Qianxian pot helmet is said to be in the Tang Emperor Li Zhi and Empress Wu Zetian to build a joint tomb Qian Mausoleum, because of the project is huge, hundreds of thousands of civilian laborers have been requisitioned, the meal will become a problem. The hunger-intolerant laborers will be simple and simple with helmets to brand buns, thus the name. For more than a thousand years, people in Qianxian County have been improving it, forming a unique flavor of food. Do helmet when the first selected flour to master the water temperature and into a very hard dead surface block, need to be placed on the case with a wooden bar pressure, pressure after adding the starting surface and alkaline water and then pressure, until the dough skin light color moist, with a wet cloth to cover the plate tightly. Wake up after block divided into each piece of one catty weight of dough, placed on the iron plate with straw fire, the side pressure will turn, until the pressure into a diameter of eight inches, about six minutes thick round cake, chrysanthemum-shaped. Then three flip six turn, pressure angle coloring, skin slightly bulging that is cooked. Just out of the pot helmet aroma, fragrance for miles. Because of its unique workmanship, it can be shelved for a long time. As for the eight strange in Shaanxi said as big as the pot lid of the pot helmet and thicker than a span of the pot helmet is not Qianxian pot helmet, is a friend of the field of misrepresentation only.
Qianxian tofu brain with high-quality soybeans as raw materials grinding and become. Because of the tenderness of the tofu, it is called tofu brain. A poem praised: "tofu fresh brine fat, a cauldron of timeless while the morning sun, clearly tender really like brain, eat actually drumming the old belly." As a result of mastering the skills of the brine, micro-fire boiling slurry, rapid fire point brine. Because of this, the color of the tofu brain white and clean, tender and soft, turn and not scattered, folding and constantly, stirring and not broken. Sell tofu brain also have to pay attention to, boiled soybean milk with halogen point into the special tile jar, to ensure that the tofu brain in the sales process always maintain the temperature of the fried. When eating it, you must choose the night market stalls and use a small bowl to taste its unique flavor. Sheng bowl when the use of tools is also very unique, made into a round, very thin copper skin to sheng, seasoned with salt, monosodium glutamate, garlic and ginger water, boiled five spices vinegar and homemade oil splash hot pepper, color and flavor are excellent. Out of town friends even ate ten bowls of eight bowls of people, eat and stroke the bulging belly shouting addiction. Winter weather is too cold, buyers will also use starch with carrots and spinach shredded boiled into a juice poured on it, eating is another flavor. Qianxian tofu brain has the effect of strengthening the brain, Qianxian people smart, it is said to be due to the reason of eating tofu brain all year round.
Qianxian Chiao Crisp (no one knows which word should be used for "chiao" anymore, so the signboards nowadays are all over the place. I think it should be the hieroglyphic word "chow", because it is too crispy, eat up chow chow sound) is Qianxian snacks in the longest history of the species. Legend has it that there have been more than one thousand three hundred years. Earlier for the palace food. The Tang Dynasty sacrificed to the Qianling Mausoleum as an offering, because of which it has been passed down to the people. Characterized by large greasy, yellow color and flavor, crispy outside and inside, eat while hot is fragrant. The chai pastry is made with special flour, lard (the authentic practice uses horse oil), rapeseed oil and salt, and is delicately processed. The flour is kneaded well and divided into small doses, then pressed into a round crust and wrapped with a filling made of rock sugar, green and red threads, walnuts, and sugar to form a biscuit, which is then fried in a frying pan, resulting in a golden color and a delicious crispiness. May be due to the chow pastry for dessert or according to the modern dietary concept of fried food is detrimental to health, so it is not as popular as the above three snacks, but the field to friends once tasted are full of praise.
Think of the Shaanxi dialect, think of Shaanxi customs, really quite nostalgic. There is a children's song, "a little fly up to the sky, the Yellow River bends at both ends; eight big open mouth, words to go inside, left a twist, right a twist; west a long, east a long, in the middle of the horse king; heart word bottom, the moon word side, leave a hook hanging sugar; push the car car go Xianyang ......" This song is my early days. This is a children's song that I learned earlier in my life, and it is about a word (pronounced biang - biang, which is not in the modern Chinese dictionary), and when we talk about this word, we have to talk about the eight strange things in Shaanxi! (Actually, there are ten strange things in Shaanxi_)
The first strange thing: noodles as wide as a pants belt. Roll it thick, cut it wide, make the vinegar sour, eat a bowl, and endure for a day. Shaanxi is rich in wheat, and the local people mainly eat noodles. Pulled noodles are also called biangbiang noodles, authentic biangbiang noodles, a noodle width of up to two or three inches, the length of 1 meter up and down, the thickness of the thick with coins almost. A noodle is enough for a meal, and for large meals Guanzhong people, a meal to eat 8 two, 1 catty is also easy. Guanzhi people eat noodles, like the noodles and hard and kneaded soft, rolled thick, cut wide. This kind of noodle after cooking, fishing in the bowl, whether pouring shame, or splash oil chili, eat up very smooth, soft, hot, sinewy, both delicious and hunger. People's neck a stretch, holler swallowed into the belly, hiccups, suddenly all up and down are strength, five or six hours without eating or drinking do not feel hungry.
