Drinking soup yet?" When I went out last night, an old lady greeted me. A simple greeting, through the old Luoyang people's cordiality.

Drinking soup is a typical Luoyang dialect and the most authentic western Yu folklore. The traditional Luoyang soup, specifically refers to eating dinner; the current soup, has long exceeded the meaning of eating dinner, is to drink thin rice, beef soup, mutton soup, meatball soup and other soups collectively.

The hot, fragrant soup, not only the ancient capital of the people in the enjoyment of life, but also hosted in the field of Luoyang hometown of the most intense feelings of nostalgia.

Drinking soup was originally meant to be dinner

Luoyang folklore scholar and TV writer-director Han Zi said that drinking soup in Luoyang dialect originally referred to eating dinner. In the past, Luoyang people were poor and couldn't afford to eat buns for dinner, and most of them had small rice soup, rice soup, noodle soup, yellow noodle soup and other thin rice, so it was called drinking soup.

Time has passed, and drinking thin rice at night has become a habit of life in Luoyang. Many families are used to put some green beans, soybeans and other beans in the soup to make it more flavorful and delicious.

- When it comes to the green and yellow, it is even more difficult to drink a very thin soup at night. In the old days, there was a song that said, "The soup is thin in the morning, the soup is thin in the afternoon, and the moon can be seen at the bottom of the bowl in the evening."

About eating dinner, Luoyang people have a saying: "Eat early in the morning, eat full at noon, line darker do not eat to pull down." In Luoning, Mengjin and other places, drinking soup is also divided into "salty rice" and "sweet rice". "Salty rice" refers to noodles, braised vegetables, vegetables, porridge and other salt meals; "sweet rice" refers to the "light rice" without salt, such as Liu Xiu soup (Luoyang local snacks, a kind of wheat congee), radish thin rice, The sweet rice refers to "light rice" without salt, such as Liu Xiu soup (a local snack in Luoyang, a kind of wheat porridge), thin rice with radish, noodle soup, and sweet noodle leaves.

Nowadays, in Luoyang, dinner has become the grandest meal of the day for most families, and many of them are used to frying a few dishes, making a pot of soup, buying a few buns, and then sitting around the dinner table as a family, eating and chatting.

Bean curd soup in the morning, pills soup in the evening

With the constant change of life, Luoyang folklore is also changing. People in Luoyang often drink beef soup, mutton soup, meatball soup, tofu soup, non-turnover soup and other soups, which used to be called "eating steamed buns" but are now collectively called "drinking soup".

The old Luoyang people have a catchphrase: "tofu soup in the morning, pills soup at night", a graphic illustration of the eating habits of the Luoyang people.

Luoyang people love to drink beef soup in the morning, mutton soup, tofu soup, mixed liver soup, etc., soaked with cakes, buns, pot helmets, and ate sweating; at night, a bowl of hot and sour delicious pill soup, not to turn over the soup, spicy soup, and then put on the outside of the burnt soybean noodles balls or thin as a cicada's wings of the soybean noodle cake, both stomach and comfort.

In Luoyang, drinking beef soup, mutton soup has become a kind of folk culture, especially the old city, the Chanshui River "old soup", or thick or light, different styles, but have a large number of regular diners.

The degree of saltiness of the old city people drink soup, just like the Go player's position, can tell a person drinking soup "Dao Xing". Often, the older they are, the longer they have been drinking soup, the lighter the flavor of the soup they require, and those who are accustomed to drinking "sweet soup" (i.e., no salt) are the most authentic "drinkers".

Favorite drink is the "first pot of soup"

Old Luoyang people like to squat on the ground to drink soup. In the past, Luoyang soup halls often do not have enough seats, most people can only squat to drink soup, over time, squatting to drink soup actually became a habit of the ancient capital.

In the morning, a large number of people squatting at the door of the soup house, good friends eating and chatting, become a unique landscape of the ancient capital in the morning.

Luoyang people like to drink "first pot of soup". Luoyang folklore scholar Dong Gao-sheng said vividly, "At seven o'clock, you drink soup (original flavor), at eight o'clock, you drink oil (add more water, rely on the oil to get the flavor), and at nine o'clock, you drink water." Many old Luoyang people often wait at the door of the soup house at the crowing of the rooster, in order to be able to drink the "first three bowls".

Old Luoyang people drink soup to pay attention to the "three beauties", that is, "lean meat, pancakes, fat soup", one of the three is indispensable. However, modern life is better, the stomach no longer need so much oil and water, so most people drink soup before, asked the shopkeeper to serve "clear soup" (without a large oil flower soup).

Many diners enter the door to drink soup, always shout to the shopkeeper a "double pepper", the shopkeeper will immediately understand. "Double pepper" is the jargon of the Luoyang soup house, that is, people who like to eat chili peppers, ask the store to put double chili peppers.

The biggest difference between Luoyang's beef, mutton and liver soups and those from other countries is that people can "add soup" at will. When you finish your bowl of soup, you can add as much as you want, and the shopkeeper won't ask for money. The custom of "adding soup" reflects the ancient ways of the merchants of the ancient capital.

Luoyang people good soup into a habit

Drinking soup, has become a lingering habit of Luoyang people. People in Luoyang occasionally travel for a week or two, the biggest wish of the heart, no better than to come back early to drink a bowl of steaming soup.

In Jianxi, Xigong, many people early in the morning to drive to the Chanshui River East Huatan, Mengjin Tiexie, back and forth for more than an hour, in order to be able to drink a bowl of authentic authentic beef soup, mutton soup, day in and day out, happy.

A star hotel in our city, a nutritionist believes that Luoyang people drink soup, in fact, is the most nutritious breakfast. First, the soup is boiled with the bones of cattle and sheep, you can replenish calcium; second, the soup can replenish the body's need for fat, water; third, the soup also has green onions, garlic shoots, green vegetables. These three things, are the most important thing that the human body needs to replenish in the morning.

Why are Luoyang people so good at drinking soup? Han Zi think there are two reasons: one is the past Luoyang people poor, mostly eat sweet potato flour, cornmeal and other coarse bread, this bread if you put a night, and coarse and hard like a brick, it is difficult to swallow, but the coarse bread with hot broth stewed soft, eat a mouthful of soft bread on a mouthful of hot soup, not only comfortable, but also appetizing; two is inexpensive, such as beef soup, the initial bowl of 8 cents, and now only a dollar or two, everyone can afford it! The company's products and services are also available at a reasonable price.

Dong Gao-sheng believes that Luoyang's climate is relatively dry, and the human body needs to replenish a lot of water. Luoyang a variety of different styles of soup food, it is the product of the regional climate, so can be a long time by the people of Luoyang's favorite.