What is the folk custom of Yangquan, Shanxi?

Yangquan Folk Custom: I like pasta, soup and rice.

Shanxi people like to eat noodles. It is an exaggeration to say that there is no shortage of noodles and bread for every meal, which has long been a habit. This is formed under the background of natural conditions, historical origin and attack power. There are all kinds of food crops in Shanxi, with dozens of varieties. The north-central part is rich in sorghum, millet (millet in northern Taiyuan is sticky), sorghum, naked oats, buckwheat, rice, beans (including peas, black beans, mung beans, soybeans, adzuki beans, cowpeas, tea beans, lentils and broad beans), corn and misha. The south is rich in wheat, corn, millet and rice. These grain varieties provide abundant food. Through the ingenuity of peasant women, thousands of kinds of pasta can be made. Pasta in various shapes is delicious and attractive. Many farmers, three meals a day are mainly pasta, either coarse or fine, or dry or soup, coarse and fine, coarse and fine, with rice in the noodles, and their cooking skills are very rich. Farmers in areas rich in millet use rice as porridge or rice, and mix it with pasta such as mixed soup and noodle soup. Add oil to the noodle soup, or add chopped green onion, or add tender buds of Toona sinensis. This simple food can not only satisfy people's appetite, but also has a strong peasant flavor in the Loess Plateau, which makes people enjoy a kind of spiritual enjoyment. In the Pingchuan area of Jinzhong, farmers' lunches are almost all pasta, such as noodles, noodles, picking or pulling, rolling or pressing, brushing or wiping, each with its own characteristics. Noodles are long and short, wide and narrow, thick and thin; The pulled pieces are thick and thin, big and small, soft and hard. It's really dazzling, as if you were in the kingdom of pasta. All kinds of pasta, together with toppings and condiments with local characteristics, make people feel that eating Shanxi pasta is really a beautiful enjoyment. People with good living conditions should pay attention to eating pasta within one month; Ordinary farmers eat mixed noodles (sorghum mixed with white flour, bean flour, corn flour, or sorghum mixed with elm bark is called "mixed noodles") and change their patterns every day. The yellow wheat cake and oat noodle in the north and the steamed buns with white flour in the south have their own characteristics in both shape and taste. Of course, Lamian Noodles, one of Shanxi's four famous faces, is appreciated by people, with his sharp face, his small face and his small face. Among them, the penetration rate of picking tips is the highest, especially in Pingchuan, Jinzhong, where almost every peasant woman can pick tips with one hand. Miscellaneous noodles can be selected with the same thickness and length; White flour can be long or short, thick or thin. Thick is hollow and soft, thin is smooth and slippery. In Lamian Noodles, peasant women are known as "Little Lamian Noodles", which can be painted in various shapes such as width, roundness, thickness and even triangle. It is such a single pasta (especially in the old society where materials were scarce) that has become so colorful in the hands of hardworking and intelligent peasant women! By cooking, steaming, frying, baking and other means, the tedious housework has been turned into poetic labor, or poetic labor, which makes you sincerely admire: these aunts on the loess slope!

Shanxi people like soup and rice for a long time. Except for some places in the south of Shanxi, most of them live like this. Residents in Changzhi area have met each other in the community so far, and they will first ask, "Have you been drinking?" Most parts of Shanxi have been dry and windy for many years. The people "work at sunrise and rest at sunset" and are naked. The so-called "facing the loess and facing the sky" and "the beads of sweat fall off eight petals" are hard, and there are few conditions for drinking water and tea. Eating depends on soup. Moreover, Shanxi people used to eat very little food, all of which were salt and vinegar. The taste was obviously partial and they needed a lot of water physically, which formed the custom of drinking soup. In the daily recipes of Shanxi residents, soup and rice have the most kinds and the most exquisite eating methods. The low-grade can satisfy people's appetite, the middle-grade can entertain ordinary guests, and the high-grade is the best soup in the high-grade banquet. For example, the three-in-one tip, the three-in-one tadpole and the assorted hollow soup in Jinzhong area are all exquisite soup rice. There is a saying in Shanxi folk; "Drink soup first, and you won't get hurt all your life." It is a "dietary norm" for many residents to drink soup and rice before eating dry rice. This is very reasonable from a health point of view. Eating steamed stuffed buns, cakes and other dry food, most people have to cook rice soup or noodle soup, and families with conditions have to cook soup such as camellia oleifera. Drinking noodle soup after eating noodles is the most prominent eating habit of Shanxi residents. "Drink the original pot soup and melt the original pot dishes" is said to be the old adage of traditional diet. Many farmers have passed it down from generation to generation, and this custom has been maintained to this day. If you have a chance to visit Shanxi people, the housewife will definitely bring you a bowl of noodle soup after you have had enough to eat, and please come and melt the original dish with the original soup. This is not a bad habit, but it is also quite scientific.