water chestnut noodle is a unique traditional flavor food in Heyang County, Shaanxi Province. According to legend, the noodle was created by Han Xin, a famous strategist in the Western Han Dynasty and one of the founding heroes. Youmian has a history of more than 2, years since the birth of the Western Han Dynasty. Because of its long history and convenient eating, Youmian is also called the earliest instant noodles in China.
because of a famous military campaign "the battle of Anyi", the origin of water chestnut was created and put on the stage of history. In April 25 BC, Emperor Gaozu Liu Bang was defeated by Xiang Yu in Pengcheng (now Xuzhou City, Jiangsu Province), and Wei Wangbao, the son of Wei who had surrendered to Liu Bang, took advantage of the chaos to rebel. After Liu Bangpa failed to lobby Wei Wangbao, he sent Han Xin to conquer Wei Wangbao. Han Xin led the Han army to cross the Yellow River to attack Wei Wangbao in Qiachuan, Heyang. In order to solve the problem of soldiers' eating, and at the same time, in order to prevent Wei Jun on the other side of the river from detecting the actual situation of the Han army's troops through the smoke when the Han army buried the pot for cooking, Han Xin ordered women in Heyang County to bake buckwheat flour and white flour into cakes for the Han army to eat. Because of its thick tendons and the ability to carry hunger, the noodle was selected as military food. Later, in order to commemorate Han Xin, the people of Heyang County passed on this production method, and it gradually evolved into today's noodle.
"water chestnut" means "turning around" in Shaanxi dialect, and the method of making water chestnut flour is to use a thick wooden stick to stir the batter with 7% buckwheat flour and 3% white flour in the same direction, and then use a wooden scraper to scrape the evenly stirred batter round and round on the big iron shovel, so Heyang County.
The shaved water chestnut batter was placed on a large iron shovel and baked into a medium-cooked water chestnut cake. For the convenience of eating, the baked flour cake will be spread out on a wooden rafter to cool, then it will be cut into thin noodles less than one centimeter wide and stored in a special wooden box. Generally, the spread noodle can be stored for ten days and a half months in winter and two days in summer.
Although the making process of water chestnut flour is complicated and time-consuming and labor-consuming, the eating method is quite simple. Boil water for 2 minutes, put it in a bowl, add a little salt, vinegar, pepper noodles and chopped green onion, then pour a spoonful of red oil chili pepper and dig a spoonful of cooked lard on the water, and serve.
? In Shaanxi, although the noodle is not as famous as Chinese hamburger or cold rice noodles, it is unique in various towns and villages in Heyang County, conquering the taste buds of the people in Heyang County with its delicious taste and feelings inherited for thousands of years.
On the gourmet status of Youmian in Heyang County, the mutton paomo and mutton Hele, which once became famous in Shaanxi, became the first choice for people in Heyang County. In Heyang County, almost every township will open several noodle restaurants. Those who have guests at home, or are too busy with farm work to cook, or migrant workers returning from work in other places, and students who go out to study, the first thing to do when they get home is to go to the street to eat a bowl of noodles. In the hearts of Heyang people, noodle is not only a kind of delicious food, but also a kind of feeling for hometown.
on may 28th, 215, Youmian was listed in the intangible cultural heritage protection list of Weinan city because of its long history. May the face that has been passed down for thousands of years be passed down forever in the long river of history.