenic spots and historical sites were destroyed, into a barren hills soil ridge, the late 1950 s, he gradually stop the mountain.
