Shaanxi Ten strange folk - like noodles belt

- noodles like belt -

Sanqin really bad noodles, roll thick cut width of belt like. Hong chewiness face thin and white, refreshing Chennai hunger burn too.

Qin Since ancient times, rich in wheat, therefore, since ancient times people here to pasta, three meals all day long, every day, can not do without pasta, noodles and steamed bread which dominated. Shaanxi is no ordinary noodles noodles, just like real people in Shaanxi, Shanxi Poyi of all are experts in Ganmian bar. If, even at home, a bowl of noodles are doing well, then, this girl married off to decrease the chance of at least fifty percent. Usually in rural Shaanxi, the girls grew up, first of all not sew a dress, embroidered flower, but will roll on a chopping board full of noodles, so that after his daughter married in the past, to get the appreciation of her husband's family.

Shaanxi noodle noodles compared with the field, this is called a real pasta, noodles while others can only be called "face silk", especially those of foreign descent have noodles is not comparable.

Shaanxi noodles is a reality. Its thickness, width, length beyond people's imagination, as the shape of the waist belt system. However, you can not be intimidated by its forceful appearance. When you Lift a bowl of authentic old Shaanxi noodles, and then reconcile the glowing red pepper boiling oil, vinegar, soy sauce, red-brown, white salt, sprinkled with glittering green coriander and green onion, fried egg on top and then lay golden. So, a bowl of noodles is simply a work of art, so you do not have the heart to destroy Xia Zhu this wonderful noodles.

You see, served a bowl of noodles, red, white, green, yellow in hue between, meaning spring, summer, autumn and winter seasons, beautiful; smells, light incense smell, even the gods in heaven will shake three shake; eat, entrance soft as rice, chewing up and tendons such as leather. As long as this bowl of noodles under the belly, you see the future for sure delicacies, there is absolutely no appetite.

Shaanxi Ten strange folk - like the lid daguokui

- daguokui like pot -

Cake large diameter of two feet, the round and thickness as the lid. Shaanxi cake called the daguokui, outside in the crisp good crisp incidentally.

The second strange to talk about this, but it has a long history. Legend on the occasion of the Qin Dynasty, Qin Jun unified six countries, four expeditions it, because the army soldiers carried dry food is easy to moldy. As a result, the army of cooks invented today daguokui.

Daguokui in the end is what it looks like? Daguokui of but most people can not imagine. Daguokui overall circular shape, the diameter of feet is, 1 inch thick, weighs 5 pounds. Take wheat flour powder material, and the surface pressure stalk, griddles simmered baking. Daguokui appearance of yellow spots, cut white sand, crisp taste of living, to keep, they carry. In Shaanxi, poker pot daguokui with no ordinary pot, but to do cauldron dozen meals. Such a pot diameter of about seventy to eighty centimeters, and with such a pot on top of the lid is raised, so that the lid like a baked good daguokui normal size, general appearance.

Daguokui fine craftsmanship, known as "dry, crisp, white, fragrant," said West House. Daguokui do with pot do you have cast iron cauldron, do daguokui with surface must be ground into flour on a good wheat harvest by later that year, after fermentation, so that the surface woke up effort. And then after rubbing the master, wrestling, pinching, film, twisting, pressing, rolling techniques other multi-channel, so that a very uniform blend of the surface. In this case, a master picked duck thickness rolling pin, slowly roll the dough into a cake appearance.

This to the next process, we should start Lomo, this is the most important of a process, because the size of the furnace determines Guokui color and texture, the average person poker when not master the heat, not undercooked, is branded paste. Firewood is also very particular about the general material, with authentic daguokui the year on a good (wheat tip) wheat straw, which I am reminded of a poem of Cao Zhi seven-step "Beans burning thistles beans, beans in the kettle sobbing. This is the same root Health, fratricidal?. " Now, I think they have to "Lomo burning straw, steamed in the pot weeping. This is the same root, fratricidal" the. Today, most people spend coal or liquefied petroleum gas for cooking, so it is difficult to have the kind of pure Wheat previous taste.

Daguokui poker has many years of experience to complete the master of tactics are: "a turn, turn two, three scratch" a turn is daguokui to gyrate in the pot; the second turn, after one side is the ability to turn Luocheng over bake the other side; three scratch. Daguokui is cooked when a scratch scratch daguokui, listen to news, if issued by the crisp sound, above the white marks, so you can, otherwise there is no cooked. Pan until fast time, then sprinkle with fresh sesame seeds, then you can pan. After the pan yellow seeped coke, coke seeped yellow, crisp bite, eating sweet, worthy of Shaanxi eight strange reputation.

