In the folklore, it is also called "sister-in-law's noodles", named after King Wen of the Western Zhou Dynasty. According to the legend, King Wen of Zhou, whose parents died when he was young, relied on his sister-in-law to raise him. Once encountered a downpour in the middle of the campaign, wind and cold into the bones, served a hundred drugs do not see any improvement, bedridden for several days, sister-in-law learned of the cupboard, rolled a bowl of hot noodles for King Wen, King Wen ate sweating, refreshed, and then to commemorate his sister-in-law so named "sister-in-law noodles,"
There is also a legend that during the Western Zhou Dynasty, there was an evil dragon, a dragon, a dragon, a dragon, a dragon. During the Western Zhou Dynasty, there was an evil dragon that caused harm to the people. One day, Zhou Wen Wang's son Zhou Wu Wang is leading an inspection, happened to meet this evil dragon to harm the people, the king ordered the soldiers to line up, raised arrows, killed the evil dragon. In order to celebrate, a table of good luck. To make the army fireman to carry a big pot, will be cut into small pieces of dragon meat fried do, because of the meat less soldiers, can only give each person in the bowl put a little bashful, the result makes the noodles doubly delicious.
There is also a theory that the bashfulness of noodles was developed on the basis of the "long life noodles" in the Tang Dynasty. The Tang Dynasty poet Liu Yuxi wrote, "I was a guest on the table, and I ate soup cake with a stick." In the Tang Dynasty, food like noodles was called "soup cake". The "soup cake" mentioned in Liu's poem is "long-life noodles". It was a good snack for guests in the Tang Dynasty. According to legend, when Su Dongpo was an official in Shaanxi, he was particularly fond of this kind of noodles and wrote a poem in its praise: "I want to go as a guest of soup cake, but I am worried about writing the wrong book."
There is a story in the folklore about why the "long-life noodles" were renamed "bashful noodles": a long time ago, a family in Qishan married a daughter-in-law who was beautiful, smart, hardworking and clever. On the second day of her arrival at her in-laws' home, the new daughter-in-law made a meal of noodles for the whole family, and the family praised the noodles for their smoothness and freshness after eating them. Later, when her brother-in-law won an official post, he invited his friends and classmates to his home, and asked his sister-in-law to make the best noodles for the guests, and they all ate them with full praise. From then on, "Sister-in-law's Noodles" became famous. Because this kind of "sister-in-law's noodles" must be topped with bashfulness, people also call it "sister-in-law's noodles". So people also call it "bashful noodles".
According to historical facts, the meat appeared in the Northern Song Dynasty, and it was recorded in the Mengliang Records that there were stores specializing in processing and selling the meat. However, it is not known whether there was already "bashful noodles" at that time. In the Ming Dynasty, Gao Lian wrote down "Shame Meat Noodle Method" in "Zunsheng Bazian", so it is safe to say that "Shame Noodle" has been introduced at least before Gao Lian wrote this book.
Shame noodles are smooth, sour and spicy in the mouth, and the noodles must be rolled out by hand, which is famous for its white, thin, thin, sinewy, and light, and the soup is sour, spicy, thin, wang, and fragrant, which is made by adding raw materials such as pork, cauliflower, eggs, fungus, tofu, garlic and other kinds of condiments, which is a unique folk snack in Shaanxi. Nowadays, the bashful noodles are highlighted with nine characteristics:
Sour --- using old vinegar to make the soup outstandingly sour;
Spicy --- splashing hot pepper noodles with frying oil to make its soup spicy with freshness;
Aromatic ---- bashfulness has a unique fragrance;thin --- means the noodles are rolled out very thinly by hand;
Tendon ---- noodles are thin but not pus;
Light --- the noodles are as light as swimming fish;
Frying ---- the soup is very hot;
Thin --- each bowl of noodle soup is more and less, the noodles are only enough for one bite, the average person will eat more than ten bowls, the guy can eat up to 30 or 40 bowls;
Wang ---- the soup has a lot of oil, sealing the soup's heat, and it does not easily cool down, even on cold days in the nineties. At the same time the bottom dishes and floating vegetables are also very delicate, in the color of the dish is divided into red (carrots), yellow (yellow flowers), white (tofu), gold (egg cake), black (fungus) green (leeks) and so on, cooking bashfulness is even more elaborate.
Shame noodles in Guanzhong region of Shaanxi Province is worth a lot. In addition to inheriting the Tang Dynasty "long life noodles" customs, such as in the birthday birthday must eat, every wedding and funeral, or festivals, it is necessary to treat guests. In the old days, there was also this custom in rural Shaanxi: the day after a new daughter-in-law crossed the threshold, a grand rolling ceremony was held at the in-laws' home, where the new daughter-in-law rolled out the noodles on the table in front of the guests to test the level of her skills. Highly skilled and skillful people, rolling out the surface thickness uniformity, cut the strip long and thin, down to the pot will not break, such a new daughter-in-law, in order to win everyone's praise.