——Thank you to the owner of Chi Feng Xuan for presenting the calligraphy of Mr. Dong Xueyan, a famous artist signed by Chi Feng Xuan
Spicy is the Shaanxi people's affectionate name for chili peppers, especially Guanzhong people are more fond of spicy, Guanzhong eight monsters "oil spicy a dish", is the best portrayal of the guanzhong Lenwa and spicy plot, no spicy people in Guanzhong with fried oil poured, spicy taste suddenly filled the entire space, so that the characteristics of spicy seeds to play out.
——The "8819" spicy son Fangrong, who once made great contributions to the Xingping people of Guanzhong Province
Guanzhong people eat spicy seeds, which is different, not only in a particularly creative way of eating, but also in the characteristics of spicy seeds. In the era of economic scarcity, the lack of edible oil Guanzhong people with vinegar and (read huo) spicy noodles, with a sickle harvesting season to pick a few tender spicy seeds dipped in salt to relieve hunger, busy (wheat grinding ends) after the plump spicy seeds have not yet turned red, we Guanzhong people can't wait, cut the green spicy seeds into small pieces with salt and vinegar mixed, steamed steamed by the way, the green spicy seeds with noodles, eggs mixed and steamed... Spicy seeds are eaten in the Guanzhong region.
When the red and red spicy seeds are ripe, pick them back to dry, and then tie the dried spices into strings and hang them behind the house in front of the house, and the strings of red spicy skewers are a beautiful landscape of our farmhouse!
- Freshly tied spicy skewers
Even in the late autumn, when the frost is about to fall, the experienced Guanzhong women, in order to avoid the tragedy of the green spicy seeds being frosted and becoming white and inedible, pick the green spicy seeds, pick the crisp and raw pickled spicy seeds or pickle them with green tomatoes and cucumbers, so that the two seasons of the spicy people's life are very dignified.
Guanzhong people who love spicy seeds, there are really too many anecdotes to tell.
Many years ago, when I went to a cousin's house and my sister-in-law was not at home, I joked, "My sister-in-law is not at home, and I secretly make something delicious?" ”
My cousin teased me and said, "You can't enjoy this delicious food." Seeing that he was obviously wrapping "main buns" (the name of dumplings in the Guanzhong dialect), "I was reluctant to give it to me, so I told my sister-in-law." ”
Take a closer look, the cousin is making green spicy seeds as a filling! My cousin knew that I often stayed up late, afraid of the fire and did not eat spicy, so he chatted with him, the main bun quickly boiled well, fished out, only to see the cousin poured half a bowl of red spicy noodles into a small bowl, put salt, and then poured a lot of vinegar, knowing that I was taboo, he used the main bun of green spicy buns to dip the red spicy vinegar juice, and he tasted it up, not good at kung fu, his forehead was full of beads of sweat, while wiping off the beads of sweat on his forehead, the cousin said happily, "Spicy addiction, your sister-in-law thinks I eat spicy too heavy, she walked brother to be beautiful!" ”
The old branch secretary of our village from the production team to the responsibility system period is a very fond of spicy people, once we went to a meeting together, as long as he went to the restaurant where he was eating, the boss saw him come in, he had to specially call the waiter to "bring out the spicy can (qia hug meaning). Once after eating a meal, a multi-mouthed waiter spit out his tongue and said to himself in surprise, "No wonder every once in a while, the old man who pulled the swill complained that his pig did not eat, it turned out that this uncle had less than half a can of spicy seeds for a meal!" The dishwashing water made the pigs so spicy that they didn't eat them. The old branch secretary and the restaurant owner heard it, and they both laughed; the restaurant owner joked, "If your uncle doesn't eat at home for a few days, when his family feeds the pigs, the pigs are not good to eat, and your aunt later made the pigs spicy in order to let the pigs eat!" ”
Lao Zhishu smiled and echoed, "Yes, strange! My pigs are addicted to spicy seeds! ”
This is the ultimate way for Guanzhong people to eat spicy seeds.
Eat spicy seeds, love to eat spicy seeds, especially love to eat spicy Guanzhong people on the habits of spicy seeds mastered very thoroughly, in order to in the northern frost-free period, to maximize the spicy fruit, there is no anti-seasonal greenhouse, are used small arch sheds to raise seedlings, valley rain after the transplantation of the dew; when planting spicy seeds must use three spicy seedlings a nest, when the spicy fruit, the branches snuggle together is equal to mutual support; this is a very popular agricultural planting science!
Spicy seeds growing period, the production of a large number of carbohydrates of the spicy fruit, the demand for water is very large, and the use of artificial irrigation, the soil compaction is the biggest star of the zombie spicy seedlings, our villagers to overcome the soil compaction of the trick is too amazing, whenever the irrigation, interlaced to the spicy land sprinkled grass and wood ash, which is fertilization, grass and wood ash after flooding with water can quickly make the ground crack, effectively help the horserad root system breathe. Practice has proved that interlacing grass and wood ash before irrigation is very effective in preventing the phenomenon of dead seedlings.
