Please eat and then send me.
It is a custom in the north to send jiaozi to dinner. Friends and relatives come to eat noodles, which is called "long reception". Relatives and friends are going out of town, and the last farewell meal is jiaozi, which is called "short delivery". One is long, and the other is short, indicating the expectation of reunion, hoping that those who go out will come back as soon as possible.
It's more troublesome to package jiaozi. It takes enough time to cut meat, buy vegetables, chop stuffing and roll skin, and then wrap them one by one, and the predictability of traveling in advance makes it easy.
It is also auspicious to send me to eat in jiaozi. Jiaozi has stuffing, saying that he ate a "belly bag". When he is not at home, he has to deal with many emergencies. Having a belly bag shows that he has a heart and wisdom. Not only that, jiaozi also means "complete", which implies the ardent expectations and good wishes of relatives, so it is of far-reaching significance to send jiaozi.
People who go out often come back a little suddenly. There are too many uncertainties. The train is late, the car breaks down, the trip is delayed, or a personal temporary decision, or an urgent telegram from the company may be the reasons for setting foot on the way home. This is especially true in an era when communication and transportation are not very developed. Travelers suddenly go home, even in the middle of the night. Besides being surprised, they also gave the housewife a difficult problem. Without preparation in advance, she couldn't even find a decent dish at home, so noodles became the best choice.
The horses and chariots were tired and dusty, and the soldiers were hungry and thirsty. A large bowl of soup on the water surface is undoubtedly the best taste. Noodles are also convenient and quick to cook. After a man washes his face, drinks a cup of tea and smokes a cigarette, a woman will bring noodles. It's really a pleasure to have a taste of home-cooked food after eating the tasteless canteen in a small restaurant.
Housewives usually ask for men's advice before rolling. If a man says that his stomach is short of oil and water, he will make a bowl of noodles. Although he didn't buy pork, the eggs were ready-made. Quickly soak a handful of black fungus in hot water, then pinch a few garlic sprouts as green heads, heat the wok with hot oil, and add a few drops of soy sauce to Zilala. Add salt to auricularia auricula, stir-fry slightly, continue to add water to boil, break the eggs and mix well, and then circle them into the soup, 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. General noodle soup should be mixed with some coarse grains. Pure white noodles are not ripe, and the soup is easy to muddy. Adding a little coarse grains is different. Noodles with bean flour are slightly green when rolled out, and noodles with red flour are slightly red when rolled out, and the taste is completely different. Eating bean noodles and red noodles makes men "play". Stir-fried onion and ginger, add vegetables, add water to boil and add noodles, which is very convenient-so it is called "lazy pot noodles".
There must be small pickles when eating lazy pot noodles, and you are very particular about what noodles you eat. For example, eat red noodles, preferably with spicy pickles. There is even a nursery rhyme in old Weifang: "Red noodle soup is a lesbian, and spicy pickles are a bud."
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, the soup is clear, and the noodles are golden, like a wisp of yarn from Xi Shi Huan; Sprinkle a handful of shallots in the pot, pour a few drops of sesame oil and put it in a bowl. The soup is fragrant, elastic and chewy. Sometimes there is a surprise hidden under the last bowl-two fat poached eggs lying inside, like a wife's implicit expression.
After eating noodles, men are satisfied, relax, lie down and rest, and sincerely admire: what a good home and what a good wife!
"Treat a guest to dinner and send jiaozi" is an old saying in Shandong, and it is also an ancient eating custom, and it is in line with common sense of life, because a person who plans to go out or a guest who is ready to say goodbye is generally predictable; If you can predict, you can make preparations early, regardless of details, including farewell meals.
The reason why I want to eat jiaozi.
First, the symphony homophonic "Godson"
Before the children go out, the father told them, and the mother told them to go out, do a good job and return to China 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 that of ancient gold ingots 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, jiaozi has rich implications.
Jiaozi's skin is round, and after the stuffing is wrapped, the stuffing is spherical. Skin and stuffing are equivalent to the word "Hui" and look like it. Before leaving, the family eats jiaozi, which is a blessing to 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 meat, vegetables, seafood, eggs and other ingredients. And the use of vegetable oil and other spices, rich in content, rich in nutrition, very hungry. Eating jiaozi before leaving is equivalent to going on the road with mother's taste, with full appetite and spirit.
