Noodles are like belts, pot helmets are like pot lids, chili is a dish, steamed buns are sold in big bowls, bowls and pots are hard to separate, pappa is worn on the head, the house is half-covered, the girl is not outwardly oriented, she doesn't sit down and squat up, and she sings and roars in the opera. Shaanxi ten strange is actually a unique life.
As the saying goes, "A hundred miles of different winds, ten miles of different customs." In this piece of yellow land in Shaanxi, due to the influence of climate, economy, culture and other reasons, Shaanxi people (Guanzhi people) in the clothing, food, housing, transportation, east and so on, formed some unique ways. Foreigners are very curious about this, after the collection called "Shaanxi ten strange" (i.e., "Guanzhong ten strange"): noodles like belt, pot helmet like pot benefit, spicy is a dish, steamed buns sold in large bowls, bowls and pots are difficult to separate, Papa head to wear, half of the house cover, the girl is not external! The first is to make sure that you are not sitting on the floor, squatting up, and roaring up in the opera.
One of the noodles is like a belt
"The noodles are as wide as the belt of your pants". Pulled noodles, also known as ice ice (read biang - biang, modern Chinese dictionary does not have this word) noodles, authentic Guan people do ice ice noodles and usually city people eat pulled noodles or a certain difference. Authentic ice ice noodles, a noodle width of up to two or three inches, the length of one meter, the thickness of the thick and coins, but thin as a cicada wing. One noodle is enough for a meal, and for the big eaters in Guanzhou, a meal of 8 two, 1 catty is also easy.
The Guanzhong people eat noodles, like to make them hard and soft, roll them thick and cut them wide. This kind of noodle after cooking, fishing in the bowl, whether pouring bashfulness, or splashing oil chili, eating are very smooth, soft, hot, sinewy. Both delicious and hunger. People's neck a stretch, hollering swallowed into the belly, eat full and bloated, hiccups, suddenly all the body is strength, pulling a frame car, carrying stones on the mountain, five or six hours without eating or drinking do not feel hungry.
Second, the helmet like a pot lid
Legend has it that in the Tang Dynasty to repair the Qianling mausoleum, due to the number of soldiers and artisans serving too many people, often delayed for dinner and construction progress, be punished. So, a soldier in the anxiety then put the dough into the helmet, the helmet into the fire to bake, and branded into cakes. Now counting pot helmets in Shaanxi has a history of thousands of years.
Doing pot helmet, the surface should be very hard, hard to knead by hand, to borrow the wooden bar to pressure kneading, and then put in the diameter of more than 2 feet in the cauldron slowly baked and become. In this way, the branded helmet outside the crisp morning crisp, fragrant and delicious, put on ten days eight days will not change flavor. Helmet to count "Qianzhou (now Qianxian) helmet" good.
Three, chili is a dish
As for chili, people generally think that Hunan, Sichuan people can eat chili. In fact, the Sichuan people just take the chili as a seasoning, but in Shaanxi "did not splash chili" is a serious dish. Even Xi'an city households are full of strings of red chili pepper before hanging.
"Oil splash hot pepper" look red, smell fragrant, eat spicy, can be used to adjust the noodle, but also can be sandwiched between the bread to eat. People often say "oil splash hot pepper ice ice noodles eat prairie (good) Zha Zha!"
Four, steamed buns sold in large bowls
"Beef and mutton steamed buns sold in large bowls" can be called "Shaanxi's first bubble", "Xi'an's first bowl". To Xi'an without eating beef and mutton steamed buns seems to be a trip in vain. And beef and mutton steamed buns to count back to the people's food.
The Guanzhi people eat to pay attention to affordable, meat is a large piece of meat, bun is hard and strong dead noodles Toto bun, bowl is able to hold 6 two 8 two big old bowl. Just up the lamb steamed bun is very hot, huffing and puffing hot, eat with chopsticks from the sticking bowl around the mouth to dial, while dialing the side to eat.
