Finishing: Jelly beans
(Tianshui Scenic View)
The fifth day of the first lunar month is the first five of the New Year, which is called "Breaking the Fifth" by folk customs, and is an important festival after the Spring Festival. On this day, in Gansu Tianshui, there are still customs of waiting for the road gods, sending the five poor and sticking to the five blessings.
1, wait for the road god: this day to get up early, carry a dung bucket to the intersection of the village to wait for the road god, according to legend, the road god to the dung bucket to throw a stone, after returning the stone will become gold. This custom has evolved into picking up dung in the morning.
2, send five poor: on this day to lift the mat, the four corners of the earth kang each sweep a broom, the middle sweep a broom, a total of five brooms, and then the kang soil is poured out, called to send five poor. Poor is poor ghost, poor God. The poor god of Tianshui folklore is Lady Ma, the wife of Taigong Jiang.
Before Jiang Taigong went out of the mountains, he only knew how to fish and study all day long, and did not go to make money, and Madame Ma saw that her life could not go on, so she abandoned him. When Jiang Ziya became famous and was on the list of gods, Ma Shi began to come back to him again, and also wanted to be a god, Jiang Ziya named her a broom star, and the broom star was a poor god.
3, Ran (sticky) five blessings: this day's breakfast every household eats a mixed dough made of corn and other grains, and it is very exquisite. Before eating, it is necessary to stick (Tianshui dialect called Ran) from the door, window, cabinet, hoard, etc., called Ran Wufu. Five blessings, one blessing, two life, three kangning, four good virtues (virtue of the good), and five days of examination (saying that goodness does not die).
(Mixed dough with full color and flavor)
To this day, not only Tianshui, churning is already a flavor snack in all parts of Gansu, and its method is also a test of the housewife's kung fu: first boil the water, and then sprinkle corn or other grains into boiling water, stir while sprinkling, boil over a warm fire, and wait to form a ball. When eating, first put the clear soup in the bowl, add the oil and spicy seeds, salt and other condiments, and then put the churn dough in the bowl, use chopsticks to sandwich the churn into small pieces, and soak in the bowl of the clear soup to taste.
There are many kinds of clear soups, including syrup water, vegetarian dishes, and meat dishes. And the churning ball is transparent and shiny, shaped like white jade, with the bright red oil and vinegar water in the soup cheeks, and the verdant coriander green onion, it is really full of color and fragrance. Whether it's in the hot summer or the cold midwinter, a bowl of cold or hot churn will make you feel refreshed and endlessly refreshed.
(The soup is inseparable from red pepper and green onion and garlic)
(Green coriander is also essential)