What does wonton mean?

Handwriting means: cross your hands. Show courtesy; It is surrounded by the left and right; A person who copies books; Dialect, namely wonton.

1, hands crossed. Show politeness.

Steal your hand, consult the ambassador. I dare not play around this time. -Zhang Tang Bao Si's poem "Playing Prostitutes"

Junko, imitate your hand and say "yes". -"Dunhuang Change Anthology Shunzi Change"

The bartender copied his hand and said, "You can buy something else." -"Water Margin" for the third time

2, that is, surrounded by left and right. In building construction, the corridor extending from the second door to the main room is called the handwriting gallery.

A flower-hanging gate, a hand-reading gallery, five rooms and one room, are the inner rooms of Mr. and Mrs. An. -"Heroes of Children" The 24 th Meeting

On both sides of the veranda, it is connected with the house by pillars and thresholds, and it leads to the house above. -Zhang Henshui's Lonely Sunset, the twentieth time

3. People who copy books.

Later copywriters didn't know its name, so they changed "Deng pawn" to "Deng position". And those who "rise and die" will copy their hands and write them together in two books. -Tang Yongtong's History of Buddhism in the Han, Wei, Southern and Northern Dynasties, Chapter 6, Section 2

4. Dialect. That's wonton.

A bowl of jiaozi's meat wonton (called wonton in Sichuan) is only twenty cents. -Wei Junyi's Message from Sichuan Bank to Old Beijing

Lao Tan pointed to Mei under the stage and said, "What a countryman! He doesn't even know how to copy hands. Copying hands is wonton. " Mei Lanfang, Zhou and the Peking Opera World

Why is wonton called "wonton" in southwest China?

There are two main arguments:

The first argument is that from the appearance of the "copywriter", it is very similar to the image of a copywriter on his chest.

The second way of saying it is that "copying hands" is fine, and it is ripe between copying. There is a story circulating in the street: once a man asked the boss who sold wonton why it was called "wonton" in Sichuan. The boss didn't answer directly, but threw the manuscript into the boiling pot and copied it with his hands on his chest. A minute later, the boss brought the bowl to the diners and shouted, "Copy two or two."

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Beijing: North China and other places are usually called wonton.

Sichuan: commonly known as wonton, Sichuanese are spicy, and there is a famous dish called "Red Oil Wonton". ("copy your hand" means "hold your hand")

Chongqing: Chongqing is called wonton soup, and Kaizhou District, Wanzhou and Yunyang in the northeast of Chongqing are called Bao Mian. ?

Hubei: Some people are also called jiaozi (Wuhan) and Gaimian (other places in Hubei).

Anhui: Southern Anhui is called a "burden".

Jiangnan: The Wu dialect "wonton" in Shanghai, southern Jiangsu, Zhejiang and other places is quite similar to Cantonese pronunciation. Shanghai wonton is usually cooked in boiling water, then put into the soup made of chicken soup, broth or bone soup, and add sesame oil or soy sauce according to personal preference when eating. Coriander or celery is sometimes wrapped in Shanghai wonton.

Jiangxi: commonly known as clear soup, there are also places called noodles and wonton.

Guangdong: Because the word "wonton" is relatively rare, and people's knowledge level was limited in the past, both the homophonic "wonton" (Cantonese) and the English "wonton" originated from Cantonese.

Wrap the chopped stuffing with wonton skin. The skin of Guangdong wonton is made of eggs and flour, and it is cut into 8cm by 8cm squares. The stuffing is made of fat meat, lean meat, fresh shrimp, shredded fish fillet, egg yolk and seasoning. The wrapping method of Guangdong wonton is generally faster, and there is no need to fold it neatly step by step. Size is based on the ability to swallow one at a time.

Fujian: commonly known as flat food and flat meat, the meat stuffing is usually beaten with a mallet, and the skin is the dough.

Guizhou: commonly known as "wonton", read Kuntun. After the boiled water is cooked, dip it in Chili water (pepper, soy sauce, garlic, vinegar, sesame oil, soybeans, etc. ).

Taiwan Province Province: It is called flat food in Minnan dialect. Around 1949, immigrants from all over China brought the name of their hometown to Taiwan Province Province, so it is very common to say wonton, wonton, flat food or wonton in Taiwan Province Province.

There are three famous areas of Taiwan Province Wonton: Wenzhou Wonton, Hualien Yuli Wonton in the east (frequented by Jiang Jingguo), and Pingtung Lingang Wonton in the south; The stuffing is full, fragrant and delicious, and now it has been vacuum packed and sold in various markets or delivered to your door; Soup, fried, sweet and sour are all suitable. Ligang wonton is said to be sold first by Zhao in Ligang. In the 30 years of the Republic of China, Zhao learned to make wonton from his hometown.

Japanese: This title originated in Guangdong, China. It is pronounced as "Wan Tan" and written as "Yi Yun" in Guangzhou dialect.