A plate of dumplings, full of hometown people's thoughts
Feng Yanhua
Eating and drinking men and women is a great desire of man. In Luzhong and even wider areas, there is such a saying: "After eating Boshan rice, go around the world." In Boshan's diet, Boshan dumplings are full of emotional characteristics.
In the north, there is a Xi of eating dumplings on the winter solstice. Nowadays, eating dumplings is the most common diet of Boshan people, and Boshan Dumpling City has also opened several houses side by side, door to door. After being away for a long time, no matter what kind of delicacies and delicacies the outside world has, I have always been nostalgic for the dumplings in my hometown.
When I was a child, I often lived in my grandmother's house, at that time, my uncle was not married, and on the day of the winter solstice, my aunt went to see my grandmother, and my grandmother made dumplings to entertain me. When living conditions are poor, dumplings are the highest etiquette for hospitality. In those days, many families only ate dumplings during the New Year. This peculiar diet has left a deep imprint on my childhood memories.
Making dumplings is very time-consuming, grandma and good noodles, aunt rolls the dough, a ball of noodles is kneaded under the hands of the uncle, every time the roll is a while, the long braid of the uncle always has to be thrown back. I sat across from me and watched my aunt in silence.
The aunt smiled and said, "Look, it's not good?" She paused for a moment, raised the back of her hand, and pulled back a strand of "bangs" scattered in front of her forehead, and white flour was stuck on her forehead. I pointed to my aunt's face and laughed, "Sister, flower-faced cat." "I learned this from my aunt.
My aunt leaned in front of the mirror, her fair face flushed.
In my eyes, my aunt at this time was particularly beautiful.
Usually, my aunt treats me well, and I don't restrain her, clapping my hands, humming and singing the children's rhyme taught by my grandmother to tease her: "Bear the cane hook, two ends, I live in my grandmother's house for an autumn, don't worry, don't worry, I will leave when the flowers bloom on the mountain." ”
Singing, laughing, and talking, after a while, the dough under my aunt's hand was rolled into a thin round cake, and then cut into small pieces of trapezoidal dough.
The dumpling filling is mixed by grandma, pork, white radish, green onion, ginger chopped together and stirred well, grandma and aunt began to make dumplings, like magic, and the dumplings wrapped out are like ingots.
At this time, the uncle was in charge of "standing on the pot table" and serving a plate of steaming dumplings to the dining table. Maybe it's the aroma of dumplings, or maybe I'm hungry, and as soon as it was served, I put down my chopsticks and chattered one.
Grandpa is busy making dumpling soup, in the boiling broth, put a little finely ground large black pepper noodles, add sesame oil, soy sauce, vinegar, and then sprinkle a layer of chopped coriander in each bowl, filling the house with an enticing rich fragrance.
Grandpa is an old potter, and he is very particular about eating dumplings. Grandpa brought a No. 5 porcelain basin to the dining table and said, "Wait a minute, how can dumplings be without dumpling soup." Don't get tired of eating, don't get tired of fine. "Grandpa went to a private school.
At that time, the apron on my grandfather's waist had not yet been taken off.
Dip it in the dumpling soup and eat it, and on the tip of the tongue, the countless taste buds will be satisfied. The soup is watery, tasteful, hot and hot, and comfortable to iron.
Eating dumplings in Boshan, if there is no dumpling soup to match, it is like listening to excerpts without the accompaniment of national musical instruments, and the charm will be lost.
Pepper is cold to drive away, dumplings are like ingots, constantly tumbling in the boiling pot, a meal of dumplings, not only to eliminate the cold of the winter solstice, but also to contain the meaning of rolling wealth, its happiness.
I used to have nothing to do, but I couldn't figure out how the family was busy for a meal of dumplings, but they were all happy. So I often looked forward to my aunt coming to my grandmother's house. There is also an inexplicable joy that permeates it, and the young heart always does not understand, but one thing is clear, as long as the aunt comes, the house will be full of joy.
Sometimes someone in the family is awkward and quarrelsome, and grandma also brings everyone together, everyone works together, eats dumplings, chatters, and everything is fine.
Dumplings have become a kind of "glue" for family happiness and harmony.
After I joined the work, I often went out, and every time my mother always made a meal of dumplings by herself, saying, "Eat more, I don't want to go home when I am full." ”
A friend from other places asked me: "You Boshan people are really exquisite, what is the method in it?" At that time, I listened to the old people say that when you go out, Tujili, "go out to dumplings and return noodles to your home".
I ate too much, and I didn't care about my mother's intentions.
After starting a family, his wife became a dumpling maker. Because of its unique charm, Boshan dumplings have been passed down from generation to generation, and they are constantly innovating. Nowadays, living conditions are better, and the pace of people's lives is accelerating day by day. The shop has a variety of frozen dumplings. When I was busy with work, I didn't have time to do it, so my wife always had to buy a pack of quick-frozen dumplings to see me off.
Dumplings are a traditional food in the mainland, a staple food and a local snack in the north, and also a New Year's food. It has a history of more than 1,800 years, and was invented by Zhang Zhongjing, a native of Nieyang, Nanyang, Eastern Han Dynasty, and was originally used for medicinal purposes. There is a folk proverb "Big cold and small cold, eat dumplings for the New Year." ”
So far, in the folk customs of Boshan, there are still "three-day dumplings" after the wedding, which means happy reunion, "ancestral dumplings" on the first day of the tenth lunar month, which is intended to report the ancestors' annual harvest, and "winter solstice dumplings". The most solemn is the "Chinese New Year's Eve dumplings" on Chinese New Year's Eve, when families begin to eat reunion dumplings at five o'clock, because the dumplings resemble yuanbao, taking the meaning of "family reunion, attracting wealth and treasure, and rolling wealth", wishing happiness and happiness in the coming year.
When my parents were there, every time I came home, my mother always carefully bought and worked for the whole family to eat dumplings, and my mother was a little difficult to make, so we persuaded her to go home and make it again, but she smiled and said, "Making dumplings is not tiring." ”
After many years, I deeply feel that the complex for dumplings is the eternal family affection that I have always been attached to.
I wish I could go home, bring a sincere blessing, and make a hometown dumpling for my parents, but I can't......
I have also traveled all over the world, and I have eaten all kinds of dumplings, such as the practice and eating method of Boshan dumplings are indeed unique.
It's the winter solstice again, and when I think of the dumplings in my hometown, I'm still a little greedy.
However, after moving to Jinan for more than ten years, only by returning to his hometown can he eat the authentic Boshan dumplings and taste the mellow taste of his hometown.
Liang Shiqiu said: "The most gluttonous time for people is when they want to eat something but can't get it. ”
A plate of dumplings is full of the longing of the hometown people......
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