A, daily food customs
In the old days, the people of northern Shaanxi Province, living in poverty, often chaff half a year grain, the so-called "borrowed to eat, playing back, with the threshing floor for a year". The masses also circulated this song: "the first month of the red-hot, pinch in February, pinch stranded, in March, vegetables wipe together, in April, peas corner corner, in May, white steamed buns." After liberation, the people of northern Shaanxi Province, life has improved. Since the implementation of the policy of reform and opening up, farmers have greatly improved their lives. Local home-cooked meals are less than twenty or thirty kinds. Northern Shaanxi white flour is not much to eat when the system pulling the noodles and pulling the noodles, steamed white flour buns on New Year's Day. More is mixed with bean flour, corn flour to eat.
Money money rice (bean money money): black beans or soybeans rolled into a small piece like a coin, and then into the pot with millet into a thin porridge. Black beans are highly nutritious and match with millet, which can be said to be a more ideal nutritious food.
Houtou (buckwheat wampum): There is a lot of wheat in northern Shaanxi, and buckwheat can be made into rolls, pancakes, chopped noodles, chipped noodles, houtou, cold noodles, and bowls.
Buckwheat noodles: the local people are used to treat guests in the red and white ceremonies.
Sip tip: white flour mixed with cornmeal. Will and good noodles on a special tool sip bed rubbing push, small noodle paragraphs in the pot to cook, fish out with seasoning to eat.
Dumplings: Farmers' dumplings are almost exclusively filled with lamb and carrots.
Cooked rice and fried noodles: a local convenience food. As the saying goes, "There are three treasures in northern Shaanxi, cooked rice and fried noodles and old sheepskin coats." New surimi down, people like to soft surimi noodles fried into fried noodles, or surimi fried mature rice, rinse with boiling water can be eaten. Now it is to taste the new, in fact, is the ancient nomadic living habits left behind.
Yam (potatoes, potatoes): northern Shaanxi people can not live without taro, weekday cooking, taro chips, taro silk, taro rub, taro not pull and "cannon taro", are delicious. When life is difficult, and can be used as a staple food.
The people of northern Shaanxi like to eat vegetables, winter, families have to pickle a few big tank cabbage, radish, trailing green. They like to boil pork with pickled cabbage. If it is a combined rice (a variety of ingredients mixed), most of the taro chips, steamed buns with pumpkin, sweet potato (sweet potato). Weekday meals, next to a vegetable pot, eat steamed buns, dishes are self-scooped self-eating. Also like to eat mutton, mutton eating method with Mongolia, Vi and other brotherly ethnic groups, similar to the hand-held mutton.
There are a lot of famous food in northern Shaanxi, such as the extension of the catty pear, jujube, Yan'an rice wine and oil cake, Yanchuan's yellow pear, Wuqi's rice vinegar, Ganquan's water wine, Chidan County's mutton, peach, Yichuan's millet, yellow carp, Luochuan's apples, Huanglong's chestnuts, walnuts, Shenmu's red beans, Yulin's fragrant which, mutton, fugu's dried fruits, red, Hengshan's goat meat, Suide's spinning cake, Dingbian's salted salt, Miliu's bread, the dishes from their own scoop. Dingbian's salt, Miri's peanuts, Jiaxian's big red dates, etc., it can be said that the county have treasure.
There are many snacks with local specialties, such as stuffing, haggis, date cake, fire, oil cake and so on.
Two, year-old food customs
Spring Festival: New Year's tea is the traditional food for the New Year's Eve, generally eat to the end of the month. New Year's tea mainly yellow rice buns, fried cake, spread yellow, oil grottoes even and flowers, such as small buns.
Ching Ming: making Zi Tui noodles and flowers in honor of Jie Zi Tui, a loyal minister of Jin.
Duanwu: eating zongzi, is also a traditional custom of the northern Shaanxi people. Packing dumplings with taro leaves, raw materials are mostly glutinous rice and jujube, more packaged into a triangle.
Mid-Autumn Festival: the masses have the habit of making their own moon cakes. Usually walnuts, sesame seeds, peanut kernels are first pressed together into powder, plus green and red silk, rock sugar as filling.
La Bao: eat La Bao rice. The northern Shaanxi Province is rich in grains and cereals and jujubes, peanuts, porridge flavorful and delicious.
Three, etiquette and food customs
1. Marriage food customs
North Shaanxi have to drink betrothal wine, to the woman to send the mother of rice, eat children dumplings and other marriage food customs. The night before the wedding, the bride and groom must eat buckwheat noodles. The most solemn to be counted to send flowers. A flower has two kilograms of heavy, common "two dragons playing pearls", "dragon and phoenix", "lotus birth" and so on, to take its long life, the early birth of a child and other auspicious meanings. Wine banquet in the dishes and eat with the number of dishes, to comply with the "eight bowls", "thirteen flowers", "ten full", "fifteen lanterns The number of dishes for dinner should be in accordance with the rules of "eight bowls", "thirteen flowers", "ten full", "fifteen lanterns". Plates and bowls are also placed in accordance with the rules, the slightest error will lead to trouble. Often because of improper seating arrangements and other reasons, the guests so that the seat, the host will inevitably have to spend more words, compensation for mediation.
Shaanxi feast of eight bowls are: red meat, white meat, meatballs, elbows, crispy meat, chicken and two bowls of vegetables. In recent years, the popularity of the nine Kui thirteen flowers, is based on the eight bowls plus a dish four soup, and sometimes there are sweet eight bowls of eight-flavored vegetarian dishes, and there is no uniform specification. Generally speaking, the city tends to be more vegetarian than meat. Right now, the wedding banquet is more and more elaborate.
2. Fertility food customs
Children full moon, eat branded wontons (dumplings). The more delicate, to please dry big (recognize dry relatives), which should eat eight bowls or eat cake. To be the child through 12 years old is considered to pass.
3. Funeral Food Customs
The welcome meal at a funeral is very lively. There are many different types of rice, and they are all served on a plate. The priest who is the head of the ceremony says, "Yulai!" The person who carries the plate dances and twirls, attracting many people to watch.