5. The process of including jiaozi is the cohesion of family ties.
The process of wrapping jiaozi is very complicated, including kneading dough, rolling dumpling wrappers, chopping dumpling stuffing and wrapping jiaozi with dumpling stuffing, so it is usually done by the whole family. Before leaving, the family sat together to pack jiaozi, chatting about their family, and the atmosphere was warm; Eating jiaozi's sweetness is a kind of love in itself, which embodies family affection.
Reception custom
Banquet wine is generally called "banquet". The definition of "inviting to dinner" in Ci Hai is "hosting a banquet for distant guests" and the definition of "Ci Yuan" is "hosting a banquet for distant relatives and friends". In contrast, the explanation of Ci Yuan is more comprehensive. Broadly speaking, the object of "dinner appointment" must be a "distant" person-this "distant" person can be a relative or a family member. It can be a first acquaintance or a close acquaintance. It can be a stranger or a distance. For example, in the fourth episode of A Dream of Red Mansions, Aunt Xue took Xue Pan, Baochai and others to Guo Rongfu to "meet all the furniture together and hold a banquet". This "pick up" is a distant relative. Back to the sixty-ninth book, Jia Lian went to peace for two months and returned home. Xifeng ordered a banquet. This "pick-up" is the husband who has gone away from home. Back to the fiftieth session of the Water Margin, Sung River led a team to fight Zhujiazhuang and returned to the mountain in triumph. "Chao Gai, the owner of the stockade, played drums and flutes, went down the mountain to meet them and hosted a banquet for them." This "pick-up" is the rebel hero who returned from the war. Back to the 54th session, Dai Zhong, Li Kui jy, Gongsun Sheng and Tang Long came to see Song Jiangjun who was attacking Gaotangzhou. "Song Jiang and Wu Yong rushed out. Give gifts to each other and put on a banquet. " This "escort" is an old brother (Gongsun Sheng) reunited after a long separation and a new brother (Tang Long) who just joined the army.
"Invitational banquet" was first seen in the Yuan Dynasty, such as the first compromise in Shi Zizhang's "Listening to the Qin in the Bamboo Dock", "Arranging wine and food, and inviting banquets with children". Synonymous with "Jiefeng", there are also two words: "dust washing" and "mud washing". "Dust washing" and "mud washing" appeared earlier than "Jiefeng". For example, Su Shi's "Farewell to Qian Mufu, Begging for Wine" has a sentence of "Wendong House opens a guest house and begs for the West Lake to welcome the dust", and "Song Xuanhe's Legacy" has "I haven't seen you for many years, but I haven't been there for a few days; A few glasses of light wine today, and washing mud is the same. It can be seen that the two languages existed in the Song Dynasty.
The so-called "dust washing" or "mud washing" is to wash away the dust and soil during the journey and relieve the fatigue of trekking. In Ming and Qing works, these two words often appear side by side with "Jiefeng". For example, the book A Dream of Red Mansions sometimes uses "welcome" and sometimes "welcome". Take Feng's welcome to Jia Lian's return as an example: the sixty-ninth time was "welcome" and the sixteenth time was "welcome"-Feng smiled and said, "My uncle was overjoyed! My great-uncle had a difficult journey. I heard from yesterday's first newspaper, Malay, that he returned to the government today and prepared a glass of wine to welcome him. I wonder if he can give me a lamp? Another example is Water Margin, which sometimes uses "Ying" and sometimes uses "Ying" or "Mud". See the previous example of "getting a meal". Here I only give an example of "welcoming guests" or "washing mud"-a 33-year-old boy, Song Jiang came to Huarong Terrace in Qingfeng Town, and Huarong Terrace "invited Song Jiang to change his shoes and socks, bathe in fragrant soup, and arrange a banquet to welcome the dust from the kitchen". Twenty-sixth time, after Song Wu came back from a business trip, in order to find out the cause of Wu Da's death, he specially invited his neighbors to drink. Neighbors said, "I've never had dinner with Du Tou, but now I'm upset. In the latter case, the combination of "mud washing" and "welcome" is more noticeable.