Author 丨LuHan (Author of the Study Book Team, Winner of #Qingyun Project)
When I was four or five years old, my mother, who was teaching in the Xixiang area of Yuanchuan Province, told folk tales when she was hungry in the middle of the night. I remember that there was a story of "lazy man eating pot helmet" that was very impressive:
Once upon a time, there was a person who was too lazy to be able to do it anymore, who had always been paralyzed on the kang, too lazy to move his feet and hands. The wife wanted to sit in her mother's house for fear of starving him alone, so she simply burned a large pot of helmet cakes, which spun open a large hole and put it on the man's neck. Unexpectedly, a few days later, the slacker was still starving to death; when his wife came home to see, the pot helmet in front of his arms was missing, and the remaining half was still resting behind the neck bone...
So when he was young, he felt that he was more diligent and shrewd than that man, at least half of it was not running; at the same time, he invisibly had infinite reverie about the "pot helmet" that was not large.
Pot helmet is also called pot kui, pot helmet bun, also called dry steamed bun, is Shaanxi Guanzhong Road people especially like to eat a kind of "burnt cake", "the cake is large diameter two feet away, round and thick like a pot lid." As the saying goes, "Shaanxi Ten Monsters", there is a strange "steamed bun like a pot lid", which is also a pot helmet.
The sample method of the pot helmet is naturally a circular fan, about one or two feet in diameter, thick enough to be more than an inch, and weighing about four or five pounds, and the pie is indeed good.
It is known that the process of making pot helmets is also delicate enough, "the daughter-in-law and the noodles that are hit", the plate is mixed and kneaded, and the noodles are very important. Because it is made of wenhuo kang, hollow, cascading, thick, crispy, crispy; good storage, easy to carry, the key is both "buckle", but also "catch the mouth", more resistant to fullness, the more chewy the entrance is fuller, and the next swallow returns to the incense.
It's just that the pot helmet is good, and it is indeed not our traditional food in northern Shaanxi. In terms of scale and style alone, the dry stoves, oil cakes, oil swirls, date fruit fillings, sugar piers, sugar dumplings, etc. in the area of Sui rice fat cannot be compared with other people's pot helmets.
There is a Way to say: "Wen Kui Wu Kui, can't stand up to the pot helmet." It is nothing more than a "steamed bun cake", how can it be said that there is no edge and no edge, and the gods are like gods?
It turns out that the "pot helmet" thing is also a thousand-year-old monster, and the root cause is also from the beginning:
According to legend, as early as the Zhou Wen King's cutting, the pot helmet was used as the military food of the soldiers, and in the Xifu of Shaanxi, there is still a variety of pot helmet called "Wen Wang Pot Helmet". Later, in the Qin Dynasty, the pot helmet was improved into a large, thick cake, and porcelain appearance. Interestingly, when equipping soldiers with dry food, two pots and helmets in front of and behind them are made into "folds", which is like a "bulletproof vest". If in the event of a sudden war, the thick cake could actually drink a knife and eat arrows, such a heartwarming, one-thing-dual-purpose "single soldier protective gear" turned out to be a magic weapon for the Qin army to win a decisive victory.
The people of northern Shaanxi who are familiar with pot helmets should be very late.
In the mid-summer of 1994, mr. Zhang Ziliang, a famous film and television screenwriter, came to Mizhi to shoot a play and stayed in a new-style cave kiln of the "Loess Plateau Experimental Station". Once a second or third friend talked to him at night, I remember, he said with great interest about the movie he wanted to make the most, which talked about a scene he had already conceived:
In 1947, Hu Zongnan attacked northern Shaanxi, coinciding with continuous rain, and the team was hungry, thirsty, tired, and struggling. At a time when supplies were seriously blocked and scarce, Nanjing had to use the air force to airdrop military supplies, emergency medicines, and food, and the most airdropped food was actually this pot helmet!
However, northern Shaanxi is full of mountains, and the aircraft airdrop must be reduced to a low altitude, which is extremely unsafe; in addition, it is a rainy day, the visibility is very low, because it is not convenient to throw objects, the aircraft is always in the air for half a day. The Kuomintang soldiers had no choice but to spread the "Blue Sky and White Sun Flag" as a signal in the relatively spacious river road and river trough to guide the aircraft to accurately deliver objects. For a moment, sacks flew everywhere, and the forks in the ravines were full of bone-rolling cans and pot helmets.
When the people around them saw the situation, they were relieved. So they also followed suit, spreading their own quilts and mattresses in the courtyard, the flowers were red and willow green, colorful, and the smoke was spectacular...
The people of heaven did not understand the hungry wisdom of the earth, saw the color of the eyes open, and threw a straight pipe in the direction of the futon...
The people looking down the hill didn't know how the planes started to mess up.
A row of submachine guns rang out...
A row of carbines rang out...
Hungry people fell in pools of blood...
One by one, the smashed pot helmets and the smashed pot helmets were all soaked in a pool of blood...
Pot helmets are dry food after all.
Dry food is the basic material preparation for people with hunger experience to go on the road; "dry food, dry food, determination", dry food is always the fuel, desire and motivation for life to move forward.
When I was too lazy to do the fireworks, I had a sudden idea: one day in the river trough of the Wuding River, I laid some iron plates on the ground, mixed with a piece of noodles the size of "Suozi Mountain", spread it evenly, and then used the hot solar energy to roast it raw and roasted yellow, which made a huge "Guinness Pot Helmet", or named it "Yuanchuan Pot Helmet".
Then gather thousands of rice fat fellows who are not retreating, and the voices of the people are boiling, and together they cut and bite, and together they drink "climbing and climbing water" on the banks of the Wuding River, and everyone eats so beautifully for a year, that is simply a "pot helmet leap forward map"! Close your eyes, daydream, it's a kind of human scene...
The old rice fat saying goes: "There are teeth, no pot helmets; there are pot helmets, no teeth". What this saying is actually a sad philosophy of life.
Amazing.
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