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Please ask the origin and history and culture of Chaoshan snacks
One, the birth of the poor, natural

China's countless local snacks or snacks, the formation of either out of the court, or produced in the folk. However, almost all of the snacks in Chaoshan are originated from the folk and have been passed down in the folk. This is due to the fact that Chaoshan is located at the end of the province and far away from the political center of the country, as well as the late formation of the commercial society and the low level of social affluence. A few Chaoshan snacks at your fingertips: Xitian Lane Oyster Roast, Gong Gu Goose Meat, Lao Sister Pork Feet Rice, Ma Ma Gong Dumpling Ball, which a name is not simple and straightforward, the local flavor pungent. Overview of the Chaoshan snacks, its formation of roughly three channels.

1, tribute to the gods

Chaoshan coastal, hot, humid climate, people are prone to disease, coupled with the high risk of maritime operations, labor and harvest disproportionate, more chance factors, when people can not predict their own destiny, often put their hopes in the gods blessing. In addition, in times of material scarcity, with the worship of the gods, people could also give themselves a reason to improve their lives. Therefore, the old Chaoshan folk beliefs were characterized by many seasons and many gods. Many Chaoshan snacks were originally tributes to the gods, such as the "vegetable head kuey teow" (meaning colorful) and "sweet kuey teow" of the Spring Festival, the "noodle thread" (meaning longevity) of A-Ma Zu's birthday, the "noodle thread" of the Dragon Boat Festival, and the "noodle thread" of the Dragon Boat Festival. The Dragon Boat Festival "dumplings ball", the Mid-Autumn Festival "moon cake" and so on, as the saying goes, "the season to do the season kuey teow", that time, what time of year to eat what snacks have certain rules.

2, complementary to the main meal of snacks

This part of the Chaoshan snacks are not like the Cantonese dim sum, is the idle class has nothing to do, used to pass the time of tea, but the countryside towns and cities of the drudgery used to fill up the hunger of the small food. The Boomers were accustomed to eating congee, either because there was not enough food in the early days or because of the climate. Do rough work in the morning to eat a few big bowls of porridge, can not stand a burst of sweat, the main meal has not yet arrived, has been hungry. At this time, encountered through the streets and alleys of the food stalls like to find a savior, he pulled out a few pennies can be supplemented with a bit of energy, to make up for the moment needed. At that time, in summer, there were summer grass kuey teow (cold noodles), bean flowers, all kinds of sweet soup. In winter, there were hot beef ball soup, leek kuey teow and water kuey teow. Eat grass kuey teow without a spoon, pick up a shallow bowl, mouth along the bowl rim "whirring, whirring" circle, water cloth a wipe mouth, cool! Beef balls were originally a Hakka snack. After the opening of Shantou, mountain goods went out to the ocean and foreign goods went into the mountains, and the water transportation was busy. The area around Shantou's Hanti used to be a mooring point for Hakka cargo ships, and many Hakka cargo ships stopped there for the night. At night, some Hakka people rowed their boats and sold beef ball soup to the captains of the freighters as a snack. Later, the beef ball was reformed and innovated by the Teochew people by adding kuey teow to the soup, which became beef ball kuey teow, and has remained a favorite snack of the Teochew people until now. Later on, fish ball, shrimp ball, cuttlefish ball, pork ball and so on were cloned, creating the "meat ball series" of Chaoshan. The Shantou people made the "Xinxing Street Beef Balls" which is one of the "Famous Chinese Snacks". Nowadays, when it comes to beef meatballs, everyone thinks it is Chao, in fact, it is the product of Chao people's nativism. The ingenuity of the Boomers is expressed in a small pill.

3, home-cooked snacks

The most culinary significance of the snacks, is a variety of home-cooked snacks for the children of Chaoshan clever daughter-in-law to do. Such as pumpkin brand, autumn melon brand, tomato brand. In the old days, the season has not yet arrived, the children are clamoring to eat "kueyue", the daughter-in-law of the family will have to think of some ways to beat these greedy children. In the rural areas of Chaoshan, every family had sweet potato flour, and they would pick the fruits and vegetables from their own fields, mix them together, and fry them in oil to make them into a snack with a unique flavor. When I was a kid, I ate my grandmother with sweet potato flour mixed with overnight cold porridge made of "cold porridge brand", really is a unique flavor.

There is a snack called "pig's head dumplings", which is said to be the unintentional work of the people of Chenghai. Early years of Chenghai rural Lantern Festival has a big pig race custom, each family seafood to slaughter the pig ancestor, there is a family sacrificed ancestor, the rest of the pig's head for a moment failed to eat, they will be the pig's head meat chopped up, plus seasoning, made of "pig's head dumplings", do not want to be particularly tasty. So it spread and became a flavorful snack.

Chaoshan snacks with the face of goods into the market is in the last century, the twenties and thirties, that is, Shantou, the commercial economy of the heyday of the period. At that time, the small park, stores, restaurants, hotels gathered, forming a typical consumer market, as a kind of food, Chaoshan snacks naturally can also find their place here, such as the old Aixi Ganmian, Piaoxiang snacks, Xitianxiang oyster brand, old mom Gong zongzi ball and so on, are in that period of time into the small park. As described above, in the diet, snacks have more cultural significance, so it is easy to become a local cultural identity, y imprinted in people's minds. Do not see, many living abroad in Shantou, Shantou, the first thing is to go straight to the park, to the old snack bar to eat a meal of Chaoshan snacks, in order to get rid of the lingering homesickness.

The Chaoshan snacks are rooted in the people, it does not depend on the official culture, the culture of the scholar, from the date of birth to the natural attitude, comply with the natural law of natural selection, spread in the people, so we can now taste so many rich local flavor of the snacks.

Two, simple materials, unique flavor

Cantonese-style snacks to the foreign long, such as milk buns, egg tarts, barbecued pork buns. Shanghai snacks are famous for seafood, such as crab roe soup dumplings, fish velvet spring rolls. Northern snacks, on the other hand, are noodle-based. The Chaoshan snacks are not made without rice. The word "kueh" in Chaoshan dialect summarizes the main ingredients of Chaoshan snacks. In the Chaoshan dictionary, the word "kuey teow" is interpreted as a kind of fruit with rice flour as the skin and filling. Chive kuey teow because the skin is sweet potato flour, filling is vegetables, commonly known as "no rice kuey teow", see the position of rice in the snacks. Earlier, the ancestors of Chaoshan migrated from the Central Plains to Chaoshan, and according to the custom of their ancestral home, they had to use pasta as the fruit for ancestor worship, and since wheat was not produced in the south, they could only use rice to make the fruit. This is the origin of "kuey teow". Later on, the raw materials and practices of sacrificial food continued to innovate, and as a result of this custom, people called all the sacrificial packages "kuey teow". Chao people in the use of rice to do snacks can be really out of this world, it can be a raw material is both skin and filling - "rice wrapped in rice". If there is a snack called "peach kuey teow", glutinous rice flour to do skin, glutinous rice into the filling, but do not feel boring, but also very fragrant and delicious.