Echo of time| sour, sweet, bitter and spicy noodles, how many people have tasted?

Noodles are one of the favorite staple foods of the Chinese people, especially the northerners. According to some people, the origin of noodles is also in China. In archaeological sites dating back more than 4,000 years, traces of noodles have been found. Noodles and chopsticks are not only similar in shape, but also the age of birth is not far apart, which is really a coincidence.

The way northerners make noodles can be called a variety of tricks. For example, Beijing fried sauce noodles, Shanxi knife-cut noodles, Shaanxi oil noodles, Lanzhou ramen, Shandong brine noodles, Xinjiang mixed noodles, Henan braised noodles, Hebei longsu noodles, Jilin cold noodles, and so on. Speaking of cold noodles, it is also a famous food on the Korean Peninsula and enjoys a certain popularity in the world. I don't know if this will be used by Koreans as a reason for applying for heritage in the future. It is estimated that this matter is not less difficult, because in addition to China, Arabia and Italy, they also claim to have the invention patent rights of noodles.

In our Shandong, it is particularly worth mentioning that Jiaodong seafood noodles, fish, shrimp and crabs, clams and scallops sea rainbow clams, as well as seaweed kelp and other seafood, can be included in the noodles, that is called a delicious and delicious. I remember that when I was a teenager, I heard Mr. Xue Zhongrui broadcast the novel "Fishing Island Fury Tide". The plot line of this novel, I have been somewhat blurred. But there is a passage that I still remember vividly: Haisheng's grandfather once made three fresh noodles and asked Haisheng to call for iron eggs to eat together. The so-called "three fresh" are fresh prawns, head knife leeks, and eggs. Such a delicacy, do not have to eat or look, just listen to it and I can hear my drooling.

One winter more than thirty years ago, my wife and I took our two-year-old children out of town to visit relatives. Because there was no convenient means of communication as it is now, after arriving at a relative's house more than a hundred kilometers away, I saw that their door was locked. In the midst of anxiety, the relative's family opened the door to the neighbor's voice. When it was learned that we were visiting relatives from out of town, the hostess warmly let us into her own home. She said to us, your relatives and family, go back to your hometown to visit your relatives, saying that you can come back before this evening. It's not easy for you to come all the way, so you might as well wait at your house.

While we were talking, it was lunchtime. The welcoming hostess again prepared lunch for our family. Listening to the accent, the hostess is a Jiaodong person. The staple food she prepared for us was Jiaodong seafood noodles – hand-rolled noodles, brine made of leeks, shrimp and eggs. My wife and I still often reminisce about the delicious noodles and agree that it was the best and most impressive one we had ever eaten. In the days that followed, I imitated the hostess to make that seafood noodle many times, but I couldn't eat that taste anymore. At that time, while using chopsticks to clip noodles to my mouth, I was thinking: What I am holding in my hands is clearly a long friendship! I wonder, is there more such neighborhood love now?

Southerners who like to eat rice are also not ambiguous in their noodle making. For example, Shanghai Yangchun noodles, Sichuan Dandan noodles, Nanjing small boiled noodles, Guangdong wonton noodles, Zhenjiang pot cover noodles, Guizhou intestinal wang noodles, Yangzhou fried noodles, Anhui plate noodles, and so on. When I was a teenager, I saw a movie called "Satisfaction or Dissatisfaction", which told the story of the restaurant "Deyue Lou" in Suzhou. In that era of lack of oil, less vinegar and no meat, looking at the tempting "rib noodles", "big meat noodles", "prawn noodles", "meat noodles", "Yangchun noodles" and so on in the film, I turned the stomach and intestines upside down, salivating in my mouth at the same time, I also issued such an exclamation in my heart - noodles, it turns out that there can be such a variety of wonderful ways to eat!

In addition to the taste of the condiments, the realm of noodle making is that the flexible tendons have chewy heads. And such noodles, only handmade are authentic enough. If the noodles are cooked in a mess and a mess, it is not really noodles, and at best it can only be called sick rice. In my youth, if anyone in the unit was sick, the leader would usually instruct the canteen master: "So-and-so who is sick, cook him a bowl of egg noodles." The noodles should be cooked badly and digested! ”

Eating noodles according to chewy standards, the most suitable tool, is not chopsticks. Thin chopsticks, picking up the same thin and long noodles, smoothly inhaling into the mouth, it feels great. After my blood sugar rose, my doctor instructed me to control my intake of foods that contained high sugar and converted into sugar quickly, and noodles were among the control areas. It doesn't matter what else, I can't eat noodles as I want, which has become my biggest regret in terms of diet.

We entertain foreign guests to dinner, and usually follow Chinese customs to serve staple foods such as noodles. When introducing noodles, I usually say that noodles are one of the traditional Chinese delicacies. In Chinese folklore, people give noodles two symbols: one is health and longevity, foreigners eat cakes on their birthdays, Chinese eat noodles on birthdays, longevity noodles! Second, friendship is long-lasting, whether it is Chinese or foreigners, mutual interaction should be like this noodle, pay attention to a long time, and should not be limited to one thing at a time. Only by eating noodles with chopsticks can the wishes of these two aspects become a reality, and chopsticks also have the meaning of pairs in them. Speaking of this, no one does not grab the chopsticks and bury their heads in the noodles, even if the mouth is dripping with soup and water. In this way, it not only avoids waste, but also closes the distance, which can be described as killing two birds with one stone. It can be seen that it is also necessary to give some commonplace things some beautiful meanings in them. Auspicious words, both Chinese and foreign, everyone loves to listen to.

