Taste of Spring Festival on tip of my tongue: Sun-drying cured meat in rural areas

Xinhua2022-01-25 12:22

　　Cured food is served as every year's Spring Festival reunion cuisine.[Photo/Xinhua]

　　Cured meat is served as every year's Spring Festival reunion cuisine.With the Spring Festival approaching, many villagers in Lutian town of Guangzhou city, are busy sun-drying all kinds of cured food in front of or behind their houses, including cured meat, cured sausages, cured duck, etc. The drifting aroma of all the cured food creates a special rural scenery filled with festival atmosphere.

People seem to have "smelt" the fragrance of the Spring Festival through all the pleasant-smelling cured meat.[Photo/Xinhua]

This is an aerial photo of a corner of Lutian Town of Guangzhou city, where the sunshine is in abundance and the temperature difference is significant.[Photo/Xinhua]

The unique geographical and climate conditions are suitable for sun-drying cured food.[Photo/Xinhua]

A photo of a villager preparing cured food.[Photo/Xinhua]

There are various kinds of cured food, including cured meat, cured duck, cured sausages and so on. [Photo/Xinhua]

Sun-drying cured meat is a local tradition. Here’s a photo of a villager preparing cured food.[Photo/Xinhua]

Arrays of cured meat are arranged neatly by bamboo poles in the sun-drying field drifting with aroma.[Photo/Xinhua]

The cured meat is lustrous. The stir-fried cured meat with leaf mustard is one of the most popular dishes to offer at Spring Festival.[Photo/Xinhua]