On the food

Ordinary people in this day to eat noodles, ripening, popcorn, bath chap, etc., different regions have different food, but mostly related to the dragon, common name plus the food to the title of "dragon", such as eating dumplings called "dragon ear"; Eat the ripening is called "dragon scales"; Eat noodles call "under"; Eat rice called "give"; Eat wonton called "longan".

Eat the ripening called eat dragon scales is very image, a ripening is bigger than the palm of your hand is like a dragon scales. The ripening resilient, volume in a lot of food. Such as tradition, elbow, smoked chicken, sauce duck, etc., with a knife cut into filaments, with several homely dishes such as Fried pork leek sprouts, pork Fried spinach, vinegar boil mungbean sprout, bowel of fans, scrambled eggs, etc., involved with the ripening, with a fine drizzle sesame oil and shredded green onion eat pasta sauce, is really delicious and refreshing. When eating the ripening, the whole family sitting together, put good flipping the ripening in the steamer, as you eat, take, hot, hot HuanHuanLeLe.

February 2 eat popcorn has a legend. From wu zetian when the emperor, the jade emperor ordered three years while the rainfall in the world. But the jade dragon to the affected people starving of tianhe, secretly down a heavy rain, the jade emperor learned that after, will the yulong lay a paradise of tianhe, pressure under a mountain. Hill also set up a stone, top write a way: "dragon king's foul day rainfall, when art is the human sin. If you want to return dedicated cabinet, unless when the fortunella venosa flower." People in order to save the dragon king, fortunella venosa looking for flowering. February 2 in the second year on this day, people are to turn golden corn seeds, suddenly remind of, like this corn fortunella venosa, Fried, not fortunella venosa blossom? So families popcorn and a case of incense, in the courtyard to the flowering of fortunella venosa, designed to let the dragon king and the jade emperor saw. The dragon king, knowing this is people in to save it, loudly shouted to the jade emperor: "blossomed fortunella venosa, let me out!" The jade emperor at human families orphanage gold pudding open, have to pass yu, called the dragon king returned to heaven, and continue to give human YunBuYu. Formed from then on, the folk custom, every February 2 this day, people popcorn, also have Fried beans.

February 2 eat bath chap has. Since ancient times, to worship the god is always with pigs, cattle and sheep dishes that look, then simplified as the head of dishes that look, pig is one of them. According to the song dynasty "QiuChi notes" record a story: Wang Zhongling pacify bashu, very hungry, then broke into a small temple, the village has met a monk, drunk, Wang Zhongling great anger, to cut, which know the monk devoid of fear, Wang Zhongling strange, turn to him for food, little monk offer a dish "steamed pigs' faces," and therefore the spring-and-autumn yue: "mouth long hair short contain fat, long a drug seedlings to the mountains. Is lapped in steaming and mature combination apricot oar watering. Blair said red bright gold plate, ripe soft said jade chopsticks to pick. If no than and hair root, felt root on the cane." Wang Zhongling eating steamed pigs' faces, listening to the funny chic "poetry" is very happy, so the seal for the monk "purple wizard". Looks like pig is a delicacy, but also the corner reemergence of auspicious sign. Now there is a dish called "snout", after sorting, cleaning, spray roasting, washing, dressing, etc 12 steps, after more than ten hours of cooking, will end on the table. There are three kinds of "snout", one is the original; Second, the dip in sauce; 3 it is to eat a burrito. Every kind of way has a different taste. "Snout" fat but not greasy, isolation, delicious delicious meat bone brought modern beauty, the effect of the brain. "On" modern "snout", the ancient food history, is a blend of contemporary and historical perfect experience.

Mustard meal on lunar calendar is a folkloric tradition in wenzhou, and "eat mustard rice don't itch. Old people living in poverty, health consciousness, plus underserved, skin disease (eg.scabies) patients, and infectious. Mustard contains a large number of chlorophyll and vitamin C, often eat vegetables that are rich in chlorophyll, vitamin C, can improve immune ability, strengthen resistance, is good for people's skin. So there are "eat mustard rice don't itch.

It is said that this custom is still some interesting tales. You visit places, one day, emperor qianlong tour to the homes of a southern farmers, found a full read now young zhang due to the poor, cannot be threatened to take an examination of, have to read books at home. Zhang mou hospitality, emperor qianlong dinner, please. When ready to cook, zhang found in m is not enough to eat, and no food. Zhang occasion requires movement and stratagem to mind. Call his wife prepared to fire, first from the back door to the garden to a green young leaf mustard, add seasoning, boil a pot of green in the clip to white mustard. Emperor qianlong used to eat delicacies, seafood, and at noon, hungry already, smell the aroma of mustard, increase appetite, eat with relish, and full of praise, even ask how is this white rice in green. Zhang wife replied: "this is called mustard meal, eat no itch."

One day, just is on the second day of the 2nd lunar month, February mustard to eat custom is handed down from now on.