Chinese people always pay attention to people's food, not to mention that they usually pay attention to food. Traditional festivals pay more attention to it. Today is the Zhongyuan Festival, which is a special festival and one of the folk festivals for ancestor worship. So what's the custom of eating in Zhongyuan Festival? Let's get to know each other.
1. Eat Laifen
On the day of Zhongyuan Festival, there is a custom of eating Laifen in Dongguan, and it is used almost all over Dongguan. Of course, there are different ways to eat Laifen in different areas. Laifen is a traditional food for Dongguan life feast, which means a long life.
Dongguan is most famous for its goose Wrase. The most important thing about cooking goose Laise is a pot of delicious soup, which needs to be boiled with the whole chicken, large meat and large bone, plus many special herbs and spices. When eating, scald the Laifen in hot water and put it into a bowl, then add a tablespoon of high soup, then spread the noodles with a layer of crispy and tender roast goose.
2. Steamed sheep
In the countryside of old Beijing and North China, the custom of sending live sheep from grandfather and uncle to nephew on July 15 is popular. It is said that this custom has something to do with the legend that Chenxiang split the mountain to save his mother. After Shenxiang split the mountain to save her mother, she wanted to pursue Erlang, the uncle who abused her mother. In order to rebuild the friendship between brother and sister and uncle and nephew, Erlang sent a pair of live sheep to Chenxiang on July 15 every year. It is said that this is the homophony of taking Erlang's name and Chenxiang's mother's' Yang 'to reunite the two families. From then on, people left the custom of Uncle delivering live sheep, and later gradually evolved into delivering a opposite sheep.
Another saying of this folk custom is that the mother made a pair of sheep out of white flour for the married daughter, and of course, they were steamed, and the sheep's head had to be wrapped with red cloth strips. The mother's family will form a small sheep delivery team to the new uncle's house. The new uncle will cut the sheep and hang the first cut piece in the living room with a red rope. The 'meat of the sheep' will not be taken down until the new sheep are delivered on July 15 of the next year. One of the stresses is that there is surplus food every year. 'after the new uncle cuts the sheep, he will eat the sheep's head, the married daughter will eat the sheep's feet, and the rest will be sent to the elder neighbors of the man to show his beauty and share the happiness and auspiciousness.
3. Eating huamo
Before the 15th festival of July, the activity of dough sculpture was popular among the folk women, especially in the north of Shanxi Province. A steamed bun, four neighbors to help. First of all, according to the actual number of people in the family, give everyone a big flower bun.
The huamo given to the younger generation should be made into a flat shape, called a noodle sheep. Take the Yiyang lamb and kneel on both knees. I hope that the younger generation will not forget the kindness of their parents' upbringing. The huamo given to the older generation should be made into an adult shape, called a face person, which means that their children and grandchildren are full of happiness and longevity. The huamo given to the younger generation should be made into a fish shape, called a noodle fish, which means that they have more than years.
4. Eat duck
On the first day of the lunar July 15, many parts of the country will choose to eat ducks. Why? It turns out that "duck" is "pressing". It's homophonic. Eating duck is to suppress ghosts. Moreover, the chicken feet are rake like, which is easy to catch the ghost's clothes (probably afraid of accumulating evil resentment, unwilling to return to the original place), so it's reasonable to choose ducks with flat feet.
It's said that the dead ancestors will go home to visit their relatives on the day of Zhongyuan Festival. They want to cross Nahe bridge, but no boat can't. So, the living people should send some ducks down so that the ducks can swim and take them back. As time goes by, it has become a tradition to eat ducks at Ghost Festival. Dongguan people usually eat stewed duck with lotus root, while Guangxi people like lemon duck.
The old flavor lemon duck of daozilou is hot and sour. The meat of the selected local duck is delicate and not greasy. The newly launched e-commerce vacuum packaging adopts advanced processing technology and matching with fresh-keeping and cold chain, which can be traced back to the source throughout the whole process. It is a famous Zhuang food loved by the people of Guangxi.
5. Eat flatfood
In Dongxian township of Jiangsu Province, many villagers eat flat food (a kind of dustpan shaped food made of flour and sugar) on the day of Zhongyuan Festival. Now some people also call flat food dumplings. In fact, flat food is very different from dumplings. The difference between flat food and dumplings is first in the skin, then in the filling.
In terms of skin, the dumpling skin is thicker, while the flat food skin is as thin as cicada wing, crystal clear. The dumpling filling is small, as small as the thumb, so the size of the dumpling is relatively small. Although there are more than ten dumplings in a bowl, only one third of them are in the bowl, and the rest are all soup. Moreover, the filling of the dumpling is relatively simple, and more vegetables and seasonings are added to the pork. Flat food is very different, not only meat and vegetables can be filled, but also chicken, duck, fish, crab, Sanzi, tender soybeans can be filled, and special attention is paid to collocation, chicken breast with celery, pork with shepherd's purse, egg with leek and so on.
6. Eat 'dumplings'
In Tiantai, Taizhou City, Zhejiang Province, they will eat "dumpling cake", a kind of food similar to spring rolls. According to legend, the dumpling cone was left by Ji Gong: when Ji Gong was a monk in Guoqing temple, he saw that there were many dishes left in every meal, and felt that it was wasteful, so he wrapped these dishes in the paste latipi for the next meal to eat, which was loved by the monks and spread to the people.
To make a dumpling cone, stir fry the stuffing and set aside. Common fillings include pork, pork liver, shredded egg, tofu skin, winter bamboo shoots, bean noodles, celery, bean sprouts, kelp, dried fish, etc. Then paste the prepared flour into a thin round skin (paste and pull the skin). Finally, the ingredients are wrapped in the pasted rattan in order, so that they cannot be wrapped too 'fat' or 'thin', otherwise they will not look good. When the dumplings are wrapped, they should also be fried on the "pan" until the skin is golden and shiny.
In addition, in duling County, Shandong Province, Zhongyuan Festival is known as "mouth pinching Festival" by local people. Every family has the custom of eating simple food.