The origin of people eating rice cakes in northern Shaanxi

North Shaanxi rice cakes, also known as fried cakes and wedding cakes. Yellow main cake, a rice cake with soft yellow rice as raw material. Soft yellow rice is ground into flour, then steamed and fried. It is refined by traditional techniques. High nutrition, containing vitamins and amino acids, no preservatives, golden color, soft and sweet taste, is a low-sugar food suitable for all ages. It is a rare gift and a best-selling traditional brand in the market.

The rice cakes in northern Shaanxi belong to the northern rice cakes. In the north, rice cakes are made of soft rice, also called soft yellow rice and soft millet, and rice wine, also called soft millet. In some places, glutinous rice is also called soft rice. Therefore, there is a yellow and white color that symbolizes gold and silver, and it also means auspiciousness. Because of the different uses of sticky millet, there are various methods, names, styles and eating methods. There are two ways to make rice cakes in northern Shaanxi: steaming and frying. In addition to steaming and frying, southern rice cakes are also sliced and fried, and soup is made.

Due to the regional characteristics, the raw materials for making rice cakes in northern Shaanxi are consistent with his basic color and are golden yellow. "East Mountain Suxi Valley, golden yellow on the hill" is a true portrayal of autumn in northern Shaanxi. Soft millet and soft millet, hard millet and hard millet are paternal twins, and their appearance is obviously different when they were young. Two fluffy oval leaves of millet were bathed in the morning mist, and the breeze blew, shaking their heads and shaking their heads, which was very cute. When they are a little older, they will be very different. The slightly red roots are soft millet and millet, and the difference will be even greater when the ears grow out. The ears of soft millet are obviously scattered, and they absorb more sunlight and nutrients, so the color is dark red. There are two branches in front of the soft millet ear, not like petals but petals. Peeling off the hard shell, the soft millet is rounder and yellower than the hard millet, and the soft millet is yellower than the hard millet, with a slight wine smell. This is a sticky millet dedicated to making rice cakes by people in northern Shaanxi on the Loess Plateau.

There is also a legend among the people: a long time ago, there was more food on the earth than you could eat, and even dogs ate better than the sky. After learning this, the Jade Emperor felt very disgraceful and his face hung up. They sent heavenly soldiers and heavenly generals to visit the earth. These "small" suggestions smelled the smell of soft rice wine dispersed in the air, so they left directly without much consideration. Seeing the grain grow so beautifully, I can't help drooling. I grabbed the ear of wheat and took a bite with my teeth. I want to taste that delicious taste, but the grain is filling and the thick mucus sticks to my teeth. They pulled hard, and their teeth bit open the head of the ear of wheat, causing it to crack. It turned out that only three or four feet of ear of wheat were left. Several "little guys" saw that the damage was not light, so they left a sentence: "People eat less donkeys and eat more", hurried back to heaven with a cloud, and reported it to the Jade Emperor. The jade emperor thought that there was enough food left for people to eat, and of course dogs couldn't eat as much as Heaven, so that's it. Since then, future generations have gained from eating ears, donkeys and shoulder poles, which has become a "charter" that has remained unchanged for thousands of years. After all this noise, Gu Mi's wine production plummeted, and with the Jade Emperor's "imperial edict", the world began to cherish Gu Mi, a fragrant wine, which could not be eaten until the end of the year.

Because of the extraordinary origin of soft millet, it suffered this catastrophe during its growing period. When it is ripe, it is also golden yellow, and the rice grains are sprayed with wine. Because of their high social status, most of them were deprived by bureaucrats. Ordinary people dare not expect anything on weekdays. Only at the end of the year can they have a meal, so the food made of soft millet is called rice cake. "How high people's hearts are, how to make food harmoniously, how to choose to win the year and how to pray for the year" is a true portrayal of people's desire for this kind of food.

It is said that after Li Zicheng proclaimed himself emperor in Beijing, in order to treat every day as Chinese New Year, he sent people to collect soft millet from his hometown in northern Shaanxi to make cakes, eat rice cakes every day and have a Chinese New Year. Therefore, Jiangshan, which should have been for decades, only sat for dozens of days. Of course, this is just a joke, but it is enough to show the position of rice cakes in the food of people in northern Shaanxi and the luxury of soft millet. Therefore, people in northern Shaanxi are very careful in making rice cakes. They not only have many styles and eating methods, but also have many legends and stresses in the process of making them.