Daguokui since the Tang, Song, in the city of Xi'an Station has many shops, foreign businessmen east to west, north, south, daguokui as a carry dry food merchants had to go into exile. Ming and Qing, did sell daguokui are spread across the county around, Zhang Cong Guangxu period, Liu had learned; Xing fool Republic of China, Zhao dry children, Zhang Guangshan; since liberation Pang day red seats gold eggs, etc., are doing daguokui this line expert .

There is a role daguokui grandmother grandson to celebrate births and gifts, where our kids full moon, will be carefully grandmother to grandson poker small daguokui, then stay up on the white line bundle of money, through the hole in the middle, with grandson of the neck. This throws up a Foreign grandson of the most sincere wishes for it!

Shaanxi Ten strange folk - chili oil is the main course

- chili oil is also a dish -

Planing (not) say Chuan Xiang spicy food, spicy food Shaanxi old people afraid. Hot face heat Youpo mixed salts, the transfer surface of the rice steamed folder.

Speaking of spicy food a region of China, I am afraid we are unanimously elected Sichuan and Hunan. However, Shaanxi people eat spicy level also doing my part. Moreover, Shaanxi people eat spicy food fine, get that culture, this is probably the Xiang River and the people can not be achieved. Generally Shaanxi people addicted to spicy, such as life preferences, of course, love and hate with Shaanxi people's personality inseparable.

I am a descendant of farmers, to play small grew up in the countryside. I remember I was young at the right time, people wait until autumn after the harvest chili, chili with a needle and thread one by one to wear, hanging in a dry and ventilated roof. So, settle in rural areas under the eaves of every household, always hanging a string of bright red peppers, chili if someone hang, the more inevitable it is proved that the family of wealthy people. Sometimes, the girls always love to go blind look peppers under a roof look, the situation in order to determine how the future in-laws.

If in peacetime, home to the guests, there is no good wine and meat honor of the guests, so that all can be forgiven. However, if there is no time to eat the peppers, then inevitably meet guests discontent and ridicule. They are bound telling anyone grumbling: "The family are really too stingy skin blanket will live, even a spicy meal did not!."

In Shaanxi, the authentic practice of boiling oil chili is this: After the first air-dried peppers, then cut into small pieces about about 1.5 cm, and then placed in a hot pan add a little heated, and drying. At this time, to master the furnace is particularly important if the heat is too large, then the color will be black pepper, taste will be bitter; heat small, it is not brittle, difficult broken, and no fragrance. When pepper pan, iron pot on one kind, hard hit with an iron pestle, until a powder strong so far. Of course, not too thin, it will affect the taste. Today, the street hawkers are often seen out with a stir red pepper stir stuffing machine, I felt boring, because this pepper has long lost its original character.

Wait until after the pepper into the surface, sealed glass bottles sealed with pepper. If you want to eat, then, mixed with a little salt pepper first surface, and then heated to seven or eight canola oil in hot wok, taking advantage of this effort, hot pepper oil poured on the surface, while oil poured, while stirring, the oil temperature is very strict, too low will affect the effect of chili oil. After cooling until the chili oil, they can eat.

Shaanxi pure man is inseparable from chili oil, not only in time to eat noodles, especially with Guokui and bread sandwiched directly chili consumption, such an approach only Shaanxi people do this, it can be said that Shaanxi people eat patent. When white bread braved the steaming, after the break apart, clip after a few tablespoons of bright red chili oil. Close your eyes, bite, a surge of feeling spicy, straight head, how a "cool" Zile!

Shaanxi Ten strange folk - Wanpen hard to separate

- Wanpen hard to separate -

Shaanxi old baby shocked really big bowl of noodles Sheng hoop to tip. They'll feel the support of a bowl of joy, at the old bowl brag leisure pass (HAN CHUAN gossip meaning).

Shaanxi people do not call their jobs and the job called the old bowl. Thus, the "old" word does not mean what a long history of the old bowl, but the bowl "Boss" means. In fact, among the old bowl rice bowl, it is definitely old bowl bowl of family well-deserved "Big Brother."

Speaking of the old bowl, place of origin Yaoxian, is blue and white stoneware. Although this old bowl surface drill a look a little rash. However, it is fundamentally reveals a simple and honest effort, it's like Shaanxi people of the same mettle. Authentic Shaanxi Tate bowl, deep bowl, round, capacity at least as many as there are generally small bowl seventy-eight eat with. Shaanxi people eat, whether young adults, the elderly, children and women, and all of them use the old bowl. Such a bowl with absolutely easy, once you can hold enough, will not come back a second time.

