What are the characteristics of Shaanxi Province?

Shaanxi Province is located in the hinterland of China, connecting the Yellow River and the Yangtze River. It is one of the cradles of the Chinese nation and an important cradles of China's food culture. It has both the vastness of the Loess Plateau and the beauty of the land of fish and rice. Rich products, outstanding people, a long history of cooking, outstanding diet style. For example, the stone steamed buns in Guo Guan have the legacy of ancestors cooking with stones; In history, "the Yellow Emperor made a cauldron", "steamed grain is rice, and cooked grain is porridge"; According to Kao Qishan, washing your face began with the "Yu" ceremony in the Western Zhou Dynasty, and the Book of Rites records that "the ceremony begins with eating". Thus, Shaanxi food culture has a long history and far-reaching influence.

Many meals in Shaanxi have the legacy of more than ten dynasties such as Zhou, Qin, Han and Tang. Especially snacks, it's beautiful. Shaanxi snacks, with the advantages of the ancient capital of history, have gathered the essence of snacks from all over the country, absorbed the delicacies of all ethnic groups, gathered famous wines at home and abroad, and excavated and inherited the skills of court snacks in previous dynasties. Therefore, Shaanxi is famous for its variety, strange colors, rich national characteristics, different local flavors and antique. Especially in the past 20 years since the reform and opening up, the catering industry has flourished with the rapid development of economy, and the cooking technology has made great progress with the rapid development of science and technology, and hundreds of well-known traditional dishes and innovative dishes have emerged. Through the grouping and ordering of dishes, we create innovative banquets with different flavors, styles, such as imitation Tang banquet, dumpling banquet, scorpion banquet, paomo banquet, Chang 'an eight-view banquet, Shaanxi flavor snack banquet and so on. Shaanxi-style snacks, represented by beef and mutton buns, Chinese hamburger and cold rice noodles, are well-known in China and spread all over the world. Last year, Shaanxi Cuisine Encyclopedia, Shaanxi Cuisine University, outlined the general situation of the development of food culture in Shaanxi Province, and listed the famous foods, dishes and banquets in Shaanxi Province. According to statistics, there are 549 kinds of Shaanxi-style snacks, of which 1997 was named "Chinese famous snacks" at the first national appraisal meeting of "Chinese famous snacks"; In September this year, 60 kinds of Shaanxi won the title of "Chinese Famous Snacks" in the second national relocation activity of "Chinese Famous Snacks". So far, there are 79 kinds of "Chinese famous snacks" in Shaanxi Province, ranking first in the country. Since 1999, there have been 15 1 varieties of local snacks in Shaanxi Province which have passed the evaluation and been named as "Shaanxi Famous Snacks". Here, we invite you to enter the Shaanxi flavor snack hall, where you can taste the famous Chinese snacks and Shaanxi snacks with excellent color, fragrance, taste, shape, nutrition and hygiene, which are delicious and feast your eyes. To taste the famous food in Shaanxi is to taste the ancient culture.

I've been in Xi 'an for several years. It's delicious, and it belongs to the northwest region. The tastes are basically the same, so I know little about Xi 'an snacks. I'm telling you here, don't laugh at me if a netizen in Shaanxi sees it.

Let's talk about the taste of Xi 'an snacks first. Xi 'an belongs to the northwest region, and the taste in the northwest region is generally very heavy, particularly sour, particularly spicy and particularly heavy. Xi 'an also belongs to a multi-ethnic area, and its tastes are quite diverse, which leads to a wide variety of snacks and unique tastes in Xi 'an.

Of course, Xi's most famous food is mutton bread in soup. Lao Sun's mutton bubble is famous far and wide. Come to Xi 'an if it's delicious, and don't eat Lao Sun's mutton buns, and so on.

Mutton paomo has a long history. As early as the Chongqi period, there was a "Tianxilou" in Xi 'an, specializing in mutton paomo, which was quite influential in the northwest. If we go further, its history can be traced back to BC 1 1 century. There is a saying in the Book of Songs, "Friends drink and kill lambs?" The language.

People in the northwest live on noodles, and if they don't eat noodles for a day, they will feel bored all over (it's a pity that I haven't eaten a proper noodle since I arrived in Nanjing). Therefore, Xi 'an is also based on pasta. Xi 'an's noodles, of course, have to count Qishan minced meat noodles. First-class Qishan minced meat noodles must be handmade noodles, with small diced tofu baked in oil, small diced meat half fat and half thin, and secret soup. The soup is covered with oil and tastes delicious. . . . (Actually, it's very sour. People who can't eat sour may not like it. )

Roll the dough. This is also a special snack, but the taste is not as good as that of our hometown.

Rice skin. It's similar to rolling noodles, but it's made of rice flour.

Jia San makes soup packets. Xi's famous Muslim snacks. The main ingredients of glutinous rice balls are beef, mutton and ribs, and the meat is made of soup made of sheep bones and seasoning soup. After steaming, it has the characteristics of "the skin is as thin as paper, the stuffing is tender and contains soup, and the seasoning is fragrant?" The characteristics of.

