Beef and mutton cooking techniques (Guanyun Pingyao beef traditional processing techniques)

Name of China's national intangible cultural heritage: beef and mutton cooking techniques (Guanyun Pingyao beef traditional processing techniques)

Applicant: Shanxi Guanyun Pingyao beef Group Co., Ltd

Project No.: 951

Project No.: VIII - 168

Time of publication: 2008 (second batch)

Category: traditional art

Region: Shanxi Province

Type: new item

Applicant: Shanxi Guanyun Pingyao beef Group Co., Ltd

Protection unit: Shanxi Pingyao beef Group Co., Ltd

Brief introduction of beef and mutton cooking technology (Guanyun Pingyao beef traditional processing technology)

Applicant: Shanxi Guanyun Pingyao beef Group Co., Ltd

Pingyao beef is a meat product with unique local flavor in Pingyao County, Shanxi Province, which is famous for its color, aroma and taste. This kind of beef is red and bright in color, soft and tender in texture, fragrant and mellow in taste. It is not only nutritious, but also has the function of strengthening the stomach and spleen. It is the best product of Chinese meat.

Pingyao, the origin of Pingyao beef, is a national historical and cultural city. A large number of cattle are raised and used in Pingyao, which provides conditions for the development of traditional beef processing techniques. It is said that when Princess Wencheng of Tang Dynasty came to Tibet, she was accompanied by Pingyao beef processing technicians. It can be seen that Pingyao beef had reached a very high level at that time. In the Ming and Qing Dynasties, Shanxi Merchants rose and Pingyao merchants ran all over the country. Pingyao, their hometown, became the distribution center of goods. Therefore, Pingyao beef spread throughout the country with the development of local commerce.

With thousands of years of history, Pingyao beef traditional processing technology is improving day by day. From Daoguang period of Qing Dynasty to the end of Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the Republic of China, Pingyao beef workshops were famous in Shanxi Province. With the change of time, Pingyao beef has been handed down to the seventh generation. Pingyao beef Group Co., Ltd. was named as "China time honored" enterprise by the Ministry of Commerce. The brand and processing scale of Pingyao beef have been greatly improved and developed, and it has become the leading industry of regional economy.

Pingyao beef is not only an affordable and delicious food, but also contains the professionalism and integrity tradition of Shanxi merchants, which has high cultural research value. However, the traditional production techniques of Pingyao beef are all hand-made and handed down by the old technicians. At present, with the aging of technicians, the traditional processing technology of Pingyao beef is on the verge of being lost. Saving and protecting this precious traditional food processing technology is an unavoidable responsibility and obligation of contemporary people.