There are many ways to make noodles, such as frying, making noodle soup, fishing noodles and so on. Stir-fried noodles, it should be medium-cooked. Not long ago, in Jianye restaurant, my friends and I tasted a new type of fried noodles-dry fried noodles. On that day, master Weng Honghui, a senior chef, cooked the same Chaozhou food himself, which was an eye-opener and feast his eyes. The main ingredient is spaghetti, which is hand-made and added with ingredients such as eggs and milk. Noodles are orange-red, elastic, slender and even. The method is: cook the noodles in boiling water, then rinse them with cold boiling water to make them cool, drain the water, then fry them in an oil pan, and finally fry them with slow fire. After serving, the noodles are covered with leeks, served with aged vinegar and powdered sugar. The orange-red noodles and the green leeks are very attractive. There are aged vinegar and powdered sugar to enhance the taste. It is crispy outside and tender inside when chewed, and it is full of fragrance.
The annual winter solstice is called the Winter Festival, which is a traditional festival in China since the Jin Dynasty. The ancients believed that "the solstice in winter is the sun, and everything wakes up." Although it is still in the cold season, people have already smelled the breath of spring.
As early as 2500 years ago, during the Spring and Autumn Period, China observed the sun with soil gauge and determined the winter solstice, which was the earliest of the 24 solar terms in the China lunar calendar. The time is between 65438+February 2 1 or 23 in the Gregorian calendar every year. The winter solstice this year is February 22nd 14: 03.
There is a folk proverb in Chaoshan that "the solstice in winter does not leave November", which refers to the lunar calendar. Gregorian calendar dates are very accurate. The winter solstice is the year with the shortest day and the longest night in the northern hemisphere. After the winter solstice, the days will get longer and the sun will rise, which is the beginning of a solar cycle. In ancient China, the winter solstice was considered as a grand festival. During the Yin and Zhou Dynasties, it was stipulated that the day before the winter solstice was the end of the year. The winter solstice festival is essentially equivalent to today's Spring Festival. There is a saying that the winter solstice is as big as a year, and there is a custom to celebrate it. "Han Shu" said: "The sun shines on the winter solstice, and you are long, so congratulations." The winter solstice has existed since this festival, which shows that the ancients attached great importance to the winter solstice. People think that the winter solstice is a natural transformation of Yin and Yang and a blessing from heaven. During the Han Dynasty, the government held a congratulatory ceremony called "Dong He", which was a routine festival. In the Tang and Song Dynasties, the solstice in winter was the day of offering sacrifices to heaven and ancestors. On this day, the emperor will hold a worship ceremony in the suburbs, and the people will also worship their parents on this day.
As a festival, the northern region has the custom of slaughtering sheep and eating jiaozi and wonton from winter solstice, while the southern region has the custom of eating glutinous rice balls and long noodles on this day. People in Fujian and Taiwan believe that the solstice in winter is a festival for family reunion, because it is a day to worship ancestors. If you don't go home, you will disown your ancestors. Chaoshan custom is a part of Chaoshan culture. In the long-term life and social practice, people inherit good customs and abandon bad ones. According to the Chaoshan custom, the annual grave sweeping is generally in Qingming and the solstice of winter, which is called "spring paper" and "winter paper". Sweeping graves on the solstice of winter is to commemorate the hard work of ancestors, and "eating sweet pills" is a custom, which indicates another bumper harvest in the coming year, which is natural.
After thousands of years of development, a unique seasonal diet culture has been formed from winter solstice to Sunday. In many places in the north, people are used to eating dog meat and mutton on the winter solstice, because after the winter solstice, the weather enters the coldest period. Chinese medicine believes that mutton and dog meat have aphrodisiac and tonic effects, and the folk have the custom of tonic from winter to Sunday. The traditional custom of eating glutinous rice balls prevails in Jiangnan. "Tangyuan" is an essential food from winter solstice, and it is a round dessert made of glutinous rice flour. "Round" means "reunion" and "perfection". Eating glutinous rice balls on the winter solstice is also called "the winter solstice group". The winter solstice group can be used to worship ancestors or give gifts to relatives and friends. There is a folk saying that "eating glutinous rice balls is one year older", commonly known as "adding years".
Especially in Chaoshan rural areas. The winter festival can be regarded as a "big festival", because the autumn harvest has just passed, and there is no need to worry about rice and rice. The fish in the pond are fat, the chickens and ducks are strong, and the items for the festival are very rich. The winter vacation is only a few days away from the Chinese New Year. When the winter festival comes, it means that the year is coming to an end, so it is called "Winter Festival is a small Chinese New Year".