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The four monsters wear handkerchiefs on their heads: they wear handkerchiefs in summer for the convenience of farming operations, and they wear handkerchiefs in winter mainly to keep warm. Women in Guanzhong area do not have the habit of wearing hats. The second is because of Guanzhong, especially in Wugong, Qianxian, Xingping, Shaanxi. In the Yangling area, there is still a custom of giving handkerchiefs to uncles when they get married.

"I've seen this before. When I went to some villages, I could see some elderly grandmas wearing handkerchiefs. I wondered what this meant before. I didn't expect it to be one of the Eight Great Monsters."

Zhang Taiping had already finished his meal, put the bowl on the stool next to him and said: "Basically, those who maintain this custom are the very old generation, who would be so young. At that time, it was not only women who were on the head Wearing a handkerchief, men sometimes wear a towel on their head, but this seems to be exclusive to Guanzhong, Shaanxi, and it is more common in northern Shaanxi, and it is not on the banknotes."

"Indeed, indeed."

Wuguai noodles are like a belt: There are many kinds of noodles in Guanzhong area. Guanzhong is bold and likes to eat wide noodles and thick noodles.Most noodles are thicker and wider, but actually slightly thinner than a belt.

"Is it belt noodles?" Zhang Xiaoqing only listened to what Zhang Taiping had to say, half a bowl of rice or half a bowl of rice.

"Yeah." Zhang Taiping nodded, "It's belt noodles."

"I ate this near the school in the city. There were a lot of people eating it, and I only got it after queuing up. I was given a bowl of juice, and then I put the two-foot-long noodles in the bowl and dipped it in to eat. delicious!"

Zhang Taiping said: "The trouser belt noodles made by authentic Guanzhong people are still somewhat different from the trouser belt noodles that people in the city usually eat. For authentic trouser belt noodles, a noodle can be two or three inches wide and about 1 inches long. At about [-] meter, the thickness is about the same as a coin when it is thick, but it is like cicada wings when it is thin. One noodle is enough for a meal, and for Guanzhong people who eat a lot, they can eat two noodles in a meal. The kind inside You have to eat seven or eight sticks to be full."

"Seven or eight sticks?" Zhang Xiaoqing showed a frightened expression. "When I eat with my classmates, two sticks are usually enough to fill me up. When I'm really hungry, I eat three sticks."

Zhang Taiping said with a smile: "Of course you can't eat that much. I'm talking about the appetite of a laborer in the countryside."

"Then biangbiang (the word can't be typed, so I had to replace it with pinyin) is it one of the Eight Great Monsters?" Zhang Xiaoqing asked again.

"Usually referred to as trouser belt noodles are biangbiang noodles or trouser belt noodles."

Six strange pot helmets are like pot lids: because Guanzhong people like to cook with straw, and the fire of straw is just right, it is more "literary", and it is not easy to burn the food in the pot, and they like to cook together with the whole family. To avoid waste, the basic caliber of the pots used is more than [-] centimeters, and the pot helmets to be baked are naturally as big as the pot lids.

Zhang Xiaoqing put the bowl on the stool, gestured at the size of [-] centimeters with his hand, and exclaimed: "My God, how long will it take to finish eating such a big bowl?"

"The family will not grow long." Zhang Taiping said, "Guanzhong people like to eat pot helmets very much. Such a big pot helmet can be eaten in one day."

"What you ate just now was the pot helmet?"

"Yes!" Zhang Taiping nodded, "Generally, except when eating sticky noodles, when eating other meals, especially those with soup like today, you will add one or two pieces of pot kui, otherwise you will feel that you are not full. It's not comfortable at all."

Zhang Xiaoqing had a new question: "What is sticky noodles?"

Zhang Taiping thought for a while and replied: "It's almost like the oil-splashed noodles you eat in restaurants, but there is not so much oil, just put a little oil on it. People in the village eat it like a big old bowl , a bowl like mine." He pointed to the old bowl on the stool, and said, "There are still people who eat too much and think the old bowl is too small, so they just serve the basin."

