Folklore in Germany

Compared with China, where food is the most important thing in life, and where culinary skills are world-renowned, German food can be a bit boring. Some people say that German food is boiled, stewed and baked, which is just as unappealing as the staid, formal character of the Germans. But now if you go to Germany, you do not have to worry about this. Because the world's gourmet gathered in Germany, you can taste the world's delicious food, whether it is French, Russian, Italian, or Japanese and Chinese food and so on can be seen. Today's German catering industry can be said to be a large collection of international flavors, and German food is no longer as the traditional practice, just white stewed pig's trotters with sauerkraut. Now the German chef is good at absorbing other foreign dietary characteristics, in Asia, Europe and the United States on the basis of all the culinary characteristics of the family, can also do also delicious dishes. Germany's catering industry in recent decades reached a very high level, from a wide variety of hot and cold drinks snack bars, restaurants, taverns to luxury star-rated hotels all over the country, a variety of flavors are available. That attractive color, pungent aroma to attract people again and again to take out their wallets in order to eat.

(A) Germany's traditional dishes If you travel around Germany, you can have the opportunity to taste the colorful, very distinctive local delicacies. When you sit in the traditional characteristics of the old castle-style restaurant, to have a juniper berries sauce, plus fill pear, fried potato seeds, with chicory walnut salad, a glass of wine, enjoy such a nutritious, colorful and beautiful dinner, is a very pleasant thing. Every Saxon knows that a fish must swim three times - in water, in butter and in wine - before it is served. Carp in wine is a favorite Sunday dish in Saxony. Authentic Bavarian roast hunter's meat with sauerkraut, the Badenese fillet of speckled trout, and so on, are all regional specialties.

(2) Wide variety of sausages and breads If you want to eat sausages in Germany, you've come to the right place. It is estimated that there are more than 1,500 kinds of German sausage, of which only boiled small incense has more than 780 kinds, the most popular to be regarded as moist mouth meat sausage, the original sausage category, including the storage of sausage and seasoned thick lean sausage. In addition, boiled sausages include 60 different liver and flavor specialties, such as the famous Pfalz sausage. Eating sausage must be accompanied by bread, and Germany can also be considered a world champion in terms of bread production, both in terms of quality and quantity. In Germany, the bread is made of semolina, but also rye, oats, semolina and mixed grains mixed together and made of mixed flour. Germany every day out of the aroma of the small bread, angular bread, "8" shaped bakery (der Brezel Germans called "pretzels", in fact, very salty, not very tasty) and long bread on more than 1,200 kinds, in addition, there are more than 300 kinds of other different kinds of bread. Bread is indispensable to the German people three meals a day the most important staple food. According to statistics, in 1994, Germans ate an average of 81.5 kilograms of bread per person, ranking first among European Union member states.

Some breads in Germany are highly localized, such as Hamburg's black, Holstein's rye bread, Bavaria's oil-soaked and salted baklava, etc. In Germany, bread is considered to be the most nutritious food. In Germany, bread is considered nutritious, the most conducive to the health of the natural type of food, but the Germans never eat bread alone, but to smear a layer of thick cream, with cheese and jam, plus sausage or ham together. Germans like to eat cheese, its varieties up to more than 600 kinds of cheese is a German breakfast table must have. Fish, sweets, pastries, etc. are also the German people preferred food. Whether it is canned fish, frozen fish, fresh fish, smoked fish, or fish salad, shrimp, fresh shellfish, etc. are very popular with the Germans, the Germans annual per capita food fish up to 15 kilograms. Candy, chocolate, pastries and other sales are also very substantial.

(3) beer, wine country Germany's beer and wine in the world famous. Germany is the world's largest drinking country, the world's second largest annual consumption of alcohol, including the world's largest beer sales. Beer and wine are the most popular beverages in Germany, and friends must have wine to cheer up their gatherings. Germany's climatic conditions are very suitable for the growth of grapes, the country has 13 winegrowing areas, 60 large plantations, 2,600 small plantations, mainly concentrated in the southwestern and northern Germany, the Al River, the Rhine River, the seven peaks of the ridge and the banks of the Moser River. It has beautiful mountains and a pleasant climate. The largest winegrowing area, Neustadt, has 2,000 hectares of vineyards, where the green grapevines are as far as the eye can see, and the whole air is filled with the tantalizing aroma of grapes. Bunches of aromatic grapes, red and glistening with crystal light, are mouth-watering; pick one and put it in your mouth to soak your teeth in honey and flavor your tongue. The best grapes produce the best wines. In the cellars of Germany's 20,000 winemakers there is an almost endless variety of wines. The German Wine Law stipulates that only wines that meet the requirements in terms of variety, character, ripeness, crispness and appearance can be labeled as quality wines. Wine connoisseurs attach great importance to the bottle label, which not only gives details of the place of production, but also the official inspection number. Specialized fine wines can be stored for many years depending on the vintage. A bottle of century-old wine can fetch thousands or even tens of thousands of marks. In short, the elegant appearance of the bottle and the flavor of the wine can be said to be the typical characteristics of German wine.

