Three-topic Prose of Characters in Northern Shaanxi

hospitable people from northern Shaanxi

northern Shaanxi people are hospitable and have a long history and are famous all over the country.

no matter how remote the mountain village is, no matter how poor the family is, they attach great importance to the human portal. Whoever treats his guests badly will be scolded by his relatives and neighbors. The "human portal" is an important indicator for people in northern Shaanxi to evaluate a person's kindness, and sometimes it can play the role of "one-vote veto". No matter how good your life is and how big your official position is, as long as there is no "human portal", people will look down on you and say that you "close the door to eat and open the door, like an animal."

As long as guests come, whether they are close relatives, unfamiliar neighbors, direct friends or indirect relationships; No matter whether you are an official, a brick mover, a congratulatory or a debt collector, as long as you enter the door, they will be busy, and the first sentence is to ask you to "sit on the kang." If the host is eating, he will immediately give you up to the most distinguished place and give you the best meal; If you are not at dinner, the host will put you on the kang, bring you a cup of green tea and a cigarette, and the basket of green cucumbers, red apples, yellow pears and purple grapes will be placed in front of you. While you were chatting with your host, the hostess quietly went to cook for you. It didn't take long for a bowl of "chopped buckwheat noodles" or "white flour" to be served full of plates and bowls.

The aunts and grandmothers in northern Shaanxi all have good cooking skills. A kind of food, they can make many kinds of patterns; They can bring out different flavors of the same meal. When making noodles, they can not only knead the noodles firmly, roll them evenly, chop them finely and make the soup fresh, but also put the auxiliary side dishes such as garlic, leek, sauerkraut, lobster sauce, chili pepper and persimmon on a plate. You can put a lot of oil cups, sauce bowls, vinegar pots, garlic dishes, salt bowls and sugar bottles, which will make people's stomachs open and their appetite increase greatly. When cooking meat, large pieces of stew and small pieces of rotten meat are as good-looking as they are delicious. As for the well-prepared New Year's tea and rice, the "thirteen flowers" of weddings, funerals and weddings are even more difficult to eat in hotels and chefs can't do. When you eat with relish, don't forget to watch your rice bowl, because the host is afraid that you won't dare to eat, and he will add rice to your bowl when you are unprepared. One plus will not be less. If you don't pay attention, you can't keep your back straight after a meal.

people in northern Shaanxi are sincere in their hospitality. When guests come, they always choose the best meals for them to eat and the best bowls and chopsticks for them to use. When guests enter the door, they will never ask you if you have eaten. In their view, this is called "asking the guest and killing the chicken", which is a polite expression. Simple people in northern Shaanxi disdain to make polite remarks. They not only don't say it themselves, but also object to others' saying that anyone who does this will laugh at, despise or even despise anyone, and think that such people are "open-minded" and are "mouth-makers". When cooking, they pay attention to "having food and seeing". It is estimated that you can eat one bowl, and the host should prepare at least two bowls, which would rather be left over than enough food. If there is not enough food, the host will think that he has lost someone, and others will laugh at himself for "cutting the mat compared with his ass".

people in northern Shaanxi are particular about entertaining guests and accompanying others. In general, choose the oldest person in the family to accompany you. Men accompany men, women accompany women, and family members are inconvenient, so please ask the right people in the village to accompany them. This is not affectation, but courtesy, which shows the sincerity of the host and the respect for the guests.

people in northern Shaanxi live in scattered places, with dozens of families in big villages and only a dozen or even a few families in small villages, and most of them are pro-door families. Often when a person arrives at a family, he becomes a guest of the whole village. Everyone is competing for invitations, and you have to eat one meal after another, one after another. If you treat guests in the first month, during festivals and when special distinguished guests come, it will become a robbery. Guests must look after their sleeves and be careful that "the sleeves of the coat are torn". In this case, adults will not come forward, and most of the guests are broken-headed dolls. This is not disrespectful to the guests, but to invite the guests at the earliest.

When guests eat in a certain restaurant, the edge of the kang is crowded with children who come to treat them. They eagerly watch you eat, leaning against the edge of the kang tightly, for fear that other children will be crowded in front. As soon as the guests put down their jobs, they swarmed, scrambling, pulling and pulling. The older children hold hands and pull hard, while the younger children hold their legs and drag hard, like robbing people. Once the guest was robbed by someone, the rest of the children followed the guest to the house and crowded in front of the kang, eagerly watching you eat, preparing for the next round of "competition."

Every time a guest is invited, there will be children crying. Boys are lying on the ground crying with their legs pedaled, and girls are crying in the corner, covering their mouths. This kind of crying is not easy to persuade, you say, he ignores it; If you pull, he won't move. The only way is for the guests to follow him. As soon as guests are invited, they will smile through tears, like jumping rabbits, with a proud look on their faces.

