Peninsula All Media Reporter He Yi
On the afternoon of August 21, in the daily steamed iron pot steamed bun shop in Hejia Community, Wangezhuang Street, Qingdao, Xu Jing, a young girl from the 90s, was making flowers in the pastry processing room, she watched her parents make a variety of steamed buns, raohuaer and other pastries since she was a child, and when she grew up, she was also full of ears, and a pair of hand-made various pastries were very appreciated by customers. When the Qixi Festival came, she followed her family and began to be busy making flowers, some old people like to eat flowers in these days of the Qixi Festival, and many elderly people living nearby have eaten at the Qixi Festival since they were children, which means that boys eat smart, girls eat dexterity.
Xu Jing told reporters, "Eating raohuaer is a folk custom of Qixi Festival, in Qingdao, especially in Wangezhuang, in addition to Wangezhuang's big steamed buns, the second representative is to make "raohuaer". The seventh day of the lunar calendar has arrived, and on the steamed bun street in Hejia Community, Wangezhuang Street, all steamed bun shops are busy burning flowers. Some shops are doing it all at home, basically except for making flowers and laughing, and the big steamed buns don't care about processing at all. According to the customer's reservation needs, the store uses nearly a thousand catties of flour and eggs almost every day, uses special flour, mountain spring water and noodles, and then adds eggs and sugar, the taste is sweet and delicious, and it can also be eaten as a small snack. When making, each person has a hazelnut mold with a different pattern, divides the good dough into small doughs, and then puts the dough into the hazel, presses it flat and snaps it out, and the flowers with different shapes such as goldfish and swallows are made. Put it in a baking tray and send it to the oven, and in a moment the golden color and fragrant flavor of the flowers will be baked. ”
It is understood that Xu Jing is currently buying flowers through sending moments and promoting flowers, most of which are bought by some old customers and friends. Some young people specially drive to the Wangezhuang Hejia community to buy, mainly the elderly at home like to eat, although the old man's teeth are general, but because the production is not hard, the taste is still good. During the interview, the reporter found that in the pastry workshop, it was like a sauna, on the side was the high temperature emitted by the oven that was cooking the flowers, and on the other side was Xu Jing and her family busy with the heat, and after a while, sweat had soaked her clothes, and her face was also sweaty.
I heard the old man say, "The origin of the raohuaer comes from the story of the cowherd and the weaver girl, and it is said that there was a girl called Xiao who sympathized with the poignant love between the cowherd and the weaver girl, and every year on Qixi she would make a delicate small snack offering, hoping that the cowherd and the weaver girl could meet in heaven." Later, the Jade Emperor was moved, and Ling Yue Lao pulled the strings, promoting a small and happy marriage. Then many girls began to imitate small and make small snacks of different shapes on Tanabata every year to pray for a happy marriage. This kind of snack is called "qiaoguo", that is, raohuaer. Legend has it that the boy who ate the flowers was smart, and the girl was skilful. For how many years the flowers have been inherited, the local elders in Wangezhuang Street can't say, but every family in the local area eats the flowers to pray for blessings every year before the Qixi Festival. She also hopes to pass on this family craft of making flowers and laughing with her own hands, so that she can taste more Qingdao's special food. Xu Jing said.
The Qixi Festival is here, and the booking of flowers is hot
All kinds of flowers
Every time you make flowers and in front of it, add a lot of eggs to the real material
Each time yeast is added is strictly in accordance with the requirements
After working in one afternoon, he made nearly a thousand fires
In the pastry workshop, I was busy for a while, and I was sweating profusely
The pastry room is like a sauna, and after a while, your clothes will be soaked with sweat
In the pastry workshop, Xu Jing is busy in the heat
Count the flowers you have booked
After the noodles are over, start preparing for production
Xu Jing displays a variety of flowers
Make molds for the flowers
Passing on the craftsmanship of the family, laughing and laughing
The signboard passed down from Xu Jing's family is "Open Mouth Laughter", also known as bar head fire
Celebrate Qixi and eat flowers, which is the custom of Laoshan King Gezhuang
A variety of pastries in the oven