When it comes to the "hometown flavor" of Shanxi people, the first thing that comes to mind must be the rich and diverse pasta. For Shanxi people, no matter how many wine and dishes they eat, noodles will always be the last protagonist of the table!
"莜面栲栳栳栳栳" is also called "莜面窝 nest". It is a kind of noodle dish made with fine workmanship in the alpine areas of Shanxi, especially in the Xinzhou area. It is also one of the top ten noodle dishes in Shanxi. It is named after its external image "栲栳栳". "栲栳" refers to a container made of wicker and shaped like a bucket, also called "笆斗", which is a kind of utensils specially used by farmers to draw water or hold things. The chestnuts made of noodles are not only delicious, but also particularly full, as the saying goes, "forty miles of noodles, thirty miles of cake, twenty miles of soba noodles hungry waist." "This means that you can walk forty miles after eating soba noodles, while you can only walk twenty miles when eating soba noodles, so it can be seen that noodles are a very full ingredient."
At the end of the Sui Dynasty and the beginning of the Tang Dynasty, according to folklore, Li Yuan, the Duke of Tang Dynasty, was demoted to Taiyuan and stayed behind, and his family passed through the Pangu Temple of the Ancient Temple of Lingkong Mountain, and the old abbot specially made this noodle food for hospitality. Li Yuan asked, "What is in hand?" The old abbot replied: "Chestnut" is a generic term for plants, and chestnut refers to a container made of bamboo or wicker. Then the abbot replied with a small cage drawer in his hand. Later, when Li Yuan became emperor, he sent the old abbot to Wutai Mountain as an abbot. The old abbot led the monks to the post, passed through Jingle County, saw the first harvest of the wheat, and passed on the method of making the noodles to the local area. With the passage of time, the change of dynasties, Yuan Huan's children and grandchildren migrated to Tianzhen in Datong to avoid war, and then moved to Zhangbei County in Zhangjiakou, rijiu this folk cuisine spread throughout Shanxi, Shaanxi, Inner Mongolia, Hebei and other places, becoming the home cuisine of the people in the mountains, and now Yuan Huan's twenty-second generation descendant Yuan Bo has settled in Erquanjing Village, Zhangbei County, and still preserves the traditional processing and production method of "Cheroke". It is a "folk culture" that belongs to all mankind, a "taste" from the Tang Dynasty.
The noodles are exquisite, the process is exquisite, the perfect combination of beautiful forming and taste strength, the manufacture of the noodles, the boiling water and the system, with the palm of the hand on the lubricated plate surface to push, and then use the index finger to roll, made into a barrel shape, long inches, thin as a leaf, light yellow color. When it's done, stand side by side in a cage that resembles a honeycomb. When cooked, it is fragrant, and when eating, it is added "lamb mushroom soup, a family eats ten incense", which makes people smell salivating, appetite suddenly open, and the aroma of food is abnormal and intriguing. There are also several ways to eat the noodles. One is to eat it with brine dipped in chestnuts. Marinades generally have lamb mushrooms, meat sauce or according to personal taste to pour meat, potatoes, eggplant and other stir-fried sauce, soft tendons, delicious, fragrant. The other is to cut the steamed chestnut chestnut and stir-fry it with vegetables. There is also a kind of steamed chestnut to eat directly, but also can be dipped in sour and spicy sauce, the taste is refreshing.
Even when the Kangxi Emperor worshipped Mount Wutai, he regarded this as a pleasure in life. To this day, whenever the elderly birthday, children are full moon or festive hospitality, they often eat here. When some families in the mountainous areas are married and married, the bride and groom also have to eat, which means that the husband and wife are white and old. At the end of the year, it is even more necessary to eat to pray for the harmony of the whole family and the prosperity of the people.
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