Chili Bean Pastes · FFET10006
Pixian Chili Bean Paste
A hand stirs glossy red chili bean paste in a large open clay vat with a wooden paddle, a blue-and-white bowl holds more paste, red chilies, broad-bean halves and coarse salt lie on the table, and a wooden box holds broad beans.
Hot pastes fermented from broad beans and chili.
Pixian bean paste is protected as a geographical indication product, and its traditional making craft is in the second batch of the national intangible heritage list.
The traditional craft of making Pixian bean paste was added to the second batch of the national intangible cultural heritage list in 2008, under the project name "Traditional Production Techniques of Bean Paste (Pixian Bean Paste)", with Pixian County in Sichuan as the declaring area. The project description calls Pixian bean paste an important cooking seasoning of Sichuan cuisine. Pixian bean paste has had geographical indication product protection under Announcement No. 212 (2005) of the former General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine, and it also has a national standard, Product of Geographical Indication: Pixian Bean Paste, issued on 18 September 2006 and in effect from 1 February 2007.