eating noodles on the second day of the first year \xd\ "jiaozi's noodles on the second day of the first year turned around and ran home." It is a trilogy of Tianjin Wei's Spring Festival food customs with unique local characteristics, and it contains rich food culture connotations. During the Spring Festival, dumplings are eaten with the theme of "harmony". In a myth and legend in China, the god who symbolizes the love between husband and wife is called "Harmony and Two Immortals": he often paints two images, smiles, holds a lotus flower and a round box, which means "harmony and harmony". "Lotus" is homophonic with harmony and harmony; The zygote is isomorphic to the circle of the round box; How the shape, sound and meaning of the two are consistent! It can be seen that the inclusion of zygotes in the recipes during the Spring Festival symbolizes family reunion, family harmony, family harmony and smooth life. In order to make the zygote round and tidy around, the old people also trimmed it with the edge of the bowl; The stuffing of the zygote should be packed enough, which includes many good intentions of reunion and happiness. In order to make the zygote "beautiful", the surrounding area has to be pinched into lace, which can be regarded as a work of art for pasta. Eating noodles on the seventh day of the first month \xd\ In most places, there is a custom of eating noodles on this day, which means that noodles are wrapped around the legs of the years and take the meaning of longevity. In addition, the 17th and 27th days of the first month are also regarded as "personal days". The seventh, seventeenth and twenty-seventh days of the first month are the "days" for children, adults and the elderly respectively. Whoever wants to live the "days" will eat noodles. \xd\ Eating noodles on the 17th day of the first month \xd\ The 17th day of the first month is a noodle eating festival, which is a traditional festival in China. When the 17th day of the first month comes, it is a traditional custom for China people to eat noodles, in order to keep themselves safe for one year. \xd\ Eating noodles on New Year's Day \xd\ Soup cake is actually a kind of noodle soup. Put the mixed dough in your hand, tear it into noodles and cook it in the pot. Refers to the ancient food where wheat flour products were boiled in water. In the "Cake Method" in Volume 9 of Qi Min Yao Shu by Jia Sixie in Wei Dynasty, the method of "water drawing" was mentioned, in which the method of "water drawing" was made: "_(ruó) is as big as a bamboo stick, and a foot is broken, and the dish is filled with water, so it is advisable to put it on the pan by hand, and make it as thin as leek leaves. _ _ "_ If the finger is big, two inches will be broken, and you should dip it in the basin. You should reach the basin by hand to make it extremely thin, and all of them will be boiled by fire. It is not straight, white and lovely, but also self-sliding and beautiful. " It can be known that water and _ _ belong to the same type of food, but water is like noodles today, and _ _ is like peeling skin today. In fact, the "Nian _ _" mentioned by the Song people is a general term, which also includes water quotation. In the Northern Song Dynasty, "Miscellaneous Notes on Years" said: "On New Year's Day, people in the capital eat more cakes, so-called years, or something like that." (Five Quotations of "Guang Ji at the Age of Years") Asking for cakes is the long quotation of the previous generation. Long lead refers to something that is elongated, and rope cake refers to a cake that is as slender as a rope. Both names are about food with a slender shape. From the above, it can be seen that noodles and other foods were popular on New Year's Day in the Song Dynasty. \xd\ Eating noodles on February 2nd \xd\ People have formed a habit. Every February 2nd, people explode popcorn and some fry beans. Adults and children still read: "On February 2, the dragon looked up, the big warehouse was full, and the small warehouse flowed." In some places, kitchen ashes are scattered into big circles in the yard, and whole grains are placed in the middle, which is called "hoarding" or "filling the warehouse". Its meaning is to wish the grain harvest and the warehouse full. During festivals, food names are generally added with the title of "dragon" everywhere. Eating dumplings is called eating "dragon ears"; Eating spring cakes is called eating "Long Lin"; Eating noodles is called eating "dragon beard"; Eating rice is called eating "dragon son"; Eating wonton is called eating "longan" \xd\ Eat noodles for your birthday \xd\ The shape of noodles is finally fixed as a strip. In the Song Dynasty, soup cakes were also renamed noodles (called "Tuotuo" in the Tang Dynasty). The appearance of noodles makes people associate noodles with birthdays and birthdays. According to customs and etiquette, eat longevity noodles on birthdays. Why do you want to eat noodles for your birthday? Song Ma Yongqing said in "Lazy True Son": "Those who must eat soup and cakes will want to live a long life." Why can noodles be used as a symbol of a long life? Because the shape of the face is "long and thin", it is homophonic for "longevity". Noodles have become the best food to win the favor. There is another saying: During the reign of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, people thought that the life span was related to the length of people, and the length of people depended on the length of faces, while noodles coincided with the "face length", from which longevity noodles came. \xd\ Eating noodles on the summer solstice \xd\ After the summer solstice, people in Shanxi eat more cold noodles to stimulate their appetite. Cold noodles in Shanxi, also called fu noodles, was called "cold pottery" in ancient times. Although it is not a famous point, it originated from worshipping the sun in ancient times, reflecting the changes of seasons and inheriting the customs of thousands of years. It is a delicious food in Shanxi that blends into the cultural legacy. \xd\ During the Qing Dynasty, the "summer solstice noodles" had developed into various cold noodles. Pan Rongbi's "Ji Sheng at the Age of Emperor Jing" states that "the summer solstice is a grand ceremony of the country. Is Japanese furniture eating cold noodles, that is, the common saying that the water surface is also? The cold-washed noodles are refreshing and suitable, and the world is incomparable. "