Among the snacks in Chaoshan, there are all kinds of snacks, such as crispy leek buns, crystal clear rice buns, sweet bean paste buns and wild mouse cakes.
Basic introduction editor
Bean paste is mostly eaten in July of the lunar calendar every year. At this time, the early rice is returned to the warehouse, the peanuts are dried, and the late seedlings are transplanted. The peasant housewife uses new rice and new peanuts to make "bean paste". First, add water to rice flour and knead it into thin and white skin, then mash it with fried peanuts, and add salt, chopped green onion, sesame seeds and shredded pork as stuffing. The shape of "bean paste" is fabricated by skilled housewives at will. Some are like crescent moon, some are like gondola, and some are like Jade Rabbit Pomegranate ... The shape is generally very small, only slightly larger than a matchbox.
Housewives in Chaoshan rural areas like to wrap jiaozi in the shape of a mouse before the Spring Festival, and a lot of them at a time, because jiaozi in the shape of a mouse is not easy to deteriorate and can be eaten until the Lantern Festival. Rat koji is a kind of wild grass, also known as rat's ear grass, Buddha's ear grass, rice koji grass, citronella, velvet mother and so on. It is hairy all over, with tender stems and leaves, and occasionally a few small buds at the top. Compendium of Materia Medica says: "There are many places in Yuanye ... the leaves are soft and one inch long, and the white velvet is like the hair on the ears of mice." The Chu people called it Miqu, and the North called it Rongmu. It can be used as medicine, it is flat and sweet, and it can resolve phlegm and relieve cough. " Therefore, the mousetrap is actually a kind of medicinal food.
Customs origin editor
The custom of eating mouse songs originated very early. The Chronicle of Jingchu's Age says: March 2nd is a day, with rat qu vegetable juice as soup and honey and powder, which is called dragon tongue (meters and a half) to avoid getting angry with the times. Volume 11 of Zhenghe Materia Medica is quoted as "March 3, taking rat koji juice and honey as powder to suppress the time." Dragon tongue (rice and a half), the name of rat koji, is a kind of cake made of rat koji and rice flour. In the Tang Dynasty, Pi Rixiu wrote in "Defeating in the Wild, Showing Elegant Poems as a Reward": "Look at the cow's lip fluid at first sight, and pinch the mouse's ear fragrance." "Compendium of Materia Medica" quoted Shao Guizi's "Urn Tianyu" as saying: "The cold food in the north collects velvet mother grass and eats powder." It can be seen that the custom of making cakes with rat grass has existed since the Southern and Northern Dynasties, and it has been passed down from generation to generation, and the Chaoshan custom is still there. But in ancient times, eating rat songs in the north was between Qingming and cold food, while Chaoshan was around the Spring Festival, which was due to the climate.
Leek is soft, smooth, tender and extremely fragrant. It tastes better when fried in oil pan. Its preparation method is to pour boiling water into raw flour and stir evenly to make skin, with leek, mushroom and shrimp skin as stuffing. Knead the stuffing into a flat circle and steam it for 15 minutes.
"Caibaoguo" is a seasonal product in Haifeng Meilong Market. In Meilong Market, the 20th day of the first lunar month is the first festival in a year, and the residents of the market call it "Opening Day". On this day, every household in Daqing invited a big banquet. Firecrackers are ringing in the street, colorful archways are towering into the sky, and colorful flags cover the sky. Lion class, Quban, Troupe, Suona class, octave class and so on performed in turn, which was very lively. At this time, women are busy in the house, scrambling to produce a large number of "vegetable buns". When the guests arrive, please ask them to sit down and eat colorful pots. When guests go home, they should also use a small dish of colorful pots as gifts. The making process of "Lai Bao Pot" is as follows: appropriate amount of boiling water is poured into dry sticky rice flour, kneaded into mud strips, and twisted into a round cake-shaped pot blank. Put the "rice husk" in the center of the left hand, take a round drum (the egg is big and baked with soil) in the right hand, and rotate it 360 degrees on the "rice husk" to make a thin concave body. Then, the person in charge of loading vegetables will make the dishes with local flavor into a spindle shape in the concave body, pinch them tightly at the head and tail, and arrange them neatly among the reeds. Mei Long's son sang: "Monkeys bite monkeys (an insect); White rice, cooking bag; A bowl of vegetables, a bowl to be served; Stay in the back furnace, begging cats to glue, and the juice will flow ... "[1]