Top Ten Weird Folk Customs and Habits in Shaanxi
Noodles are like belts, pot helmets are like pots, chili is a dish, steamed buns are sold in large bowls, bowls and basins are difficult to separate, papa are worn on their heads, half of the house is covered, girls do not go outside, sit down, squat, sing and roar. The top ten monsters in Shaanxi are actually a unique life. As the saying goes,"Different customs are different in a hundred miles, and different customs are different in ten miles." In this loess land in Shaanxi, due to the influence of climate, economy, culture and other reasons, Shaanxi people from Guanzhong have formed some unique ways in terms of clothing, food, housing, transportation, and transportation. Outsiders are very curious about this, and after collecting them, they call them the "Top Ten Monsters in Shaanxi" or the "Top Ten Monsters in Guanzhong").
1. Noodles are like belts
"The tear is as wide as a trouser belt." Tui noodles are also called biang-biang. There is no such word in the modern Chinese dictionary.) Tui noodles made by authentic Guanzhong people are still different from those usually eaten by city people. Authentic noodle noodles. A noodle can be up to two or three inches wide and about 1 meter long. When thick, it is similar to a coin, but when thin, it is like a cicada's wing. One piece of noodle is enough for a meal, but for Guanzhong people who eat a lot, eating 8 taels or 1 kilogram per meal is also easy.
When people in Guanzhong eat noodles, they like to knead the noodles hard and soft, roll them thick and cut them wide. After this kind of noodles is cooked, it is fished in a bowl. Whether it is poured with minced meat or sprinkled with oil and spicy rice, it tastes smooth, soft, hot and chewy. Delicious and hungry. People stretched and shrank their necks, and swallowed them. When they were full of food and belched, they suddenly had their strength. They pulled carts and carried rocks up the mountain. They didn't feel hungry for five or six hours without eating or drinking.
2. The pot helmet is like the lid of the pot
It is said that during the construction of Qianling in the Tang Dynasty, due to the excessive number of soldiers and craftsmen serving, the construction progress was often delayed in order to eat meals and they were punished. So, in his anxiety, a soldier put the dough into his helmet, put the helmet in the fire to bake it, and bake it into cakes. Now, Guokui has a history of thousands of years in Shaanxi. To make a pot helmet, the dough must be mixed very hard, so hard that you can't knead it with your hands. You must use a wooden pole to press and knead it, and then place it in a large pot with a diameter of more than 2 feet and slowly bake it. In this way, the baked pot helmet is fragrant and delicious, and it will not change its flavor even if it is left for ten days or eight days. The pot helmet is better than the "Qianzhou and now Qian County" pot helmet.
3. Chili is a dish. As for chili, most people think that people from Hunan and Sichuan can eat peppers. In fact, Sichuan people only regard chili as a seasoning, but in Shaanxi,"Youpo chili" is a serious dish. Even every household in Xi'an has strings of gratifying red peppers hanging in front of them. "Oil poured spicy rice" looks red, smells fragrant, and tastes spicy. It can be used not only to mix noodles, but also to eat steamed buns.
4. Selling steamed buns in large bowls
"Beef and mutton steamed buns are sold in a big bowl" can be said to be the first bowl in Shaanxi and the first bowl in Xi'an. It seems like a wasted trip to Xi'an without eating beef, mutton and steamed buns. Guanzhong people pay attention to affordable food. The meat is large pieces of meat, the buns are hard die-faced toto buns, and the bowls are big bowls that can hold 6 taels and 8 taels. The mutton steamed buns that have just been served are very hot and steaming. When eating, use chopsticks to push them from around the bowl to your mouth, and eat while pushing them.
The methods of soaking mutton are mainly divided into boiling meat, steaming buns, making soup, breaking buns and boiling buns. The meat should be cooked crispy and rotten. The steamed buns should be cooked hard and yellow, and they should not melt when exposed to water and not be rotten after being boiled. The soup is made from beef and mutton bone marrow. Break the steamed buns as finely and evenly as possible, then add the steamed buns, meat, vermicelli, onions, salt, monosodium glutamate and other seasonings, and cook them vigorously in a frying ladle.
Due to the different cooking methods, mutton steamed buns are boiled buns and stir-fried buns. The amount of soup you add is different. It is divided into dry soup and less soup and more soup with water), and you eat it according to your own measure. This kind of steamed buns is dry and soup, hot and fragrant, and is very appetizing. Therefore, the Paomo Restaurant chose a large porcelain bowl produced in Yao County, Yaozhou to hold the paomo buns.
5. It is difficult to separate bowls and basins
Shaanxi native Lao Shan) likes to eat with a nearly 1-foot white porcelain blue and white bowl produced in Yaozhou, which locals call "Lao Bowl". This old bowl is even bigger than the small basin, so it is often difficult to distinguish the bowl and basin. In the rural areas of Guanzhong, every time when eating, at the head of the village, in front of the village, and under the tree, men would hold a big bowl of soup rice and two steamed buns worth six to seven taels. They would squat together and eat with gusto. Speaking, this is the famous "Lao Bowl Party". In rural areas, people have high labor intensity, work more, and eat more, so it is enough to use the old bowl to serve it when they go out. They don't have to go home to serve it, saving a lot of trouble.
6. Wearing Papa on the head In the past, in "Westerns" that reflect the lives of people in Shaanxi, old men and elderly women wearing sheep's belly towels and double-folded jackets were often seen wearing a black or white Papa handkerchief on their heads. If you are lucky enough to be in the countryside of Guanzhong, the shape here is exactly the same as what you see in the movie. It turns out that Shaanxi is rich in cotton, and local people are accustomed to wearing handkerchiefs made of cotton on their heads. It can not only prevent dust, rain and sun, but also wipe juice, wipe hands and wrap things. It is really economical, affordable and convenient.
7. Half of the house is built. Whether in Xi'an or rural Shaanxi, houses built on one side can be seen everywhere. What is a side cover? The roofs of ordinary houses are herringbone shaped, but houses in Shaanxi are herringbone shaped. It is said that because Shaanxi is dry early and has little rain, the houses built on this side can allow all the precious rainwater to flow into their own fields. As the saying goes,"fertile water does not flow into outsiders 'fields." In addition, due to the slow development of agriculture in Shaanxi in the past century, its population has increased rapidly. Families that used to live in small communities in rural areas have limited land area, large population, and tight housing, thus forming a history of "building half" houses.
8. Girls are not external
It is said that the land in Guanzhong area is fertile, so few people travel to other places to survive. Therefore, there is a proverb that "you never leave Tongguan when you are old, and you never go to Sichuan when you are young." Over time, not only do men stop traveling far away, but even girls stop marrying far away.
9. Don't sit and squat. Because the men in Guanzhong have to squat for three meals a day and hold an "Lao Bowl Party" together, they squat for more than an hour. In addition, people like to squat in the lee and sun in winter in places to "get warm" or "lose the square" and play chess. As a result, Guanzhong people developed the habit of "squatting". Outsiders say this is "squatting without sitting on the bench." It is actually a habit for people to rest after being tired.
10. Sing opera and sing opera, referring to Qin Opera. It is characterized by high excitement and strong haste. Especially for the performance of Hualian, he shouted loudly, which locals call it "breaking the head". Outsiders joked: "When singing Qin Opera, first, the stage should be strong to avoid being shaken; second, the actors should be in good health so as not to get tired; third, the audience should be bold to avoid being scared." The person who roared, blushed and had a thick neck, roared to the point where he was "possessed."