I wrote this article because I was inspired by my little granddaughter's noodles. I don't know if anyone will think that I have said too much nonsense in front of this small article, and the jargon written in a sentence is too thick-skinned. When I was young, I wrote speech materials for leaders, and I once received such an evaluation. Although kumon and prose are not the same thing, the statement that prose is "scattered and not scattered" is not the same as the marginal east and west pulling and pulling the gourd and pulling the word count.

My granddaughter, who is just over four years old, is already able to eat with chopsticks more skillfully. My granddaughter prefers to eat noodles, looking at her dexterous little hands, sharply manipulating the chopsticks, putting long noodles into her small mouth, and sucking sweetly to eat, I feel very cute and very funny.

Watching the younger generation eat happily and contentedly should be the most comfortable and comfortable thing for the elders. If not the only, at least one. In the same way, watching young children go hungry and starving, but they can't do anything about it, should be one of the most painful things for the elders. In today's eyes, a bowl of noodles is too commonplace, no matter what kind of soup is added to the bowl of noodles and how good it is. But in my teenage years, I experienced the experience of noodles being a scarce resource.

When I was a teenager, I once returned to my hometown with my grandparents. One day, a little cousin of my aunt's family actually ran to see my grandfather and grandmother. This little cousin was only a little more than four years old at the time, and the village where this aunt's family lived was three miles away from the grandparents, fortunately, there was basically no such crime as child abduction at that time. After learning that the little grandson had come alone, Grandma, in surprise, of course asked him if he was hungry. He was honest, hungry, and especially wanted to eat a meal of white noodles, that is, noodles made of flour.

At that time, the main ingredients of noodles eaten by hometown people were sweet potato noodles or sorghum noodles, and the color was black and red. White noodles made of pure flour, people are usually reluctant to eat, or do not have the conditions to eat. While waiting for my grandmother to cook the noodles, I teased my little cousin why I ran to my grandmother's house to ask for noodles to eat. Although his expression is not very coherent, the meaning is clear: the first time he followed his mother to see his grandmother, he ate white noodles. Only when I arrived at my grandmother's house did I have white noodles to eat.

After Grandma cooked the noodles, the little cousin sat down at the small table and devoured it. After a while, two bowls of noodles went down. I was a little stunned, first, amazed at the amount of food he had eaten, and second, a little surprised by the proficiency and agility of his use of chopsticks, after all, he was still so young. Other than that, I can't possibly think about it much. His childish words of longing to eat white noodles only fermented into sentimentality in my heart decades later.

Not long after my little cousin finished eating the noodles, my aunt came looking for me. The aunt had six children, and the family had a very poor life. The occasional help from grandparents can only be a drop in the bucket. After seeing her son, the aunt did not show the anxiety of not being able to find the child like her parents today, but reprimanded the little cousin for running to her grandmother to eat and drink without the approval of the adult. I asked my aunt why she didn't make white noodles for my little cousin at home, because at such a young age, he was so hungry for white noodles that he ran so far. The aunt said with some woodiness, the children of the Zhuang family, who have so much exquisiteness, and what white noodles they eat, they will not die of hunger. After many years, I realized that my aunt's reaction at that time was actually numbness and helplessness to long-term poverty.

Coincidentally. When I was in line, I once heard a "bittersweet" report. The person who made the report was an old man with little culture. The beginning of the report was relatively smooth, but as I spoke, I unconsciously ran out of tune. He gave an example, originally intended to say that his family was very poor in the old society, and that before his death, his father could not even realize such a small wish as eating a bowl of fine grain noodles. But when the words came out of his mouth, they became like this: "My poor old father, Oh, just called the bowl of white noodles to death!" As soon as this remark came out, the audience immediately burst into laughter. At that time, I only knew that the joke boss used the wrong words, but I could not appreciate the bitterness implied in his words. Those who endure hunger for a long time, no matter what era or country or region, deserve adequate sympathy.

For today's young parents, the fact that children do not eat well has almost become a common problem. For example, I have heard some young mothers say this, and I most want to hear my children shouting: "Mom, I am hungry!" "It's not surprising because they don't have the experiences and memories of our generation about hunger, about poverty, about scarcity. There is no painful experience of watching young children endure hunger while they are helpless.

It is the responsibility and obligation of parents to let young children have no worries about food and clothing. Watching young children go hungry is even more sad than not having enough to eat. When people do their best, but because of the influence of the external environment, they cannot fulfill the responsibility and obligation of feeding and letting children eat and clothe, this sadness will evolve into numbness and helplessness, such as my aunt.

The people take food as heaven. I only hope that the pair of chopsticks in people's hands is a long-term happiness, abundance, health and happiness, just like the slender and long noodles.

Tsubasa Tani Ogi