The main methods of cooking lamb meat buns are boiling meat, branding buns, simmering soup, breaking buns and boiling buns. The meat should be cooked crispy and rotten. Buns should be branded hard and yellow, but also water does not melt, a hundred cook does not rot. Soup is made from the marrow of beef and mutton. Bun to break the more broken more even the better, and then the bun, meat, vermicelli, green onions, salt, monosodium glutamate and other seasonings to join, in the frying ladle in the hot hot cooking.
Because of the different methods of cooking, mutton buns for cooking buns and small fried. Add the amount of soup is different, divided into dry bubble (soup less) and water around the city (soup more), eat self-proportional. This kind of steamed buns have dry soup, hot and fragrant, it is very appetizing. So the steamed bun museum, they choose a Yaozhou (Yaoxian) production of large porcelain bowl to contain steamed buns.
Five, the bowl is difficult to separate
Shaanxi people (Shaanxi) to eat, like to use a kind of Yaozhou produced nearly 1 foot of white porcelain bowl, locally known as the "old bowl". This old bowl is even larger than a small pot, so it is often difficult to distinguish between bowls and pots.
In the Guanzhong countryside, every meal time, the village head, in front of the village, under the tree, the men were carrying a big old bowl (a bowl of soup and rice plus two pieces of steamed buns enough six or seven two), squatting together, enjoy eating while pulling the words, which is known as "the old bowl will be".
In the countryside, people's labor intensity, work more, eat more, so go out and use the old bowl to sop up enough, do not have to go home to sop up the rice, save a lot of trouble.
Six, Papa head wear
Previously in Shaanxi reflecting the life of the "Western" in the film, often see wearing a goat-belly towel, wearing a lapel jacket of the old man and the elderly women are wearing a black or white Papa (handkerchiefs) on the head (on top of). If you are lucky enough to go to the Guanzhong countryside, the shape here is exactly the same as what you see in the movie.
Originally, the Shaanxi region is rich in cotton, the local people used to weave cotton handkerchiefs worn on the head, it can be dustproof rain sun, but also can be wiped with juice to wipe their hands and used to wrap things, can be said to be both economic and affordable and convenient.
Seven, the house half cover
Whether in Xi'an City or Shaanxi rural areas, can be seen everywhere, "one side of the cover" of the house. What is a side cover? General house roof for the herringbone shape, but the Shaanxi house is one side of the herringbone. It is said that because Shaanxi is dry and rainy, so this side of the house can let all the rainwater flow into their own fields, as the so-called "fertilizer does not flow outside the field".
And because, in the last hundred years, Shaanxi's agricultural development has been slow, but the population has increased rapidly. Families living in the countryside were originally clustered together, because of the limited land area, and the large population, residential tension, and thus formed a house "half cover" of the history.
Eight, the girl is not foreign
It is said that the Guanzhong region of fertile land, so very few people to survive and travel to other places. Therefore, there is "old not out of Guan (Tongguan), less not under the Sichuan (Sichuan)" proverb, over time, not only the men do not go out to travel, even the girls do not marry far away from home.
Nine, do not sit squatting up
Because the men in Guanzhong three meals a day to squat to open the "old bowl will", bribery a squat is more than an hour plus people like to squat in the winter at the back of the wind to the sun place "sun warm" or "throw square". "Throwing party", playing chess. Thus, Guanzhi people have developed the habit of "squatting". Outsiders say this is "bench not sit squatting up". In fact, it is a habit of people resting after exertion.
Ten, singing roar up
Singing opera, refers to the Qinqiang. It is characterized by a high and vigorous, strong and urgent. Especially the singing of the flower face, but also tore open the voice of the loud roar, the local people called "earn broken head", outsiders joke: "singing Qinqiang, one is the stage to be sturdy, so as not to vibrate down; the second is the actor's body to be good, so as not to exhaustion; three is the audience to be bold, so as not to frighten! ".
Howlers, red in the face and thick neck, roar "into the fire", but as long as the audience screamed "good", the roar of the theater is no less happy than what the Grand Prize, people believe that this is the real Qinqiang, listen! "Addictive", "gluttony", "prairie too (great)".