Zhang Xiaoqing shrank his neck: "The old bowl is still small? If you eat with the bowls in the restaurant, you will have to eat more than ten bowls." The bowls in the restaurant are about the size of a fist.

Seven strange oily spicy peppers are a dish: Shaanxi Guanzhong area likes to eat chili peppers, which is no less serious than Sichuan Chengdu people's love for spicy peppers.

"Spicy is a dish, how do you make it?"

"Have you seen the spicy bowl in the house?" Zhang Taiping asked.

"I've seen it." Zhang Xiaoqing picked up his rice bowl and said, "Look, I also put some spicy peppers in it."

Zhang Taiping continued: "Here in Guanzhong, at any time, we will directly take a piece of pot helmet and pour the oil in the bowl with spicy peppers, and then lightly sprinkle a layer of salt on it. It tastes very refreshing."

"It's so cool." Zhang Xiaoqing swallowed, "It sounds very bold."

"Do you want to try it later?" Zhang Taiping asked jokingly.

"I'll forget it." Zhang Xiaoqing quickly shook his head: "I'm not very good at spicy food, and I'm a dispensable one. If you treat spicy food as a dish like you said, it will definitely be spicy to death."

The Eight Eccentrics are inseparable from bowls and bowls: Shaanxi often eats noodles, so the bowls are as big as bowls, and sometimes they just use bowls.

Zhang Xiaoqing looked at the old bowl that Zhang Taiping put on the bench, this bowl was really not small, if it was placed in the city it would be a smaller basin.

"There is also a 'Qin opera roar', sometimes it will also become one of the eight monsters, replacing the last item of the eight items I just told you."

"Qin opera, I know this." Zhang Xiaoqing said a long list of "Qin opera originated from folk songs and dances in ancient Shaanxi and Gansu. It grew up in Chang'an, the political, economic and cultural center of ancient China, and experienced generations of people. It was created and gradually formed. Since the Zhou Dynasty, the Guanzhong area has been called "Qin", and Qin Opera got its name from this. It is a very ancient opera. Because it uses jujube clapper as a percussion instrument, it is also called "Pappa Tune". When the bang strikes the festival, it makes a "fuzzy" sound, commonly known as "桄桄子""

Zhang Taiping was surprised and asked, "Do you have research on this?"

"No, my family is in Gansu. The old man in the family likes Qin Opera very much. Although he can't sing because of his big voice, he knows a little about the origin of Qin Opera." Zhang Xiaoqing said with a smile.

Zhang Taiping nodded and asked with a smile: "This is the Eight Great Monsters of Shaanxi, how do you feel?"

"It's really weird." Zhang Xiaoqing nodded.

Zhang Taiping continued: "These monsters all have a reason. They are based on the customs and culture that have been accumulated over the years, and each of them has its historical roots and allusions."

Zhang Xiaoqing's eyes brightened: "Tell me, talk about it."

"I won't talk about it. These materials are all available on the Internet. If you are interested, you can check them online." Zhang Taiping stood up and took a bowl, ready to enter the room to fill another bowl.

"It's boring to watch online, how boring! It's not interesting to hear people say it."

Zhang Taiping smiled and said: "I'll talk about it later when I have time, you'd better finish your meal first, it's already cold."

Zhang Xiaoqing looked at his still half bowl of rice and said, "Okay."

After Zhang Taiping went in, he added a bowl of lazy mochizi and a piece of pot helmet.

"Hey, is this the pot helmet?" Zhang Xiaoqing pointed to the pot helmet in Zhang Taiping's hand and asked.

"It's sort of it." Zhang Taiping looked at the pot helmet in his hand and said, "This is not an authentic pot helmet. Now there is an electric baking pan at home. Generally speaking, if it is convenient to use the electric baking pan in the picture above, it is only the size of a plate. It is as small as a finger, and the pot helmets sold in many places are not authentic. The authentic pot helmets can only be baked in a large cooking pot, and when they come out, there will be a hard skin with oily spots on both sides."

"Is that a counterfeit pot helmet baked in an electric baking pan, do you still eat it, or the authentic one?"