Figure Shaanxi people eat too is a lively effort, they like to get together with the children to eat, people call this "old bowl will." Sometimes, someone delicious meal, the children of someone's home will give generously filled the bowl. Compared to those who shut the door, secretly enjoy at home from the southern cuisine, the Shaanxi others seem a little bold and free and easy. When a group of people squatting outside the gate in twos and threes, each holding their own old bowl, while basking in the warm sun, while Shannan North brag a free pass, which is idle chatter knock meant. Live a relaxed and comfortable life, in fact, who does not say, this is the gift of God to Shaanxi children too!

Today, life is good again, people usually eat snacks and non-staple food is also more up, so people's appetite is not so big, their jobs are increasingly smaller. Therefore, the Shaanxi old bowl gradually become history. However, I never miss the bottom of my heart more to return to the simplicity of the old country will bowl.

Shaanxi Ten strange folk - the head with a handkerchief

- the head with a handkerchief -

Shaanxi rural woman, flower head with Ge Papa. Dust-proof and water-resistant sunscreen, hand Sassafras Mohan more realistic.

When you walk in the rural countryside of Shaanxi trail, from time to time to see the old lady head a handkerchief hands on crutches, walked leisurely pace lotus feet. Head of the handkerchief, become old lady difference between Shaanxi and other parts of the old lady of the most significant features.

Say the history of this old lady head a handkerchief not one or two days, this is the man Shaanxi long-standing custom. Since Shaanxi located in the northwest of the Loess Plateau, where Qiang Lie sunshine, drought, weather and more sand. Therefore, when the hard work of rural women, should head the handkerchief.

Speaking of the role of this party a little handkerchief, that's a big fat go. Handkerchief can either prevent bright sunlight against the skin, but also to prevent dust entering the hair, and the hair can not be blown chaos. When the external labor, does not carry a towel, then you can handkerchief and wiped the sweat plastering, it is both affordable and beautiful there.

In fact, old ladies with handkerchiefs and also linked to previous life, life is due to the previous embarrassment, people do not have money to sell a beautiful hat. So Cheaper handkerchief, has become the inevitable choice of plain hard-working rural women. Today, When people live rich, strange hat gradually replaced the handkerchief. Handkerchief has become ancient history in a landscape.

Sometimes chance to see the head of the angry youth in the streets of dyed yellow hair, with a colorful scarf, as if the world were suddenly reversed.

Shaanxi Ten strange folk - house half cover

- cover half the house -

Cover half of the country house, the provincial timber provincial labor and material. Shelter and cold, summer and winter vehicles to fortune.

Everywhere cover half of the house in rural Shaanxi. However, you ten million can not think that this is "rubbish" project, in fact, this is unique to Shaanxi people living environment, which is inseparable from the customs of Shaanxi.

Since Shaanxi is located inland, it is a typical continental dry climate, hence a generation in dry weather, great sand, combined with local timber scarce. So people according to local conditions, he invented the house half cover. Constructed of materials such as houses, with local materials, of course, into the mud and in local loess, labeled 40 cm high, 50 cm long, 10 cm thick mud embryos and air dried for later walls, the firing condition is good later into brick, Shaanxi people call it "paste repair" really little "Hu puzzle" mean. However, such a house not only saves a lot of wood and brick, but also save the manual. Half timber house saving time and labor is definitely not mean shoddy synonymous. In fact, every house is the owner of many years of hard work and sweat the outcome, but this is the future generations of the sons of shelter.

Small, I have been living in the house half covered, because of the reduced size of the room, so warmth and breathability relatively good, compared to the large tile-roofed house even more cool. Thus, half of economical and affordable housing choice in rural areas in Shaanxi.

Today, the house Shaanxi half cover has become history, with the improvement of people's lives, local farmers also live in the building of reinforced concrete. Every time back home, only to see that several half of the house, so I will cherish the memory of the past years.

Shaanxi Folk Ten blame - not the girl outside

- Foreign girl does not -

Changan capital more than ten generations, outstanding spring long. Good weather good life, not outside Shaanxi girl.

Shaanxi has always been outstanding people, the vast fertile land. So people living on this land enough to live comfortably, so long to develop a sense of closure, Shaanxi conservative people in the country is out of the name.

Shaanxi people's own consciousness for a conservative girl, it is a name. Since ancient times, there is no tradition of foreign Shaanxi girl. Shaanxi people do not let outsiders occupied any advantage, so in the strict sense, Shaanxi people confined to their own internal communication girl Shaanxi people, and outsiders rarely intermarry. Since ancient times, Henan, Sichuan, Hubei, Gansu and Shaanxi girls have to marry, but rarely seen in Shaanxi marry the girl to the field.

