Most bowls used by people in Shaanxi are "cloth bowls", that is, yellow adobe, ranging in diameter from three inches to more than ten inches. This kind of "cloth bowl" is simple in firing process, mainly made of coarse porcelain, with glazed surface, mostly black, yellow or green, painted with blue patterns, and the patterns and characters such as "rich and auspicious", "peony flower" and "lucky for money" imply abundant crops and look forward to a good year. Clay blank is loess, so the color of the bowl often loses its true color, and there will be black, yellow, green and gray in blue.
Loess contains more sand and is not fine enough. In order to be strong and durable, the bowl blank is made with thick wall and deep mouth. Fired with a simple process, a finished bowl often weighs two or three pounds, so there will be a "bowl and basin are inseparable" monster among the eight eccentrics in Shaanxi.
In addition to folk kilns, there are a number of Yaozhou kilns in Chenlu Ancient Town, Yaozhou District, Tongchuan City, which were the official kilns of Gyeonggi in Chang 'an, the capital city, as early as the Tang Dynasty. The old bowls cooked here are the size of Fiona Fang, and they are all in the rules. The sound that hits it is loud and clear; Look at its color, as warm as it is. "
Shaanxi people often like to get together when eating, forming an "old bowl party".
Summer will be in a cool place with spacious ventilation and dense leaves, and cold days will gather at the root of a warm wall facing the sun. A family or a production team will get together, choose a position or squat down, or put cloth shoes and straw hats under their buttocks. Over time, a grinding disc or wheel will be placed around the gathering place to discuss farming while cooking.
At first you were poor, and then you got used to it.
Because of poverty and lack of food, squatting can squeeze the stomach from bottom to top, so that eating is easy to feel full earlier. When you are poor, you seldom eat food. It's very happy to put some pepper in a bowl of burning noodles, so you don't have to sit around the table and pick vegetables to eat.
I've been squatting for a long time and I'm getting used to it. Everyone is squatting like this. If you don't squat, you will become an alternative!
Therefore, one of the eight eccentrics in Shaanxi: it is a custom not to sit on a stool.
Of course, now that Shaanxi is rich, it is hard to see squatting food. A table full of delicious food, who is willing to squat there alone with a bowl?
Not from Xi 'an, but in many places in the northwest, this phenomenon is more common in rural areas. Northwest people take pasta as their staple food, mixed with vegetables, which is convenient to carry around. At the earliest time, in rural areas, everyone took meals at the gate (at that time, many people didn't have the gate, and chatted and exchanged information while eating. In order to squat down on the spot, sometimes their heels are put on stones, and over time they become a habit. It's not that there is no bench, but it's more troublesome to bring a small bench. This is also in line with the generous and informal character of the northwest people. One of the top ten monsters in Shaanxi is getting up and not sitting. This is a dialect, that is, squatting. Now some people are squatting when eating, sometimes this habit is naturally revealed, and sometimes it is just a deliberate gesture. For example, when our foreign friend came, we were ashamed to invite him to eat noodles, so we deliberately squatted on the bench to demonstrate this strange behavior. Modern people may find it a bit ugly and incredible, but the reason is as simple as that.
My home is from Xianyang, and now I am in Xi 'an. I also lived in the countryside when I was a child. Indeed, villagers at that time liked to squat outside when eating. Personally, I think the reason is not complicated, and it is easy to understand from the perspective of modern people. Mainly the following five points.
1. Eating a bowl of noodles is quick. For things like squatting leg numbness, eating noodles is not so slow. A bowl of ready-made noodles takes a few minutes for an adult man to eat directly, which is faster than squatting. At that time, people were generally thin, and squatting was easy. Many stars often choose to eat while squatting because they don't have tables or stools on the set or in the working environment. You see, beautiful women can do it easily in high heels.
2. Spaghetti moves easily. Because everyone eats pasta, a bowl can hold everything he wants to eat, so he can walk around with the bowl.
3. It's just eating together. Nowadays, dining in the company is also very common. At that time, leisure and entertainment were even scarcer. Without TV and mobile phone, eating was more boring than now. In my own home, there is no one suitable for chatting, so I like to have dinner with my buddies and friends.
Just like in the company now, if your departments are colleagues with very different ages, you may all go to other departments to board with people of similar age at lunch.
