Dongfu Weinan is the most open area in the eastern part of the Guanzhong Plain, with developed farming and simple folk customs in history, and is the most representative place of traditional culture in Guanzhong, Shaanxi. Long-term living habits, Dongfu people in terms of clothing, food, housing and transportation, etc., formed some unique ways, foreigners are very curious about this, after collection, the most representative living habits are called "ten monsters", that is, noodles like belts, pot helmets like pot lids, spicy seeds are dishes, steamed buns are sold in large bowls, bowls and pans are difficult to separate, Papa head to wear, house side cover, girls are not outside, there are stools not to sit up, singing and quarrelling is difficult to separate.
Noodles are like belts. Pulling noodles is also called large noodles commonly pronounced biáng-biáng, modern Chinese dictionary Zhuyin is pǎn noodles, authentic Dongfu people made large noodles and usually eat noodles in the city there is a certain difference. Authentic large noodles, a noodle width of up to two or three inches, the length of 1 meter or so, the thickness of the coin is about the same, but when thin, it is like a cicada wing. The flour used in a noodle is usually up to 2 taels, for people with small meals, a noodle is enough for a meal, and for rural people with a large amount of rice, eating 8 or 1 pound a meal is also easy.
Dongfu people eat noodles, and like to knead the noodles and hard kneading soft, rolling thick, and cutting wide. After this kind of noodles are cooked, they are fished in a bowl, whether it is poured with cheeks or poured with oil and spicy seeds, they are smooth, soft, hot and ribbed. It is both delicious and hungry. People stretch their necks and shrink, purr and swallow into their stomachs, and when they are full, they are suddenly full of strength, pulling rack carts, carrying sacks, and not eating or drinking for five or six hours and not feeling tired.
Pot helmets are like pot lids. In the area of Erhua County and Huayin in Weinan Province, rural hospitality and relatives have the habit of burning pot helmets. Moreover, treating guests with pot helmets is an expression of respect for distinguished guests, and they usually eat less.
The noodles should be ground very thin and white, and are generally made of two thin noodles. The key to the quality of the pot helmet is two processes: one is the noodles. The noodles should be so hard that they could not be kneaded by hand, and they should be kneaded with wooden bars; the second was the fire. It is generally placed in a large pot of more than two feet and baked over a slow heat, and the heat is best heated by wheat straw. The pan made of this is crispy on the outside and crispy on the inside, fragrant and delicious, and will not change its flavor after ten and a half days.
Spicy seeds are a dish. Eating spicy seeds, not only is the patent of Hunan people and Sichuan people, Shaanxi Dongfu people take eating spicy seeds as a common meal, some places use green spicy buns, and when eating, they are also filled with red spicy water, and they eat raw garlic. When it comes to hospitality, "Oil Splashing Eyes Spicy" is also a well-known dish with "sound and color". No wonder people say that "Hunan people are not afraid of spicy, Sichuan people are not afraid of spicy, and Shaanxi people are afraid of not spicy." ”
"Oily spicy seeds" look red, smell fragrant, eat beautiful and nourishing, can be used to adjust noodles, but also can be eaten with steamed buns. Rural people often say that "oil spicy seeds big noodles, oil spicy steamed steamed buns, eating good za grin "
Steamed buns are sold in large bowls. Dongfu people pay attention to eating "water basin lamb". The most famous are the hand-torn water basin lamb with pucheng peppercorn flavor, the water basin lamb with the flavor of Dali and Chengcheng fennel, and the "sweet lamb" in Hancheng that does not adjust salt.
Dongfu people pay attention to the affordability of eating mutton, plus eating water basin lamb is mainly to drink mutton soup, selling water basin lamb is to use 6 to 8 pairs of large old bowls to soak soup steamed buns. The lamb is caught, and the mutton soup is full of thirst.
