The 2017 Spring Festival is just around the corner, and there is a festive atmosphere everywhere. Everywhere has its own New Year's Eve dinner customs, so do you know what the eight bowls of the Northern New Year's Eve dinner refers to? If you don't know, take a look!

? Eight bowls? The origin

? Do not laugh at the peasant family wax wine muddy, a good year to keep guests enough chicken and dolphin? More than nine hundred years ago, Lu You in the "tour of Shanxi Village" described, is the Southern Song Dynasty farmhouse Spring Festival food portrayal. It can be seen that the New Year's Eve dinner by the pig, chicken and other meat and poultry food to sing the main role, how long the history.

Pork strips, cassoulet chicken pieces, over-oiled meat, paste elbow, steak mutton, braised fish, cassoulet meatballs, eight treasures rice? These folk dishes, once had a loud name: eight bowls.

Mention of the eight bowls, now the city after eighty, after ninety years, most of them have no way to know. And for middle-aged and even older Datong people, the eight bowl has gradually become a patchy memory in the mind.

In the old days, the restaurant, unlike now with a round table, but to pay attention to the use of the eight immortal table, each table sat on eight people, on eight cold eight meat 16 dishes.

The so-called eight bowls, refers to a folklore flavor of the feast, its composition, such as steak meat strips, cassoulet balls, cassoulet chicken, paste elbow, soy sauce bones, meat, braised fish, eight treasures of rice, etc., in short, is a combination of eight dishes, by eight large sea bowl, so called? Eight big bowls?

On the origins of the eight bowls say a lot, some say it is the Three Kingdoms general Zhao Yun created, some say it is the Northern Song writer Su Dongpo invented, but there is no historical evidence. There are many versions of the eight bowls in different parts of the country, and the more famous ones are the eight bowls in Zhengding, the eight bowls in Qingzhen, the eight bowls in Beijing, and the eight bowls in Lanzhou, and so on.

Boss with the eight bowls, trace the roots, the earliest prevalent in the mid-Qing Dynasty. During the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty, the political and human harmony, the prosperity of all industries, the food market has never been more prosperous, which to? The Manchu-Han banquet?

The best of the best in the food industry. Manhan feast is divided into the upper eight treasures, eight treasures and the lower eight treasures, eight bowls because of its crude ingredients, so it is listed as? The next eight treasures? , folk called? Eight big bowls?

In the old days, the eight bowls of the method of coarse and fine points. Beijing eight bowls, for example: fine eight bowls refers to: simmered sliced fish, braised shrimp, the whole family, osmanthus fish bones, braised slippery fish, Sichuan shredded pork, Sichuan meatballs, pine meat, etc.; coarse eight bowls: fried green shrimp, braised chicken, all stewed egg custard crab meatballs, sea cucumber meatballs, Yuanbao meat, chicken in clear broth, dismantled braised chicken, homemade burnt carp, etc..

Eight bowls at that time concentrated on steak, stew, sauce, burn, stew, stir-fry, steam, simmer and all the cooking techniques. In the Qing Dynasty, Datong and the capital of the frequent trade exchanges, Beijing eight bowls gradually spread in Datong neighborhoods, become the main form of feasts at weddings, funerals and marriages. However, the eight bowls of Datong were not copied from the recipes of the eight bowls of Beijing. As Datong at that time and outside the mouth (now Inner Mongolia) trade exchanges more, absorbing the northwest region? Halal eight bowls? Some of the dishes, such as steak lamb, steak beef, coupled with the fusion of local specialties, so the formation of a unique flavor? The eight bowls of Datong have a unique flavor.

The New Year's Eve dinner complex of the eight bowls

Although the eight bowls are getting farther and farther away from our modern life, more and more fuzzy. But every Spring Festival, Datong people are always difficult to give up that love affair with the eight big bowls.

Into the waxing small year, the home of the father and mother always have to set up pots and stoves, cooking some of the grilled meat strips, stewed chicken, fried meatballs and what not; not good at cooking young people, it is necessary to sneak up to the supermarket more or less to buy some of the eight pieces of semi-finished products. Because leave these dishes, for Datong people, any mountain and sea food New Year's Eve dinner, it is difficult to find the ancient city of the continuation of the unique flavor of the centuries-old history.

? Eight Big Bowls? Menu

Boss with eight bowls, which eight dishes? There has been a lot of debate in the restaurant industry, there are multiple versions.

According to the introduction, Datong? Eight bowls? The . Recipes, according to the different years and changes. But all the changes do not change, cooking techniques are basically boiled, fried, grilled, steamed, in accordance with strict procedures and processes. Its skills are mainly in the selection of materials, knife skills, mastery of the fire and the choice of ingredients on the effort. For example, steak meat strips, later on the cage drawer steam, it will take more than two or three hours. The resulting dishes are well-made, well-chosen materials, affordable, fat and not greasy, suitable for both young and old, and has the color, aroma, taste, and type of good both Gu Gu with the characteristics of the northern cuisine, meat and vegetables with nutritious, eating method.

? Eight big bowls? In the life of the oldest with the food is indispensable. Birthdays, weddings, funerals, children's full moon and other days are indispensable to it. Because of the old days of Datong, unlike now there are so many hotels and restaurants, the civilian population and most of the poor, encountered red and white celebrations are at home, the village set up a shed to entertain friends and relatives. Nowadays, this way still exists in the rural areas of some counties in our city. Inherited to the 1980s, Datong eight big bowl menu, basically have steak meat strips, cassoulet chicken block, cassoulet balls, over oil meat, paste elbow, steak mutton, braised fish, eight treasures rice and other eight categories.

After the 1990s, with the Cantonese cuisine, Lu cuisine, Sichuan cuisine, Zhejiang cuisine, Fujian cuisine, Jiangsu cuisine, Hunan cuisine, Huaiyang cuisine and other eight major cuisines in Datong, the northern culinary kingdom of the convergence of the traditional eight bowls gradually disappeared in the vast sea of all kinds of dishes. More importantly, with the prevalence of modern healthy eating concepts, more and more people are no longer salivating over the succulent and fatty? The first time I saw this is when I was in the middle of the night, and I was in the middle of the night.