Characteristics of Shaanxi Province

Shaanxi Province is located in the hinterland of China, cross-connecting the two major river basins of the Yellow River and the Yangtze River. It is one of the birthplaces of the Chinese nation and an important birthplace of Chinese food culture.

This place has both the roughness of the Loess Plateau and the beauty of a land of plenty, with rich products, outstanding people, a long culinary history, and outstanding food customs.

For example, Guan Guo stone steamed buns still have the tradition of stone cooking of the ancestors; historical records say that "the Yellow Emperor made cauldrons and steamers" and "steamed the rice to make rice and cooked the rice to make porridge"; It began with the "Yu" ritual in the Western Zhou Dynasty. "Book of Rites" records that "at the beginning of ritual, food and drink began."

The origin of Shaanxi’s culinary culture has a long history and its influence is profound and wide, which is evident from this.

Many Shaanxi dishes retain traditions from more than ten dynasties including Zhou, Qin, Han and Tang.

Especially the snacks are so beautiful.

Taking advantage of the historical capital, Shaanxi's snacks draw on the essence of snacks from all over the country, and incorporate the flavors of delicacies of various ethnic groups, bringing together a collection of famous domestic and foreign drinks and foods, and exploring the techniques of palace snacks inherited from past dynasties. , so it is famous for its wide variety, strange colors, strong ethnic characteristics, different local flavors, and antique charm.

Especially over the past 20 years of reform and opening up, the catering industry has flourished with the economic leap, and cooking technology has made great progress with the advancement of science and technology. Hundreds of well-known traditional dishes and innovative dishes have emerged. .

Organize banquets with dishes and orders to create banquets with different flavors, styles, and innovative ideas, such as Tang Dynasty Banquet, Dumpling Banquet, Scorpion Banquet, Steamed Bun Banquet, Chang'an Eight Views Banquet, Shaanxi Flavor Snack Banquet, etc. wait.

Shaanxi-style snacks, represented by beef and mutton steamed buns, cured meat steamed buns and cold skin, are famous in China and spread at home and abroad.

The Shaanxi Provincial Cuisine Encyclopedia - "Shaanxi Cuisine" published last year outlines an overview of the development of food culture in Shaanxi Province and lists famous foods, snacks and banquets in Shaanxi Province.

According to statistics, there are 549 kinds of Shaanxi snacks included in the ceremony. Among them, in the first national "Chinese Famous Snacks" identification meeting in 1997, 19 kinds of Shaanxi snacks were rated as "Chinese Famous Snacks"; In the second national "Chinese Famous Snacks" recognition and evaluation event in September this year, 60 more Shaanxi varieties won the title of "Famous Snacks in China".

So far, Shaanxi Province has 79 kinds of "Chinese famous snacks", ranking first in the country.

Since 1999, in the "Shaanxi Famous Snacks" certification activity, 151 kinds of Shaanxi local flavor snacks have passed the certification and been named "Shaanxi Famous Snacks".

Here, we take you into the hall of Shaanxi snacks. You can enjoy the Chinese famous snacks and Shaanxi famous snacks with excellent color, aroma, taste, shape, nutrition and hygiene. What a feast for the eyes.

To taste Shaanxi’s famous food is to taste the ancient culture.

I have also lived in Xi'an for a few years. In addition, I am a relatively delicious person, and I belong to the northwest region, so my taste is basically the same, so I still know a little about Xi'an's snacks. I will tell you about them here. , if any netizens from Shaanxi read it, please don’t laugh at me.

Let’s first talk about the taste of Xi’an snacks.

Xi'an belongs to the northwest region, and the tastes in the northwest region are generally very strong, especially sour and spicy.

Xi'an is also a multi-ethnic area, and the tastes are relatively mixed, which results in a wide variety of snacks in Xi'an with unique tastes.

Among Xi’an delicacies, the most famous one is of course the soaked mutton.

Lao Sun’s mutton soup is famous far and wide.

For those who like delicious food, if you come to Xi'an and don't eat Lao Sun's mutton dip, then you haven't come to Xi'an.

Mutton steamed buns have a long history.

As early as the Chongzhi period, there was a "Tianxilou" specializing in mutton steamed buns in Xi'an, which was quite influential in the northwest region.

If you go further back, its history can be traced back to the 11th century BC. There is a saying in the "Book of Songs" that "when drinking wine and feasting, it is said to kill a lamb?"

Noodles are the staple food for people in the northwest. If you don’t eat noodles for a day, you will feel exhausted (unfortunately, I have never had a decent meal of noodles since I arrived in Nanjing).

So Xi’an also mainly eats pasta.

Of course the noodles in Xi’an are Qishan Sauce Noodles.

The best Qishan noodles must be hand-rolled noodles, with diced tofu baked in oil, diced pork with half fat and lean meat, and a secret soup. There is a layer of oil floating on it, and it tastes so beautiful.

(Actually, it is very sour. People who cannot eat sour food may not like it.)

Roll out the dough.

This should also be regarded as a special snack, but the taste is not as good as the one in our hometown.

Rice skin.

It’s similar to rolling dough, but it’s made of rice flour.

Jia San soup dumplings.

Xi'an *** Famous snacks.

The main ingredients of soup dumplings are beef, mutton and rib meat, and the meat is beaten with soup made from mutton bones and seasoning soup.

After steaming, it has the characteristics of "the skin is as thin as paper, the filling is tender and contains soup, and the seasoning is fragrant."

Xi'an Mirror Cake.

The tradition of Shaanxi Snacks made from glutinous rice are steamed and shaped like round mirrors.

Most people who sell mirror cakes sell them from a stall.