Bowls and pans are difficult to separate. Dongfu people eat, like to use a kind of Yaozhou nearly 1 foot mouth noodles of white porcelain blue and white flower bowl and white aquatic products "Fu" to set the big bowl, locals called "old bowl". This old bowl is even larger than the small pot, so it is often difficult to divide the bowl.
In the countryside of Dongfu, whenever it comes to eating, at the head of the village, in front of the village, under the tree, the men carry a large old bowl a bowl of soup rice plus two pieces of steamed bread with six or seven two, squatting together, eating with relish while pulling words, this is the famous "old bowl meeting".
In the countryside, people have a high labor intensity, work more, and eat more, so it is enough to go out and serve it in an old bowl, and they do not have to go home to serve rice, saving a lot of trouble.
Papa wears it on his head. In the past, in the "Western films" that reflected the lives of Shaanxi people, it was often seen that old men wearing lamb tripe towels and placket jackets and elderly women wore a black or white papa handkerchief on their heads. If you are lucky enough to go to the countryside of Dongfu, the situation here is exactly the same as what you see in the movie.
Dongfu is rich in cotton, and the locals are accustomed to wearing handkerchiefs made of cotton on their heads, which can not only prevent dust and rain and sunscreen, but also wipe sweat and wipe hands and wrap things, which is really economical and affordable and convenient.
The house is built on one side. In the countryside of Weibei, there are houses "built on one side" everywhere. What is a side building The roof of a house is a herringbone, but the house in Weibei is only a stroke of the herringbone. It is said that because of the drought and little rain, the house built on this side can allow all the precious rainwater to flow into the yard of the family, and each yard has a water cellar to store the rainwater and use the domestic water such as drinking and laundry. It is the so-called "fertile water does not flow into the fields of outsiders".
The girl is not external. The land of Dongfu in Shaanxi is flat and fertile, and it belongs to the most open area of the Qinchuan River for 800 miles, and it is the land of Gyeonggi of the dynasties of the past. Due to the early development of the Yellow River Basin in China's history, the economy is developed; the Yangtze River Basin is developed late and the economic development is slow. Guanzhong people believe that the land where they grew up and lived is a treasure land of feng shui, so there is a proverb that "the old man does not go out of the guanguan, the tongguan, the less than the sichuan, the sichuan, until death, the rice grain river". Over time, not only are men reluctant to go out and travel far, but even girls are unwilling to marry away from home, and some even form the traditional concept of finding a mother-in-law's family and not leaving the village, and looking for a son-in-law in the village is at ease.
There are stools that do not sit and squat up. Due to the developed agriculture in Dongfu, Shaanxi, farmers have been doing crop work in the field for many years, and most of the agricultural work is standing on two legs to work hard, coupled with the fact that the neighbors are busy in their own fields all day long, it is rare to get together, only when eating, they have time to meet, thus forming a spontaneous "old bowl meeting", it is not convenient to come out to eat with a bench, standing to eat is uncomfortable, only squatting up to feel good on both legs, so that they have developed the habit of "squatting". Outsiders strangely say that here "there are stools that do not sit and squat up" here. In fact, this is a natural habit for people to rest after exertion.
Singing and quarreling are inseparable. Singing opera, refers to singing Qin Cavity. It is the most typical expression of the rough and bold character characteristics of Dongfu. The Qin Cavity is characterized by high agitation and strong urgency. In particular, the singing of the flower face is to tear open the throat and shout loudly, which is called "breaking the voice" by the locals. In particular, two clear-angle actors singing, one person and one sentence, loudly docking, just like two people quarreling, outsiders joked: "Singing Qin cavity, one is that the stage should be firmly set up, so as not to collapse; the second is that the actor's health should be good, so as not to break the slack; the third is that the audience should be bold, so as not to scare away." ”
A good actor who roars qin cavity, sings a play to blush and has a thick neck, roaring "into the magic", the more the audience listens to it, the more addictive, thinking that this is the real Qin cavity good style, it sounds "unsatisfied", "addictive", "too".
Source: Fuping County People's Government Website