800-word Lyric Essay on the Terroir of Northern Shaanxi Province

In the embrace of the Qinling Mountains and the Loess Plateau, there is an ancient and magical plain, where the land is fertile and rich in produce, and the winds and rains are favorable, and the drought and floods ensure a good harvest. It is more than 100 kilometers wide from north to south and more than 400 kilometers long from east to west, known as the 800-mile Qin River, which is Guanzhong.

History goes back 5,000 years, the Yan Emperor and the Yellow Emperor made the greatest beginning of the Chinese nation here. The Zhou Dynasty was established here by King Wu; the Qin Dynasty was established here by Emperor Shihuang who swept the Six Harmonies; the Han Dynasty was established here by the Chu and Han Dynasties; and the Great Tang Dynasty was established here by pushing the Chinese civilization to the highest peak of the world. Every inch of land here is cohesive with thick historical deposits and a lot of magic and mystery.

Drinking in a big bowl is not a trick

Objectively speaking, the Guanzhong people's drinking capacity is not outstanding, east than the Henan people, north than the Shaanxi people and the Mongolians, and even the south of the Hanzhong people, Guanzhong people may not be able to take advantage of the competition. However, due to the Guanzhong people straight character, and not good at rhetoric. Thus, often you say how to drink him how to drink, you dare to say 10 cups per person maybe he simply can not drink, but as long as your words have not fallen, 10 cups of wine on the gulp gulp gulp are poured into his stomach. However, the Guanzhi people can not allow you to deceive him and play tricks on him, although you may not be malicious. I have encountered such a thing, a few Guanzhong township party to the south of a place to visit and study, by the hospitality, drinking, you push me to give way, and finally decided to drink a cup of dry, Guanzhong people without saying a word, neck a tilt, all to the bottom. And a few local hosts are playing a slick, with their eloquence, but also took advantage. Guanzhong Hanzi which can stand this kind of wimpy, lift the bottle of wine gulp gulp drink a few mouths, and then turned around, the locals out of the chair, pressed down on the ground, hard to pour up, scared a few local hosts face has changed, and thus and Guanzhong drinking, it is best not to break the gentleman's agreement.

Snacks stalls down the road

Come to Xi'an, Xi'an snacks will not be forgotten, especially in the night market, during the day on the road bare hall, nothing, one to the night, there will be hundreds of food stalls, will be a wide road stuffed with densely populated, a small lamp, converged into a sea of lights. The night market in the pulp water fish and fish, hemp Shi Zi, noodles, dumplings, oil noodles Tou Tou, buckwheat chine and other Guanzhong snacks, plus the Guanzhong Hui people's various snacks, the formation of the night market of the two camps. Night market due to cheap and affordable, but also with a very strong local flavor characteristics, and thus whether it is a foreign guest or Xi'an citizens, have a very strong main temptation, even talk about the young people, are eating the night market as an indispensable element of their relationship. In addition to Xi'an, Guanzhong almost all the towns and all the settlement places, there are night markets. It has become a food culture with regional characteristics. In fact, early in the city night did not appear before, Guanzhong countryside night market has been red-hot for thousands of years of history, just different ways. Guanzhong countryside is still used in this oldest form of night market, that is, the days of festivals and organizing funerals under the stage, the daytime working women and men, transformed into the owner of the snack stall, but the variety is just oil cake, mash, twist and so on, although the variety is small and simple, has been is very fresh. The location of the stalls is usually wherever there are more people to set up, thus often blocking the flow of people and adding to the lively atmosphere. This is the source of the most authentic Guanzhong night markets.

Higher people are buried in fame

Guanzhong due to the extremely deep historical and cultural deposits, buried rich cultural relics and monuments at the same time, but also buried a large number of wizards and high people. For example, in my hometown of Huaxian County there is a calligrapher surnamed Wu, in the dozens of miles of his life never know him. People around him only know that he can write. When I was a child, during the "Cultural Revolution", he carried a bucket of lime in one hand and a brush in the other, writing slogans along the walls, and we followed behind to the bucket still playground. No one could have imagined how good he was at writing. Until after the end of the "Cultural Revolution", a city calligraphy and painting collection of a few big calligraphers happened to see Wu old a "big farmland water conservancy basic construction" banner, all of a sudden for that old way incomparable, with a very high degree of calligraphy art to convince, a few masters traveled to Shaanxi, to Wu! Old home, eager to get a political tendency to avoid the calligraphy ink, as a permanent collection of the museum, but unfortunately Wu refused to pen. Later, someone took Wu's ink exhibition in the book market, I did not expect to become a superb, is that many first-class calligraphers are also sighing in admiration. Unfortunately, Wu Lao will never know how high his level is, just like the blind Bing never knew that his "Two Fountains Reflecting the Moon" would become a song for the ages. Like this master, in Guanzhong is countless, you go to the countryside to live, at any time there may be met with a very high level of painters, calligraphers, physicians, craftsmen, historians, Qinqiang singer, etc., and their level is often beyond people's expectations. With the outstanding people, talented people to describe Guanzhong, it is more than appropriate.

Home towns and cities are four-sided

Planting seems to be like repairing a flowerbed

The Guanzhong people's meticulousness in planting and carelessness in life form a strong contrast. When you come to Guanzhong, standing at the northern foot of the Qinling Mountains, looking up, you can see the Qinchuan land, boundless fertile fields, flat as a mirror. Roads, ridges, the good land cut in a well-organized manner. This is of course related to the nature of the creation, but with the Guanzhong people for generations, careful repair is inseparable. Guanzhong region's agricultural work is generally only busy in summer and fall, the whole winter people are idle. Guanzhong people are not good at going out to do things, also not good at doing business, and thus almost all the energy and thought are poured into the farmland. When leveling the land, they are very meticulous, and when turning over the land, they don't even use plows, thinking that the plowing is not fine, so they use shovels to turn over the land with shovels, and after turning over the land, they put on bottom fertilizer, and then use ropes to make the ridges of the fields square, like flower beds, which is very suitable for the growth of the crops. After the seeds were sown, they managed the crops very carefully, no matter it was watering, fertilizing, or grafting the seedlings, they were meticulous in everything. Over time, they not only know every inch of the land like the back of their hand, but also almost every crop that grows can be counted

Edited on 2015-06-22

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