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The culture of the mainland has a long history, with a wide variety of cultures, clothing culture, food culture, and entertainment culture.
Each era has a different manifestation, and there are also distinct cultural differences between different regions.
This is actually caused by various environments and Xi, such as the south and north of the continent.
The climate in the south is mild and pleasant, with abundant rain, while the north is cold and windy, with frequent heavy snowfall, which determines the cultural differences between the north and the south.
Speaking of which, we have to mention the food culture of the north and south.
There are many foods that are considered delicious and delicious in the eyes of northerners, but accepted as incompetent in the eyes of southerners.
cornmeal
For northerners, rice is not the best staple food, and they are more Xi to wheat products, such as noodles and steamed buns.
And in pasta, northerners are fond of cornmeal.
Cornmeal is to replace wheat with corn and grind it into flour.
Northerners like to use cornmeal to make staple foods, such as cornmeal steamed buns, corn noodles, and the most famous is tortillas.
The corn tortillas and another famous dish in the north are stewed in an iron pot.
A circle of cornmeal tortillas is pasted on the inner wall of the large iron pot, and the cakes are scalded by the heat of the pot, which is the prototype of the ground pot chicken.
After the corn flour is blanched, soak in some gravy, and the northerners are very happy to eat.
But this home-cooked delicacy is tasteless to southerners.
Because cornmeal is not a refined grain, it may taste a little dregs and hard, not as delicate and smooth as the flour that southerners often eat.
In addition, cornmeal also has a tangy corn smell, which may not be acceptable to southerners who are not Xi to eating corn.
Therefore, most southerners still prefer to choose other more delicate flours.
蘸酱菜
If you want to pick the most mouth-watering northern food for southerners, dipping pickles deserves to be at the top of the list.
Few southerners would choose to eat vegetables in this way.
The so-called dipping pickles are actually picking and washing most of the vegetables that can be eaten raw, and then serving them with a plate of sauce.
It may be soybean sauce or egg sauce, and in general northerners like to eat their own home-made miso sauce.
Watching the Northeast people in the TV series, a bite of vegetables and a mouthful of sauce, and a sip of wine, with a look of enjoyment on his face.
However, after the first attempt, many southerners can't stick to it anymore, and the taste of the dipping pickles is really unbearable.
In fact, this also has a lot to do with the regional environment.
In the north, the days are long and the nights are short, the temperature difference between day and night is large, and the sugar in vegetables is relatively sufficient, even if they are eaten raw, they are delicious.
Vegetables in the south have no taste when eaten raw, and the taste is raw and cold.
Secondly, the way Southerners have always cooked has determined that they prefer to eat stir-fried food.
Many southerners, even if they buy cold vegetables, have to heat them up before eating them when they get home, let alone fresh vegetables.
Among all kinds of dipping pickles, the southerners are most shocked by green onions.
You can imagine how spicy and pungent a white onion is, and it is only used as an ingredient in stir-fry in the south.
But the northerners actually eat it raw one bite at a time, which is really appalling.
Bean juice
In recent years, with the convenient transportation, many southerners will try the legendary bowl of bean juice when traveling to Beijing.
When you enter the door, your face is full of anticipation, and when you take a sip, many people immediately change their faces and feel indescribable pain.
Just one bite is enough to make people lose all interest in soy juice.
But this bean juice is a delicacy engraved in the bones of Beijingers, whether it was a nobleman or a commoner in ancient times.
They will come to the store to make a bowl of bean juice to drink, and it is said that the Empress Dowager Cixi Lafayette is also very fond of bean juice.
Don't look at soy juice and soy milk, which sound like "relatives", in fact, the taste and taste of the two can't be beaten.
The juice is made from mung beans, which are ground and then fermented, boiled over high heat, and finally filtered.
Due to the fermentation process, the bean juice has an inexplicable rancid smell from the inside out, and it feels like it has been rancid for several days.
But in fact, this is also the distinctive feature of bean juice.
Northerners also have their own set of rules for drinking bean juice, and the golden partner is the staple food of coke rings and small pickles to enhance the taste.
You can't use utensils when drinking bean juice, you should put your mouth close to the edge of the bowl and slowly turn in a circle and suck it slowly.
Of course, for southerners, none of these processes matter, because they have only one impression of bean juice – it's hard to swallow.
In fact, in addition to being unpleasant, bean juice still has great benefits for the body, which is terrible on the outside and pure on the inside.
Cold surface
Whenever it is a hot summer, the best way for northerners to cool off is to go to the store and eat a bowl of cold noodles.
It's even more enjoyable if you add some ice cubes, but this delicacy is popular in the north, but few people like it in the south.
In fact, there are many reasons, first of all, there is not much demand for pasta in the south.
Many southerners still insist on eating rice, even if they eat noodles, they only eat very little, and most of the time they still eat rice.
Even if they eat pasta, most southerners still opt for hot noodle soup.
Ice-cold cold noodles are a very strange thing in the eyes of southerners, isn't it good to eat a steaming bowl of noodle soup?
The second is the taste of northern cold noodles, which has strong northern characteristics.
It is filled with chili oil, vinegar, kimchi, and even sprite, and the soup is sour and sweet.
But this flavor is not liked by southerners, who prefer sweet or spicy flavors and are incapable of accepting mixed flavors.
In addition, northerners mostly use soba noodles to make cold noodles, which have a rough taste and are slightly bitter.
In the South, most people don't like soba unless some people who like to work out choose soba.
Hu spicy soup
Hu spicy soup can be said to be one of the foods that the people of Henan Province are proud of, and it is the best choice for breakfast in the eyes of countless northerners.
Have a bowl of spicy soup, order a few steamed buns, and start your day.
But Hu spicy soup is not popular in the south no matter how it is sold.
The recipe for Hu spicy soup is very simple, the raw materials are nothing more than pepper and chili, and then add some beef and mutton and the like.
In addition, there are starch, bean skin, vermicelli and daylily and other condiments, which are put into a pot and boiled.
Many southerners don't like Hu spicy soup, and many of the reasons are that Hu spicy soup has no "eye edge" and does not have an advantage in appearance.
And most of the breakfast shops that make Hu spicy soup are small shops, with old facilities, random plastic bowls and dull Hu spicy soup.
It looks very unclean, mixed with all kinds of things, and it is intimidating to southerners.
Another Hu spicy soup has too many spices added to it, resulting in a very complex and thick taste.
The smell of spices, the smell of chili peppers, all kinds of flavors mixed together, making the Xi light southerners sniff and frown.
After all, Hu spicy soup is served for breakfast, and many southerners advocate healthy eating, and it is not suitable to eat food that is too heavy in the morning.
Therefore, many southerners would rather choose white porridge than eat Hu spicy soup, and the price of Hu spicy soup is still several times that of white porridge.
It's expensive and unaccustomed to eating, and over time, not many people will eat Hu spicy soup anymore.
epilogue
From the difference in food between the north and the south, we have once again seen the vast land and resources of the mainland.
Even if it is just two places separated by a river, the customs and customs can be very different.
Of course, both southern and northern cuisines are part of the continental food spectrum.
It is precisely because of so many different tastes of food that the food culture of the mainland can become more and more famous in the world.
Chinese restaurants can become more and more popular in the world, and many foreigners even come to China to taste Chinese food.
Culturally, we ask for the same, and so should we do when it comes to food.
It is normal for southerners to eat food from the north, but they should be respectful and respect each other's eating Xi habits.
Only in this way can our food culture be better passed on.