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Why Naan is inextricably linked to minority life in Xinjiang?

Why is naan inseparable from the lives of ethnic minorities in Xinjiang?

Naan, as a kind of ordinary staple food, in Xinjiang ethnic groups, especially the status of the ethnic minority masses on the table, just as people in the north of the steamed bread, the south of the people of the rice, as indispensable, or even more important. No naan not hospitality? Rather three days without meat, not a day without naan?

The two minority proverbs fully illustrate the importance of naan to the local people's lives.

Chinese food text expression. As a side of the Northwest side of the special food, easy to make and carry. It is very popular among the public.

Uyghur girl with naan

Hot naan just out of the oven

In the countryside, the farmers who go out early to plow, in addition to carrying farming tools, the necessary items is naan. After a morning's labor, the family sits around in the shade of a tree with a pot of tea, a tea bowl and a piece of naan for a convenient and filling lunch.

Visiting friends and relatives, out of business travelers, the body of the baggage will always have some naan, do not have to worry about the road there is no food restaurant, belly hungry, out of a piece of naan, looking for a creek, eat a few bites of naan, hands hands a mouthful of water, but also solved the meal, with the strength to continue to catch up with the road.

In the city, people who work all day. After work in the naan store spread all over the streets and alleys to buy a few freshly baked, hot naan, go home or on the yogurt, or fried a braised vegetables, mixed with a gazpacho, a meal of naan as the protagonist of the family food on the good.

In the traditional wedding of Xinjiang's ethnic minorities, there is a bride and groom **** food dipped in salt water naan link. It symbolizes that the couple will be like naan and salt in the future, growing old together and never parting.

In Xinjiang, children from weaning, the first mouth contact with the food is the family broke, soaked and softened naan, children since childhood from the diet began to accept the naan is the source of life, the essence of life education, they are naan all life with respect and gratitude.

The tools used to make naan

Friends who like Xinjiang can continue to pay attention to the next text, ? Naan's past life? that talks about the origins and origins of naan.