Folk custom excerpts

Noodles are like belts, pot helmets are like pot lids, peppers are vegetables, steamed buns are sold in big bowls, bowls and pots are hard to separate, Pappa is worn on the head, and the house is half built. Girls don't shut up, don't sit up, sing and shout. The top ten monsters in Shaanxi are actually a unique life.

As the saying goes, "a hundred miles of different winds, ten miles of different customs." In this yellow land of Shaanxi, due to the influence of climate, economy and culture, Shaanxi people (Guanzhong people) have formed some unique ways in food, clothing, housing and transportation and the East. Outsiders are very curious about this, and they call it "Ten Monsters in Shaanxi" (that is, "Ten Monsters in Guanzhong"): the face is like a belt, the pot helmet is like a pot, the pepper is a dish, the steamed bread is sold in a big bowl, and the bowls and pots are difficult to separate. Papa wears it on her head, and the house is half hidden. The girl does not sit, but sings and shouts.

First of all, noodles are like belts

Noodles are as wide as belts. Lamian Noodles is also called Bing Bing Mian (pronounced biang-biang, which is not found in the modern Chinese dictionary). There is a difference between the authentic ice noodles made by Guanzhong people and the Lamian Noodles that city people usually eat. Authentic ice, the width of a surface can reach two or three inches, and the length is about 1 meter. When it is thick, it looks like a coin, and when it is thin, it looks like a cicada. One meal of noodles is enough, but for Guanzhong people with a large appetite, it is easy to eat 8 Liang 1 kg at a time.

People in Guanzhong eat noodles and like to knead them hard, roll them thick and cut them wide. After this kind of noodle is cooked, whether it is poured with SAO Zi or Chili, it tastes smooth and tender in a bowl. Delicious and hungry. People stretch and shrink their necks, grunt and swallow into their stomachs, eat so much that they burp a dozen times, and suddenly they are full of energy, pulling carts and carrying stones up the mountain, and they don't feel hungry for five or six hours.

Second, a pot helmet is like a pot cover.

According to legend, when Ganling was built in the Tang Dynasty, there were too many military craftsmen in service, which often delayed the construction progress and was punished for eating. So, a soldier anxiously put the dough into his helmet and baked it into a cake in the fire. Now, Guo Kun has been in Shaanxi for thousands of years.

To make a pot helmet, the noodles should be too hard to rub by hand. You have to rub it with wooden poles and then bake it slowly in a large pot with a diameter of more than 2 feet. In this way, the branded pot helmet is crisp and tender outside in the morning, fragrant and delicious, and will not deteriorate for more than ten or eight days. Guo Kui should be counted as "Guo Kui of Ganzhou (now Ganxian)".

Third, pepper is a dish.

As for peppers, most people think that people in Hunan and Sichuan can eat peppers. In fact, Sichuanese only regard pepper as a seasoning, but in Shaanxi, "no spice" is a serious dish. Even the front door of every household in Xi 'an is covered with a string of gratifying red peppers.

"Spitter" is red in appearance, fragrant in smell and spicy, which can be used to mix noodles and eat steamed buns. People often say, "It's good to eat spicy ice!"

Fourth, paomo is sold in big bowls.

"Beef and mutton buns are sold in big bowls" can be called "the first bubble in Shaanxi" and "the first bowl in xi 'an". It seems to be a waste of time to go to Xi 'an without eating beef and mutton buns. Beef and mutton buns are Muslim food.

Guanzhong people pay attention to material benefits when eating. Meat is a big piece of meat, and steamed buns are difficult to hold. Bowls are big and old bowls that can hold 6 Liang 8 Liang. The mutton bread in soup just served is very hot and steaming. When eating, use chopsticks to dial from around the bowl to your mouth and eat while dialing.

The methods of mutton steamed bread are mainly divided into cook the meat, steamed bread, soup, broken steamed bread and steamed bread. The meat should be cooked crisp and rotten. Steamed bread should be branded hard and yellow, but also insoluble in water and not rotten. The soup is made of beef and mutton bone marrow. Break the steamed bread as evenly as possible, then add seasoning such as steamed bread, meat, vermicelli, onion, salt and monosodium glutamate, and cook in a frying pan.

Because of the different cooking methods, there are two kinds of mutton buns: boiled and fried. The amount of soup added is different, which is divided into dry soaking (less soup) and water siege (more soup). You can eat it in your own way. This kind of soup dumpling is dry, hot and fragrant, which is very appetizing. Therefore, the Paomo Pavilion chose a large porcelain bowl made in Yaozhou (Yaoxian) to hold Paomo.