There is a poem in the Qing Dynasty that goes: "Liu Yin." The clear day is long under the locust tree, and the fragrance is also produced on the mirror cake burden?

(If you go to Xi'an and say you want to eat mirror cakes, you may never be able to eat them. If you say you want to eat steamer cakes, they are all over the streets.

Accent problem haha)

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The best place to eat snacks in Xi'an: *** Street - Beiyuanmen, although it is only a small street of only a few hundred meters, it has gathered nearly a hundred snack restaurants of different styles, permeating The unique local cultural atmosphere of the ancient city of Xi'an.

Almost all of these restaurants and shops are *** friends.

*** Snacks can be said to be the representative of Xi’an snacks.

Friends who have been to Xi'an Beiyuanmen all have the feeling of "a great appetite but a small stomach".

Shaanxi is located in the hinterland of China, connecting the two major basins of the Yellow River and the Yangtze River. It has both the extensiveness of the Loess Plateau and the beauty of a land of plenty, rich in products and outstanding people.

Its catering has a long history and culture as its foundation, silently nourishing food, and forming a very distinctive "Qin Food Culture" on this land.

History - profound, elegant and profound

During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, Shaanxi was governed by the State of Qin, so it was referred to as "Qin". On this basis, the ancient and young Shaanxi Province originated and grew up. The combination of food flavor and history and culture is called "Qin Food Culture". It is centered on Shaanxi and its geographical location can be extended to the entire northwest region.

Historically, due to the development of politics, economy, culture, and trade at that time, Shaanxi, especially Xi'an, formed many scenic spots, and internal and external exchanges were quite frequent, which also brought about the progress and development of Shaanxi's food and beverages. .

The representative "Qin Food Culture" recipes mainly consist of Yamen cuisine, merchant cuisine, shop cuisine, folk cuisine and local cuisine.

Yamen cuisine, also known as official cuisine, has a long history, is elegant and rich, such as "Daibao elbow", "Zi Touchun" and so on.

Shangjia cuisine is distinguished by its high value, such as "Qian Nostoc", "bergamot shark's fin", etc.

Restaurant dishes are mainly dishes from famous buildings and stores in the centers of Xi'an and other important towns. To attract customers, competition is fierce, such as "Ming Sixi", "Milk Soup Pot Fish", "Simmered Shredded Squid", "Stewed meat and three delicacies" etc.

Folk dishes are economical and full of local flavor, such as "bald meat slices", "roasted eggplant with shredded pork", "gourd head", etc.

*** The cuisine developed through the Ming and Qing Dynasties and began to take shape, such as "mutton steamed buns" and "whole lamb mat", which are famous far and wide.

Shaanxi’s catering and food culture retain the legacy of more than ten dynasties including Zhou, Qin, Han, and Tang, with exquisite features and beauty.

Leveraging on the advantages of history and ancient capital, Shaanxi’s catering is rich in the essence and delicacies of various ethnic groups. It is a collection of internal and external, exploring and inheriting the skills of the palaces of past dynasties, with a wide variety, exotic colors, strong ethnic characteristics, and local characteristics. It is famous for its different flavors and antique charm.

However, the overall development of Shaanxi's catering industry was relatively slow in its early stages. Since the 1930s, with the opening of the Longhai Railway and the rise of the Anti-Japanese War, Shaanxi became China's rear area, and the population from various places migrated to Xi'an sharply. With the increase in the number of restaurants, various flavored foods have also settled in Xi'an, and Shaanxi's catering industry has flourished.

Later, since the 1980s, Xi'an has gradually become a tourist destination, and domestic and foreign exchanges have become increasingly frequent and close, which has promoted the rapid development of Shaanxi's catering industry.

With the discovery and release of classic banquets such as "dumpling banquet", "snack banquet", "imitation Tang banquet" and "palace banquet", a number of innovative dishes that meet the needs of tourists from all over the world have also emerged. It further increases the popularity of Shaanxi catering.

Current Situation - Competing for the Best in Brilliance

As early as the Tang Dynasty, Xi'an (known as Chang'an in ancient times) was the largest and most open city in the country and the center of the country's catering and food culture.

Bai Juyi, the great poet of the Tang Dynasty, wrote in "Sending Flax Cake to Yang Wanzhou": "The flax cake is similar to Kyoto, and the noodles are crispy and fragrant.

Sent to Hungry Ambassador Yang for a taste. It seems like there is nothing to help but nothing” is a poem.

In fact, the "sesame cake" in the poem is the sesame cake we eat today.

The land of the Three Qin Dynasty is full of glory, and famous foods and drinks have been preserved for thousands of years.

Various snacks spread in Shaanxi, whether they are court or folk, are large in quantity and fine in workmanship, and are very popular among Chinese and foreign people.

While excavating, sorting out and retaining these traditional meals, Shaanxi people also added new connotations to them.

For example, various traditional dumplings and snacks are combined into eye-opening dumpling banquets, snack banquets, imitation Tang Dynasty banquets, and palace banquets.

Here, people eat not just a few dishes, but also taste culture and tradition, and feel the historical context and national customs.

*** cuisine also occupies a very important position in Chinese cuisine. Shaanxi’s *** catering, represented by beef and mutton steamed buns, has been leading *** in recent years. Lao Sun from Xi’an Jia, Tong Shengxiang, etc. are well-known gourmet restaurants and have become delicious places for tourists from all over the world.

The catering industry is a multi-faceted shining mirror. If managed smoothly, it can not only bring the most direct consumption, but also be of great significance in promoting agriculture, food processing industry and solving social problems such as employment.

Therefore, vigorously developing the catering industry and promoting "Qin Food Culture" have become a highlight and feature of Shaanxi's economic development and promotion of tourism.