The second strange: helmet big race lid. Hard surface helmet like a pot cover, out of dry food people good with. Passed in the Tang Dynasty to repair the Qianling mausoleum, due to the number of military artisans serving too many people, often for food and delay the construction progress, be punished. So, a soldier in the anxiety of the dough into the helmet, the helmet into the fire to bake, and branded into cakes. The history of pot helmets in Shaanxi has been thousands of years. To make the helmet, the dough should be very hard, so hard that it can't be kneaded by hand, and it should be pressed and kneaded by borrowing a wooden bar, and then put in a cauldron with a diameter of more than 2 feet to bake it slowly. In this way, burned into the pot helmet outside the crisp, fragrant and delicious, put on ten days eight days will not be bad. This helmet is very large, but also very thick, eat with a big mouth, it is natural to stare, so this helmet is also known as the "staring helmet". The helmet should be counted "Qianxian pot helmet" good.
Third strange: oil splash hot pepper a dish. Guanzhong people, temperament strange, spicy bun not on the dish. It is said that Hunan and Sichuan people can eat spices, but they and Shaanxi people compared to really "small witch", they take spices as a condiment, Shaanxi people take spices as a dish. Shaanxi's unique kind of "Qin pepper" is known as the "king of chili", Guanzhi people no food, no oil, no meat can be, but not without chili. Jia Pingwa wrote in his essay: "Eight hundred miles of Qin River, yellow soil flying, 30 million sons and daughters roaring Qinqiang, end of a bowl of noodles with joy, did not put chili muttering". A line of chili peppers, bite down half of the rice, straight spicy grimace, sigh, sweat, think this is addictive.
The fourth strange: the old bowl like basin inseparable. Guanzhong Han, real in, the old bowl basin basin can not be separated. Shaanxi people (old Shaanxi) to eat, like to use a kind of Yaoxian produced nearly 1 foot of white porcelain bowl, locally known as the "old bowl". This old bowl is even larger than a small pot, so it is often difficult to distinguish between bowls and pots. In rural Guanzhong, every meal time, the village, before the bank, under the tree, the men will end up with a big old bowl squatting together, enjoying the meal side of the La with words, which is famous for "old bowl will be". In the countryside, people's labor intensity, work more, eat more, so go out and use the old bowl to feast one night is enough, do not have to go home to feast again, save a lot of trouble.
The fifth strange: house half cover. The house is built in half, the eaves do not drip outside Both in Xi'an city and Shaanxi rural areas, can be seen everywhere "side cover" of the house. What is a side cover? Generally, the roof of a house is in the shape of herringbone, but the houses in Shaanxi are in the shape of one side of the herringbone. It is said that because Shaanxi is dry and has little rain, the houses built on one side allow all the rainwater from the Jintou to flow into the family's fields, so that "fertilizer does not flow into other people's fields". Also, in the last hundred years, Shaanxi's agricultural development has been slow, but the population has increased rapidly. Families living in the countryside, because of the limited land area, and the large population, residential tension, so the formation of the house "half-covered" history.
Sixth strange: there is a stool does not sit squatting up. Standing waist pain, sit down nest, oh, talk the most live.
Cu is a dialect, meaning squatting. The most important thing is to be able to enjoy your life. While eating, while enjoying the scenery outside. Sometimes it is also a comparison to see whose family cooks well and what specialties they have. This is a boast, a compliment to the head of the house (meaning the housewife). Some say, who did not eat out, may be the family can not afford to cook, out to eat to prove that the family is solid. The people are food for thought," he said.
