舌尖上的中国英文版第一季02 主食的故事Part 12-浙江宁波年糕

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[00:00.00]When late rice is ripe, it's time for Ningbo people to make rice cakes.每年晚稻成熟，就到了宁波人打年糕的时候。
[00:05.84]For 5-year-old Ningning, the fun game is to follow her great grandma making rice cakes.对于5岁的宁宁来说，最好玩的事就是跟着她的曾祖母做年糕。
[00:21.29]How beautiful! It's beautiful, right? 好漂亮，好漂亮，对吧？
[00:27.03]With his forefathers living here for generations, Gu Shengzai is already 78 years old.祖祖辈辈都生活在这里的顾阿公，顾圣在都78岁了。
[00:56.91]Madame Gu married to this place more than half a century ago.顾阿婆50多年前嫁到这个村。
[01:05.36]She has four children and many grandchildren.她养育了4个儿女，带大了一群孙子孙女
[01:08.82]She is now taking care of her great grandchildren.现在顾阿婆还在照顾她的重孙。
[01:14.94]Rice cake is a traditional food that Ningbo people make to celebrate the Spring Festival.年糕，是宁波人用来庆祝新年的一种传统食物。
[01:27.91]Ningbo rice cake is made with the fresh late rice.宁波水磨年糕用当年新产的晚粳米制作。
[01:40.02]Dipping, grinding, steaming and pounding, the molecules of rice get restructured and the taste gets improved.经过浸泡、磨粉、蒸粉，搡捣的过程，分子进行重新组合，口感也得以改善。
[01:56.10]After pounding the rice flour dough, people need to knead it. 搡捣后的米粉团，在铺板上使劲揉压。
[02:05.94]A most ordinary strip rice cake is made.一条最普通的脚板年糕就成型了。
[02:09.79]In the past, families in Ningbo make nearly 50 kilograms of rice cakes before the Spring Festival. 以前的宁波家庭要在新年之前做上上百斤年糕。
[02:25.94]They'll preserve them properly and eat them throughout a whole year. 储藏得当，从腊月一直吃到来年。
[02:30.70]When going to work in the field, Ningbo people eat rice cakes as their staple food.下地干活，宁波人吃水磨年糕当主食。
[02:37.66]It saves them time.这非常节省时间。
[02:40.11]Rice cakes with vegetables can fill one's stomach and also be a tasty dish.用年糕搭配蔬菜，既是能吃饱的主食，又是一道佳肴。
[02:46.44]Portunid crabs give the bland rice cakes a unique flavor.梭子蟹，让原本清淡的米制品，有了更独特的风味。
[02:59.67]The kitchen of the Gu family is filled with steam.顾家厨房里蒸汽腾腾。
[03:13.62]The fragrance of food floats.饭香四溢。
[03:16.75]The Spring Festival is around the corner.春节将至。
[03:19.89]The young people made their appointment to return to the village from the city.孩子们约好都从宁波回到村里来看望阿公阿婆。
[03:24.69]The children have formed their own families.如今孩子各自成家。
[03:31.15]Four generations of the family gather together.四代同堂相聚。
[03:34.94]Such occasions only happen two or three times a year.一年只有难得的两三次。
[03:39.49]The senior couple is very happy.老两口非常高兴。
[03:44.04]Among the diverse dishes on the table, there must be rice cakes,their favorite food.在这颇为丰盛的餐桌上，必有大家最爱的年糕。
[03:50.93]Their children have grown up.孩子们已成人。
[04:02.74]The senior couple seldom makes rice cakes now.老两口现在也很少打年糕了。
[04:10.82]They still adopt the traditional method.但老两口依然沿袭传统手磨年糕的传统，
[04:15.50]Here, making rice cakes is a ceremonious event.如今，打年糕是一件非常隆重的事。
[04:24.65]Neighbors would come to help on these occasions.每到此时，左邻右里都会来帮忙。
[04:28.75]Local people also call rice cakes "tuanzi", meaning reunion.当地人也称年糕为“团子”，寓意团圆。
[04:41.15]The grandma mingles the wormwood, which she stored up in spring, into the steamed rice flour dough.外婆把春天储藏的艾草混入蒸好的米粉团子中。
[05:02.68]Green rice cakes are made after pounding.经过揉面，绿色的米团就做好了。
[05:12.12]The just-made rice cakes are soft and tender.刚做好的年糕，温润软粘。
[05:28.21]Spread the golden pollen pini upon them.撒上金黄色的松花粉。
[05:31.39]That adds a light but long-lasting fragrance of grass.使之带有清淡却悠长的青草香气。
[05:35.74]One can never resist against the delicacy.那香气兼职让人欲罢不能。
[05:38.59]When Ningning grows up, she might not be able to remember how rice cakes are made.等宁宁长大的时候，也许不会记得年糕的做法。
[06:05.82]But the tender but elastic mouthfeel, and the taste of the family, would always stay in her memory.但那种柔韧筋道的口感，承载着家庭的味道，则会留在宁宁一生的记忆里。
[06:13.16]After a short family gathering, the young people return to their homes in the city, bringing the rice cakes the senior couple of Gu made.经过短暂的相聚，年轻人带着顾阿婆两口做好的年糕，又从家返城。

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舌尖上的中国英文版第一季02 主食的故事Part 12-浙江宁波年糕