Long Gao Town, Bin County, under the jurisdiction of Xianyang City, Shaanxi Province, is said to have originated from the ancestor of the Zhou Gong Liu, with a history of more than 3,600 years ago, is Gong Liu to the king of more than 10 generations of people to establish the foundation of the country's treasury, which can be called an important birthplace of Chinese civilization, where the folk are simple and valued the traditions, and also preserved some of the folklore of the ancient charm, so let Old Calendar introduce you to the folk Lunar New Year food customs. Strong> old calendar for you to introduce, Longgao folk Lunar New Year food customs.
"A Lahai, a long pitchfork" is a folk proverb in Longgao, meaning that after the Lahai Festival, the daytime is longer than a day, and the long, hard night will be shortened. Therefore, the local residents of Lahai Festival that is to celebrate, the seventh night, residents holding a long pitchfork, around the bonfire, the hands of the dance of the all-night revelry. To the next day on the eighth, the most important food custom is to eat Laha noodles.
Long high local do Laha noodles are very delicate, the first seven that is, with good wheat flour to add gray water plunged into a good surface, covered with a wet cage cloth, every half hour to knead once, kneaded seven or eight times, before using a thin and long rolling pin rolled into a diameter of one meter five or so of the sheet of dough, choose a flat ground, with a broom to sweep clean, with a slightly wet cage cloth wipe off the fine dirt not clean, will be drying the sheet of dough on the ground, to be a little bit of the sheet of dough to become dry, that sheet of dough can be used to eat. When dry, the sheet can be lifted up with both hands, hit the eye to look, the sheet of yellow, yellow through white, transparent.
Next is the "noodle", round sheet by two folded, fan-shaped, choose a corner of the knife, one hand press the knife, one hand press the face, hand force to make even "to go", "out of the face to fine and proportionate for the best. The ballad is "Laha noodles, like needle and thread, a few breaths can not be sucked, the next year, the day without a thread." The image reflects the aesthetic requirements of Lapa noodles and the hope for a better life in the coming year.
After the noodles are done, it is time to prepare the bashful soup, the raw materials are generally used yellow flowers, coriander, green onions, tofu, bashful, spicy noodles, eggs, carrots, tofu is the main ingredient, cut into a thickness of about three millimeters, about six millimeters of the length of the diamond shape. The egg is fried into a cake about one millimeter thick, and then cut into diamond shapes as with the carrots. The diamond-shaped tofu, egg pancake and carrots are added to the soup before they are floated up.
Pan-fried soup is concerned about floating, soup fried, red, white, yellow and green together floating pool, color and flavor. This floating soup is not only about the color and flavor, but also reflects the desire of the people to go up. After interpretation, local residents also "want to float, who sink to the bottom ah" implicitly criticized those who refused to tolerate, do not want to suffer, only want to take advantage of the people.
The day of Lapa, before dawn, families will get up to build a fire, everyone every year secretly make efforts to see who first end out of Lapa noodles to win the first prize. The men of each family squatting outside the gate, face on the face of jokes and jokes, the heart of the fear of their own Lahua noodles out of the late, anxious and indolent side of the jokes and coughing, to the daughter-in-law to send a signal.
Waiting for the plate to come out, then impatiently rushed over, and did not pick up the plate, fishing up a pair of chopsticks, end of a bowl of noodles, anxious to walk to the other did not end up on the noodles in front of the hanzi, pretending to fish up a chopsticks of noodles, greetings to the group to eat, in essence, is to show off their own noodle workmanship, the other hanzi will be arching their hands to praise the jackpot winners of the inner workings of the people.
Long Gao local residents eat Lapa noodles is not called to eat, too vulgar, called suction, is to save enough breath will be a chopstick head of noodles sucked into the mouth, not chewing, figure this smooth, long, long-lasting taste. After the noodles enter the mouth, silky, soft but tendons, very texture, soaked in a bowl for half an hour without hair thick, still have texture, this is its unique charm of the place.
Suction Laha noodles with Ankou kiln, Yaozhou kiln small flower trumpet bowl, white background blue flowers, exquisite and small, with a soft silk like Laha noodles, is really a kind of enjoyment. When sucking Lapa noodles, housewives will generally encourage their children to eat more bowls, said the ode "Lapa noodles, sucking eight bowls, into the dragon into the phoenix is not general".
This finely crafted Laha noodles, sucking Laha noodle scene legend is Gong Liu lived in Bin, invented by Gong Liu's wife, and then Gong Liu's descendants moved to Qishan, Qishan will be this noodle known as bashful noodle, but the work has been no Bin County Laha noodle so fine, and the taste is also a lot worse. Qishan people have a sense of commodity, has made the noodles become a local snack brand.