On the sixth day of the Chinese New Year, the sun is shining, the weather has gradually warmed up, photographers and film friends came to a small mountain village under the Zhongtiao Mountain in Jinnan to shoot New Year folk customs, just arrived at the mouth of the village to hear a burst of laughter, south of the alley, a few women sat at the mouth of the village basking in the sun chatting about home, a few children running around happily playing, a warm and harmonious picture presented in front of them.
One of the big ladies sat on the electric tricycle, with her head down on the stone shaft smashing something, looking closer, it turned out to be smashing the apricot core, full of a pot of apricot cores, when the mother took a half-cut brick in her right hand, and took the apricot core in her left hand, the action was very skillful, one by one the apricot core was cracking, and the full almonds inside rolled out one by one.
The eldest lady surnamed Li, 63 years old this year, she told us that it is almost past the fifteenth Lantern Festival of the first month, the local custom of drinking oil tea on the fifteenth day of the first month, she smashes the apricot core to peel the almonds, put it in the oil tea when making oil tea, eat crisp and chewy, in addition to peanut kernels, melon seeds, and fried bungee, drink a bowl of warm and sweet.
Asked about the origin of the custom of drinking oil tea, the eldest lady said that she did not know, asked the old people next to them, they all said that they did not know, just said that the old generation handed down this is like this, they are following their mothers to learn, as for what is exquisite, it is really unclear.
Li Da Niang said that the oil tea on the fifteenth day of the first month is very exquisite, in advance to knock the core of the family after eating the apricot, peel off the almonds soaked in cool water, let it retreat from the coat, soak the bitter taste of the almonds, and get off the pot when the oil tea is boiled. The picture shows the almonds peeled by Mrs. Li.
Li Da Niang said that oil tea is actually the fried noodles that we locals often drink, the white noodles are steamed in the pot first, then fried the green onions with lard or rapeseed oil until they are browned, and then put in the steamed flour and stir-fried until the flour is yellow, and then left to cool. The picture shows a child holding an apricot core to show the photographer.
On the fifteenth day of the first month, the cold water pot first put peanuts and beans, after opening the pot, the fried noodles are poured in, and then stirred with chopsticks, during which the almonds, melon seeds and fried bungee in advance are added, and then put spinach, tofu, sesame seeds, twist flowers, etc., stir well under the salt, love to drink sweet can not put salt and put sugar on it, hot and hot even eat and drink together to solve.
Li Da Niang said that after fifteen years, the dolls will go out to work, so this meal of oil tea must be worked hard, so that the dolls can not forget, it is also the last reunion dinner of the New Year, this son can only see the baby next year's New Year, after saying that, Li Da Niang was silent, just bowed her head and smashed the apricot core.
Come back to the computer to ask Du Niang learned that the Lantern Festival at noon to eat the Lantern Festival, oil tea is the night of eating, flat land known as "fifteen flat, sixteen round", a day to eat dumplings, a day to eat the Lantern; In the mountains, it is "fifteen dozen oil teas, sixteen pinch flat foods". It is the so-called "ten miles of different customs". Tea is made of oil tea by stirring the tea noodles with chopsticks under the pot. Friends, do you have the custom of drinking oil tea on the fifteenth day of the first month? Welcome to leave a message to share. 【Yellow River Bay Original Works】For more exciting content, please click on the upper right corner to pay attention to "Yellow River Bay"