Tuanmian: When a family member, such as a husband or son, goes out for a long trip, the whole family eats this noodle together to show their blessing to the people who go out.
Practice: Put the cooked long noodles into a bowl. Add spices and vegetables and so on, the fragrance is overflowing and the heat wave is rolling.
Shoumian: pasta eaten at home to celebrate the birthday of the older generation.
Practice: Noodles should be slender, cooked and put into a bowl, sprinkled with fragrant leaves, and eaten with the prepared fresh soup.
Red face: it means good luck, and the new year is getting more and more prosperous. This kind of pasta is usually eaten on the last day of 2008.
Practice: Roll out the noodles and cut them into thick and even strips. After cooking, put it in a bowl and add chopped green onion, egg white, sesame oil and red pepper oil. Noodles are fragrant and red.
Egg noodles: Most mothers-in-law will make this kind of noodles for their newly-married son-in-law to show their love.
Practice: After the noodles are cooked, beat a few eggs into the pot and mix them together to eat.
Porridge noodles: generally eaten for Laba every year, commonly known as "Laba porridge", which means that the old year has passed and the new year will be full of food and clothing.
Practice: First, cook mung beans, soybeans, radishes, peanuts and miscellaneous beans until they are 80% mature, then roll up the noodles and cut them into pieces, put them in a pot and cook them together. After cooking, add seasonings.
Cold face: it means that the fireworks don't move. This is to commemorate Jiexiu, a famous figure in the state of Jin who does not seek wealth or profit. Generally eaten around Tomb-Sweeping Day, it is called "cold food". But in hot summer, eating this kind of noodles is also very common.
Practice: Roll the noodles into pieces, cook them, cool them in cold water, then take out the cold water and put it in a bowl with seasoning.
birthday
When a family has a birthday, the whole family eats noodles, which is called "longevity noodles". Today, we pay more attention to children's birthdays, add clothes, send toys, prepare birthday cakes and candles. Children will also bring gifts to celebrate, and the main family will distribute cakes and sweets to friends in kindergarten.
celebrate one's birthday
When the old man has a birthday, his nephew and son-in-law will give him rich gifts, including longevity noodles, longevity peaches, longevity cakes, red candles and so on. In the past, a wealthy family had a peach with a birthday of more than one meter, on which were opera figures carved with rice, accompanied by Shou Ping and Shou Zhang. At Shoutang, gifts are listed, red candles are burned with high fever, and ancestors are worshipped. The younger generation bowed down to celebrate their birthdays according to their generations and sent birthday noodles. Shouweng Shoupo is divided into "Shouqian". Then relatives and friends come to celebrate their birthdays.
Send Five Blessingg.
There is a custom of sending Five Blessingg to celebrate his birthday on both sides of Yongjia nanxi river. "Five Blessingg" is to embroider five bats on cloth, which is called "Five Blessingg Birthday Celebration". Five bats mean longevity, wealth, health, virtue and a good death.
Eat five beans
Eating five beans is a folk custom in Guanzhong area of Xi. On the fifth day of the twelfth lunar month, five kinds of beans, such as soybeans, red beans, mung beans, red beans and black beans (which can be replaced by other beans or other things in the absence), are put into a pot and cooked. The whole family can eat it, but they can't finish it. They must have more than enough after eating. I would like to take this opportunity to wish you a bumper harvest and good luck in the coming year. After the winter solstice, the days get longer and the nights get shorter. Eat five beans. So eating five beans also means seasonal changes. The custom of eating five beans is still popular in rural areas.
Do it for a hundred days
One hundred days is a custom in Guanzhong area of Xi, which is divided into one hundred days for newborns and one hundred days for the dead. The centennial celebration of newborn is a ceremony to celebrate and bless the baby for 100 days, also known as centennial celebration. The centennial sacrifice of the deceased is a mourning ceremony held at the centenary of the death of the deceased. Prior to this, the mourning period of bereavement was 7749 days, which was hung every seven days. At that time, children will burn incense, paper and pick up souls in front of the graves of the deceased and shrines and mourning rooms at home. On the hundredth day, the main relatives and friends of the deceased and their neighbors will come to participate in the sacrificial activities and take the spirit house placed in front of the shrine to the grave for burning. On the day of Meng's funeral, people will invite guests to express their gratitude. After working for 100 days, the families of the deceased will be transferred to normal work and life.