If children's treat is regarded as comedy, adults' treat is much heavier. Families without children are either single or widowed, or elderly people without children. They always invite them last, because they can't compete with those children. They followed the guests from house to house, but they didn't come in. The men sat on the millstone and smoked, the women leaned against the courtyard wall and took their soles, while the elderly sat on the road and waited, wiping their tearful eyes while waiting. The meals of these families are relatively simple, but the cooking process is surprisingly complicated, but the guests enjoy no less respect and respect here than anywhere else. You will see widows burning leaves as firewood, and the smoke will make them burst into tears; You will see the bachelor cooking clumsily, so seriously that he is shocked; You will see the hobbling gait of the lonely old man when he brings you food; You will also see the hard-working expression of the childless wife when she smiles at you. You will be shrouded in that kind of deep affection and clumsy respect, and you don't know what you have eaten. You just think that this is your relative, a relative who is closer than your relative.

in the impression of outsiders, people in northern Shaanxi drink in large bowls and eat meat in large chunks, especially drinking is very rude. In fact, this understanding is wrong'. People in northern Shaanxi drink not only without rudeness, but also with elegance and moderation. They drink without a glass, but with a cup; Pour wine without a bottle, use a pot; There is a saying to propose a toast to a glass of wine. Seeing a glass of wine has a certain stress, and if you don't drink it, it will be unsatisfactory. People say that drinking in a big bowl is home-made wine brewed by people in northern Shaanxi. Among the farmers in northern Shaanxi, each family has at least one jar to make wine, which is an out-and-out pure grain green food. This kind of wine smells sweet and tastes sweet, but it is very strong. A match can light a fire, and foreign guests will be poured down by this wine if they are not careful. This kind of wine is usually drunk with white wine, and it is served only when the guests are almost drunk.

as long as there is a wine stall, the atmosphere will be strong. The old man carries it, the wife hands it, the son respects it, and the daughter-in-law looks at it. The brain-broken doll tries to persuade it. I really can't persuade you to go on. The hostess stood in front of you and sang a wine song with her arms rolled up. Drinking and drinking, you will be moved by their enthusiasm and intoxicated by this strong culture. I don't know when you are drunk and don't know who you are. At this time, the hostess began to clean up the wine stall, and the male host took out the new bedding that he usually couldn't bear to cover on your body, and they were all happy. What are you happy about? First, I feel that I have treated the guests well, and second, I think the guests are more practical. With the development of the times, the life of people in northern Shaanxi has undergone fundamental changes, except for one thing, that is, the warm hospitality habit that has lasted for thousands of years.

Shanbei people who eat steel and bite iron

Shanbei people are full of characteristics. They walk like charging, work like fighting, talk like quarreling, and invite people to dinner like kidnapping, but these are superficial phenomena, and the most essential characteristics are deep.

people in northern Shaanxi do things with "residual fire". "You have to sing what you do, just like what you fight", just don't do it, and go all out as soon as you do it. "It's better to make the cow die than let the carriage turn over." Set a high goal before doing things, and insist on "11" instead of "99". "If I step here, I won't grow grass for three years"! When planning, "the front is not tight", I plan to walk a hundred miles a day, and I must walk 7 before noon, fearing that there will be unexpected changes and accidents. When doing things, you are "wrapped up in your head", with a certain goal, always in your heart, paying attention everywhere, watching it and leaving, walking and running away. Tough when encountering difficulties, I retired 99 times and rushed up again 11 times. The bigger the difficulties, the more tenacious I became. I was fighting hard and my heart was quarrelling. "I insisted on fighting for this tone!"

honest and frank from northern Shaanxi. When you first meet someone, you say one, I believe one; You say two, I believe two. If you want to coax him, look down on you once, ignore you twice, and after three times, you will chase after him, ignoring his pig wretched and mule foal! Once you are identified as a friend, not only will you never say goodbye, but your children will also call you "dry big". The motto of people in northern Shaanxi is: "Give someone a calf, and you can save a lamb yourself". You have the ability to boast everywhere and turn you into a flower; If you are in trouble, he will do his best to help you, and you will have to give a ride after you get on the horse. You are proud, he won't take the initiative to come to you, for fear of giving you trouble, and for fear that you will underestimate him. If you really look down on him, he will look down on you even more, and you will not be able to step down at the first opportunity. "The wolf eats the mountain god"-one by one dares to take down the emperor.

people in northern Shaanxi are scattered. Later generations are sad to dig a cliff, while the old man is sad to sing a sermon, but others are even more worried. "Poor people are happy and rich in sorrow, and those who suffer are afraid of doing things without singing.". It seems that they are all poor, and when they go out, they all sing "wow, wow". The sky has its own roof, and they will never suffer themselves. They love humor. They drank a bowl of boiling water and got an onion. They also boasted that they had eaten a big dish called "Crossing the River with Qinglong". Even when he got up to beg for food, he said cheerfully, "The baby is on her back, and the wife is tied to her belt." Where there are people from northern Shaanxi, there will be clear laughter and bright singing voices.