"It depends on whether it's freshly baked or after it's cooled." Mrs. Zhang replied, "If it's freshly fished out, it will be authentic and delicious, but if it's cooled down, it's better to bake it with an electric baking pan." Eat it. Because the authentic Guokui will become porcelain solid after heavy volume, and it is more than an inch thick, so it is inconvenient to bite."

"I really learned a lot today."

Zhang Taiping was a little strange: "You also go to school in Xi'an, haven't you heard your classmates talk about it?"

"No." Zhang Xiaoqing shook his head, "No, I'm surrounded by people talking about where I went to travel and what photos I took. I've never heard of these things."

Zhang Taiping was a little speechless, and felt a little emotional, this is part of the essence of Guanzhong culture, but most people in the city don't know it now.Not to mention heartache, but a bit of regret, regret that people have forgotten or even abandoned the vulgar culture.

After eating, Zhang Xiaoqing put down the bowl and said, "I ate too much today. I can only eat this bowl when I'm at school."

"I went up and down the mountain today and helped plant flowers for half the morning, so it's normal to eat more." Zhang Taiping said with a light smile.

Zhang Xiaoqing went into the room and took the camera out of the room and said, "I'll put the bag here first, and I'll pick it up when I leave."

"It's up to you," Zhang Taiping nodded and asked, "You just had a meal, don't you want to take a rest?"

"No." Zhang Xiaoqing twitched her braids and said, "They don't have much work left in the afternoon, and I still have a lot of things to do. Not only do I want to go to the hot springs to take pictures, but I also want to go around the village to take pictures." It’s filming, so I can’t rest at noon.”

"That's it, then wait for a while." After Zhang Taiping finished speaking, he called Ye Ling out of the room and asked her to be a little guide.

After the figures of the two disappeared into the trees, Zhang Taiping's eyes were still a little dazed. From this girl with big braids and two dimples that can make people feel better, he saw the shadow of another person.

Scenes of familiar images flashed across my mind, like yesterday, but also like a lifetime away!

Lying on the rattan chair under the big banyan tree by the pool, he sighed softly, wondering if everything was okay with the former person?The four monsters wear handkerchiefs on their heads: they wear handkerchiefs in summer for the convenience of farming operations, and they wear handkerchiefs in winter mainly to keep warm. Women in Guanzhong area do not have the habit of wearing hats. The second is because of Guanzhong, especially in Wugong, Qianxian, Xingping, Shaanxi. In the Yangling area, there is still a custom of giving handkerchiefs to uncles when they get married.

"I've seen this before. When I went to some villages, I could see some elderly grandmas wearing handkerchiefs. I wondered what this meant before. I didn't expect it to be one of the Eight Great Monsters."

Zhang Taiping had already finished his meal, put the bowl on the stool next to him and said: "Basically, those who maintain this custom are the very old generation, who would be so young. At that time, it was not only women who were on the head Wearing a handkerchief, men sometimes wear a towel on their head, but this seems to be exclusive to Guanzhong, Shaanxi, and it is more common in northern Shaanxi, and it is not on the banknotes."

"Indeed, indeed."

Wuguai noodles are like a belt: There are many kinds of noodles in Guanzhong area. Guanzhong is bold and likes to eat wide noodles and thick noodles.Most noodles are thicker and wider, but actually slightly thinner than a belt.

"Is it belt noodles?" Zhang Xiaoqing only listened to what Zhang Taiping had to say, half a bowl of rice or half a bowl of rice.

"Yeah." Zhang Taiping nodded, "It's belt noodles."

"I ate this near the school in the city. There were a lot of people eating it, and I only got it after queuing up. I was given a bowl of juice, and then I put the two-foot-long noodles in the bowl and dipped it in to eat. delicious!"

Zhang Taiping said: "The trouser belt noodles made by authentic Guanzhong people are still somewhat different from the trouser belt noodles that people in the city usually eat. For authentic trouser belt noodles, a noodle can be two or three inches wide and about 1 inches long. At about [-] meter, the thickness is about the same as a coin when it is thick, but it is like cicada wings when it is thin. One noodle is enough for a meal, and for Guanzhong people who eat a lot, they can eat two noodles in a meal. The kind inside You have to eat seven or eight sticks to be full."

