Qianzhou pot helmet, ranked first among the four treasures of Qianzhou.
As soon as I mentioned the pot helmet, another flavor snack in Qianzhou, lamb steamed buns, came to me. The combination of Qianzhou pot helmet and Qianzhou lamb steamed bun can be said to be heaven and earth, and no "taste" can reach. When eating, first break the Qianzhou pot helmet, cut a few slices of cooked lamb, plus sheep blood, tofu pieces, vermicelli or vermicelli, green onions, coriander, etc., or boiled or boiled, all delicious.
Under the infiltration of the mutton soup, the pot helmet is strong, smooth, and the more you chew, the more fragrant it is. No wonder Qianzhou people often say, "Qianzhou's first incense, pot helmet soaking lamb soup." "
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Qianzhou pot helmet, round, the edge of the bun is pressed into a high and a low ripple with radial, the fire color is uniform, it looks like a huge chrysanthemum. Its salient feature is that it is dry and crispy, and its color is beautiful. There is a small circle in the middle, the thinnest place, like the flower bud of the huge chrysanthemum. Break it open by hand, layer by layer, and cut it with a knife, shaped like a plate of oil. Smell the incense, eat crisp, endless aftertaste, hunger resistance, storage, easy to carry. Qianzhou pot helmet in the style, but also a variety of varieties. There are spicy pot helmets made of spicy noodles, sprinkled with clear oil, spices, etc., which are crispy and fragrant and have a unique flavor. Just don't eat, just look at it, it makes you salivate; there is a crisp smell, it looks yellow and bright, and when you smell it, there is a fragrance that refreshes the heart.
Regarding the Qianzhou pot helmet, there are some legends and interesting things in all dynasties and dynasties, interpreting the classic legend of the Qianzhou pot helmet.
It is said that in the Qin Dynasty, Qianxian had the prototype of a pot helmet, which was not called a pot helmet at that time, but was made by grilling the dough on the fire. Because its shape resembles the cross-section of a tree stump, it is called a pier cake.
Qianxian people sent their sons to join the army, so they brought their sons pier cakes, two pier cakes for a group, drilled two eyes on each pier cake, tied with a cowhide rope, and put one on the front chest and one on the back chest, just like the jackets commonly used by the people in the past. This special way of carrying in the face of sudden combat, the mound cake turned out to be an excellent protective gear, which played the role of armor (bulletproof vest). What is even more rare is that the arrows fired by the enemy army are stuck on the mound cake, and after being pulled out by the soldiers, they can be used to shoot the enemy army. It is said that during the Three Kingdoms period, Zhuge Liangcao's plan to borrow arrows was inspired by the Qin army's mound cake.
During the Tang Dynasty, emperor Gaozong Li Zhi and empress Wu Zetian buried the tomb together, and when the Qianling Tomb was built, tens of thousands of craftsmen and migrant workers were requisitioned due to the huge project. Due to the heavy road of life, many migrant workers often cannot eat on time, and hunger is a frequent thing. One day, a migrant worker was so hungry that he could not hold on, so he quietly dug a dirt nest on the side of the road, put on his helmet, put the noodles and evenly placed it in the helmet, and burned firewood under the helmet. He was very happy, so he told his companions about this method, and let everyone switch to using an iron pot to burn it, and as a result, he ate crisp, smelled incense, and passed on ten or ten hundred, forming this unique pot helmet bun.
In 969, Zhao Kuangyin commanded three armies and attacked Jinyang of the Northern Han Dynasty, but when the Khitan army supported Jinyang, the two armies fought for a long time. During the heavy rain for several days, the troops ate and became a Qianzhou general who made a lot of pots and pans, which were easy to carry and resistant to hunger, helping the Song army survive the crisis and smoothly withdraw its troops to the south. The following year, the whole army prepared more pots and helmets and won in one fell swoop.
In the Ming Dynasty, a Fuping man came to Qianzhou, and after seeing the Qianzhou pot helmet, he had a sudden idea and added the local persimmons to the noodles and burned them into a pot helmet. There is sweetness in this pot of helmet crisp, and persimmons have special medicinal properties. As it is written in a poem, "Golden laurel is fragrant with persimmons, frost falls and picks the autumn wind, moisturizes the lungs and coughs, and strengthens the spleen to take good seeds." "For a while, the red Ganshan was taken as a tribute to the court.
Qianzhou people, the pot helmets burned at home, will also change into various tricks. There is oil, layer by layer, the skin is hard and soft, crisp and delicious; there are spicy noodles sprinkled when making oil pot helmets, and the more you chew the more you chew with the pink red; there are one or two eggs mixed with when you make noodles, the noodles are not only more vigorous, slightly yellow, soft and delicious, rich in nutrition.
Nowadays, Qianzhou pot helmet has become one of the local traditional snacks in Shaanxi. Every street in Qianzhou City is indispensable to a variety of Qianzhou pot helmets, which are like blooming chrysanthemums, or golden, or plain, or bright red Qianzhou pot helmets, blooming with the fragrance of history and dressing up people's beautiful lives.