Weifang Intangible Cultural Heritage - Bar zitou

Bar head

Historically, a large number of farmers in Weifang used their spare time to make baked cakes, which is today's hard noodle fire. To increase a little bit of income. They use wooden bars to press the noodles, the noodles are dead, the noodles are very hard, the fire is round, the surrounding thick middle is thin, one side is convex, the other side is concave, after molding, the fine fire is burned, roasted, burned and other methods are cooked, because it is made by the countrymen, and the people in the city call it "country fire".

Before liberation, the village fire in Liubiqiao Village, Yuhe Town, was the most famous. Every time there is a market, they use a specially made long box to burn and pick it up to sell on the big market, and all the businesses and large households buy a few baskets of fire to store in the home, one is not afraid of mildew, and it is convenient to braised and eat; the other is to save money, because the fire and flour are at a price (farmers mainly to obtain bran and very little water). The people in the city also burned the fire, and also used the bar to roll the noodles, which is a kind of fire that is round like a steamed bun and has five wings around it, and is made by mixing dead noodles with hair noodles, and the name is called bar head fire. When children in Weixian county cut their heads on the full moon, there is a custom of buying fires and sprinkling copper coins; it means that children have "hard scalps and good luck" when they grow up. The name of the bar head fire is also derived from this. In 2007, the production process of the bar head fire was selected into the "Weifang Municipal Intangible Cultural Heritage List".