Folk Culture of Danyang

Danyang has a long history and is one of the birthplaces of Wu culture.

The Danyang dialect belongs to the Wu language - Taihu Lake piece - Biling small piece. Danyang is located at the border of the Wu language, and most of the area belongs to the Wu language - Taihu Lake - Biling sub-sub-sub-sub-sub-sub-sub-sub-sub-sub-sub-sub. The Danyang dialect retains the turbid and incoming tones, preserves more ancient Chinese words and phrases, has six tones, and possesses most of the characteristics of the contemporary Wu language. Some villages in individual towns in the northwest are in Jianghuai official language. The rest of the localities are in Wu. It belongs to the same Vi Ling sub-patch as Changzhou dialect.

The main reason for the declining influence of Danyang dialect among young people is the over-promotion of Putonghua (school education has completely banned the dialect since kindergarten), in addition to the increasingly frequent exchanges with neighboring regions. We hope that Danyang people will pay attention to and protect Danyang's Wu language and culture. Family Diet

Danyang people use rice as their main food, usually two porridges and one rice, i.e. morning and evening porridges, and lunch. Rice is mainly Japonica, Indica and glutinous rice. Morning porridge is generally barley porridge with rice flour rice balls, or rice porridge, there are also people to eat soaked rice; evening porridge is mostly salty porridge, soup noodles; midday meal are rice. There are two kinds of rice, one is boiled (stewed) rice, that is, rice plus the right amount of water in the pot to cook stew; another is to fish rice, is the rice plus more water after boiling, with a strainer on the rice basket and then placed on the steam burn, leaving a small amount of water within the rice porridge.

Danyang people to rice as a staple food, rice food has three main categories, a class of rice, varieties of round-grained rice, indica rice, glutinous rice. Rice is divided into savory rice and light white rice. Savory rice and salted vegetables and salted rice, cabbage and salted rice; light white rice and divided into pure light white rice, beans light white rice, fenghua light white rice and so on. The second category is rice porridge, varieties of light rice porridge (i.e., white porridge), salty rice porridge, soybean rice porridge, melon rice porridge and so on. The third category is the rice flour food category, that is, the rice is processed into rice flour after the production of food, such as powdered rice powder cake, fans, powder porridge and so on. Danyang people are very concerned about the "meal", to round-grained rice and vegetables, plus lard to do the rice is delicious and inexpensive; to indica rice scrambled eggs and a way to eat, flavorful and nutritious; and to glutinous rice sprinkled with cinnamon, roses, red and green silk and bean paste, the people called eight treasures of the rice, and more for entertaining guests.

Flour is also one of the staple foods of Danyang people, second only to rice. Flour usually refers to wheat flour, but in Danyang there is also yuan wheat noodles, barley noodles, buckwheat noodles. Danyang wheat flour food variety, mainly noodles, steamed buns, buns, wontons, noodle sauce, as well as oil blanching doughnuts, deep-fried noodle, and a variety of pastries, etc.; Yuanmai, barley noodles eat more with rice to cook barley porridge.

Danyang people eat barley porridge is very common, it can be said that all families eat, the rural people are eating to the end of the year. "Danyang people barley porridge life" is derived from this statement.

Snacks

Snacks are cakes and cakes and other small food, folk commonly known as "tea food". Danyang confectionery east of the Soviet-style pastry, north of the Yang-style pastry, forming its own style. Danyang pastry selection of fine grains, high-quality fats, refined sugar and egg crystals as the main ingredients, nuts, candied fruit, meat, dairy products, sesame and other ingredients, supplemented by natural spices such as osmanthus, rose, etc., made of different shapes and flavors of the cake, cakes, pastries, crisps, slices, rolls, packages, dots and other varieties, with a sweet, soft, sticky, fluffy, crispy, fragrant, crunchy flavor characteristics. Danyang pastries can be divided into five categories: First, baked pastries, commonly known as oven goods products, there are a variety of shortcakes, mooncakes, bread, cakes and Jingjiang Qi, etc.; secondly, deep-fried pastries, there are big Jingguo, small Jingguo, open-mouthed smile, a mouthful of pastry, etc.; thirdly, cooked pastries, also known as the cold products, there are mint, hawthorn cake, pine cone cake; fourthly, water-steamed pastries, there are clouds of cake, snow cake, peach cake, etc.; Fifthly, the process of pastries, such as Pouring cake, happy cake peach and so on. The production of pastries in the city to the same Tai Fu Nan store has the most prestigious; countryside to Rizhuang known for its large cake selection of sophisticated materials, unique formula, fine workmanship, good taste and quality, with a soft like a crisp, sweet like honey, fragrant Sai Lan, white as jade characteristics.

Danyang pastry in addition to the perennial varieties, different festivals also have different varieties listed, spring cake, summer cake, autumn fruit, winter sugar. That is, spring wine cake, almond cake, peach cake; summer mung bean cake, water cake; autumn mooncake, hemp fruit, coquitos; winter peanut sugar, inch gold sugar. In particular, the "Beijing River Pac Man Qi is not subject to seasonal restrictions, year-round, and continues to this day.

Style snacks

Danyang its main varieties of tofu brain (flower), soy milk, back to the dried halogen, dried tofu, dried incense, fried stinky tofu, noodles, wontons, dumplings, dumplings, rice balls, buns, dumplings, baklava, rice patties, doughnuts, sesame dumplings, deep-fried馓, twisted, pot stickers, fried patty cake, oil cake, spring rolls, rice dumplings, sticky rice cakes, water chestnut buns, hawthorn buns, hawthorn cake, Cold noodles, tea eggs, kang yams, boiled lotus roots, fried chestnuts with sugar, sugar congee and lotus roots, green bean congee, red bean congee, eight treasures congee, fried crumbs, beef soup, duck dumpling soup, lotus seed soup, mutton soup, skin soup, and various kinds of cakes, cakes and buns, and various kinds of peanuts, beans and melon seeds, etc. Among them, Dongxiang (Picheng) is the most famous place with the best quality. Among them, Dongxiang (Pi Cheng, Hou Xiang) lamb, Yanling duck dumplings, the city's tofu flower, small won rays and beef pot stickers are the most characteristic. Dongxiang mutton is famous for being oily but not greasy, fat and tender, and Yanling duck dumplings are characterized by being light, fresh, tender and crispy, and tonifying the yin and soothing the lungs. The city's small wontons, tofu flower is a favorite snack.

Eating tea

Danyang tea drinkers are extremely sophisticated. Older tea drinkers do not like to drink "the first goods" (the first infusion of tea), but like the second goods" or "three goods", commonly known as "gentleman's wine, servant smoke, the second open tea can be eaten to the edge of the sky. " In order to make the first goods tea can be brewed flavor, make tea is generally used first a few boiling water to tea leaves soak for a while, and then rinse boiling water.

Eating alcohol

Danyang old times, inside and outside the city and town liquor stores, folk drinking habits. There are many different kinds of wine, such as reunion wine, Mid-Autumn wine, Chrysanthemum wine, Dragon Boat Festival wine, wedding wine, beam wine, birthday wine, wind wine, profit market wine, opening wine, full moon wine, handing over weekly wine and so on. Danyang wine custom to Chen (white) wine is better, because the more the wine is aged, the more flavorful and mellow. Danyang people love to drink warm wine and avoid drinking cold wine. Wine banquets pouring wine according to the order of the seats in order, the mouth of the wine pot can not be directed at others, otherwise known as rudeness.