"Seven or eight sticks?" Zhang Xiaoqing showed a frightened expression. "When I eat with my classmates, two sticks are usually enough to fill me up. When I'm really hungry, I eat three sticks."

Zhang Taiping said with a smile: "Of course you can't eat that much. I'm talking about the appetite of a laborer in the countryside."

"Then biangbiang (the word can't be typed, so I had to replace it with pinyin) is it one of the Eight Great Monsters?" Zhang Xiaoqing asked again.

"Usually referred to as trouser belt noodles are biangbiang noodles or trouser belt noodles."

Six strange pot helmets are like pot lids: because Guanzhong people like to cook with straw, and the fire of straw is just right, it is more "literary", and it is not easy to burn the food in the pot, and they like to cook together with the whole family. To avoid waste, the basic caliber of the pots used is more than [-] centimeters, and the pot helmets to be baked are naturally as big as the pot lids.

Zhang Xiaoqing put the bowl on the stool, gestured at the size of [-] centimeters with his hand, and exclaimed: "My God, how long will it take to finish eating such a big bowl?"

"The family will not grow long." Zhang Taiping said, "Guanzhong people like to eat pot helmets very much. Such a big pot helmet can be eaten in one day."

"What you ate just now was the pot helmet?"

"Yes!" Zhang Taiping nodded, "Generally, except when eating sticky noodles, when eating other meals, especially those with soup like today, you will add one or two pieces of pot kui, otherwise you will feel that you are not full. It's not comfortable at all."

Zhang Xiaoqing had a new question: "What is sticky noodles?"

Zhang Taiping thought for a while and replied: "It's almost like the oil-splashed noodles you eat in restaurants, but there is not so much oil, just put a little oil on it. People in the village eat it like a big old bowl , a bowl like mine." He pointed to the old bowl on the stool, and said, "There are still people who eat too much and think the old bowl is too small, so they just serve the basin."

Zhang Xiaoqing shrank his neck: "The old bowl is still small? If you eat with the bowls in the restaurant, you will have to eat more than ten bowls." The bowls in the restaurant are about the size of a fist.

Seven strange oily spicy peppers are a dish: Shaanxi Guanzhong area likes to eat chili peppers, which is no less serious than Sichuan Chengdu people's love for spicy peppers.

"Spicy is a dish, how do you make it?"

"Have you seen the spicy bowl in the house?" Zhang Taiping asked.

"I've seen it." Zhang Xiaoqing picked up his rice bowl and said, "Look, I also put some spicy peppers in it."

Zhang Taiping continued: "Here in Guanzhong, at any time, we will directly take a piece of pot helmet and pour the oil in the bowl with spicy peppers, and then lightly sprinkle a layer of salt on it. It tastes very refreshing."

"It's so cool." Zhang Xiaoqing swallowed, "It sounds very bold."

"Do you want to try it later?" Zhang Taiping asked jokingly.

"I'll forget it." Zhang Xiaoqing quickly shook his head: "I'm not very good at spicy food, and I'm a dispensable one. If you treat spicy food as a dish like you said, it will definitely be spicy to death."

The Eight Eccentrics are inseparable from bowls and bowls: Shaanxi often eats noodles, so the bowls are as big as bowls, and sometimes they just use bowls.

Zhang Xiaoqing looked at the old bowl that Zhang Taiping put on the bench, this bowl was really not small, if it was placed in the city it would be a smaller basin.

"There is also a 'Qin opera roar', sometimes it will also become one of the eight monsters, replacing the last item of the eight items I just told you."

"Qin opera, I know this." Zhang Xiaoqing said a long list of "Qin opera originated from folk songs and dances in ancient Shaanxi and Gansu. It grew up in Chang'an, the political, economic and cultural center of ancient China, and experienced generations of people. It was created and gradually formed. Since the Zhou Dynasty, the Guanzhong area has been called "Qin", and Qin Opera got its name from this. It is a very ancient opera. Because it uses jujube clapper as a percussion instrument, it is also called "Pappa Tune". When the bang strikes the festival, it makes a "fuzzy" sound, commonly known as "桄桄子""

Zhang Taiping was surprised and asked, "Do you have research on this?"

