"Old vinegar is a dish, and the bride builds a donkey." What are the eight monsters in Shanxi?

The Eight Monsters in Shanxi are the eight local characteristics, such as Fenjiu Wotou, mature vinegar, potatoes and cabbages, pancakes and stones, caves, coal, the bride's veil covering the donkey's eyes, and Daoxiao Noodles. In many areas, it is called by common sayings, and people have specially compiled a poem.

Fenjiu Wotou treats guests as vegetables, old vinegar as vegetables, potatoes and cabbages as sacks, pancakes made of stone blocks, digging holes to build houses, selling roadside dust as coal, and covering donkeys with bridal veil. Daoxiao Noodles is faster than flying knives.

This poem contains all the characteristics of Shanxi and brings together eight eccentrics. In my opinion, the so-called eight eccentrics are actually the life of early Shanxi people. Including all aspects of food, clothing, housing and transportation, which can best reflect the things of old Shanxi.

1, Fenjiu Wotou and mature vinegar are particularly famous in Du Mu's Qingming, right? Excuse me, where is the restaurant? Where is the apricot blossom village that the shepherd boy refers to? . Xinghua Village here refers to Xinghua Village in Shanxi, and the wine here refers to Fenjiu produced in Xinghua Village. Although not as famous as Maotai, it tastes first-class. It won the first gold medal at the Panama World Expo. To say China specialty wine, Shanxi Fenjiu must have a name.

In addition to Fenjiu, there is old vinegar from Shanxi. In the eyes of ordinary people, vinegar is sour and can only be used for seasoning. Actually, this is a misunderstanding. The real Shanxi mature vinegar is fragrant. Whether it is cooking for seasoning, cold salad, or what to eat with it, it is necessary. Many people are reluctant to touch ordinary vinegar after eating old vinegar, and the taste is too different.

2, potato cabbage and pancake stone potato cabbage, all over the country are not strange, can be regarded as common vegetables all year round. But in the early years, the living standard was not so high, and most areas lived on potatoes and cabbage in winter. Especially in some northern areas, hundreds of pounds of potatoes and cabbage are hoarded at home in winter. And these two dishes are also necessary for the old Shanxi people to spend the winter.

Shanxi pancakes are famous, but they are more famous for their stone blocks. This kind of stone, mainly dense black pebbles, is usually heated in a pot first, and then bread is spread on the pebbles for heating. Because the stones are small and dense, there will be pits on the cake. This kind of cake is also called pebble cake, which is one of the characteristics of Shanxi.

3. What about the rest? Is that weird? In addition to the above four kinds, there are four other monsters. The so-called digging holes in the wall to build houses means that people are poor and have to live in caves. Shanxi and Shaanxi are similar, both are loess cliffs, and digging a pit is a house; Roadside lime soil is sold as coal, which shows that there is a lot of coal in Shanxi, and many local tyrants basically make a fortune by selling coal; The bride covered the donkey with a veil and said that women used to ride donkeys when they got married. When the donkey is afraid to walk in the river, he will cover his eyes with a headscarf.

The last one is Daoxiao Noodles, a Shanxi specialty food. Many noodle makers hold noodles in one hand and Daoxiao Noodles strips in the other. The whole speed is very fast, and now it can be regarded as a performing art. Some masters even put their faces on their heads and cut them faster by hand.