It is precisely because of the all-round mastery of the characteristics of spicy seeds in Guanzhong that the spicy seeds in Sang Town, Xingping City, the hinterland of Guanzhong, the paper with thick skin, seed aroma, and spicy seeds will become the red color of penetrating oil in a few days! Therefore, Xingping spicy seeds are well-known throughout the country, and spicy seeds also exchange a lot of income for the villagers.
——The Guanzhong people call this thing a "zombie nest"
The red spicy noodles look very tempting, the processing of spicy noodles in those years is mostly used, Guanzhong people call it "zombie nest" (pestle and mortar chǔ jiù) mashed, after putting a little cooking oil in the cauldron "roasted" dried spicy seeds, by the pestle (zombie hammer) repeatedly pounded in the zombie (mortar), spicy seeds, spicy noodles are squeezed countless times, spicy oil is evenly adsorbed by the spicy noodles, mellow and unusually uniform, which is also the reason for hand-mashing spicy seeds.
Later, the village had a shredder for the cattle to crush feed (Guanzhong dialect called - universal machine), once I returned to the village from outside, blowing a slight east wind into the west entrance of the village, I felt that something was wrong and choked uncomfortable, the more I went east, the more uncomfortable it was, only to see the dairy goats tied on the side of the road with a strong whip, spraying nose, walked to the universal machine in the middle of the village, saw a master wearing a mask and sneezing hard, was stuffing dry spicy seeds into the machine, it turned out that this was a god who was greedy for convenience and smashed the spicy with a universal machine The choking breath still feels like I can't help but sneeze in retrospect.
Up to now, the merchants selling spicy noodles on the Guanzhong Rural Daji have adapted the "electric mills" with the times, and the spicy noodles ground by using the friction between the rooks and the mill plates are also very delicious.
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It is said that spicy seeds are an exotic species native to the tropical regions of Central and South America, more than ten years ago, I once went to work in the Ethiopian plateau in Africa, where I saw a tree very familiar, I asked our local staff, they answered "Muka Galian", I am familiar with their language, Muka is the meaning of tree, because the pronunciation of the word "camel" in their language is very close to Galian, I did not care too much about this - Muka Galian. Later, once the local staff was more curious about me, picked a "Galian" fruit, this is the spicy, Africans do not eat this "Galian", in Africa spicy can grow trees!
The spicy seeds of the Ethiopian plateau, not the general spicy, there is a joke among the local employees, there is a Chinese colleague called "mr cha", when he sees the galian, he is very dismissive of playing, and break the galian play, and later the wrench he used at work was used by another colleague, who knew that the colleague wiped the sweat on his face with his hand, the pain only screamed, mr cha quickly washed his hands, let the colleagues wash the tools he had moved.
In the evening, the local staff on the phone have laughed and spread, mr just covered the root of the thigh to see the doctor's troubles, the original play after the hand is washed, the sequelae of peeing is also quite serious, the hot and spicy dust root let mr. Cha from China, thoroughly see the mighty African Galian! , and also leaves a permanent laughing stock for local employees.
Spicy rod also maintains the characteristics of spicy, in the winter folks like to play with rabbits, when rabbits escape into the deep hole, just add some spicy rods to ignite in the firewood, we stand on the limelight, not much work, rabbits will be smoked out by the tear gas-like spicy poles; before the 70s of the last century, our small partners were often frozen feet, hands suffered from "frostbite", and the spicy rod put into boiling water to cool after washing hands, soaking feet can alleviate the itchy symptoms of frostbite, and the next day frostbite will magically heal a lot.
After returning to China for many years, a stable life, let raising flowers and grass become my hobby, in 2016, I raised a pot of "Chaotian pepper" to winter, was transplanted into a plastic bucket, to this day, the tenacious Chaotian pepper is still blossoming and bearing fruit, it turns out, as long as the temperature in winter is suitable, in the Guanzhong region of northern China, spicy seeds can also be like the Ethiopian plateau in Africa, becoming a perennial "Muka Galian"!
——The Chaotian pepper planted in 2016 still has spicy seeds
The fact that I planted chaotian peppers by myself proved that as long as they are not frozen, spicy seeds can still grow for many years in the Guanzhong area, and from the third year onwards, the flowers of spicy seeds are obviously very rare, and this year (the fourth year) the branches of spicy seeds are drawn out of only a few rods, not to mention not many spicy fruits.
In Guanzhong, it is precisely because people love spicy seeds very much, so that outsiders spread the view that "oil spicy seeds a dish", I love spicy Guanzhong people do not think this is a demeaning statement, everyone thinks that love spicy seeds as proud, this is our hao shuang Guanzhong Lengwa characteristics - eight hundred miles of QinChuan dusty, thirty million old Shaanxi roared Qin Cavity, a bowl of burning noodles joyful, no spicy toot!
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