Eat plain tea and rice. In Duling County, Shandong Province, the Mid-Autumn Festival is called the "Pinch Festival" by the local people, and every household should have a simple meal, which means happiness and longevity in the coming year.
Simple tea and light rice actually refers to a simple and unadorned diet. Sometimes used to describe simple life.
Song Yang Wanli's poem "A Letter to Shoujun of Xiaoer" reads: "The father and son must return to the fields early; Rough tea and light rice will last forever. "
In addition, Shandong will eat dumplings on this day. Jiaozi originated in the era of Zhang Zhongjing, and "jiaozi", also known as "Jiao Zi" or "Jiao Er", means the alternation of the old and the new, and it is also a feast that must be eaten according to God's meaning. Otherwise, God will remove your name from the world of Yin and Yang, and will become an unrecorded ghost after death. It shows that our ancestors attached great importance to this. Anyway, in order to get rid of the bad luck for a year, you should have a "jiaozi" on New Year's Eve. People from afar will travel across mountains and rivers to their hometowns to eat jiaozi with their families for the winter festival, to show that they have a happy home.
Shandong dumplings:
Ingredients: 5g of refined flour, 5g of tender beef, 1g of refined salt, 35g of sesame oil, 5g of pepper water, 15g of chopped green onion, 25g of pork belly, 5g of Jiang Mo, 1g of cooking wine, 15g of leek and 25g of soy sauce.
Steps:
1. Stir the pig and beef into meat stuffing, put them in a pot, add soy sauce, pepper water and refined salt, and stir well until the stuffing becomes thick paste, then add onion, Jiang Mo and sesame oil and stir well. After simmering for about 3 minutes, sprinkle chopped leeks, and mix the leeks into the meat stuffing with the bag when using the stuffing (to prevent the salt in the meat stuffing)
2. Pour the flour into the basin, add about 25 ml of clear water to make a soft dough, knead it evenly, knead it into long strips, make 8 blanks, roll them into thin dough one by one, and then wrap the stuffing. After the stuffing is put into the dough, pinch it in a half-moon shape, and put it on the cover mat after wrapping.
3. Add a proper amount of clean water into the pot and bring it to a boil. Put the dumplings into the pot and push them in one direction along the bottom of the pot with a hand spoon to prevent them from sticking to the bottom. When the dumplings float, cover the pot. After the water is boiled again, open the lid and add a little cold water. When it is boiled again, it is cooked. Remove with a colander and serve in a plate. When serving, bring vinegar dishes, sesame oil and garlic paste for seasoning. If necessary, you can also cook a bowl of jiaozi soup and invite guests to eat and drink it, which is called "the original soup turns into the original food".