Yonghe County, Linfen City, Shanxi Province

The Eight Monsters of Yonghe

"and" culture

Children sleeping bundled up

In Yonghe rural areas, it is generally popular for children to "sleep on a rocking car". When sleeping, the child is placed on the rocking car, and then the child and the rocking car are tied together with a cloth rope to prevent the child from falling down when turning over, or waking up from sleep, the adult is not there, the child climbs up and falls to the ground.

Wowo steamed into: "Chao Wang board in all parts of China, wowo mostly tower-shaped, that is, the top pointed and the bottom of a large cone. And Yonghe is long, resembling the old dynasty period ministers to see the emperor held in the hands of the wat, folk commonly known as "Chao Wang board".

Dumpling skin doesn't need to be rolled out

In northern China, dumplings are eaten on New Year's Day. Instead of rolling out the dumpling skin with a rolling pin, Yonghe dumplings are kneaded with two hands, which is locally called "Shell Shell". The "shells" are semi-circular in shape, just like half of a soccer ball. The filling is then put in and pinched with the hands. This kind of shell is like a container, so it is easy to put more stuffing in it, and it is also easy to pinch it.

Mother-in-law was originally a grandmother

Yonghwa people call their grandmothers "mother-in-law," which is rare in China.

Window glass outside

Window glass is usually placed inside the window, such as someone from the window into the room, you have to crack the broken glass can not. However, the glass of the windows of Yonghwa is placed outside the window. If someone wants to enter through the window, he can remove the glass by pulling out the small nails that hold it in place.

A thick bun baked for a day

Yonghe rural areas, people like to eat "thick bun". This thick bun, not with a pot to steam out, but with the fire baked out of the production of this thick bun, the first white flour and good, the surface to be hard, and then kneaded, in the face of salt, sesame and other condiments, rolled into a 2-3 centimeters thick round cake, as large as a basin, as small as a bowl, and then put into a big old iron pot with a slight fire baked.

"Fried sesame flowers" grow inside the ground

Mention of "fried sesame flowers", almost everyone would think it is rolled with white flour and then fried in a frying pan, but in Yonghe "fried sesame flowers" are grown inside the ground, "fried sesame flowers" are grown inside the ground.

Da Men Lou'er slanting cover

Yonghe Jia Yi repair kiln to cover the house, very concerned about the word sit, the kiln can not be built in the right direction, generally according to the family name of the host family to determine what word in the direction of the direction of the bias, bias how much. The gatehouse also pay attention to the word sit, generally also want to bias some, such as the door towards the east, then, the gatehouse should be repaired to the southeast or northeast, so that the repair of the gatehouse are slanted. If the family's gatehouse is open in the positive direction, then, the main family must be in the yard and then repair a wall to cover. [1]