What traditional food to eat in July and a half in 2022?
1, eat rice flour
On the Mid-Autumn Festival, there is a custom of eating seto powder in Dongguan, and it is almost universal in Dongguan. Of course, the method of eating seto powder is different in different areas. Seto powder, a traditional food of Dongguan Life Banquet, means long life and long life.
Dongguan is most famous for roast goose. Roasting goose wrasse, the most exquisite thing is a pot of delicious soup, which needs to be cooked with whole chicken, large pieces of meat and bones, and many special herbs and spices. When eating, blanch the seto flour in hot water and put it into a bowl, then add a tablespoon of broth, and spread the flour with a layer of crispy roast goose.
2. Steamed sheep
In the rural areas of old Beijing and North China, it is popular that grandfathers and uncles send live sheep to their little nephews on July 15th. Legend has it that this custom is related to the legend that agarwood splits the mountain to save mother. After Aquilaria split the mountain to save her mother, she wanted to kill her uncle Erlang, who abused her mother. In order to rebuild the friendship between brother and sister and uncle and nephew, Erlang gave Aquilaria a pair of live sheep on July 15th every year. It is said that this is a homonym for taking the surname of Erlang and Aquilaria's mother "Yang" to reunite the two families. From then on, the folk left the custom of sending live sheep to my uncle, and later it gradually evolved into sending a sheep to the other side.
Another way of saying this folk custom is that the mother molded a pair of sheep with white flour for her married daughter, of course, it had to be steamed, and the head of the sheep had to be wrapped with red cloth strips. The bride's family will form a small sheep delivery team to the new uncle's house, and the new uncle will cut the face sheep and hang the first cut piece in the living room with red rope. This "face mutton" will not be taken down until the new face sheep is delivered on July 15 of the following year. Among them, the emphasis is "old sheep see new sheep, and there is more food every year." After cutting the sheep, the new son-in-law will eat the head of the sheep, the married daughter will eat the feet of the sheep, and the rest will be distributed to the neighbors of the elders of the man to show harmony and beauty, and * * * will enjoy happiness.
3. Eat flower buns
Before the 15th day of July, dough sculpture activities were popular among folk women, especially in northern Shanxi. A steamed bun shop, neighbors came to help. First of all, according to the actual number of people in the family, give everyone a big steamed bun first.
The steamed buns given to the younger generation should be kneaded into a flat shape, which is called a noodle sheep. I hope that the younger generation will not forget the kindness of their parents. The flower steamed buns given to the older generation should be shaped into an adult, which means that the children and grandchildren are full of people and live a long life; The steamed buns given to peers should be shaped into fish, which is called noodle fish, which means more than one year.
4. Eat duck
On the Mid-Autumn Festival on the 15th day of the seventh lunar month, many places in China will choose to eat ducks. Why? It turns out that "duck" means "pressure", which is homophonic. Eating ducks is to suppress ghosts. Besides, the chicken feet are raked, which is easy to catch the ghost's clothes (probably afraid of accumulating bad feelings and refusing to return to their original places), so it is reasonable to choose a duck with flat feet. People in Dongguan usually eat duck with lotus root in pot.
Eating ducks on the Mid-Autumn Festival is because it is said that the deceased ancestors will go home to visit relatives on the Mid-Autumn Festival and cross the Naihe Bridge, but they can't cross it without a boat. Therefore, the living people should send some ducks down so that they can swim and bring them back. Over time, it has formed a tradition to eat ducks on Halloween.
5, eat flat food
In Dongxian Township, Jiangsu Province, many villagers eat flat food (a kind of food made of flour and sugar) on the Mid-Autumn Festival. Now some people call flat food jiaozi, but it is very different from jiaozi. The difference between flat food and jiaozi lies in the skin first and the stuffing second.
As far as skin is concerned, dumpling skin is thick, while flat food skin is as thin as cicada's wings and crystal clear. Dumplings are filled with little stuffing, as small as the thumb, so jiaozi is relatively small. Although there are more than a dozen jiaozi in a bowl, it only accounts for one third of the bowl, and the rest are all soup, and jiaozi's stuffing is relatively simple, and more vegetarian dishes and seasonings are added to pork. Flat food is very different, not only meat and vegetables can be stuffed, but also chicken, duck, fish, crab, prickly heat, tender soybeans and so on, and special attention is paid to matching, chicken breast with celery, pork with shepherd's purse, eggs with leeks and so on.
6. Eat "dumpling cakes"
On the rooftop of Taizhou City, Zhejiang Province, they will eat "jiaobing", a kind of food similar to spring rolls, on the Mid-Autumn Festival. According to legend, the dumpling tube was left by Jigong. When Jigong was a monk in kokuseiji, he saw that there were many dishes left in every meal, and he felt it was very wasteful. So he wrapped these dishes in a paste-pulled skin for the next meal to eat. This practice was loved by all the monks and spread to the people.
To make dumpling wrappers, stir-fry the stuffing and put it aside. Common fillings are pork, pork liver, shredded eggs, bean curd skin, winter bamboo shoots, bean noodles, celery, bean sprouts, kelp and dried fish. Then paste the flour prepared in advance on the "tobacco" and paste it into a thin round skin (paste-pulled skin). Finally, wrap the ingredients in the paste-pulled leather in order, so as not to be too "fat" or too "thin", otherwise it will not look good. After the dumpling tube is wrapped, it should also be fried on the "tobacco" until the outer skin is golden yellow and shiny.
In addition, in Duling County, Shandong Province, the Mid-Autumn Festival is called "Pinzui Festival" by the local people, and every family has the custom of eating rough tea and plain rice.
What to eat all over the country on the Mid-Autumn Festival in 2022?
In Jiangsu and Zhejiang, they all eat "dumpling cakes" on the Mid-Autumn Festival, which is a kind of food similar to spring rolls, a traditional food in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, and a traditional snack that can be seen everywhere in Jiangsu and Zhejiang. They will also eat another kind of food, called "flat food", which is actually a kind of wonton with a thin skin and a long and narrow shape.
In Guangdong, they will eat rice flour on the Mid-Autumn Festival, which means praying for peace. Seto powder is a local specialty snack, which is sold in food stalls in the streets and alleys of various places in Guangdong. There are many ways to eat seto powder, and Cantonese people will also eat this delicious food when celebrating their birthdays, which has the meaning of adding happiness and longevity.
In Hebei, they will eat steamed noodles on the Mid-Autumn Festival. On this day, they will bring some steamed sheep, fruits and wine to worship their ancestors, and then give them to their daughters and grandchildren. Some families are poor, so they use steamed noodles instead of sheep.
In northern Shaanxi, they will eat flower buns on the Mid-Autumn Festival. Flower buns are white flour buns with various dried fruit ingredients, which are made into various shapes to symbolize peace, filial piety, children and grandchildren, and more than a year. July 30 every year has become a festival for local peasant women to show their skills.
In most areas of China, they eat ducks on the Mid-Autumn Festival, which is also called "Ghost Festival", and the homonym of ducks is "pressure", which means suppressing evil spirits. The Mid-Autumn Festival is really the hottest time in summer, and eating ducks can also reduce fire and clear heat.