On this piece of yellow land in Shaanxi, due to the influence of climate, landform, economy, culture and other reasons. Shaanxi people have developed some unique ways in clothing, food, housing, transportation and entertainment. Outsiders are very curious about this, after the collection, called "Shaanxi ten strange".

A noodle like a belt

Popularly known as the "800 miles of Qinchuan" Guanzhong wheat. Wheat has become one of the main food of the Guanzhong people. And noodles are the main diet of the Guanzhong people. Guanzhong people eat noodles, like the noodles and hard and kneaded soft, rolled thick, cut wide, and called "biangbiang noodles". This kind of noodle after cooking, fishing in the bowl, whether pouring meat shame, or splash oil chili, eat up is very smooth, soft, hot, sinewy. It is both delicious and hunger-resistant.

Second, the pot helmet like a pot lid

Pot helmet is made of wheat flour billet, in the iron pot and baked into a kind of cake. It is both the Shaanxi people's staple food, but also out of the dry food on the go. About the origin of the pot helmet, traditionally said differently. Some say that the pot helmet is Zhuge Liang's first fledgling, after the fire burned Bowangpo, to help Guan Yu stabilize the army and invented; some say, in the Tang Dynasty to repair the Qianling Mausoleum, due to the number of military personnel serving, craftsmen, and often delayed the construction progress for the meal, and was punished. So, one of the soldiers in the anxiety of the dough into the helmet, the helmet into the fire to bake, and branded into a cake. Because it was made from the helmet, it is called a pot helmet. No matter how you say it, the history of pot helmets in Shaanxi has been thousands of years. Shaanxi people do helmets, the flour and very hard, and even with the hands can not knead, only with the help of wooden bar, with the strength of the whole body to pressure kneading, after the pressure into a round cake, put in an iron pot, with the straw fire slowly roasted, and simmering with a slight fire cooked. In this way, the branded helmet is crispy outside and inside, fragrant and tasty, and will not become tasty even after eight or ten days. Shaanxi rural iron pots are very large, the diameter of the general are more than two feet, so the branded pot helmet is big and thick, very much like a pot lid. This is probably also a manifestation of the pure and simple character and boldness of the Shaanxi people.

Three, hot pepper is a dish

Shaanxi is rich in chili peppers. Shaanxi chili pepper color red long head pointed, taste very spicy, the local people commonly known as "line chili" or "pointed chili". Exported to foreign countries, known as "Qin hot". It is widely believed that Hunan people, Sichuan people can eat chili peppers. In fact, Shaanxi people eat chili much better than Hunan and Sichuan people. Hunan and Sichuan people just take chili peppers as a kind of condiment, while Shaanxi people actually take chili peppers as a dish to eat. Shaanxi people eat hot pepper, is the first chili peppers to remove the handle, with the fire dry, and then pounded into powder with a scoop, through the sieve Luo, and then let on fine salt, and finally with more oil splash, it became the famous local "oil splash hot pepper". This hot pepper, look red, smell fragrant, eat spicy, can be used to adjust the noodle, but also can be sandwiched between the bun to eat. This hot pepper is rich in fat, protein and inorganic salts, with appetizing, rice, appetite effect.

Four, steamed buns sold in big bowls

Winter in Shaanxi is long and cold. Therefore, people have to eat some meals with soup and hot fire. So it gave rise to beef and mutton steamed buns. The extremely popular kinds of steamed buns such as, gourd head steamed buns, big meat boiled buns and sheep blood steamed buns. This kind of steamed buns have dry soup, hot and fragrant, very call for people to open the appetite. Therefore, the average person can eat a lot. Various steamed buns in order to meet the requirements of customers, they chose a kind of Yaozhou production of large porcelain bowl to contain steamed buns. Thus, the "steamed bread big bowl sale" came into being.

Fifth, the bowl is difficult to separate

Shanxi people eat, like to use a Yaosu produced about a foot in diameter 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 rural Guanzhong, almost every village has a place where people get together to eat, or under the big acacia tree, or the village house side. Every time we eat, the men will take a big old bowl, squatting together, while savoring the meal, while enjoying the words, what changes in the pattern of the meal, we even have to taste each other, which is the famous "old bowl will be". Shaanxi people labor intensive, work more, eat more, so when you go out with the old bowl to sheng enough, do not have to go home again to sheng rice, save a lot of trouble.

