Sanyang Noodle Flower Custom

One of the traditional customs in Sanyang is to make noodle flowers for the New Year's festivals and other important events.

Noodle flowers are made of top quality wheat flour mixed with eggs, sesame oil, seasoning and kneading agent, with scissors, tweezers, comb as a tool to knead and shape the agent into a variety of plants and animals or flowers, then painted with color, put into the frying pan and fried, these noodle flowers are beautiful in appearance and sweet to eat, not only as a flavorful food but also as a work of art.

The flower is used for different purposes, the production method and meaning are also different.

Fruit: for the holiday family and friends guests to entertain tea and children daily snacks. The general production is to use pepper water and noodles, cut into pine, bamboo, plum, orchids, chrysanthemums and other flowers and leaves image, fried in oil.

Offerings: birthday wishes, funeral offerings. Generally done according to the steamed bread program, the surface fermentation kneaded smooth, with scissors, comb or other mold molded into a variety of animal images, steamed according to different uses point color. To the old man to wish for life into the peach, five blessings to hold life, Ma Gu offer face and so on. Birthday to the children made into lively animals, carp, rabbits, sparrows, butterflies and so on. Offerings to the spirit: more made of golden boy, jade girl, ox head, horse face, pan dragon, crouching tiger, and so on.

Flower arrangement: play offering, the general practice is similar to ingot, flower color mainly peach, pomegranate, roses, begonias, peonies, etc., the difference is that each face of the flower under the insertion of a bamboo skewer, fluttering in the wind, for people to play and enjoy. This kind of noodle flower is mostly used for the old man's next life and the third anniversary of the sacrifice. Folklore has it that eating this kind of noodle flower can eliminate disasters. Some of the room inserted in the face of the flower is out of the auspicious omen.