重庆巫溪烤鱼，凉面一条街，阿星逛宁厂古镇，巴人千年泉水制盐Grilled fish and traditional salt making in Wuxi, Chongqing

重庆巫溪烤鱼，凉面一条街，阿星逛宁厂古镇，巴人千年泉水制盐Grilled fish and traditional salt making in Wuxi, Chongqing

Hello everyone, I am Axing Axing is now in Wuxi, Chongqing Many friends have been saying Chongqing may be the largest city in the world by land area why Because Wuxi is also part of Chongqing city But how far is it from the main city? More than five hours of driving The distance is more than 400 kilometers Just tell me whether Chongqing is big or not The river flowing now is the Daning River Wuxi County is surrounded by the Daning River Built on both sides This county is the only city in the Three Gorges Reservoir area that has not been flooded The old houses you see are from the past Very nostalgic The Daning River is very beautiful The water is particularly clear crystal clear Many people are fishing for small fish here Such water surface, such water area This is what the Three Gorges Dam looked like before it was filled with water Very shallow This is why boatmen were needed to pull the boats For example, Li Bai wrote The monkeys on both sides of the river kept crying The boat has passed thousands of mountains He was sitting on a light boat Just a little boat Maybe he was writing poetry and it just came to a halt From the river There is a local vegetable market here Lots of fresh vegetables This kind of cured meat from the local mountains Cured ham Making Zongzi Go this way Smoked There is also this kind of packaged bacon Stinky tofu Here’s the marinated chicken This is a square Many people sell vegetables here Selling corn Selling beans and radishes The old man smokes dry tobacco Such a strong smell of dry tobacco This is the bridge This is the bridge, this is the bridge This is also a bridge Except for the road underneath Connecting two buildings on both sides The bridges are densely packed Look, there is an Internet cafe and teahouse behind me There is also a small hotel This scene reminds me of the Three Gorges more than ten years ago Because Axing also came here more than ten years ago We have come here on this trip to the Three Gorges All we see are new buildings and new houses Because the old houses were flooded It used to be like this Very nostalgic Look, this bridge is called Luzi Bridge There is a deer There is a statue of a hunter over there Holding an arrow There’s a hound next to him This bridge is a landmark building in Wuxi County Very historical Built in the 1980s This bridge also has a legend It is a legend about Wuxi salt production Because this has been producing salt since ancient times One day, this hunter Hunting in the forest There were no people here before, it was a primeval forest Saw a white deer He shot this arrow No matter how hard he shoot, he can’t hit this deer This deer also ran for a while and then stopped Stop and look back Look at this hunter Hunter is weird It was as if the white deer was leading him Then he chased The white deer led him all the way to the deep mountains and old forests He found a spring of water gushing out He thought the water was sweet He just drank it, he was very thirsty It tastes salty He was very curious Take the bamboo jar and bring the salt water home Put it in the pot and boil it The result was salt This is the legend of how salt was discovered in Wuxi Come on, take two of you Can’t bring Take you go Is there any jelly left? yes Step on this Slower ok? ok ok? good You must sit still Put the burden in go This street is Wuxi Cold Noodle Street very famous They all sell cold noodles How to sell 5 yuan Okay, give me one Can these be added? Can What flavors are available? Do you want chili? Spicy I heard that there is another sweet one in your area Sweet and Sour Does the sweet and sour have chili? have There are also chili right Then give me one of your local flavors Sweet and sour spicy This is a bowl of cold noodles for 5 yuan So affordable This price And this one behind Kang Potatoes Spicy right Sweet and Sour Spicy You people like sweet and sour food You try it OK, I’ll try try it Slightly sweet right The Kang Potatoe is so burnt The burnt ones are fragrant Burnt and dry right These potatoes are from your local area Local They’re all small potatoes right Two people eating? right Two people eat more Do you want some chili? yes Put more Can eat spicy food Can eat very spicy food too much I added you That’s all right Too much to eat Enough, is enough Wait a minute, I’ll add it for you okay You two just have one bowl of noodles okay Thanks It’s almost falling out Look at this bowl of golden potatoes Very appetizing Spicy Sweet and Sour The bottom of this is fried dry One side is dry good Crisp This kind of small potato is eaten in the Three Gorges area This potato can be said to be very special Kang Potatoes good smell Try this cold noodle Lots of burnt chili, dried chili and sesame seeds Add beef tendon noodles