Germany's Lake Constance and the Main River area residents in the drinking wine can be said to be the only one in the forefront, each person's annual consumption of wine amounted to 40 liters. Wine is not only a drink for Germans, but also a medicine for curing diseases and strengthening the body. In ancient times, wine was used to cure cholera and typhoid, and today it is used in moderation to treat low blood pressure and myocardial infarction. It is said that the great poet Goethe to drink wine every day, it is the wine to make his creation has been continued until the last days of his death Germans drink beer can be said to be "massive". It is said that the Germans can not stand is the thirst, beer is the more you drink the more thirsty, thus creating the German drinking more and more. In Germany, the most powerful when drinking beer Bavarians, adults have to drink this "barley sweat drink" up to 235.7 liters per year. Bavaria has 1,052 breweries, the most in Germany, and the October Oktoberfest in its capital, Munich, is a globally recognized festival. Every year at the end of September and the beginning of October from all over the world and Germany within the millions of tourists gathered in Munich, people hold up a liter of special ceramic mugs to drink, more than ten days, millions of liters of beer was drunk, hundreds of thousands of sausages with the wine down to the stomach. German beer is divided into more than 20 types, more than 1,500 varieties, due to the brewing recipe for a variety of sex, so it is not surprising to produce so many types of beer. Generally speaking, the north of Germany like to drink mature beer, the south favor wheat beer, light beer, dark beer and no bitter beer, but no matter which brand of beer in the tavern, restaurants and beer gardens have their own place. This shows the importance of beer in the culinary life of the Germans.

(4) More than 300 kinds of bread Different types of bread are all healthy. Rye pumpernickel in the shape of wooden stripes is the main bread eaten in Westphalia and tastes marvelous with fried ham. It belongs to the category of special breads, such as onions, sweet grapes and low-calorie crispbreads, and breads containing sesame or sunflower seeds are becoming more and more popular. Bretzel is a typical food for Germans. In bakeries, visitors can find a wide variety of crackers in brioche rolls decorated with poppies or coriander seeds, or simply try the buttered brown bread and you will experience its splendor.

(5) Germany's seafood is fresh and plentiful Fish should be eaten where it's produced, such as near Germany's coasts and in unspoiled rivers and lakes. A stroll through Hamburg's traditional seafood market, where savvy merchants are sure to make you want to try the local flavors, such as scrambled eggs with smoked kiel herring from the Baltic Sea and lobster bisque from the island of Helgoland in the North Sea, herring bisque from the state of Mecklenburg, and shellfish bisque from Holstein, will make you want to try the local flavors. Even in Germany's inland hinterland, visitors can sample salted meat and shrimp on European plates. In the vast Alps, you can also enjoy herring in wine sauce with onions and creamy salsa.

[edit]Oktoberfest Day

The German Oktoberfest originated from the wedding and coronation of Prince Ludwig in Munich, Germany, in 1810, and gradually evolved into today's Oktoberfest.

The Holiday Inn Pudong hosts the annual Oktoberfest, where people from all over the world of different internationalities and colors come together. Inside the blue and white colored beer tent, people sit on long benches, drink and dine while playing with the German band, enjoying the strange traditional Alpine instruments and the passionate German Bagolian music, and enjoying the strong German flavor and exciting scene. Led by the band, guests can also participate in some simple dances and experience the long history of German culture together.

During the event you will see the big blue and white tents that are traditionally seen at Oktoberfest in Munich, where traditional German games such as beer-drinking and jousting will be featured. The artistic temperament of the Germans in such a carnival is of course not without the embellishment of music, German folk bands during the Oktoberfest singing German folk songs, cheerful and lively blonde girls dancing in colorful national costumes? You'll be transported to the Munich Oktoberfest scene, where you'll be eating, drinking, and singing at the top of your lungs.

German sauerkraut

Roasted pork with sauerkraut-mustard sauce sounds a bit like a famous northeastern Chinese dish called sauerkraut. In fact, it looks similar, with a few slices of red and white pork neatly arranged on a plate piled high with sauerkraut, and traces of mustard sauce artfully drizzled by the chefs on the plain white plate. Only after taking a bite did I realize that this sauerkraut and white pork is not the same as the other sauerkraut and white pork. The sauerkraut is somewhat sweet and sour, and is creamy and crunchy, while the white meat is fatty but not greasy, but must be dipped in some mustard sauce to make it taste good. But don't worry, the mustard is only mildly spicy and not nose-tingling.

German steamed buns

It's not an exaggeration to call them German steamed buns, as they are very competent in terms of both their main function and their texture. First of all, the texture is sinewy, a little creamy but not too heavy, the white sesame seeds on the bagel are very fragrant, when you chew the soft bread encountered a grain of white sesame seeds, the mixture of sesame and pasta aroma will make you forget the high calorie of the bread. Besides, it has two functions: firstly, it can be put on the dining table as a decoration during the Oktoberfest, the wooden bracket looks like a big tree, and the bread hanging on it is both tempting and has the feeling of pure Munich Oktoberfest in Germany. The second thing is that you can take it off and eat it whenever you are hungry, so it's really convenient.