In our there, only those poor family, brothers and many others, it is no suitable local girl, forced to take to the field to find a wife. In this case, it makes the neighbors look down upon for a while.

Because, Shaanxi has always poised, there are the eighth generation of the emperor in the capital, many years has been the invasion of prostitution feudal ideology. Therefore, the girl Shaanxi general is more traditional and conservative. And because Chang eighth generation of the emperor in the capital, so the foot of the subjects of the emperor, even seemed a bit arrogant, a little more emboldened. Coupled weekdays hard to farm enough food and clothing to worry, enjoy their grandchildren wife and kids white picket fence. Therefore, people are more willing to self Shaanxi closed circle inside, enjoying the freedom of life, not for the cause, to leave home and four battles.

Girl Shaanxi because of living in such a relatively closed environment. So, he is married parents to enrich people. Usually relying on relatives seven Regardless of eight aunt, and asked around, and then choose a relatively satisfied with the girl's family married in the past, this is also done know too much of.

As the saying goes: Charity begins at fields. Of course, the girl will not be outside of Shaanxi. However, that history is already before Huang Li, in a new era of youth, more of their own choice, has broken the confinement of young old marriage, actively fight for freedom of self a happy marriage, out of Shaanxi, to the world, yellow hair and blue eyes of foreigners gonna get married.

When I left home ten years of age, to marry theory marry, parents and kept considered dead child, always adhere to the Shaanxi still good girl, let me find a fellow wife. But I finally chose the Northeast local wife.

It seems, Shaanxi girl does outside of this "strange" a long history, I have been here and not be offended strange!

Shaanxi Folk Ten strange - there is no bench seat up squatting

- there is no bench seat squatting up -

Shaanxi old temper really weird, there is no bench to sit squatting up. Why not ask him to sit, he said, squatting so very comfortable.

Shaanxi people like squatting eating, smoking, chatting, others seem suffers thing, but in the old Shaanxi Shaanxi who seems this is my own enjoyment on the bench.

In rural areas of Shaanxi, in their leisure time, usually older people like to not wear socks, bare feet wearing shoes, a Kazakh pipe in his mouth, hands Qiazhao radio, squatting on a stool, drinking tea, while smoking . In such an atmosphere, they felt that a free and joyous, far more than those who sat, pious people happy and more. So random nature of Shaanxi people are more willing to freely squat, do a happy and carefree low class. I do not want to sit on the bench very restrained, elegant to enjoy life highbrow.

Perhaps intimate contact Shaanxi people are born with yellow earth, making them more willing to approach and land close to yellow.

Shaanxi Ten strange folk - rock pillow to sleep

- Sleeping Pillow stones -

Shaanxi farmer shocked baby, love do not love soft pillow stone. Liao's too cold solid, refreshing refreshing to stay.

Shaanxi people do not like soft pillows, and the choice of pillows and pillow stone of wood. It is honest and straightforward and Shaanxi people's mettle inseparable.

In Shaanxi. When unbearably hot in summer, when farmer sleep at night, are more willing looked on as a brick or stone pillow, pillow top and high sound sleep. Moreover, Shaanxi people affectionately call it: "Sweet Basil", meaning that the baby would not trade with gold, enough to appear pillow Shaanxi people for stones and pieces of wood under this head do its attachment and obsession is what truly a.

Of course, Shaanxi people generally flat back of the head relatively large, I carefully research, said this suspicion is the flat back of the head, is not it, and love sleeping ancestors looked on the bricks of a certain relationship.

I was young at the right time, unbearably hot summer, the family are willing to shade out of the clearing, and sometimes sleep at night outside. The pawnshop leaf mat, head on the cold stone, listening to Grandpa ancient legends. A moment later, as if I was the protagonist of the story. Until the time woke up and saw the stars winked mischievously, wet with dew has been angle.

Shaanxi Ten strange folk - singing roar

- singing roar -

Simple folk of sturdy, throat opera painted face up. The audience joyous heart, afraid to turn shed stage.

Shaanxi Ten strange, most strange is the opera throat up. Opera produced in the community and reflect the aspirations of the people of vivid, love and hate, joy and pain, to reflect their lives and struggles. Shaanxi Opera repertoire are a lot of performance in the history of our country against aggression, Faithfulness struggle, the struggle against oppression or other major theme of the rich pleasures of life.

