Traditional Chinese Food

There are many traditional foods in China, and because of the region of each ethnic group, customs and other factors, each place has its own unique local specialties, the following is a list of some of the more classic traditional food in life:

Mooncakes, doughnuts, soybean milk, knife to repair the noodles, donkey rolls, dumplings.

1, moon cakes

Moon cakes originated in the Tang Dynasty. At the time of the Northern Song Dynasty, it was popular in the court, but it also spread to the people. By the Qing Dynasty, there were more records about mooncakes, and the production became more and more elaborate. To the Ming Dynasty, the Mid-Autumn Festival to eat moon cakes in the folk gradually spread, so that the moon cake has become more popular among the people of the Mid-Autumn Festival of the necessary food. During the Qing Dynasty, eating mooncakes at Mid-Autumn Festival has become a common custom, and the production skills are getting higher and higher. Along the line, it formed the custom of eating mooncakes at Mid-Autumn Festival.

2, doughnut

Doughnut is one of the traditional Chinese breakfast. During the Song Dynasty, Qin Hui persecuted Yue Fei, and the people expressed their anger by deep-frying a kind of noodle food similar to doughnuts (deep-fried hinoki). The people at first ate the "fried hinoki" in order to dispel their anger. But once eaten taste good, the price is cheap, so eat more and more people. Gradually, it spread to other countries, and they called these long strips "fried hinoki".

3, soybean milk

Soybean milk is rumored to be more than 1900 years ago, Liu An, King of Huainan, Western Han Dynasty invented. According to legend, Liu An is a filial son, his mother's illness, Liu An every day with soaked soybeans grinding soybean milk to his mother to drink, Liu's mother's illness soon recovered, and from then on soybean milk gradually popularized in the folk.

4, knife repair noodles

The legend of knife-shaved noodles: the Mongols established the Yuan Dynasty, in order to prevent the Han people rebel uprising, they stipulated that 10 households with a kitchen knife, cut vegetables and cooking take turns to use, and then handed back to the Mongols after the use of safekeeping. One day at noon, an old woman and a good noodle, let the old man to get the knife, the results of the knife was taken by others, the old man had to return. After returning home, the whole family waited for the knife to cut noodles to eat, but the knife was not retrieved, the old man was so anxious that he suddenly remembered the iron in his arms. The old woman put the dough on a board, left hand up, the right hand holding the iron, standing in the boiling water pot side of the "cut" noodles, a slice of noodle leaves fall into the pot. The story spread from one to ten and from ten to a hundred, spreading all over the land of Jinzhong.

5, donkey roll

It is said that the Empress Dowager Cixi wanted to taste something new. The imperial chef decided to use the river rice flour wrapped in red bean paste to make a new dish. After the new dish was ready, a eunuch named Little Donkey accidentally touched the new dish into the basin containing soybean flour. Chef hard to present this dish to the front of the Empress Dowager Cixi. Empress Dowager Cixi ate the flavor is not bad, asked the chef what is called ah. The chef felt that the eunuch called the little donkey child trouble, so with the Empress Dowager Cixi said called donkey roll. Since then, there is a "donkey roll" this snack.

6, dumplings

There is a legend that dumplings are sacrificed to Qu Yuan and the birth of the river, and as early as in the Spring and Autumn period, with millet wrapped in Mizuko leaves into a horn-shaped called "corner millet"; bamboo tube filled with rice sealed and baked, called the "tube dumplings". Rice mixed with rare birds and animals, chestnuts, etc., more varieties. Until now, every year, the beginning of the fifth month of the lunar calendar, the Chinese people have to dip glutinous rice, wash zongzi leaves, package zongzi, its color varieties are more varied. Eat rice dumplings custom, for thousands of years, in China prevailed, and spread to North Korea, Japan and Southeast Asian countries.