4. There is a lack of public space for eating, but it is convenient to go out and everyone lives close. Now the company has a canteen or various restaurants under the office building, so that you can have space to board meals with people from other departments. But if you are at home, it is not particularly convenient to go to other people's homes or let others come to your home. At that time, everyone lived on the first floor, and it was very convenient to go out. Your good friends had already gone out. At this time, it seems not difficult to understand that you choose to go out with a bowl and chat with your good friends.
This bowl is very heavy. The old bowl noodles in Shaanxi are very heavy, and there is also a saying in the Eight Eccentrics that bowls and basins are inseparable. So at this time, you are holding a huge bowl and chatting with your buddies in the village street. Squatting down can put your hands on your thighs, which is more labor-saving.
So to sum up, the scene is probably like this: your company is a bungalow, all departments are on the first floor, your department only has elderly uncles and aunts, and your good friends are in other departments. There is no collective canteen, and there are no tables and stools in the dining room at the door. At lunch time, they all talked about the big gossip freshly baked in the company with bowls at the door. At this time, you also carry the old bowl. The company doesn't have wifi, so it's not allowed to use mobile phones. You naturally walk out the door, feeling that the old bowl is so heavy, and there are no tables and chairs in the street. When your hands are sore, squat down and blend in.
If I have said so much, you still think that you won't eat squatting under any circumstances, then you don't have to dwell on this matter, because even without a desk and stool, you can still eat on the ground.
You see, just like my husband
Because this is a living habit. In Shaanxi, when eating, I like to chat with my neighbors at home with a bowl, but there are not many tables and stools, so I sit or squat, and my parents chat for a while, and squatting makes everyone closer. Over time, it has become a unique custom!
We don't mean squat, we mean squat.
Dian Wei My home is Lantian, and now I am in Xi 'an. I also lived in the countryside when I was a child. Indeed, people in the village like to squat outside when eating. Personally, I think the reasons are not chaotic, and it is very simple to understand from the perspective of modern people. The first is the following five points.
1, eating a bowl of noodles is quick. About squatting, eating noodles is not so slow. Holding a bowl of ready-made noodles and eating it directly is only a few minutes for adult men, which is faster than squatting. At that time, people were generally thin, and squatting was very simple. Many stars often choose to eat in the studio or work environment because they don't have tables and stools. You see, Beauty Zhang can do it easily in high heels.
2. Spaghetti moves easily. Because everyone eats pasta, a bowl can hold everything he wants to eat, so he can walk around with the bowl.
3, it is simply a partnership to eat. It is also common to eat together in the company now. At that time, leisure and entertainment methods were even scarcer. There is no TV and no mobile phone, so the time for eating is more boring than now. In my own home, there is no one suitable for chatting, so I like to have dinner with my buddies and friends.
Just like in the company now, if some of you are partners with very different ages, you may go to have lunch with other people of similar age.
There is not enough place to eat, but it is convenient to go out and we live near. Now the company has a canteen or various restaurants under the office building, so that you can have space to eat with others. But if you are at home, it is not particularly convenient to go to his house or let others go to your house. At that time, we all lived on the first floor, and it was very convenient to go out. All your good friends had already gone out. At this time, it seems not difficult to understand that you choose to go out with a bowl and chat with your good friends.
This bowl is very heavy. The old bowl noodles in Shaanxi are very heavy, and there is also a saying in the Eight Eccentrics that bowls and basins are inseparable. So at this time, you are holding a huge bowl and chatting with your buddies in the village street. Squatting down can put your hands on your thighs, which is more labor-saving.
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I have been there; People there can't eat when standing or sitting, but they eat too much when squatting.
Why do Xi 'an people like to squat when they eat noodles? You know one of them.
When you are poor, you squat down to eat, and sometimes you eat on the side of the road with food. I even took time off to eat in the workspace, so I didn't have more leisure time to enjoy life. If you get used to it, you will naturally have the phenomenon of squatting to eat.
Also, limited by economic conditions, high tables and low stools are not common, are they? In today's society, deliberately saying that "Xi people like to squat when eating noodles" is more of a ridicule and gimmick.
For example, in some cartoons and live videos, the width and length of the belt are beyond people's imagination. Moreover, squatting on the bench with an old sea bowl as big as a pot, is the real state of family life like that?
Of course, there are some big bowls in restaurants, but there is nothing in their bellies. They are not pursuing the hype effect, but seeking to bring more profits by attracting attention. Why bother?