No matter whether it is flower bun or jujube mountain, are for the upper supply with. In the northern countryside, flower buns are divided into two kinds, one is "top flower buns", one is "sandwich date flower buns".

What is the top flower bun? It is the same as our usual steamed buns, the bun into a round after kneading, in the top of the roundest place covered with a piece of flower divided into four petals. The flower is made of flour, the easiest way is two noodles, about two centimeters wide each, with chopsticks in the middle of a pinch, the noodles naturally into a flower, but this flower is relatively simple and rough, and some are carved with a knife, it all depends on their own want to work hard.

The four pieces of flowers on top of the bun, and then put a date on top of it, this is the item flower bun, in fact, is a round steamed bread, with a date on top.

Pepper flower bun is the following two slices of the face, round, the center of the date, set full, two slices of the face of the middle of the date, similar to the rural areas usually do the kind of "vegetable cake", but here is not vegetables but dates.

Additionally, this clip flower buns are generally given to the married daughter and son-in-law came to eat, and is not on the offerings with.

Jujube mountain is more complicated. This is too big to lay flat and look like a mountain going up step by step. The way to do it is to first make a large sheet of dough, which is the base of the jujube mountain. Then you put five fan-shaped patterns made from the noodles on top. Why not three or four? Because in the countryside there is a saying that there are three gods and four ghosts, and three or four is not appropriate.

Here to say a few words about this mountain pattern, it is not the same as we usually think of the mountain, is a piece of noodle bottom, the top of the noodle disk into, each corner of the place to put a date, steamed out very large, eat when they are cut to eat.

The jujube mountain is for offering, and is placed in the most important place, such as New Year's Eve will "invite" God, this jujube mountain is placed in front of God.

Besides jujube flower and jujube mountain, there is another kind of jujube slice that is especially big and very complicated, a whole surface as the base, and jujube mountain on the top of a very different pattern, the top is jujube. This is also for the daughter and son-in-law to eat.

Of course, you can eat it yourself, but if you have a daughter or son-in-law, you have to let them have the first bite when they come home on the second day of the month.

Summary: In the countryside nowadays, there are not many people who steam this. In the past, every year, the first family will be steamed, now more than some old people steamed, the young people also do not love to eat, and even less steamed. But we still say, jujube flower and jujube mountain these, in fact, is the old ancestors handed down, inside the profound meaning. However, the question of the subject is food, about the moral aspect, we will not expand.