Hengshui people's dietary tastes

staple food Before the founding of new China, the territory due to the disparity between rich and poor, the level of diet is very different, the rich can eat chicken, duck, fish, meat, sea food; middle families eat more coarse grains, with a small amount of white flour; poor people can not afford to eat pure grain and pure flour, must be mixed with chaff, mixed with vegetables, in the event of wilderness year, the wild vegetables, leaves to feed the hungry, and even freezing and starving to death. Used to three meals a day, morning and evening to dilute the main, lunch more dry-based. All kinds of food eating method is not the same.

Corn: collectively known as "stick". Ground into powder, fine for the face, used to steam the nest, paste the cake; coarse for the grits, porridge.

Grain: milled into rice, make dry rice, stewed rice, rice soup. The rice is ground into noodles, spread pancakes, steamed silk cake, steamed wowo.

Yam: can be steamed and boiled alone, can also be sliced and dried and ground into noodles, used to steam dry food, pressure noodles.

Mung beans: with the rice stew, with the grits porridge, can also boil mung bean soup, soak bean sprouts to do dishes; can also be ground into fine powder rolled noodles, wrapped dumplings, mixed with pimples.

Wheat: grinding fine noodles, steamed buns, buns, flower cake, dumplings, wontons, pancakes, rolling noodles, mixing pimples and so on. Sometimes the wheat coarse grinding is used to steam dry food, make porridge to drink.

Millet: milled rice, plus dates to make sticky cake, sticky rice, dumplings; rice ground into noodles plus dates, steamed cake, sticky nest.

Sorghum: eat with corn. In the old days, poor families eat more, rich families generally used as fodder.

In the old days, the average farmer's general meal was: breakfast, porridge, cakes; lunch, cakes, rice soup; dinner, thin noodles, cakes. The poor peasants, on the other hand, used chaff as their staple food. That is, with wild vegetables, leaves, bark and so on, with a small amount of corn or sorghum flour, boiled vegetables porridge, steamed vegetables nest, vegetables dumplings, vegetables "to take the cake", boiled "vegetables tofu" and so on. After the land reform, life is generally better, the general year most farmers can eat net rice and noodles. In the early 1960s, the national economy appeared temporary difficulties, the general implementation of the "melon and vegetables generation", to yam vine, corn shaft, cake flower seeds, quassia grass as a substitute for food. For the leading cadres and sick, special supply some "grain-free snacks", "chaff jujube pills". early and mid-1970s, in order to solve the problem of satiety, emphasizing the large planting of hybrid sorghum. Sorghum has become the staple food of the masses. 80's, wheat production doubled, white flour has become the staple food. Buns as the main, supplemented by buns, dumplings, noodles, rice, pancakes, doughnuts, etc., milk, soybean milk, bread, etc. are also increasingly on people's tables. Roughage products have become the residents to adjust the taste of food.

Side dishes

Before the founding of New China, the residents of the territory, in addition to the Spring Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival and other major festivals or guests, very little meat, tofu, vermicelli is not often eaten, and there is no other side dishes. Farmers in addition to summer and fall to eat some radish, melon, beans and other dryland vegetables, mostly pickled pickles to eat, types of turnips, mustard greens, carrots, white garlic, leeks, cabbage and so on. After the founding of new China, especially after the reform and opening up, vegetable planting area increased, a wide variety of cabbage, radish, eggplant, chili peppers, green onions, garlic, leeks, fennel, kale, melons, tomatoes and so on. Especially in recent years, the counties and municipalities have planted shed vegetables, fresh vegetables can be eaten throughout the year. Garlic, leeks, cauliflower, lotus root, cherry tomatoes, fresh mushrooms and other fine special vegetables began to enter the residents' homes. Poultry, fish, meat, eggs, milk was rare, with the improvement of economic conditions, has become a common food, raw seafood is also a common dish on the holiday table.

Feasts Feasts are held on festive occasions, weddings and celebrations, and to entertain friends and family. Feasts are mainly meat feasts, with eight plates and eight bowls, twelve plates and twelve bowls, and other specifications. The eight dishes are usually four cold and four hot, while the twelve dishes are six cold and six hot. Cold dishes are mainly pork liver, pork belly, pig ears, loose eggs, vermicelli, silver ear, etc.; hot dishes are usually meat and vegetables stir-fried, fried. Bowl dishes are chicken, fish elbow, strips of meat, stewed meat, meatballs, tofu and so on. Serving dishes are usually first cold and then hot, first chicken and then fish, the meal first drink wine, wine enough on the big dishes for dinner.

Smoking In the old days, most people smoked dry cigarettes, with tobacco pouches, bags of cigarettes, with tobacco pouch pots, pipe smoking. Smoking cigarettes less. After the founding of New China, the number of smokers of medium and low-grade cigarettes increased, and most people still smoke dry cigarettes. Older people use tobacco pouch pot, middle-aged and young people mostly use paper strips to roll tobacco leaves and filaments into the shape of a trumpet. After the 1980s, more and more people smoked filtered cigarettes, and many smoked imported cigarettes. At present, some people recognize the harm of smoking and have taken the initiative to quit. Women smokers have traditionally been very few.

Drinking alcohol Before the founding of New China, people drank alcohol on festivals or when they came to visit guests, and fewer people drank alcohol in general. In the 1960s, there was a gradual increase in the number of drinkers, and in the 1980s, drinking became more and more popular, and people usually drank when they had weddings, funerals, New Year's celebrations, visitors, trustees, friends and relatives, and family reunions. In recent years, people tend to drink low liquor, fruit wine, beer. Hengshui territory has the custom of persuading people to drink alcohol, and call guests to drink more by all means, lest the hospitality is not good enough.

Drinking tea In the old days, civilians could not afford good tea due to poverty, so they drank homemade jujube tea, jujube bud tea. Since the reform and opening up, with the improvement of the standard of living, tea drinkers more and more, the grade has also increased.