"No, my family is in Gansu. The old man in the family likes Qin Opera very much. Although he can't sing because of his big voice, he knows a little about the origin of Qin Opera." Zhang Xiaoqing said with a smile.

Zhang Taiping nodded and asked with a smile: "This is the Eight Great Monsters of Shaanxi, how do you feel?"

"It's really weird." Zhang Xiaoqing nodded.

Zhang Taiping continued: "These monsters all have a reason. They are based on the customs and culture that have been accumulated over the years, and each of them has its historical roots and allusions."

Zhang Xiaoqing's eyes brightened: "Tell me, talk about it."

"I won't talk about it. These materials are all available on the Internet. If you are interested, you can check them online." Zhang Taiping stood up and took a bowl, ready to enter the room to fill another bowl.

"It's boring to watch online, how boring! It's not interesting to hear people say it."

Zhang Taiping smiled and said: "I'll talk about it later when I have time, you'd better finish your meal first, it's already cold."

Zhang Xiaoqing looked at his still half bowl of rice and said, "Okay."

After Zhang Taiping went in, he added a bowl of lazy mochizi and a piece of pot helmet.

"Hey, is this the pot helmet?" Zhang Xiaoqing pointed to the pot helmet in Zhang Taiping's hand and asked.

"It's sort of it." Zhang Taiping looked at the pot helmet in his hand and said, "This is not an authentic pot helmet. Now there is an electric baking pan at home. Generally speaking, if it is convenient to use the electric baking pan in the picture above, it is only the size of a plate. It is as small as a finger, and the pot helmets sold in many places are not authentic. The authentic pot helmets can only be baked in a large cooking pot, and when they come out, there will be a hard skin with oily spots on both sides."

"Is that a counterfeit pot helmet baked in an electric baking pan, do you still eat it, or the authentic one?"

"It depends on whether it's freshly baked or after it's cooled." Mrs. Zhang replied, "If it's freshly fished out, it will be authentic and delicious, but if it's cooled down, it's better to bake it with an electric baking pan." Eat it. Because the authentic Guokui will become porcelain solid after heavy volume, and it is more than an inch thick, so it is inconvenient to bite."

"I really learned a lot today."

Zhang Taiping was a little strange: "You also go to school in Xi'an, haven't you heard your classmates talk about it?"

"No." Zhang Xiaoqing shook his head, "No, I'm surrounded by people talking about where I went to travel and what photos I took. I've never heard of these things."

Zhang Taiping was a little speechless, and felt a little emotional, this is part of the essence of Guanzhong culture, but most people in the city don't know it now.Not to mention heartache, but a bit of regret, regret that people have forgotten or even abandoned the vulgar culture.

After eating, Zhang Xiaoqing put down the bowl and said, "I ate too much today. I can only eat this bowl when I'm at school."

"I went up and down the mountain today and helped plant flowers for half the morning, so it's normal to eat more." Zhang Taiping said with a light smile.

Zhang Xiaoqing went into the room and took the camera out of the room and said, "I'll put the bag here first, and I'll pick it up when I leave."

"It's up to you," Zhang Taiping nodded and asked, "You just had a meal, don't you want to take a rest?"

"No." Zhang Xiaoqing twitched her braids and said, "They don't have much work left in the afternoon, and I still have a lot of things to do. Not only do I want to go to the hot springs to take pictures, but I also want to go around the village to take pictures." It’s filming, so I can’t rest at noon.”

"That's it, then wait for a while." After Zhang Taiping finished speaking, he called Ye Ling out of the room and asked her to be a little guide.

After the figures of the two disappeared into the trees, Zhang Taiping's eyes were still a little dazed. From this girl with big braids and two dimples that can make people feel better, he saw the shadow of another person.

Scenes of familiar images flashed across my mind, like yesterday, but also like a lifetime away!

Lying on the rattan chair under the big banyan tree by the pool, he sighed softly, wondering if everything was okay with the former person?