Sauces and Pastes · FFET10052
Xianshi Soy Sauce
Xianshi soy sauce is made from whole steamed soybeans and a long open-air fermentation.
Mural guide
A large clay basin holds dark brown soy sauce with a wooden ladle on its rim, three blue-and-white bowls hold soybean paste, wheat paste and sesame paste, soybeans and wheat ears lie on the table, and lumps of paste dry on a bamboo tray.
Soy sauce, bean and flour pastes, sesame paste and fish sauce.
The Xianshi soy-sauce craft entered the fourth national intangible cultural heritage batch in 2014 and is practiced in Hejiang, Gulin and Luxian in Sichuan. Its official entry describes whole soybeans, natural starter cultures, long outdoor fermentation and natural extraction.