Get a dinner and see me off.
It is a custom in the north to "see jiaozi off at a dinner party". Family and friends come to eat noodles, which is called "long reception". Relatives and friends are going out of town, and the last meal to see them off is jiaozi, which is called "short delivery". One is long, and the other is short, which indicates the expectation of reunion and the hope that those who have gone out will come back soon.
It is more troublesome to pack jiaozi. Cutting meat, buying vegetables, chopping stuffing and rolling skin, and then wrapping them one by one, requires sufficient time, and the predictability of travel in advance makes it easy and easy to do all this.
Seeing me off to eat in jiaozi is also auspicious. Jiaozi has a stuffing, saying that he ate a "belly bag". When he is away from home, he has to deal with many emergencies. Having a belly bag means he has a heart and wisdom. Not only that, jiaozi also has the meaning of "complete", which implies the earnest expectation and good wishes of relatives, so it is of far-reaching significance to see jiaozi off.
The return of people who go out often seems a little sudden. There are too many uncertain factors. The train is late, the car breaks down, the trip is delayed, or a temporary decision by the individual or an urgent telegram from the company may be the reasons for setting foot on the way home. This is especially true in the era when communication and transportation are not very developed. People who travel suddenly return home, even in the middle of the night. Apart from surprise, they also give this housewife a problem. Without preparation in advance, she can't even find a decent dish at home, so noodles have become the best choice.
The horses and chariots are tired and dusty, and the men are hungry and thirsty. A big bowl of noodles with soup and water is undoubtedly the best taste. Noodles are also convenient and quick to cook. When a man washes his face, drinks a cup of tea and smokes a cigarette, a woman will serve noodles. It's really a pleasure to have a taste of home-cooked meals after eating the canteen of a small restaurant that has been tasteless for many days.
Housewives usually ask men for advice before rolling noodles. If a man says that he is short of oil and water in his stomach, he will make a bowl of noodles. Although he didn't buy pork, the eggs are ready-made. Quickly soak a handful of auricularia auricula in hot water, then pinch a few garlic seedlings as green heads, heat the wok with hot oil, and add a few drops of soy sauce to Zilala. Add salt to the auricularia auricula, stir-fry it slightly, continue to boil with water, break up the eggs and mix well, then pour them into the soup in circles, which is slightly sauce-colored.
If a man says that his stomach is getting angry recently and he wants to eat more vegetables, he should make lazy pot noodles, also called mixed noodle soup-that is, vegetables and noodles are mixed and cooked together. Generally, mixed noodle soup should be mixed with some coarse grains. Pure white noodles are not cooked, and the soup is easy to muddy. Adding a little coarse grains is different. Noodles mixed with bean noodles are slightly green when rolled out, and noodles mixed with red noodles are slightly red when rolled out, and the taste is completely different. Eating bean noodles and red noodles allows men to "play". Stir-fry onion and ginger, add vegetables, add water to boil, and add noodles, which is very convenient-so it is called "lazy pot noodles".
Eating lazy pot noodles must have small pickles, and whatever noodles you eat is very particular. For example, eating red noodles is best with spicy pickles. Old Weifang even has such a nursery rhyme: "Red noodle soup is a lesbian, and spicy pickles are Budada".
If men don't make specific requirements, then housewives are most likely to make chicken yellow noodles. The bread is rolled as thin as paper, the noodles are cut as thin as silk, and the soup is clear and the noodles are golden, like a wisp of yarn that Xi Shi Huan; Sprinkle a handful of shallots in the pan, pour a few drops of sesame oil, and put it in a bowl. The soup is clear and fragrant, and it tastes elastic and chewy. Sometimes there is a surprise hidden under the last bowl-two fat poached eggs lying in it, like a wife's implicit expression.
After eating noodles, men are all satisfied, relax, lie down and rest, and sincerely admire: what a nice home and a nice wife!
"Seeing jiaozi off at a dinner party" is an old saying in Shandong, and it is also an old food custom, and it is in line with the common sense of life, because a person planning to go out or a guest preparing to say goodbye is generally predictable; If you can predict, you can make preparations early, regardless of the details, including a farewell meal.
The reason why I want to eat jiaozi off.
First, jiaozi homophonic "godson"
Before the children go out, the father exhorts them, and the mother exhorts them to go out, do a good job, return home safely and smoothly.
Second, jiaozi is shaped like an ingot, which is conducive to going out for money.
The appearance of jiaozi is somewhat similar to the ancient gold and silver ingots. Eating jiaozi before going out means that children can get wealth as easily and happily as eating jiaozi, and return home with a full load.
Third, the meaning of jiaozi is rich.
Dumplings are round in skin, and after the stuffing is wrapped, the stuffing is spherical. The skin and stuffing are equivalent to the word "Hui", which looks like the word "Hui". Before leaving, the family ate jiaozi, which is a blessing to the travelers. I hope to return safely and smoothly as soon as possible.