Xi 'an mirror cake. The traditional snack in Shaanxi is a cake steamed from glutinous rice shaped like a round mirror. Most of the mirror cakes are vendors. There is a poem in the Qing dynasty: "As time goes by under the Liu Yin tree, the mirror cake is also fragrant? This poem. If you go to Xi 'an and say you want to eat mirror cakes, you may never get them. I want to eat pancakes, all over the street. Accent problem, hehe)

The best place to eat snacks in Xi 'an: Huimin Street-Beiyuanmen, although only a small street of several hundred meters, has gathered nearly 100 snack bars with different styles, permeating the unique local cultural atmosphere of Xi 'an, the ancient city. These restaurants and shops are almost all friends of the Hui people. Muslim snacks can be said to be the representative of Xi snacks. Friends who have been to Xi 'anbeimen all feel that their appetite is too good but their stomachs are too small.

Shaanxi is located in the hinterland of China, connecting the Yellow River and the Yangtze River. There are not only the vast loess plateau, but also the beautiful land of fish and rice, with rich products and outstanding people. Its catering has a long history and culture, and it is quiet, forming a very distinctive "Qin catering culture" in this land.

History-thick, elegant and profound

During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, Shaanxi was ruled by the State of Qin, so it was called Qin for short. On this basis, the ancient and young food flavor is called "Qin food culture", which is centered in Shaanxi and can be extended to the whole 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 the internal and external exchanges were quite frequent, which also brought the progress and development of Shaanxi cuisine.

The representative cuisines of "Qin cuisine culture" are mainly composed of yamen cuisine, merchant cuisine, local cuisine, folk cuisine and pure cuisine. Yamen cuisine, also known as official cuisine, has a long history and is elegant and heavy, such as "using elbows" and "using fat heads". Merchants' dishes, such as "money to send vegetables" and "bergamot shark's fin", win by your price. Restaurants in big cities such as Xi 'an are mainly famous buildings and famous shops, which attract customers and have fierce competition, such as "Four Happiness in Ming Dynasty", "Fish in Milk Soup Pot", "Shredded Squid" and "Three Fresh Meat". Folk dishes are economical and full of local flavor, such as "sliced pork with bald head", "roasted eggplant with shredded pork" and "gourd head". After the development of Ming and Qing dynasties, Muslim food has begun to take shape, such as the well-known "mutton bread in soup" and "whole sheep mat".

Shaanxi's catering and catering culture retains the legacy of more than ten dynasties, such as Zhou, Qin, Han and Tang dynasties, with exquisite characteristics and beautiful scenery. Using the advantages of history and ancient capital, Shaanxi catering absorbs the essence, absorbs the exotic flavor of all ethnic groups, integrates the strengths of both inside and outside, and excavates and inherits the palace skills of past dynasties. It is famous for its variety, strange colors, rich national characteristics, different local flavors and antique.

However, the early development of catering industry in Shaanxi was relatively slow. Since 1930s, with the opening of Longhai Railway and the rise of War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, Shaanxi has become the rear area of China. The population who moved to xi 'an from all over the country has increased sharply, and various flavors of food have also settled in Xi 'an, so the catering industry in Shaanxi has flourished. Later, since the 1980s, Xi 'an has gradually become a tourist attraction, and domestic and international exchanges have become increasingly frequent and close, which has promoted the leap-forward development of catering industry in Shaanxi. With the excavation of classic banquets such as Dumpling Banquet, Snack Banquet, Imitation Tang Banquet and Palace Banquet, a number of innovative dishes have emerged to meet the needs of tourists from all over the world, further enhancing the popularity of Shaanxi catering.

Status quo-striving for flow, winning and being colorful.

As early as the Tang Dynasty, Xi 'an (called Chang 'an in ancient times) was the largest and most open city in China, and it was also the center of catering and catering culture in China. Bai Juyi, a great poet in the Tang Dynasty, wrote "Send sesame cakes to Yang Wanzhou": "Sesame cakes, like Kyoto, are crisp and oily. I gave it to Ambassador Hungry and Yang Hungry. It seems to be a poem that "helps the prosperous times". In fact, the "sesame seed cake" in the poem is the sesame seed cake we eat today.

The land of Sanqin is full of flowers, and all the famous foods and drinks in the past dynasties are included. All kinds of snacks circulating in Shaanxi, whether imperial or folk, are huge in quantity and fine in workmanship, and are deeply loved by Chinese and foreign people. While excavating, sorting out and retaining these traditional restaurants, Shaanxi people have added new connotations to them. For example, traditional jiaozi and snacks are combined into an eye-opening dumpling banquet, snack banquet, imitation Tang banquet, court banquet and so on. Here, people eat not only a few dishes, but also taste culture and tradition, and feel the historical context and ethnic customs.

Qingzhen cuisine also occupies a very important position in China cuisine. In recent years, Muslim catering represented by beef and mutton in paomo has dominated in Shaanxi, while Laosunjia and Tongshengxiang in xi 'an are well-known food shops, which have become the favorite places for tourists from all over the world.

The catering industry is a multi-faceted luminous mirror, which not only can bring the most direct consumption, but also has great significance for stimulating agriculture, food processing industry and solving social problems such as employment. Therefore, vigorously developing the catering industry and promoting the "Qin food culture" have become a highlight and feature of Shaanxi's economic development and tourism promotion.