But I don't know when people in front of my office will stop buying moon cakes and eat homemade eyebrow dumplings that don't look like half a moon. At the same time, don't call it Mid-Autumn Festival any more, call it "August and a half".
Mid-Autumn Festival is a reunion festival, and moon cakes are as round as the moon. When we talk about "August and a half", we emphasize the word "half". In addition, the shape of eyebrow dumplings can not be half of the full moon, which is very particular.
Eyebrow dumplings are made of flour and noodles are vegetarian; The stuffing is also vegetarian. According to the old man, the eyebrow dumplings in front of my official have long existed. I don't know when they came into being, but it is generally believed that it was Guang Chen who had "long hair" in the Qing Dynasty ("long hair" is a name that the official's son didn't understand about the Taiping Army.
Taiping Heavenly Kingdom: 185 1 year-1864, Xianfeng and Tongzhi years of Qing Dynasty). Manjuji is the original site of Yaqian School, and the words "Jiajing Year" and "Reconstruction in Tongzhi Three Years" are written in regular script on the main beam of its main hall, which seems to have a certain internal connection in time (Tongzhi Three Years, 1864, that is, the year when the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom perished).
According to legend, "long hair" is kind to the poor, respectful to the lords (gods, buddhas and bodhisattvas) and does not burn temples. But when he arrived at my residence, he was already in flight. Seeing that everyone in front of my residence was rich, the trouble was particularly fierce.
Many people were robbed and killed, and even Manjuji was burned (I don't know whether it was "long hair" or a vicious stick (hooligans, bandits, robbers, etc.). ) take the opportunity to rob and set fire. Anyway, it certainly wasn't my senior official who burned it himself, because my senior official was in trouble himself.
After "Long Hair" retreated, it was the Mid-Autumn Festival on August 15. It used to be a happy day for the whole family to get together, enjoy the moon and eat moon cakes happily, but many people died, their homes were destroyed and food was robbed.
People can only help each other and roll the remaining flour into skins, but there are no knives and no stuffing. What shall we do? So it was suggested that some black sesame seeds scattered on the ground should be used as stuffing, and the skin should be closed and cut off with a broken half-bowl mouth, and it would become a half-moon-like jiaozi.
Jiaozi, which future generations must eat on August 15, is shaped like Yaqian Town (from Guandi Temple to Tangwang Temple via Manjuji in the north of the town center, forming an arc, like the edge of Mei jiaozi's folded skin, while the Salt Boat River in the south is like the bottom edge of Mei jiaozi.
Guandi Temple and Tangwang Temple are two corners of an eyebrow jiaozi, which is the shape of an eyebrow jiaozi. Yaqian town is full of educated people, but they are basically willing to be content with the status quo and protect themselves.
Seeing that this jiaozi is half-moon-shaped, and the wavy line along the mouth is very similar to a broken eyebrow, it is safe and secure to make an "eyebrow dumpling" for it without losing the "elegance" of its predecessors.
As a result, the name of "Mei Jiao" began to spread, and it was first accepted by people who used to go to the vicinity of Yaqian Shangzhen, and began to eat "Mei Jiao" mainly in the Mid-Autumn Festival.
Extended data:
Bao Mei jiaozi's skin is round when it is spread out, as round as the moon on the 15th, but it is incomplete to wrap jiaozi together. When making eyebrow dumplings, I should remember the past (a historical event) before my official visit. I am a vegetarian (only black sesame mixed with brown sugar and red bean paste mixed with brown sugar are two vegetarian fillings), and I hope that every family can get together (no disaster).
There are similarities between the appearance of Ya 'an Qianmei Dumpling and the legend of Ya 'an Qianmei Dumpling, both of which are products of the late Ming and early Qing Dynasties, as if to commemorate an important event.
But up to now, the real meaning of this period is little known. What to cook on a holiday has a more fashionable new idea. From its original intention, it seems to be almost a mere formality, so its real influence is getting smaller and smaller.