Fourth, jiaozi is rich in nutrition.
Dumpling skin is made of flour, and dumpling stuffing can be made of various ingredients such as meat, vegetables, seafood, eggs, etc., and a variety of seasonings such as vegetable oil are used, which are rich in content, nutritious and very resistant to hunger. Eating jiaozi before leaving is equivalent to taking my mother's taste on the road, and my appetite and spirit are full.
5. The process of contracting jiaozi is itself the cohesion of family ties.
The process of wrapping jiaozi is complicated, and it involves mixing dough, rolling dumpling wrappers, chopping dumpling stuffing, wrapping jiaozi with dumpling stuffing, so it is usually done by the family together. Before leaving, the family sat together to wrap jiaozi, talk about homeliness and have a warm atmosphere; The sweetness of eating jiaozi is a kind of love in itself, which embodies family ties.
Reception wine custom
The banquet wine is generally referred to as "banquet". The explanation of "invitation to dinner" in Ci Hai is "hosting a banquet to entertain guests from afar", and the explanation of Ci Yuan is "hosting a banquet to entertain guests from relatives and friends from afar". In contrast, the explanation of Ci Yuan is more comprehensive. Broadly speaking, the object of "getting a dinner" must be a "distant" person-this "distant" person can be a relative or a family member. It can be a first-time acquaintance or a close acquaintance. Can be a stranger, can also be far away. For example, in the fourth episode of A Dream of Red Mansions, Aunt Xue took Xue Pan, Baochai and others to the Rongguo Mansion, which "met all the furniture together and got a banquet". This "pick up" is a distant relative. In the sixty-ninth chapter of the same book, Jia Lian went to Ping 'an for two months and returned home. Xifeng "ordered a banquet". This "pick up" is the husband who has gone far away. In the fiftieth time of Water Margin, Song Jiang led a team to beat the village of Zhujiazhuang and returned to the mountain victorious. "The leader of the stockade, Classical, and others beat drums and played flutes, and went down the mountain to meet them, giving them a banquet." This "pick up" is the rebel hero who returned from the war. Back to the fifty-fourth book, Dai Zhong, likui jy, Gongsun Sheng and Tang Long came to Song Jiangjun, who was attacking Gaotangzhou, and "Song Jiang and Wu Yong went out to meet him. Give each other a gift and set up a banquet. " This "pick up" is the old brother (Gongsun Sheng) who returned after a long separation and the new brother (Tang Long) who just joined the army.
"Get a dinner party" was first seen in Yuan Qu, such as "Arrange wine and food, get a dinner party with the children" in the first discount of Shizizhang's "Listening to the Qin in the Bamboo Dock". Synonymous with "Jiefeng", there are also two words: "dust washing" and "mud washing". "Dust washing" and "mud washing" appeared a little earlier than "Jiefeng". For example, Su Shi's poem "Farewell to Qian Mufu and beg for a second rhyme of wine" has the sentence "When you open the guest house in Wendong House, you will beg for the West Lake to wash the dust", and the collection of "The Legacy of the Song Dynasty Xuanhe" has "I haven't seen each other for many years, and I haven't been there for a few days; Today, a few cups of light wine are served, and washing mud is the same. It can be seen that the two languages have existed in the Song Dynasty.
The so-called "dust washing" or "mud washing" means washing away the dust and mud from the journey and relieving the fatigue of trekking. In Ming and Qing works, these two words are often seen side by side with "Jiefeng". For example, the book A Dream of Red Mansions sometimes uses "welcome" and sometimes uses "welcome". Take Xi-feng's greeting Jia Lian's return as an example: the sixty-ninth time before was "welcome", while the sixteenth time was "welcome"-Xi-feng smiled and said, "My uncle is overjoyed! My great-uncle's journey has been arduous. I heard yesterday's first newspaper, Malay, saying that he had returned to the government today and prepared a glass of wine to welcome him. I wonder if he could give me the light? Another example is "Water Margin", which sometimes uses "welcome" and sometimes uses "welcome" or "mud". See the front with the example of "got a dinner". Here, I only use the example of "welcome" or "wash mud"-33 Tong, Song Jiang came to Hua Rong Station in Qingfeng Town, and after meeting each other, Hua Rong "asked Song Jiang to change his clothes, shoes and socks, bathe in fragrant soup, and arrange a banquet to welcome the dust in the kitchens". Twenty-sixth time, after Wu Song came back from a business trip, in order to find out the cause of Wu Da's death, he specially invited his neighbors to have a drink. The neighbors said, "Little people have never had a dinner with Du Tou, but now they are disturbing." In this latter case, the combination of "mud washing" and "welcome" is even more eye-catching.