Diet of people in northern Shaanxi

In the past, people in northern Shaanxi lived in poverty and often used chaff for half a year. The so-called "borrow grain, fight back, and keep up with the annual rings." There is also a ballad circulating among the masses: "In the first month, fire is flourishing; in February, it is squeezed; in March, it is mixed with vegetables; in April, it is peas; in May, it is white-flour steamed bread." After liberation, the people's lives in northern Shaanxi have improved. Since the reform and opening up, farmers' lives have been greatly improved. There are at least twenty or thirty kinds of local home cooking. There is not much white flour in northern Shaanxi. When eating, we make noodles and noodles, and steam white bread on holidays. More is a mixture of soybean flour and corn flour.

Qian Qian Rice (Bean Qian Qian): Black beans or soybeans are rolled into small pieces like copper coins, and then cooked with millet into porridge. Black beans have high nutrition, which can be said to be an ideal nutritious food, with millet.

Baked buckwheat noodles: There are many kinds of wheat in northern Shaanxi. Buckwheat can be made into rolls, pancakes, chopped noodles, Daoxiao Noodles, baked bean jelly and bowls.

Soba noodles: most locals use it to entertain guests at weddings and funerals.

Minjian: It is made by mixing white flour and corn flour. Rub the mixed noodles on a special tool sipping bed, cook the noodles in a pot, take them out and add seasoning to eat.

Jiaozi: Farmers' jiaozi is almost always stuffed with mutton and carrots.

Rice fried noodles: it is a local convenience food. As the saying goes, "there are three treasures in northern Shaanxi, cooked rice fried noodles and old sheepskin jackets." When the new millet comes down, people like to fry the soft millet noodles into fried noodles, or fry the millet into cooked rice and rinse it with boiling water to eat. Now it is to taste new things, which is actually a living habit left by ancient nomadic people.

Potatoes (potato, potato): People in northern Shaanxi can't live without potatoes. They cook on weekdays, including potato chips, shredded potatoes, potato wipes, potato stickers and "baked potatoes", all of which are delicious. When life is difficult, it can also be used as staple food.

People in northern Shaanxi like to eat vegetables. In winter, every household has to pickle several barrels of Chinese cabbage, radish and Man Qing. I like to cook pork with sauerkraut. If it is mixed rice (all kinds of raw materials mixed together), it is not much bigger than potato chips. Pumpkin and sweet potato (sweet potato) should be served when steaming steamed bread. On weekdays, there is a vegetable basin next to it. When eating steamed stuffed buns, the food is eaten by oneself. I also like to eat mutton, and the way to eat mutton is similar to that of Mongolian and Uygur brothers.

There are many famous foods in northern Shaanxi, such as Yanchang koi fish Jujube, Yan 'an Yellow Rice Wine Oil Cake, Yanchuan Yellow Pear, Wuqi Rice Vinegar, Ganquan Shuimei Wine, Zhidan County Mutton Peach, Yichuan Xiaomi Yellow Carp, Luochuan Apple, Huanglong Chestnut Walnut, Shenmu Red Bean, Yulin Na Xiang Mutton, Fugu Dried Fruit Saffron and so on.

There are many local snacks, such as stuffing, mutton offal, jujube cake, fire, oil cake and so on.

Second, the eating habits at the age of two

Spring Festival: Tea and rice for the Spring Festival is a traditional food for the Spring Festival, and it is usually eaten until the end of the month. In 2008, there were mainly yellow rice steamed buns, fried cakes, yellow-covered, oil-water hole steamed buns and steamed buns.

Qingming: We made a dough-pushing flower, which was pushed by the loyal minister of Jin.

Dragon Boat Festival: Eating zongzi is also a traditional custom of northern Shaanxi people. Taro leaves are used to wrap zongzi, and the raw materials are mostly glutinous rice and jujube, mostly wrapped in triangles.

Mid-Autumn Festival: People have the habit of making moon cakes themselves. Usually, walnut kernel, sesame seed and peanut kernel are pressed into powder first, and then green red silk and rock sugar are added as stuffing.

Laba: Eat laba rice. Northern Shaanxi is rich in whole grains, red dates and peanuts, and porridge is delicious.

Third, etiquette and eating habits.

1. Marriage customs

There are some wedding customs in northern Shaanxi, such as drinking betrothal wine, giving a high mother's meal to the woman and eating children's jiaozi. The night before the wedding, the bride and groom must eat music and buckwheat. The most solemn thing is to send flowers. A flour flower weighs more than two kilograms, and the common ones are "two dragons playing with pearls", "dragon and phoenix appearing auspicious" and "lotus peanut bearing your son", which means a long life and early birth of your son. The number of appetizers and dishes eaten at the banquet should conform to the requirements of "eight bowls", "thirteen flowers", "perfection" and "watching lights during the tenth five-year plan". There are rules for placing dishes, and a slight mistake will cause trouble. Often because of improper seating arrangements and other reasons, guests simply get up, and the host will inevitably waste more time and pay for mediation.

The eight bowls of banquets in northern Shaanxi are: red meat, white meat, meatballs, elbows, crispy meat, chicken and two bowls of vegetarian dishes. In recent years, the popular nine-kui thirteen-flower is based on eight bowls with one dish and four soups, and sometimes there are eight sweet bowls, that is, eight vegetarian dishes. There is no uniform norm. Generally speaking, cities tend to be vegetarian rather than meat. At present, wedding banquets are becoming more and more exquisite.

2. Fertility and eating habits

Children eat jiaozi at the full moon. More delicate, please make it bigger (recognize relatives), you need to eat eight bowls or cakes. When the child is over 12 years old, it will be considered as passing.

3. Funeral customs

The welcome meal at the funeral was very lively. There are many kinds of sacrificial meals, all of which are served on plates. Father Li Zan said, "Come on!" People with plates twisted and danced, attracting many people to watch.