Six, Papa head wear

Shanxi Guanzhong abundance of cotton, the local rural areas have long been used to cotton spinning and weaving habits. The local people love to put this kind of cotton spinning and weaving made of the soil cloth beam black. Therefore, in Guanzhong rural areas, middle-aged and elderly people have clothing mostly black. This is probably related to the Qin Shi Huang to water as a virtue, noble black legacy. Guanzhong rural elderly women, almost everyone is wearing a black or white papa on the head. Foreigners do not understand why. In fact, the practicality of this Papa is very strong, can be windproof, dustproof, rainproof, sunscreen, can wipe sweat, can clean hands, but also can be used temporarily to wrap things.

Author: george60416622 2005-4-6 21:25 Reply to this statement

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2 This is the Shaanxi ten strange

Seven, the house half cover

Because of China's vast territory, the style of residential houses are different. But like Shaanxi this half of the house building style, but it is rare. What is the reason for this? Originally, in the past hundred years, Shaanxi's slow development of agriculture in the process, but the population has increased rapidly. Families living in the rural areas, because of the limited land area, and a large population, residential tensions, and thus gave rise to the history of China's architectural monstrosity - the house "half cover". This kind of "half-covered" house seems to be a peculiar shape, which is actually a danger signal of population expansion. I think, with the deepening of China's family planning work, this "half cover" of the house may be reduced, until it disappears.

Eight, the girl is not foreign

Guanzhong Plain, fertile land, easy to water. As long as there is a seed into the ground, basically do not worry about food. Therefore, very few people for survival and running pool in other places. Guanzhong region has long had "old not out of Guan (Tongguan), young not down Chuan (Sichuan)" proverb. Over time, not only the men do not go out and travel far, even the girls do not marry far. The main reason for the girls not to marry far away is that in order to take care of each other with their mother's family, they are relatives of each other, so that they can move around.

Nine, do not sit squatting up

Because the men in Guanzhong three meals a day to squat together, "open the old bowl will", and a squat is more than an hour. In addition, people like to squat in the winter in the wind and sunny place "sun warm" or or "throw the party" chess. Thus, Guanzhi people have developed the habit of "squatting". The outsiders say this is "the bench does not sit squatting up".

Ten, singing roar up

Shaanxi folk simple, Guanzhong people work vigorously, eating with a big bowl, singing opera naturally also with a big voice. Guanzhong's main local opera Qinqiang, which is characterized by high, intense, strong and urgent. Especially the singing of the flower face, but also open his voice loud roar, locals call "earn broken head". Outsiders joked: "Singing Qinqiang to have three indispensable conditions, one is the stage to be strong, so as not to vibrate down; the second is the actor's body to be good, so as not to be tired and sick; the audience to be bold, so as not to be scared. This statement, although excessive, but roar on two lines of the opera, for the Guanzhong people, whether singing or listening to the people are very happy. Working in the field, tired, roar on the two Qin cavity, roar people have strength, listen to the people are not lack of; to catch the carriage on the way, lonely, roar on the two Qin cavity, roar people have the spirit of listening to the people are also happy. Whenever the farming season, or the New Year's holidays, people who love to sing opera always like to get together, roar a few. At this time, as long as the strings (flute, huqin and other orchestral instruments commonly known as) a pull, the drums and gongs a hit, the nearby men, women and children will immediately hear the sound and move to gather, or as actors, or as listeners. This is neither costly nor troublesome, but also very lively "self-music class". Love to sing, will sing, will be in the "townspeople" under the recommendation or self-reported courage to roar a few lines. This kind of roar is obligatory, not to take any pay, as long as the audience can scream "good", roar the degree of happiness of the theater is not less than what won the Grand Prize. Roar of people, red-necked and thick, roar "into the fire"; listen to the people, quiet breath, listen to the intoxicated. Guan people think, this is the real Qinqiang, listen to the addictive, gluttony, loud and clear.