Miao people's handmade brown sugar making skills, one of the second batch of provincial intangible cultural heritage representative projects in Guizhou Province, are mainly spread in Qiandongnan Miao and Dong Autonomous Prefecture and Qiannan Buyi and Miao Autonomous Prefecture, among which Shibin Miao people's handmade brown sugar making skills are the most famous.
The technological process of Miao people's handmade brown sugar mainly includes the following steps:
1. Material selection. Choose the newly harvested sugarcane. Generally, in autumn, when the sugarcane grows to about 1.5 meters, it can be harvested.
Juice. Cut the harvested sugarcane into sections and put it into a sugarcane juicer to extract sugarcane juice.
2. pain. Pour the sugarcane juice into an iron pan, heat it with firewood or coal fire, and keep stirring to prevent burning. During the heating process, the water evaporates continuously and the sugar concentration increases gradually.
Stir. In the process of boiling, it is necessary to stir constantly to make the sugar juice heated evenly, and at the same time, the bubbles in the sugar juice can escape to avoid the formation of sugar lumps.
4. air dry. Pour the boiled sugar juice into the mold, cool and solidify, take out the shaped brown sugar block, put it in a ventilated and dry place to dry, and then polish and slice it.
Miao people's handmade brown sugar production skills have always been hand-made, with unique skills, which require high skills of producers and require rich experience and skills. The Miao handmade brown sugar produced by this technology has a strong caramel flavor and taste, which is deeply loved by consumers.
Miao people's handmade brown sugar production technology is not only a traditional handicraft production technology, but also contains the traditional culture and history of Miao people, which is of great significance for promoting national unity and cultural inheritance.
In addition to the Miao people's handmade brown sugar production skills, many other brown sugar production skills have been passed down and protected. Here are some examples:
1. Fujian traditional brown sugar production technology. Fujian Province is one of the famous brown sugar producing areas in China, especially the brown sugar produced in fuding city, which is famous for its excellent quality.
2. Zhejiang Yiwu traditional brown sugar production process. Yiwu is one of the important brown sugar producing areas in China, and its traditional brown sugar production technology has a history of hundreds of years.
3. Production technology of traditional brown sugar in Shidian County, Yunnan Province. Shidian County is located in the west of Yunnan Province, and its traditional brown sugar production technology has a history of hundreds of years.
These brown sugar production techniques are the treasures of China culture and the intangible cultural heritage of the country. By inheriting and protecting these skills, we can better understand and feel the profoundness of China culture and promote the inheritance and development of traditional culture.