As elderly people, these beautiful scenes are always vivid in our minds; Whenever I think of those lively and beautiful scenes, I still feel a very excited mood in my heart; Standing for a long time, recalling the long and mellow past. ...
1. What are eight bowls? What scenes are the eight bowls mainly used for?
Anyone who has heard of Eight Bowls knows that the so-called "Eight Bowls" refers to many dishes that people put on banquets in the past, such as roast pork strips, steamed pork, boiled white meat, braised pork balls, yellow chicken pieces, stewed elbows, sauce bones, oily meat, braised fish, eight-treasure rice and so on (in short, they are composed of eight dishes). These things are filled with eight sea bowls, so they are called eight bowls.
Generally speaking, a banquet has at least eight bowls and eight dishes; Of course, when some good families hold banquets, the dishes are very rich, not only eight dishes, but ten dishes, and sometimes even a dozen dishes. In 1970s and 1980s, eight bowls were usually an indispensable dinner form for people to get together to celebrate birthdays, weddings, funerals and full moons.
Different from the traditional life in the past, there are many hotels and restaurants, and the general countryside is still poor and the economic conditions are not very good. Therefore, if people meet some weddings and funerals, they are all in their own homes in the countryside. They invited a few friends to hold a banquet or two together, and used eight bowls to entertain relatives and friends, so that everyone could get together to celebrate.
Although the eight bowls are drifting away from people, they are still the dream food in people's minds.
With the development of economy and society, people often go to restaurants and restaurants in some cities. Everyone also orders according to the store menu. Therefore, in modern cities, the eight bowls have been slowly forgotten by people; It seems to be getting farther and farther away from this traditional banquet life, as if the eight bowls are becoming more and more blurred in people's minds.
However, we also found that in many remote villages, people still spread the traditional life of eight bowls. In fact, this fully shows that it is not far away from us, but it shows that the eight bowls are still a kind of food that people dream of! In the city, there are still some big families, and it is always difficult for people to give up their love for the eight bowls.
Therefore, on New Year's Day, Spring Festival and other days, when the whole family has the opportunity to get together, the elders at home will always set up cookers and cook some traditional foods, such as barbecue strips, braised chicken pieces and fried meatballs. At that time, there were still eight dishes (even more than this number) on the dining table to inherit the charm of the ancient and heavy historical banquet.
3. With the development of economy and society, will the eight bowls be completely thrown away?
With the development and change of society, people are gradually "far away" from the traditional living atmosphere, and some eating styles are slowly changing. In the 1980s, "Eight Bowls" combined various techniques, such as roasting, stewing, dipping, roasting, stewing, frying, steaming and frying. In the past, the eating method of "eight bowls" changed with the times, but it never changed.
For example, some large families still mainly use some traditional techniques such as boiling, frying, baking and steaming eight bowls, but pay more attention to production procedures and working procedures. For example, it takes more than two or three hours to steam meat strips in a steamer later. At the same time, more efforts have been made in the selection of materials, knife work, temperature and other aspects, as well as the selection of ingredients.
With the development of economy and society, will the eight bowls be completely thrown away? Although the eight bowls are well-made, well-selected, economical, fat but not greasy, suitable for all ages, people have a good evaluation of them. However, with the prevalence of modern healthy eating concept, more and more people no longer covet those eight bowls with fatty meat, but pay more attention to dishes with good color, flavor and shape, pay more attention to the collocation of meat and vegetables, and pay more attention to nutrition and health.