There is also vermicelli in it cucumber Looks great Take a sip quickly And kelp shreds This tastes sweeter Sweet and sour indeed This sweet and sour taste is a little less sweet This is sweet, spicy and fragrant Especially this burnt chili An authentic bowl Sichuan and Chongqing Style Spicy Cold Noodles This chili has a Sichuan and Chongqing feel Fuzzy and fragrant In fact, this is the small noodles, small cold noodles all for you Some of the remaining Okay, thank you Give me the rest Let’s try this burnt chili with potatoes The chili is so fragrant good Is it yummy tasty Your chili is delicious We are the characteristics of Wuxi What kind of chili is this? burnt chili What is the variety? I fried This chili is not spicy I think this species is a bit like The chili powder inside is spicy This variety is a bit like Shaanxi It’s just fragrant but not spicy Chili powder is spicy right burnt chili is not spicy right Do you want our people take there to eat bring it to Chongqing Take away right Many of our family members work in Chongqing Come Cold noodles The place I am visiting now is Ningchang Ancient Town near Wuxi This ancient town of Ningchang has been producing salt since ancient times Thousands of years of history The ancient Ba people made salt here Everyone knows that salt is also called salt Ba Where does the word salt Ba come from? It has something to do with the ancient Ba people The ancient people of Ba loved to use "Ba" to describe objects For example, body parts mouth Ba jaw Ba And the slap Ba etc. This ancient town prospered and declined because of salt There are almost no people now This house looks abandoned To enter this ancient town, you must first cross an iron chain bridge You see, this house is very dilapidated Don’t look at this house, it’s very shabby This place was at its most prosperous time More than the population of Wuxi County This is the old street, stone road Wood board Wooden house This street is called Center Street There’s someone cooking here they are still playing cards here Look, there’s no one in this house now The old man is playing cards here Playing Poker This place has a really good environment Green mountains and clear waters Look at these houses on the hillside It’s all broken and no one is left I also planted eggplant This house is pretty good It’s actually two layers Two floors But the middle is a wooden structure All broken The tiles fell down Look, there’s a jar This jar cannot be from the Jiaqing period of the Qing Dynasty It says salt making workshop Right here But now it is a dangerous building and you are not allowed to go in The scale is still quite large There’s a small stove here This is the ancient method of making salt Burning firewood underneath Put the salty brine from the salt spring in it Then boil After boiling, there is salt Because this burns wood The most prosperous time Almost all the trees on this mountain have been cut down There are people who specialize in cutting down trees People from other places who specialize in cutting down trees There are also people from other places who come to make fire The cook on the salt stove Look at this patina Very exquisite This small room is a salt spring that has been flowing for thousands of years This spring water flows down from the mountain Pure natural salt water Very salty This dragon head is said to be more than 2,000 years old Axing has been to Zigong before Zigong also produces salt It needs a well Pump up the brine from underground It just flowed out here Why is salt no longer produced? It’s a pity Then you’re overthinking Now industrial production Salt can be produced in many places across the country The production increased suddenly The output of salt made by this ancient method is too low There’s no value anymore It seems a pity Get a bottle and fill it up China Grilled Fish in Chongqing Chongqing Grilled Fish in Wuxi Everyone has eaten Chongqing’s Wanzhou grilled fish and Wushan grilled fish All very famous Its origin is actually here All originated from here Wuxi is also known as the international hometown of grilled fish This title is awesome You stand here and look down This row of fish stalls along the river beach Big and small Come here and have a meal This is the ancient city of Daning Daning Ancient City is actually the old county town Go down and try it Grilled fish We are all freshly baked How many people? How do you sell this? 40 yuan per pound OK How many people? What kind of fish is this? All are grass carp OK How many people? Two I see what else There are also dry pot, soup pot, snacks What is your local specialty? This flavor is good to sell Grilled Fish with Fresh Peppercorns Best Selling Does this grilled fish with fresh pepper contain pickle? This does not pickle fish has I want to try this pickle fish This is your characteristic ok Give me this pickle flavor good Come on, corn Come on, corn Come on, corn This is the famous