After the Chinese New Year, the most unforgettable thing to take away from home is bacon.

When I mention my hometown of Guilin, many people often think of the famous saying "Guilin's landscape is the best in the world". However, if you ask Guilin people in other places "what is the most unforgettable thing in their hometown", bacon should be one of the important memories, especially before the Spring Festival every year, bacon often evokes many homesickness.

when I was a child, my hometown was poor, and I didn't eat much meat at ordinary times. I could only eat with my stomach open during the Spring Festival. Because of this, killing pigs and baking bacon has become a custom in my hometown. Whenever the atmosphere of the Chinese New Year begins to overflow, the villagers are busy with the annual grand festival.

The bacon in my hometown is baked in rice shells, and each piece is golden and transparent. It makes people drool when you look at it. Eating one piece in your mouth is smooth but not greasy.

It is worth mentioning that in the 197s and 198s, the number of bacon in a family often represented the economic prosperity of that family.

The winter in my hometown is very cold, and the preserved meat is well preserved, so I can eat it until the May Day spring festival of the following year.

every time a guest comes, cut a piece of bacon and cook it to be the most grand hospitality. In addition to delicious food, before the economic poverty, bacon was an essential gift for visiting relatives in rural Guilin.

I remember when I was 12 years old, my father told a true joke: "In the first month of a year, a piece of bacon was brought from our house, and after a' trip' at a relative's house, it actually came back to our house. It's just that the piece of bacon was miserable, and it was carried out in a good way. When it came back, it was covered with scars after many different packages. Even so, there are several special marks on my own bacon, which I still recognize at a glance, haha ... "

About 1 years ago, because people were more and more well off, they visited relatives and friends during the Spring Festival, and bacon was taken less and less and replaced by red envelopes. The phenomenon of "lifting a piece of bacon and walking thousands of families" is gradually being buried in the memory of Guilin people, becoming an unforgettable story, which is occasionally mentioned, recalled and cherished.

However, for me, who seldom goes back to my hometown for the New Year, it is essential to bring some bacon back to Xiamen.

A few days ago, I went to my aunt's house to pay a New Year's call, and I sent Xiamen pie and ginger duck in return for more than 2 pieces of bacon. If my wife hadn't warned me that flying would be overweight, I would have changed more-? Because those bacon are not only delicious food, but also memories and homesickness ...