China is a vast country, people in each place seem to have some unique labels, whether you like it or not, or even you have not been in contact with yourself, as long as your ancestral home is fixed, no matter where you go, you must face countless curiosities or ridicule.
When you face a Shandong person, you may not be able to say what special label, but if you mention pancake rolls and green onions, you will definitely think of Shandong people, if Shandong people dare to say that they have not eaten, you have become a regional drag oil bottle in Shandong.
The geographical characteristics of each place, there is no good or bad distinction, perhaps because of the simplicity of the pancakes, but also because of the unique taste of the green onions, others mention the Shandong pancake rolls green onions will generally laugh, in this regard, always let the Shandong people a little embarrassed.
Shandong folks, if you know that pancakes are sacrifices from the gods, this embarrassment will be swept away, and then roll up the unique green onions in Shandong, which is really a big Zhangqiu green onion, oh mom is too fragrant.
If you know that China's first domestic aircraft carrier also likes to "spread pancakes", it will be tall in an instant, and a sense of pride can't help but emanate.
There are many theories about the invention of pancakes, the most famous of which is said to have been invented by Zhuge Liang.
Legend has it that when Zhuge Liang was just moved out of the mountain by Emperor Liu's uncle Sangu Maolu, Liu Bei's family foundation was really thin, and the soldiers were weak, and they were often bullied and hidden by Cao Cao.
Once, it was surrounded near Tai'an, Shandong, but unfortunately it was not in Zhangqiu, otherwise it would not be worried about the iron pot.
People are iron rice is steel, Zhuge Liang asked the brother-in-law to put corn flour and paste, put it on the gong and spread it flat, and then put it on the fire to bake, baking a fragrant and crispy pancake.
After eating, the morale of the generals was greatly boosted, and finally they broke out of the siege. This method was transmitted to the people, and the people replaced the gong with iron hammers and burned the pancakes on which they depended for their lives.
Zhuge Liang can really be said to be an inventor who was delayed by the war, I don't know how many inventions, all of which are said to have been invented by him when he was fighting.
Another theory comes from Yimeng Mountain, Shandong, which can be described as the invention of a full set of pancake rolls and scallions, saying that a Qiaozhen girl was enlightened in the dream of Mengshan Niangniang, using pancakes as paper with green onions as pen sauce as ink, rolling them up to coax the jailers to get their husband Tian Zhuang out of trouble.
And the story of Tian Zhuang's later admission to the Zhuangyuan, which is a bit obviously a folk story, but also an inspirational mythological story, in the Yimeng area pancakes are also known as Zhuangyuan cakes.
The documented pancakes are consistent with the current pancakes originated in Tai'an, Shandong, and Zhuge Liang's legend about pancakes occurred near Tai'an, and at least the Tang Dynasty had written records.
The Tang Dynasty's "Chao Ye Yu Zai" has a saying that "the familiar tweezers are on the foxes". In 1967, a "contract for the separation of families" during the Ming Dynasty wanli period was found in Dongyanglou Village, Zhuang Town, Tai'an City, which contained "a plate of tweezers, 23 catties of pancakes".
Tweezers and pancakes are particularly remembered when separating the family, a bit of the three major watches, bicycles, sewing machines in the 70s of the last century, the feeling of the three major refrigerators, color TVs, washing machines in the 80s, at least quite the same as the current large electrical appliances, indicating that the pancake tweezers were still quite valuable in Tai'an at that time.
Mainly due to the emergence of "tweezers", it shows that at the latest in the Ming Dynasty, the modern pancake production method has existed, and the "pancake" at that time is the same as the modern "pancake".
Tai'an pancakes are indeed famous, perhaps there is a reason for Tai'an Sanbao cabbage tofu mountain spring water, Tai'an pancakes have onion oil or tofu, cabbage and other fillings to eat pancakes, anyway, in the capital of Shandong Province, Jinan, selling pancakes are known as Tai'an's.
The more ancient origin of pancakes immediately made pancakes sacred, directly associated with the sun god, and also seemed to collide with the cultural relics of Sanxingdui.
The worship of the sun is a common feature of ancient humans, and may be the oldest god, and china's worship of the sun should have originated in the coastal areas of Shandong.
Professor Zhang Fuxiang of Shandong University pointed out: "From the perspective of the deep structure of cultural psychology, the sun cultural consciousness of the ancient people in China should first originate in the eastern coastal areas, or the awareness of the Eastern Yi people is the strongest, and then gradually spread to the western, northern and southern regions."
Rizhao, located by the sea in Shandong Province, is called the Oriental Sun City, as if there is such a stem: Qingdao is Shandong, Rizhao is oriental, Zibo is the world, Cao County is the center of the universe, anyway, as the capital of Shandong Province, the spring city of Jinan does not have a sense of existence.