Seventh strange: women's papa head wear. Wade soil more, the sun, go out and wear a papa on the head. Wade soil refers to the past traffic for the dirt road, people, cars and horses walking more, there is a layer of dust on the road surface has long been trampled on the floating soil, it is very easy to fly. Papa refers to handkerchiefs, or handkerchiefs. Qin is located in the northwest, the yellow soil thousands of feet. Whenever the wind blows from the northwest, yellow dust fills the sky. If the sky is clear and the road is dry, then the sunlight is strong and burns people for a long time. Therefore, women in the countryside, the old lady, every out of the habit of wearing a handkerchief on top of the head, dust, sunscreen, convenient, practical, women love beauty, nature of making, a multi-purpose. Over time, it has become a regional folk landscape.
The eighth strange: Qin opera roar up. The first is to pull the strings, knocking the arenga, self-indulgent throat Qinqiang. Shaanxi's unique opera we all know is the Qinqiang, Qinqiang is China's oldest opera, Beijing opera, Henan opera, Hebei opera and so on are originated in the Qinqiang, so it is honored as "the ancestor of the opera", also known as "the living fossil of the Chinese drama". The Qinqiang is characterized by its high pitch and strong urgency, and it is known locally as "earning a broken head" when it yells out at the top of its voice. When Premier Zhou came to Xi'an to see the Qinqiang, he said: "The spirit is commendable, but take care of your health. Outsiders joked that singing Qinqiang to have three conditions, one is the body to be good, one to avoid exhaustion; the second is the audience to be bold, so as not to be under the bad; the third is the stage to be strong, so as not to vibrate collapsed.
In fact, to summarize, Shaanxi's top ten strange it is
Bowls and pots can not be separated: Guanzhi people with the bowl is very large, the largest one foot and more. Commonly known as "big old bowl". Because the Guanzhong human body is strong and powerful, large food, and noodle-based, plus the meal time the streets and alleys of the "old party" every meal must be, this a big bowl foot also, can avoid adding rice to the tired of running around.
Sleeping pillow brick: Guanzhong people like to sleep on a hot bed, pillow cotton is easy to fire, so accustomed to pillow hard things, bricks, stone, wood, jade, etc. are optional things, over time, the habit has become natural.
The girl is not foreign: Guanzhong Plain land is fertile, good wind and rain, early flooding. Therefore, its living conditions are more favorable. The girl never thought of marrying far away, often out of ten miles and eight miles away from the marriage.
Noodles like a belt: Guanzhong people lunch to noodle-based, Guanzhong women are masters of rolling, fine noodles are easy to bloat after cooking easy to stick, so in addition to festivals and guests, usually rolled out the noodles cut into one-inch wide strips, because of its resistance to cooking, not easy to stick, and eat and hunger, and the shape of its like a belt, so there is this saying.
Spicy a dish: Guanzhong people extravagant spicy, rice can lack of meat, vegetables, but "oil splash spices" for the necessary things, "oil splash spices" red shiny, color, aroma, taste complete, seasoning, seasoning noodle soup, add buns, tonton will have, not happy to call.
House half cover: Shaanxi's compartment is mostly right-angled triangular, for the single eaves slope, single-sided doors and windows. Its structure is simple, economical and practical, unique modeling commonly known as: "Xiazi" "Xiamen". Because of its modeling is unique to Shaanxi, so it is also a strange carry on for Shaanxi.
Do not sit squatting up: Guanzhi people's kung fu can be said to be the country's most village, chatting, eating, chess squatting three or five hours unambiguous. Even if you are visiting friends and relatives, the host has a stool, but also not to be petty, shoes off, squatting on the stool to talk and laugh, free flowing. A gas, can be seen.
Papa head wear: Shaanxi women used to wear handkerchiefs on the head, can dust, rain, sun can also be wiped sweat, wipe your hands, package things, convenient and practical, but also the evolution of the ancient women's headscarves a form.
The Qin cavity roar up: Shaanxi people straight nature, speak loudly, roar up the Qin cavity is also like thunder and tiger roar in general, coupled with the Qin cavity rhyme impassioned, the Qin people singing Qin cavity natural sound heard for miles, loud and clear, complement each other.
Pot helmet like a pot lid: Shaanxi cake and called "pot helmet" and thick and big, the skin burnt, crispy meat, tendons in the crunchy, mellow and delicious, especially in Qianxian County out of the famous.
There is also a lot of meat buns
Meat buns eat up the beauty
Cold skin with strength
Battered fish fish slippery
Stone cake dry crisp
Gourd head fragrant oil
Fried cold noodles comfortable
Tofu brain absolutely warm stomach
Rose mirror cake sweet
Dumpling feast
There are a lot of other people who do not know what to say, so I will try to make sure that you have the best of them.
There are many more, so I won't list them all!
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