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A Bowl of Millet Paste Soup: Filling the Homeland with Fragrance and Warming the Heart

Date:2025-03-13
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The Caofan millet paste soup has won the praise of "A Bowl of Millet Paste Soup: Filling the Homeland with Fragrance and Warming the Heart" and has become a golden name card for rural revitalization. On the morning of September 14, 2024, the launching ceremony of the 2024 Rural Good Season • Lively Life (Zhangqiu Venue) Theme Year Activity and the Caofan Sub-district Activity of Seeking the Flavor of Intangible Cultural Heritage and Tasting the Fragrant Millet Paste Soup was held. In the regional culture, the millet paste soup is one of the "Two Oddities of Spring City (Jinan)". Although it is called "tea", it is not actually tea. This indicates that the Caofan millet paste soup has, to a certain extent, been integrated into the local characteristic cultural system of Jinan.

Millet is rich in various nutrients such as protein, fat, carbohydrates, B vitamins, vitamin E, iron, and zinc. It can also participate in the body's metabolism, promoting the generation and utilization of energy.

Traditional Chinese medicine believes that millet is warm in nature, sweet and salty in taste, and enters the spleen, stomach, and kidney meridians. It has the function of strengthening the spleen and regulating the stomach, and is suitable for people with weak spleen and stomach, indigestion, and poor appetite. After processing techniques such as stir-frying, the millet paste soup in Nan Caofan is easier to digest and absorb, and has a certain nourishing effect on the stomach and intestines. Millet is rich in carbohydrates, which can provide energy and help relieve physical fatigue. At the same time, it contains components such as B vitamins. Millet has the effect of nourishing yin and enriching blood, and it is a very good tonic for postpartum women or those with a weak constitution, helping to restore physical strength, improve sleep quality, relieve insomnia symptoms, and regulate the body.

After multiple fine processes such as washing, soaking, and grinding, the millet is processed into millet paste soup powder with a fine texture. The brewed millet paste soup has no rough granular feeling, and it tastes smooth and refreshing with a fragrant smell. When you take a sip, you can taste the rich rice aroma and a faint sweetness, allowing you to feel the delicate taste.

The millet paste soup in Nan Caofan is relatively rich in components such as water-soluble polysaccharides, giving the soup a certain viscosity. After the soup goes down the throat, there is still a lingering fragrance in the mouth, making people reminisce about it. This aftertaste is not just a simple residue of the aroma, but is accompanied by the mellow taste of the millet and a faint sweetness, lingering in the mouth for a certain period of time, allowing people to still feel the charm of the millet paste soup for a long time after drinking it.