Mellow and satiating white beer

This glass of white beer from Germany is rich in foam, pure white and delicate, indicating that it is fully fermented. Pale beer is a draft beer, the liquid is not as bright as the beer we usually drink, but yellow with white. The taste is not bitter but some orange flavor in the mouth, and in the moment of drinking the beer, the taste is sweet. Reporter friendly advice to drink this wine must consider two points: First, their stomach capacity, the average slim girl half a cup to solve a meal. Secondly, the aftertaste of this wine is immeasurable, only the courage of the wine is not enough.

Secret pickled cucumber

The cold meat platter with pickled cucumber, though a starter, is not exactly refreshing, as it's all cold meat, but with different flavors. Some are made of lean meat, the taste is a little dry, but very fragrant; some are made of fat and lean meat, the taste is very delicate, but frankly, a little greasy, girls should be careful when eating, the calorie is very high yo. The chef's secret sour cucumber is a refreshing addition to a mouth full of greasy journalists.

The apple pie

After eating the white meat with sauerkraut, the cold meat platter, the bread and drinking a glass of beer, you can ask the waiter to pack the apple pie in such a large portion. The apples are sweet and tart and the crust is crispy, so it's a lot better than the fast-food pies we usually get.

Traditional costumes at Oktoberfest

The costumes at Oktoberfest are a major attraction. The stocky men usually opt for leather-stitched pants with back straps and white shirts. Germans choose to make their pants and straps out of genuine leather and have simple floral embroidery on them. The waistband buckle opens up for hanging beer mugs to ensure that beer lovers can drink wherever they go. On the side of the pants there is also a small pouch for the dagger, which can be used not only for self-defense, but also, more importantly, for cutting up meat, because the traditional food at Oktoberfest in Munich is big, fatty, meaty chunks of meat, and the dagger can be changed from a self-defense tool to a cutlery item anytime you want to carry it. Functionality and convenience in one garment's most distinctive feature is the embroidered piece with buttons in front of the small of his back. At a festival as grand as Oktoberfest in Munich, people inevitably drink more than they should, so what to do in case of an emergency? Simply unbutton the waistband and you can get released, very convenient, right?

The tall and slender ladies will wear the most colorful dresses, the chest design highlights the German woman's full figure, the waist tie white apron and reflect the German woman's slender curves, short bubble sleeve design in the focus on the beautiful at the same time, but also very practical. The German women are the main force in the Oktoberfest, not to mention that they are women, and the stance of picking up a glass of wine is no less than that of a man.

[Edit Paragraph]Etiquette and customs

Germany's customs, understand and know the habits of the German people for those who go to Germany to study, work or visit, is a very important thing. If you don't know anything about it beforehand, you will inevitably make jokes or bring inconvenience to yourself. This is why it is important to follow the customs of the country. But how can you follow them well? It is important to know beforehand.

Discipline and cleanliness

The Germans are very serious about rules and discipline. Where there are clear rules, the Germans will consciously abide by; where it is clearly prohibited, the Germans will never touch it. In the eyes of some people, in many cases, the Germans are almost dull, lack of flexibility, and even a little bit inhuman. But when you think about it, this "inflexibility" is very helpful. Without discipline, what is order? Without rules, what is serious?

Germans are very clean and tidy, not only pay attention to keep their own lives in a small environment of clean and tidy, but also attaches great importance to the environment of clean and tidy. In Germany, whether it is parks, streets, or theaters or other public **** occasions, everywhere is cleaned up, neat and tidy. Germans also attach great importance to clothing wear. Work on the work clothes, return home from work can be worn casually, but as long as there are visitors or out of activities, will certainly be dressed neatly. When going to the theater, listening to the opera, women should wear long dresses, men should wear dresses, at least wear dark-colored clothing. This is especially true when attending social events or formal banquets.

Keeping time, like quiet

Germans are very punctual, agreed upon time, no special circumstances, and never easy to change. Germans are invited to other people's homes or go out to visit friends, will arrive on time, will not let the host waste time waiting or have to entertain guests in advance. Otherwise, it is impolite, if there are special reasons can not be on time to the appointment, will apologize to friends, and ask for forgiveness.

The Germans like to live a quiet life, except on special occasions, and do not like to make a lot of noise. For example, many people work in the city, but the home in the countryside or small towns near the city, the figure is a quiet. Even those who live in the city pay close attention to the lack of noise around their homes. For example, from 8 p.m. to 8 a.m. the next morning, no musical instruments or loud noises are allowed. If you want to have a party in the evening, you should explain the situation to your neighbors beforehand, ask for their understanding, and arrange it on the weekend as much as possible without making a lot of noise. Otherwise, the disturbed neighbors will be very annoyed and may protest in person, and some may even ask the police to intervene.