people in northern Shaanxi "hold a group". Holding a group in the village, holding a group in the county, and holding a group when going out. No matter where you go, as soon as you hear that you have a northern Shaanxi accent, your face immediately changes shape, smiling and kissing you; No matter how big an official you are, as soon as you hear that you are from northern Shaanxi, you will immediately close the distance and be as sincere as a brother. This group has gone too far, and sometimes they don't recognize money but people, and even only recognize fellow villagers regardless of reason. One of our own people hit an urn, which is useful up and down. The top can be connected to a chimney, and the bottom can be used as a urinal.

people in northern Shaanxi are loyal. They value their feelings and face, and would rather fold their money than lose it. No matter where people come from, they don't spend money to eat in the rural areas of northern Shaanxi, and they treat you as a guest. If you insist on following the "market rules" and want to earn money and have a meal in the farmhouse, you will not only have no food, but also have a great possibility of losing money: young people will squint at you and think you are a "raw gourd"; Older people will definitely ask you, "Who do you take me for?"

people in northern Shaanxi "hold firmly" and keep quiet. Very capable, say five points at most, or even say nothing. If you praise his children, he will answer you: "This blind thing doesn't live up to expectations at all"; If you praise her for being handsome, she will reply, "Ugly enough to hurt"; When you praise them for their quick brains, they always say, "Don't joke, I'm stupid.". This is not inferiority, it is wit, it is introverted, it is demanding of itself, and it is polite to the questioner. The real rich man can't see that "he wears bad clothes and walks slowly, and the tickets in his waist are always on", "there are felt films hanging on the door and oil rolls steaming in the pot"; You can't see the real able man either. The cat is hunched over, shrinking its sleeves, and someone pulls over. Small right and wrong, you don't spit on his face, big right and wrong, a word will make you "prostrate."

to know how people in northern Shaanxi can eat steel and bite iron, you'd better live in northern Shaanxi for a few days.

Shaanxi storytellers

As soon as they enter the slack winter, Shaanxi storytellers are busy, and they are everywhere. These people are talkative and diligent, highly respected and discerning, and they can suffer losses. Without these efforts, they can't do this business. Because of poor eloquence, lack of motivation, lazy legs and feet tend to miss the opportunity, poor eyesight, low prestige, no one listens, and those who are afraid of losing money can't afford leisure time and impatient can't stand the splint. It is really "the third-class business must be done by the third-class people."

These people are very distinctive. At a glance, you can recognize that they are talking about the matchmaker, and you can also feel how far this media has gone.

The matchmaker who just accepted the entrustment is like a scout, walking around and asking questions everywhere. It's really "gathering at the meeting", and whoever has a wedding, even more uninvited. I'm not afraid to help, to raise money with gifts, to be left out in the cold, and to be afraid that no one will talk to him. They are all masters of gossip. Needless to say, relatives and acquaintances are strangers that they have never seen in eight generations. Just like intimate friends, they tell the truth from their hearts like running water. As soon as the other party was happy, he said that the matchmaker took the opportunity to enter, took advantage of the situation and steadily entered the theme.

their themes are not static, but shift according to needs. If you accept the man's entrustment, you will ask who has an unmarried girl, and if you accept the woman's entrustment, you will ask where there are unmarried boys. However, there are not many singles like this. More often, girls and boys interrogate each other together, because he is not entrusted by one family, but by both men and women. Once the target is inquired, a deeper understanding will be made: where is the ancestral home of this family and where is the uncle's home; How to be a person and how to do things; Generations of ancestors have to ask clearly, and the roots have to be clearly understood. The former is to know their roots, while the latter is to know their conduct. The key to understanding the roots is to see if there is any body odor and pique in the family, and whether the ancestors have blown it up; The key to understanding character is to see if anyone in the family is a thief and marries Han, and whether I steal millet and pinch the ears of grain.

All this is understood clearly, and even if the reconnaissance stage is completed, so "golden flowers with silver flowers, zucchini with pumpkin", first draw a general outline, establish a basic scope, and then start lobbying separately.

after entering the lobbying stage, they became propagandists again, and they got up all day to say nothing but praise others. Go to the man to praise the woman, go to the woman to praise the man, and when the two families arrive together, they will praise each other. When I met my parents, I praised them for their suitability, and when I met them, I praised them for their perfect looks. Tell the woman that the man is the owner who is hard to find with lanterns, and tell the man that if he misses this village, there will be no shop. Truly, it means boasting about Peugeot with good appearance, boasting about the situation with poor appearance, and boasting about the roots, strength, ability and filial piety with great efforts if the appearance and situation are not good. It was praised that both families moved their hearts, which made the two young people meet.

Meeting is blind date, and the location is decided by the victim and the matchmaker. Some are in the woman's home, some are in the market and temple fair, some are in nearby restaurants, and some are in friends' homes, which depends on the distance and family situation of both parties. When meeting at the woman's home, the man usually only goes to a blind date, but in other places, there are more participants in the two families, including young men and women themselves, parents of both sides, and their most trusted relatives, but in either case, the matchmaker is indispensable.

The purpose of meeting is to have a look at each other, to listen to the conversation, to test the IQ and the personality. Observe whether you have stuttering and balding tongue, listen carefully to whether you are a risk-averse person, and guess what the future object can do with talent.