Moon cakes, fried dough sticks, soybean milk, knife shaving, snowballing, zongzi.
1, moon cakes
Mooncakes originated in the Tang Dynasty. During the Northern Song Dynasty, it was popular in the court, but it also spread to the people. By the Qing Dynasty, there were more records about moon cakes, and the production became more and more elaborate. In the Ming Dynasty, eating moon cakes in the Mid-Autumn Festival gradually spread among the people, making moon cakes a necessary food for the Mid-Autumn Festival, which is more popular among the people. In the Qing Dynasty, eating moon cakes in the Mid-Autumn Festival has become a common custom, and the production skills are getting higher and higher. Handed down along the way, it formed the custom of eating moon cakes in the Mid-Autumn Festival.
2. Fried dough sticks
Fried dough sticks are one of the traditional breakfasts in China. In the Song Dynasty, Qin Gui persecuted Yue Fei, and the people expressed their anger by frying a kind of flour food (fried cypress) similar to fried dough sticks. The common people ate "fried chicken" in order to eliminate their resentment. But it tastes good and the price is cheap, so more and more people eat it. Gradually spread to other places, and called these long strips "fried dough sticks".
3. Soymilk
According to legend, soybean milk was invented by Liu An, king of Huainan in the Western Han Dynasty, more than 1900 years ago. According to legend, Liu An is a dutiful son. During his mother's illness, Liu An used soaked soybeans to grind soy milk for his mother to drink every day. Liu's illness soon recovered, and soy milk gradually became popular among the people.
4. Knife shaving
Legend about Daoxiao Noodles: After the establishment of the Yuan Dynasty, the Mongolians stipulated that 10 households should use a kitchen knife in turn to cut vegetables and cook, and then return it to the Mongolians for safekeeping. One day at noon, an old woman made up her face and asked the old man to get the knife. As a result, the knife was taken away by others and the old man had to return. After returning home, the whole family waited for the knife to cut noodles to eat, but the knife didn't come back. The old man was so anxious that he suddenly remembered the iron sheet in his arms. The old woman put the dough on a board, picked it up with her left hand and held the iron piece in her right hand. She stood by the boiling pot and "chopped" the noodles, and a one-sided leaf fell into the pot. In this way, one spread ten times, ten spread hundreds, and spread all over Jinzhong.
5. Rolling around
It is said that Empress Dowager Cixi wants to taste something new. The imperial chef decided to make a new dish with rice noodles wrapped in red bean paste. After the new dish was cooked, a eunuch named Xiao Lv accidentally bumped it into a basin filled with yellow bean. The chef crustily skin of head presented this dish to Empress Dowager Cixi. As soon as Empress Dowager Cixi thought it tasted good, she asked the chef's name. The chef thought that the eunuch named Xiao Lv was responsible for it, so he told Empress Dowager Cixi that it was called snowballing. Since then, there has been a snack called "snowballing".
6. Zongzi
Legend has it that Zongzi was born for the sacrifice of Qu Yuan who threw himself into the river, and as early as the Spring and Autumn Period, it was called "Horn Millet" when millet was wrapped in leaves. Rice in a bamboo tube is sealed and baked, which is called "tube zongzi". Rice is mixed with rare animal meat, chestnut, etc., and the variety is increasing. Up to now, every year in the early May of the lunar calendar, every family in China has to soak glutinous rice, wash zongzi leaves and wrap zongzi, with more varieties of colors. The custom of eating zongzi has been popular in China for thousands of years, and spread to Korea, Japan and Southeast Asian countries.