Eight mature, 100%; Ten mature, twenty percent lost.

White rice is delicious, but grain fields are difficult to grow.

Bring enough food to satisfy hunger, and bring an umbrella on sunny days.

It's easy to get sick if you drink and eat, so you can keep healthy regularly and quantitatively.

If you don't take charge, you don't know the daily necessities, and if you don't raise children, you don't know your parents' kindness.

Don't take off your shoes before you reach the river.

Don't pretend to know, it will never work.

Greedy people have no food at home, and lazy people have no firewood at home.

Eat rice and be reasonable.

Drink soup first, and you won't get hurt when you get old.

Eat like a dragon and work like a bug.

The steamed bread you eat is not fragrant, and the sugarcane you chew is not sweet.

If you drink wine instead of vegetables, you will get drunk soon.

Eating bran rice makes everyone healthy.

It is short to eat someone's mouth and hold someone's hand.

Go out and watch the sky, cook and watch the fire.

Simple tea and bread can feed people, while rags and trousers can keep out the cold.

Rough tea and light rice nourish people, and rough tea and light rice benefit the body.

Thick silk is difficult to weave fine silk, and rough people are difficult to do fine work.

Cut three inches of grass, and less material will grow fat.

An unbreakable well water is an inexhaustible force.

Garlic is a treasure, which is good for your health.

Water drops become rivers and rice grains become baskets.

Eating radish in winter and ginger in summer keeps the doctor from prescribing medicine.

Tofu is soaked in water, but no one believes in empty talk.

Take care of others with their bowls.

A bowl of soup before meals makes me angry.

Delicious and sweet, looking for a sugar seller; Delicious and sour, find a vinegar seller.

Ginger is old and spicy, and vinegar is old and sour.

Look at yourself, a flower; Look at others, bean curd residue.

Changde has had the reputation of "Land of Fish and Rice" since ancient times. The unique dietary resources make Changde's diet unique in its production methods, and whether it is stew, frying, marinating, frying, stewing, steaming, roasting, drunkenness, roasting and slippery, it can reflect the rich Changde characteristics. Dietary sayings, folk songs and ballads are everywhere. It originates from life, reveals life, is easy to understand and remember, and is widely circulated on both sides of Yuan and Li Dynasties.

"Steaming bowls and stoves rattle, and I don't want to be a horse in North Korea." This proverb fully embodies the characteristics of Changde cuisine. In Changde people's view, there can be no banquet without steaming pots and stoves. Whether it is cold winter or hot summer, a hot pot is indispensable on the dining table of Changde people. Changde cuisine, which advocates hot pot, pays attention to the word "spicy", so Changde has the saying "one spicy and three fresh" and "stewed tofu for thousands of years and stewed fish for thousands of years". Spicy is another feature of Changde cuisine, so ginger, garlic and pepper are indispensable ingredients, but these things are too exciting, and eating too much will make people uncomfortable. A proverb "Ginger is spicy, garlic is spicy, and pepper is too spicy to make a sound" came into being.

January mud, February Artemisia, March and April firewood. Artemisia ordosica is a kind of wild vegetable that Changde people like to eat blindly. Its buds are in the soil in the first month, so it is called Artemisia. Once this day is over, it will not be Artemisia after being unearthed. There are many proverbs that reflect the best harvest and growing season of dietary resources in Changde, such as "spring catfish, summer carp, autumn crucian carp and winter bream", "eating radish and ginger in winter does not require a doctor's prescription", "radish takes root on the first day of school at the age of 30" and "March is like horse grass", especially the folk proverb "peaches for three years, oranges for five years, loquat eyes turn".

The fish jumped and the pig screamed. Legend has it that the braised carp cooked by a highly skilled chef was still squirming when it was served for the first time, and its taste was fresh and tender beyond description. Different materials give people different tastes, and different parts of the same material give people different feelings. This is the truth of these proverbs, such as "fish head and meat tail, flying rabbits", "fish skin, egg edge, bean curd powder and soup are all delicious" and "only fry, mandarin fish flower and crucian carp skull don't spit dregs".

The proverb "buy fat meat and eat lean meat" tells the plight of ordinary citizens in trouble. They want fat meat to extract oil and lean meat to cook. This actually means that they want to have both. Under the influence of Changde's diet atmosphere, Changde people have formed their own diet views on how to eat and what to eat. "If you have weir fish at home, you will eat more grains" and "Early ginger and late radish", which is a portrayal of the life of self-sufficient small farmers in lakeside water towns. These folk proverbs make Changde gourmets smart, elegant and free and easy.

Boiling sugar and beating tofu are all masters. Like this dietary proverb, there are many dietary proverbs in Changde, such as: "carrots and pickles have their own tastes", "Baba is sold for one year, zongzi is sold for two years, and the more it is sold, the sharper it becomes", "Lotus leaves are wrapped in water chestnuts, and everyone wants to stand out", "Kill pigs and sheep, and the cook will have a taste first", "You can't eat hot tofu in haste" and "Tofu falls off. It's not bad to coax your stomach. You can eat fish in the river, eat less and taste more. Tofu flowers, wild flowers and cowhide lanterns, no wine in the banquet, and people are colorless. These proverbs are reasonable, convincing and enlightening, and their understanding of life can be seen from Changde people's diet.

"Fight with the slag and smile for the New Year." Changde's diet folk songs are also very interesting. The area around Dongfeng in Shimen County is very dangerous because the mountains are high and the roads are dangerous. People here call smoking drinking. The smoke in the local mountains is all white flowers. When they want to drink, they peel some tobacco leaves and then shake a trumpet. They humorously call it orchid cigarettes. Bake some potatoes in the fire pit and you can spend the day. Some people's houses are ventilated around, and people will turn with the wind when they are heating. Although they are poor, they are cheerful, open-minded and optimistic. A song "Living at the top of a mountain, drinking orchid cigarettes, eating potatoes and fruits and keeping warm" is a portrayal of their life and personality. "Marry lang to marry a beard, and the beard is covered with honey. Last June, I kissed my mouth, but it is still fragrant when the weather is hot this year. " This love song circulating in Shimen and Sangzhi is also related to eating. "Lotus, lotus, lotus Fried Baba below. Baba is fried on both sides and made of lard and sugar. " The scene of Baba frying is so romantic and poetic in this folk song.

The wine in Deshan, the sugar in Shi Jiao and the fried dough sticks in A River are all very long. Except the wine in Deshan, the sweet-scented osmanthus candy in Xiashi and the fried dough sticks in Heha have all declined, but this folk proverb can strongly remind people of the past. There is such a proverb that praises local products, such as "the poplar board is high in thousands of feet, thirsty, and the trimmed pepper is pass the parcel." The dry mouth of the estuary here refers to oil. Since estuary oil has become a major industry of Jinjian rice industry, we can know how famous it is.