Food customs in southern Liaoning

In terms of marriage and childbirth, southern Liaoning also has its own unique food customs. Before marriage, the woman often goes to the man's house for engagement dinner. Unmarried couples, their parents and accompanying guests sit around the dining table and discuss the specific matters of marriage while drinking. Generally speaking, after drinking this wine, the marriage is finally decided. Wedding bedding must be made by a woman with both husband and wife. The day before the wedding, the woman sent a dowry to the man's house. Both sides kill pigs and sheep in advance, or buy fish and meat to prepare for hospitality.

In recent years, more tables should be set for wedding banquets, and guests should be treated with rich dining tables. Generally, there must be dishes such as "Four Joy Meetballs" and "Braised Fish" at the dinner for good luck. The bride and groom should light cigarettes and toast to the guests at each table over and over again. In the new house, the "Quanfu people" will spread the quilt, some will put red dates and chestnuts, and some will put green onions, which means that they hope to have a baby early, and the children they give birth to are smart and beautiful, all for good luck. In the evening, young people often come to the bridal chamber to amuse the bride and groom.

On the third day after marriage, my husband and mother-in-law entertained the new uncle with good food and food. Relatives, friends and neighbors often come to accompany guests. Drinking and eating together is very lively.

When the baby is born, please invite the child's grandparents to eat and drink. There is more seafood in the dishes.

Children are called "centenarians" 1 days after birth, and then invite grandparents to dinner. "Centennial noodles" should be served during the dinner, mostly seafood noodles. Grandma wears small locks, bracelets, necklaces, etc. for her children, wishing them a long life.

With the economic revitalization, people's lives in southern Liaoning are getting richer day by day, and the food customs are constantly developing and changing. The types of food are also from single to diversified, and the cooking methods are also from simple to complex, while some ancient customs are gradually fading away. Like all parts of the country, people in southern Liaoning attach great importance to the Spring Festival. When the Spring Festival is coming, every family prepares rich new year's goods early. Every family in rural areas kills Nian pigs, makes tofu, wraps bean buns, steamed buns, and knocks big noodles (that is, the dough is knocked into flowers, birds, fish, insects, figures and architectural models with realistic shapes with molds, and then baked or branded). On New Year's Eve, people get up early and have a simple breakfast. Many people only stew some fish for breakfast. At lunch, the dishes are the most varied, with good styles and high quality.

The whole family, old and young, sit together to eat, drink and eat. It's a New Year's reunion dinner, which is very lively. This meal must have fish, which means that there is "surplus" every year. In the evening of New Year's Eve, jiaozi is served with meat, seafood or vegetarian stuffing.

at midnight, light fireworks, set off firecrackers, meet the god of wealth, eat jiaozi, and get rid of the old and welcome the new. Every family should

set up a table and chopsticks for steamed bread, jiaozi, fruit, snacks and stir-fried dishes in front of the ancestral tablet, and the whole chicken and boiled meat should be placed in the middle. Please return your ancestors to earth for a feast. In the old days, we had to burn incense and kowtow. On the first day of the first day, when they meet, they exchange auspicious words such as "meet and get rich", and the younger generation kowtows to their elders. Eating jiaozi on the first and third day and jiaozi on the fifth day is called "Breaking Five".

On the night of Lantern Festival on the fifteenth day of the first month, every household hangs various lanterns (paper, radish, flour, etc.), which are bright everywhere. On this night, every family in the farm will go to the ancestral grave to send lights, light wax and burn incense, and return home to have a Lantern Festival.

on the second day of February, it is called "the dragon looks up", and washing your face with cold water in the morning is called "washing the tap".

Some people cut the wheat straw into sections and put it on, and put a cloth strip between the sections of the wheat straw to wear around the child's neck or tie it in a braid, which is called "wearing a dragon's tail".

On this day in Tomb-Sweeping Day, it is also necessary to sweep graves and offer sacrifices to ancestors. Sacrifices include chicken, fish and meat, as well as jiaozi, steamed buns, steamed buns or pasta. Also put on the glass and pour the wine. After the sacrifice, collect the offerings and go home, and the whole family will eat the offerings.

Every household eats zongzi during the Dragon Boat Festival. Some people get up early to collect mugwort and cattail leaves in the wild, hang them on the door, and wash their faces with boiled water with mugwort, which is said to prevent diseases. Children wear vanilla purses.

On the 23rd day of the twelfth lunar month, it is mainly for cooking stoves, and you should eat candy on this day. Southern Liaoning has a maritime climate with many mountains and few plains, beautiful scenery and pleasant scenery. Here is rich in aquatic products, fish, turtles, shrimps and crabs; There are a large area of fruit trees in mountainous areas, such as apples, grapes, peaches and so on, with excellent quality and high yield. Apple production often ranks first in the country. A large part of the Han people in southern Liaoning are Shandong immigrants, so the food customs here are close to those in Shandong Peninsula.

Before liberation, people in southern Liaoning lived on corn and sorghum. In recent years, with the development of economy, flour and rice is the staple food in southern Liaoning, as in other parts of the country. But there are still many traditional foods that are deeply loved by local people.

Residents in the vicinity of Dalian like to grind corn into big dregs, add beans to stew rice, and make golden rosin. After the corn flour is fermented, the cake is evaporated and made into steamed corn bread; Or use semi-scalded noodles and dough, and paste them into a crispy big cake in a large pot. Residents along the coast like to eat stewed fish with cakes, which has a unique flavor. Some also use green seaweed as stuffing and paste vegetable cakes, which are even more delicious. It is also a hobby of local people to dip green onions in shrimp sauce and eat cakes with big sauce. Soak dried shredded radish in water, squeeze out the water, and mix with Chili oil and various seasonings, which is a home-cooked dish. There is also a kind of dish, which is called "shaking soup" by the locals, that is, shredded green radish is put in the soup, and oysters and clams are put in it, which is even more delicious.

remove the head and internal organs of the small miscellaneous fish, chop and stir well, and add seasoning and minced leek balls, which are delicious and very tender. Soak the dried turbot into pieces, hang the batter, fry until it is done. After taking out, it is called fried fish balls, which are very chewy and the more chewy they are, the more fragrant they are; If it is steamed in a pot and then poured with sauce, it is delicious and not greasy. Steamed sea mite seed salt sauce is a kind of accompaniment. The preparation method is to put sea oyster seeds, seasoning and flour together, mix well and steam.

Coastal residents also like to drink a kind of seaweed dough soup, which is cooked with green seaweed and dough bumps. It is light and delicious. Usually people marinate the fish, dry it in the sun, and steam it when eating, so it tastes flexible and delicious.

fish can also be roasted, that is, the fish is roasted on the self-made barbed wire and chewed carefully, which makes it dry, fragrant and memorable. In spring, summer and autumn, the caught clam is boiled in a boiling water pot, fished out, and the meat is dipped in condiments, which is fresh and tender and is an excellent appetizer. However, the cooking temperature of this dish should be properly controlled. If it is overdone, it will lose its flavor if it is chewed like rubber inside.

In the northern part of southern Liaoning, there are many miscellaneous fish and shrimps, and people like to eat Pipi shrimp with brine. The practice is to boil the salt water and cool it, then add onion, ginger, pepper and wine-cured shrimp. This is a good dish to accompany the meal with wine. In summer, the staple food is often accompanied by salted fish. I like to eat salted crabs in autumn. The most common dish in winter is tofu stewed with shrimp sauce, which is fresh and tender.

Generally speaking, in southern Liaoning, people like salty, fresh and spicy food, and eat more raw onions, garlic and seafood.