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Magpie climbing method:

Raw materials for making magpie climbing branches:

Ingredient: 400 grams of superior crab meat.

Ingredients: 25g Nostoc flagelliforme, 30g beef, one carrot, 50g golden cake, 10g egg yolk cake and 10g egg white of Songhua egg.

Seasoning for magpie climbing:

1 g refined salt, 10 g sesame oil, 1 kg brine soup, 500 g peanut oil (about 10 g consumption).

Steps of making magpie climbing branches:

1. Wash the beef with clean water to remove the blood stains, put it into the pot, add clean water, heat it, bring to a boil, skim the foam, cook for about 1 hour until it is 50% rotten, remove it, decant the water, cool it, and cut it into 3-minute wide and 1-minute thick strips.

2. Put Nostoc flagelliforme into a bowl, soak it in warm water for 10 minutes, and wash it with clean water. Heat up the oil pan, add peanut oil and heat it to 70%. Deep fry the Nostoc flagelliforme. Pour in a colander to control the oil. Put it in a basin, add boiling water to clean the oil. After taking it out, put it in a bowl and mix with refined salt and sesame oil. Wash the carrot with water and carve it into a magpie's mouth and claw with a knife. Use a knife to carve the yolk cake into a small wafer with a diameter of 2 cents; carve the Songhua egg white into a small wafer with a diameter of 3 cents; carve the golden cake into 25 circular slices with a diameter of about 2 cents.

3. Take out the skin of the crab meat, steam it in a basin for 10 minutes, and then cool it in the air. Place it in the center of the big disk to form the body of the magpie. Use Nostoc flagelliforme to lay it on the four upturned tail wings and the wings of the body, and swing the mouth and claws. When putting magpie's eyes together, first put on the egg yolk cake wafer, and then pile the Songhua egg white wafer on it to make eyes. Under the magpie, code beef slices into branch shape, and code five plum blossoms on the branch with the carved golden cake disc.

good sign

The belief that magpies can report good news has been popular among the people for more than 2000 years.

Source of meaning

In the Tang Dynasty, the stories about omens and testimonies were widely spread, and the storytellers believed that they were "real people and real things". Zhang Zhuo, who lived in the prosperous Tang Dynasty, wrote a anecdote about Li Jingyi, who loved birds at the end of Zhenguan (627-649). There is a magpie nest in the tree in front of the Li family. He often feeds the Magpies in the nest with rice grains. Over time, birds and people have feelings. Magpies often fly to the windowsill, chirping, stamping feet and flapping wings, adding a lot of fun to his single life. Soon, a theft happened nearby. The thief falsely reported to the government that Li Jingyi had done it. Li Jingyi was put into a prison in Nankang county and tortured. But if he didn't make a false confession, the lawsuit was somehow delayed. So more than a month, just when Li Jingyi felt more pain, suddenly his ears came the chirping of birds. Looking up, it turned out that the magpie, who was often fed by him, was standing on the branch outside the prison window, facing himself, and was crying. "Maybe there's some good news.". Li Jingyi waved to magpie and thought to himself. Then he heard the story of the jailers that someone had met a man in a dark blue dress with a white collar. According to the man, the imperial court will issue an amnesty soon. After listening to this, Li Jingyi suddenly came to a realization: isn't that magpie a deep blue feather and a white mind?

Three days later, an amnesty order was sent to Nankang county. Such "suspects" as Li Jingyi, who have no evidence and no confession, are of course on the list of immediate amnesty. So he walked out of the prison happily.

These stories prove that the custom of drawing magpies to symbolize happiness is very popular, and there are many varieties: for example, two magpies face to face, called "happy meeting"; two magpies with an ancient coin, called "joy in front of your eyes" (with "money" to "front"), and a badger and a magpie looking at each other in the tree, also called "happy heaven" (with "badger" to "Huan"), etc. The most popular one is the picture of a magpie climbing on a plum branch to report good news, which is also called "the top of a happy eyebrow". There is also a picture of a magpie looking up at the sun, which is called "happy every day".

Couplet

The first couplet: blessing from Magpie

The second couplet: Lingyang and the earth

The first couplet: the rooster sings the world white

The second couplet: magpies flying on the ground

Current facts

In modern times, it is a luxury to see "magpie climbing". it

Of course, we are not flying to Tianhe to build a magpie bridge for Niulang and Zhinv to meet on the seventh day of the seventh lunar month, but people

To keep them away from the city.

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