Wuxi grilled fish There’s red oil all over it It comes in many flavors There are spicy and pepper ones There is also pickle, I ordered a pickle one Because pickle is the specialty of Wuxi The top is cilantro and this is dried potato This area loves to eat dried potatoes And konjac celery This is pickle Pickled Radish There’s fish underneath Lots of red oil After the fish is served, it needs to be stewed for a while Because after it’s roasted, pour these pickle on it No taste yet Let it simmer slowly Let’s have some snacks first Weird Duck One piece Spicy flavor This one smells a bit like bacon Looks like cured duck The taste is so strong A little bit of preserved flavor and a little bit of soy sauce flavor Then spicy Very chewy taste Like beef jerky And this is all for drinking Roasted chili and eggplant For me, it’s a drink snake This is delicious but it tastes mushy Cold dishes after burning have a feeling Very mountain flavor Sitting in this ravine This Physalis potato chip is surrounded by And this spicy tofu How much is one 5 yuan ok Take another one? That’s it 5 yuan for a piece of watermelon It’s really delicious Now the fish is well stewed Remove the side dishes from the There is a whole big grass carp underneath this, with red oil Good smell Grass carp just has too many bones But the meat is tender The outside is burnt This grilled fish is grilled first and then fried No smoke when grilling Just put salt Salted and grilled After roasting, all the seasoning flavors are in the red oil soup And these side dishes It’s really delicious This side dish is very tasty And this pickled vegetable Sour radish The sauerkraut is too sour I know how to eat this pickled vegetable Eat some fish after eating pickled vegetable Very refreshing taste Because there is pickled radish The whole grilled fish tastes even refreshing That sour and refreshing feeling My favorite food is fish head Big fish head So tasty The meat under the gills is the most delicious One of the main techniques for eating fish heads is sucking Why is Wuxi grilled fish so famous? How it came about A big deal Don’t underestimate a simple grilled fish They have thousands of years of history It is related to the salt industry here Because in the past, this was used to transport salt Many businessmen come and go Including crew members, salt workers, etc. There are a lot of people It is easy to produce delicious food when everyone gathers here How did it come about? These boatmen After the boatman arrived at the shore Just catch the fish in the river The salt in the salt tank, is the salt in the ship’s cabin To pickle fish After marinating the fish, grill it like this It’s actually quite delicious when grilled. There is also this kind of roasting method in the local area Just pickle it with salt and eat it in its original flavor But eating Some people feel it is very dull Let’s add some flavor At this time, some people said Why not add some local pickle in it? See if it tastes good or not As a result, adding pickle makes the taste amazing This gave rise to the Wuxi specialty grilled fish sour This is the first time I eat such sour pickle Don’t look at this grilled fish, it has so much red oil This grilled fish is compared with Wushan grilled fish and Wanzhou grilled fish The taste is relatively light Because the taste there is more spicy, more salty And the skin is baked more crispy and burnt This highlights the tenderness of the fish After eating the fish head, let’s eat the fish tail This is called a beginning and an end Longevity noodles A bowl of longevity noodles You can eat grilled fish in Chongqing without eating rice But noodles are indispensable I have eaten half of this fish Just enough space for noodles There’s nothing special about this noodle Just noodles Because the noodles are very smelly Look at this red oil It smells so good Big plate chicken noodles Here is the big plate of fish noodles Come with chopsticks This noodle is a bit oily Let a little bit of oil drip Red oil fish soup instant noodles Another pickled radish tasty This little place is so lively I also bought some sweet potato starch made by the locals And sweet potato vermicelli And this local cucumber A lot of harvest This trip to the Three Gorges ends here Goodbye Three Gorges Goodbye Wuxi

重庆巫溪是大宁河畔的小县城，也是三峡库区唯一一个没有被水淹没的城市，这里还是多年前的旧模样，山水人一切都没变，过去宁厂古镇以制盐而兴盛，又因制盐而衰落。因为盐业，大名鼎鼎的烤鱼就发源自这里，加了酸酸的泡菜，还有糖醋味的凉面和炕土豆，都独一份的味道。
Wuxi, Chongqing is a small county town on the bank of the Daning River. It is also the only city in the Three Gorges Reservoir area that has not been flooded. It still looks the same as it did many years ago. The landscape and people have not changed. In the past, Ningchang Ancient Town prospered and declined because of salt production. Because of the salt industry, the famous grilled fish originated here, with sour pickles, sweet and sour cold noodles and potatoes cooked on the stove, all with unique flavors.