Shaanxi's "eight bowls" are steamed crispy meat, elbow, steamed meat, chicken, bacon, braised chicken pieces, longan meat, and the only dessert Babao rice. These eight dishes are all steamed in bowls.
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The "eight bowls" in Shaanxi are the memories of the old Shaanxi people. In the past, the old Shaanxi people lived in a place called "Pit Yard", which was to dig down on a flat bottom and build an open-air house underground, which was a bit like a building cave on the Loess Plateau.
There is a saying in the pit yard that "you can't see the village when you see the tree, the house when you see the village, and the people when you hear it." At present, the pit has been included in the national cultural heritage list. Old Shaanxi people usually plant a tree in the pit yard to prevent outsiders from falling unfortunately.
When people in old Shaanxi want to hold a happy event, they will put a row of pots in the yard, and ten pots will cook at the same time, which is the "eight bowls" in Shaanxi. The villagers sat in the pit yard and ate the delicious "eight bowls" with simple folk customs, which was very leisurely.