Pot helmet is one of the eight major monsters in Shaanxi. People say "open-eyed helmet like a pot lid", that is, like a helmet, as the name suggests and called the pot helmet. Helmet production process is fine, known as "dry, crispy, white, fragrant". Dry hard chewy, crispy inside and outside, white and light, mellow flavor.

Pot helmet is the northwest Shaanxi, Gansu, Ningxia, Qinghai, Xinjiang and other places of folk snacks, especially in Shaanxi, Gansu, Ningxia and Qingdao region has been passed down for a long time. By the origin of the grandmother to the grandson congratulations on the gift of the month, after the development of flavor and convenience of food. People often say, "Qianxian have three treasures, pot helmet, hanging noodles, tofu brain."

Ruzhou's pot helmet is a popular noodle, Zhangzhuang, Guangyu Road south exit, Xiguan, Dongguan have good stalls. Helmet is characterized by oil and noodles, kang system, hollow, outside the crisp, inside the layer, the side of the thick helmet like a pot lid, absorb juice, not leak soup.

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Pot helmets were even more popularized and popularized in the Qin Dynasty. developed and popularized. The pot helmets made by the Qin people were large, thick and porcelain. It is said that the pot helmet is not initially called a pot helmet, because of its shape resembles the cross-section of a tree stump, and therefore is called a pier cake. At that time the Qin army marching soldiers issued by the pier cake, a five or six pounds of weight, a pier cake diameter of about 50-60 cm or so, the thickness of all in about 15 cm.

And the way the soldiers carry is also very unique, two dun cake for a group, in each dun cake drilling two eyes, with cowhide rope tied, front chest, back chest each with a, as folk in the past commonly used cummerbund general. This special way of carrying the sudden encounter in combat, dun cake has become an excellent single protective gear, played the role of armor (bulletproof undershirt).

More rare is that the enemy shot over the arrow, stuck in the pier cake, was pulled out by the Qin soldiers, and then available to shoot the enemy. Dun cake can "eat arrows", also became the Qin army won a major magic weapon. And then the soldiers will dun cake called "pot helmet", that is, with the pot branded out of the hard surface armor. The "pot helmet" has also become famous. When the Qin people went out, they would cook pot helmets at home and let the people who went out take them with them, a custom that continues to this day.

The Qin army was able to overcome the group of unification of the six countries, in addition to political, military, economic, cultural and other reasons, "pot helmet" as the main dry food of the warriors, but also has an outstanding contribution. The shelf life of the helmet is relatively long, suitable for long storage and carrying, which is inseparable from the helmet materials and production methods.

Pot helmet production method is very delicate, to use good wheat flour, water mixing, and into a dough, to be fermented with a rolling pin rolled into a large round cake, placed on a flat iron griddle, with the fire slowly branding, kang dry moisture, skin slightly charred and dry flesh mellow. Pot helmet even in the hot summer, put on 10 days and a half months will not get moldy, suitable for long-distance combat consumption, and today's army can be compared to the use of compressed dry rations.

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