As the opera music reflects the people of Shaanxi and Gansu upright hearty, generous well-defined character, honest and honest, industrious and brave folk. Therefore opera has deep roots. In rural areas in Shaanxi, during festive seasons when people are working hard for a year, the biggest enjoyment is to listen to an opera. If there are elderly people at the time had birthday, children and grandchildren if you can make a theatrical troupe, then a return to the United States on the United States to sing, that's a great honor, and this may have to let the village eight miles nagging folks can at least several months.

Shaanxi is not highbrow, but low class people can get close to art, when people are hard-working, happy, you can let go of the voice shouted period, high-pitched roar of surging sky, echoing all around, people's hearts very heroic. If at the time of grief, bitterly roar period of Shaanxi, desolate grief, deep melody, whom move mountains Yan, vegetation whom grief. Shaanxi is like a cord, a connection with the future of Qin, one connected to the Qin people in the past, for people living in this land of yellow, providing the milk thoughts.

Opera singing, a character asks, board road, Facebook, figure, character self-contained categories. Shaanxi Opera, also known as "Luan", singing Gao Kang tone of excitement, with real requirements singing voice, so keep the original bold features. The best opera venue was selected in open places, so in order to have a taste of opera, but also to appreciate the essence of Shaanxi Opera. It is precisely because opera has a unique artistic style, it attracts people on this land. Opera singing, with a wide voice sound large, straight from the straight sets, giving a resounding, rough and simple sense. See opera time, especially to see the opera in the "black" roar shaking of the ground, you will now really recognize the bold opera, which is the Qin bloody. If the graceful beauty of the south, there is never issued such a forceful voice. Desolate at night, when the opera that boosting the melody echoed over the vast, this time as a pure Qin, your heart can not help resonate. In the patch radius of heaven and earth, the cries of the audience applauded, but also aroused the actors on stage performing desire, especially the actor's level has been unanimously found that the audience, the audience will be in the audience spontaneously shooting Ming whip, to grant the actor red satin, this is the highest praise for the actors, so in such a warm atmosphere, a climax followed by a continuous ......

After the liberation of the country, dividing this opera drama playing a musical instrument with a long-term basis, but also absorbs some of the other folk instruments and Western instruments, in order to enrich its expressive music. Shaanxi role minutes older students, to be born, niche, larvae, pantaloon, Zhengdan, Xiaodan, star, Wu Dan, Dan the media, big net, hair net, ugly, etc. thirteen. Opera performances and simple, rough, delicate, deeply, to love moving, full of exaggeration. In the mask (e.g., n-three watts emperor's golden painted face, with the word to be), figure (e.g. horse trips, shelf pull, wood Tam Tam, Tam water, etc.), cosmetics (e.g., change the header comb head), effects (spit fire , Chuihuo, on stilts), and language phonological (Shaanxi fourteen rhyme, there Tone), etc., has its own unique style. I remember in my childhood memories, I am most obsessed with is the clown, who will play a lamp lit and placed his head, playing a variety of actions. Opera "Three Scholars" clown often Tianbao be punished because of gambling dome wife. Often Tianbao lamp head, knees, walk, sit, the drill chairs, tables drilling, the table, etc., are very comfortable, and can not afford to make the lamp, without spilling, immortal. This depends on the actor's neck and Ping Heng skills. Shaanxi Province, three clown actor Liu, Jin Fu long and Han Guang Guang actor Wang half tone, ZHAO learn and adjust Erhuang actor Han Cai security today, are good at this skill. Wang also own half of the overhead lights blew out. Back then I was very envious of these famous opera artists, the biggest dream is to become an opera artist, but now only a few humming a tuneless song opera consolation.

Shaanxi is also the originator of more drama. Opera can be divided into two things, becoming west reveal Sichuan opera; Shanxi Road to Jinju, is in Henan Opera, Hebei Clapper become, so that the opera can be regarded as the originator of Beijing Opera, Opera, Jinju, Hebei Clapper these repertoire. The opera repertoire played mostly take it to the "nations", "Three Kingdoms", "Legend", "Yue said" saga or tragic stories, said section, there are myths, folk tales and various detective drama, repertoire of more than 10,000, the rich repertoire, ranking first in more than three operas of our country, because the old era, Yi scattered a lot, and now according to statistics, only in about 4700, and that these plays is still growing at an alarming rate keep losing.

Now, back home, but I can not see past the opera prosperous situation. Today's young people are the most respected of those beautiful people after carefully packaged, and their whining movement, so we could not help but think of summer mosquitoes, the hearts of very uncomfortable.

In the era of rapid development, now Shaanxi Ten strange and some have gone, and handed down gradually reduced. However, as a pure Qin people do not understand this custom piece of history, not considered a true Qin.