On the rock at the top of Rizhao Tiantai Mountain, there are ancient petroglyphs depicting the sun rising from the East China Sea, the moon and stars hanging in the sky, and the leaders and crowds of worshippers, depicting the scene of an unknown "king" who led the people to light a fire here to worship the sun god.
There are as many as 7 sun gods recognized in China, and historical records also record that the Shang kings sacrificed the sun god. Rizhao still has the Sun Festival as the 19th day of the lunar calendar every year, and there are several legends of the birthday of the sun, but in the Old Yellow Calendar in China, only the 19th day of the 6th month of the lunar calendar is the Sun Day, which is also the day of bodhisattva enlightenment.
On this day, people make the harvested grain into a cake in the shape of the sun and offer it to the sun, thanking the sun for giving the earth sunshine, which is actually very in line with the current science, so that mankind has obtained a good harvest.
Therefore, Chinese mythology is actually very realistic, and sometimes it is really history.
How would an ancient person describe a lightning bolt? Will ancient Chinese mythology be ancient Chinese history?
Sacrifice, should show great sincerity, or it is possible to compare with each other, the more the cake is made, the bigger it is, the thick one is called the pan cake, and the thin one is called pancake.
This is the origin of Shandong pancakes, but Shandong pancakes are indeed larger than other places, in order to highlight the characteristics of Shandong, it should be called large pancake rolls and scallions.
Regarding the worship of the sun, the recent hot should be the archaeological discovery of Sanxingdui, in which the sun wheel sunbird, let people still think of it, the thin golden sunbird is not a golden pancake dedicated to the sun god, but compared to the coarse grain pancakes of various noodle stalls, it should be regarded as a luxury.
It is said that the sun wheel that looks like a modern steering wheel does not yet know the real use, but from these pictures, is it a chance to discover the real use of the sun wheel?
Handmade smart pancake machine
In fact, there are many places to eat pancakes, there are many ways to eat, such as Shandong Zaozhuang is called vegetable pancakes, a variety of vegetables are very rich, known as Chinese hot dogs, which is a bit of a small Yue Yue playing brine naan feeling.
But now it's all over the country, a bit catching up with the momentum of China's three catering giants, Lanzhou beef ramen, Shaxian snacks and yellow braised chicken rice.
Where do the leaves fall back to the roots, you must first know, where are the roots?
Why Shandong alone is associated with pancake roll scallions, it is naturally because of Shandong's green onions, especially Zhangqiu scallions.
The origin of green onions is in western China and adjacent Central Asia, which can be regarded as one of the earliest cultivated vegetables in the land of China, and it is recorded in the famous Qi state book "Guanzi" in the Warring States period: "Huan Gong five years, Northern Expedition Shanrong, winter onions and rong peppers, cloth of the world."
The State of Qi is naturally in Shandong, the land of Qilu, and the five years of Qi Huan, roughly equivalent to 681 BC, is currently considered to be the earliest time to plant green onions in Shandong, and has a history of more than 3,000 years.
Zhangqiu scallions are the king of scallions because of their excellent quality, Zhangqiu shallots are not only tall, the taste is not spicy but also very sweet, so it will make the pancake roll scallions delicious.
Green onions and shallots are more than enough to feel
In particular, the characteristics of Zhangqiu scallion height are more worthy of Shandong pancakes, because Shandong pancakes are indeed not small, so in the future, only when the large pancakes are rolled with scallions, they can also match shandong han.
Shandong pancakes in 2019 another fire, Shandong warship in the sea with the smallest radius of the "spread pancakes" of the picture, the whole network should also be popular all over the world, but I don't know whether the foreign media reported whether there is such imagination.
Netizens said that that is, the Shandong warship can have this skill, spreading pancakes is a technical job, not only to round but also to pay attention to the heat, can not be thick nor thin, but also must be done in one go.
Of course, it is not a simple matter to let the aircraft carrier turn at the smallest radius at sea, and this giant pancake on the sea is also spread at one time, and I don't know if the cooker on the ship at that time was holding a green onion in his hand, or such a huge pancake, he could only roll missiles.
In short, Shandong and pancakes are indeed fate, and now even China's first domestic aircraft carrier Shandong warship is "spreading pancakes" on the sea, you say that Shandong people and pancake rolls and scallions have no contact who believes it?
However, when someone mentions the pancake roll scallion in front of the Shandong people, the Shandong people must not need to be embarrassed, only pride and sacredness, which is the pride of Shandong!
Chinese mythology is really messier than Greek mythology only because China is too big, too long and too complicated than Greece
What else do you know about pancakes? What to eat? Have you ever eaten Shandong pancake rolls Zhangqiu scallions?