The soup culture of Luoyang mutton soup

Drinking soup has become a lingering habit of Luoyang people. Luoyang people occasionally go out to travel for a week or two, and their greatest wish is to come back early and drink a bowl of steaming soup. In Jianxi and Xigong, many people drive to the Hedong Flower Bed and Tiexie in Jin Meng early in the morning and go back and forth for more than an hour, just to drink a bowl of authentic beef soup and mutton soup and enjoy it day after day.

Experience of drinking soup

Tofu soup in the morning and meatball soup in the evening.

With the constant change of life, Luoyang folk customs are also changing. For example, Luoyang people often drink beef soup, mutton soup, meatball soup, bean curd soup, non-turning soup and other soups. It used to be called "eating steamed buns", but now it is collectively called "drinking soup".

Old Luoyang people have a mantra: "Tofu soup in the morning, meatball soup in the evening", which vividly illustrates Luoyang people's eating habits.

Luoyang people like to drink beef soup, mutton soup, bean curd soup, miscellaneous liver soup and so on. Soak in cakes, steamed buns and pot helmets in the morning until you sweat; Drinking a bowl of hot and sour meatball soup in the evening, without turning the soup, is a delicious soup, and then putting bean flour meatballs or bean flour cakes as thin as cicadas, which is both nourishing the stomach and comfortable.

In Luoyang, drinking beef soup and mutton soup has become a folk culture, especially the "old soup" in the old city and Chanhe River, which is thick or light and has different styles, but it has a large number of regular customers.

The saltiness of the old city people's soup, just like the position of a Weiqi player, can be seen as a person's "way" of drinking soup. Often, the older you get, the longer you drink soup, the weaker the taste of soup, and those who are used to drinking "sweet soup" (that is, without salt) are the most authentic "drinkers".

The original meaning of drinking soup

The soup is for dinner.

Zi Han, a folklore scholar and TV director in Luoyang, said that drinking soup in Luoyang dialect originally meant eating dinner. In the past, people in Luoyang were poor and could not eat steamed bread for dinner. Mostly millet soup, rice soup, noodle soup, yellow noodle soup and other porridge, so it is called soup.

After a long time, drinking porridge at night has become a living habit of Luoyang people. When cooking soup, many families are used to adding some beans such as mung beans and soybeans to make the soup more delicious.

I can only drink very thin soup at night when I don't meet the green and yellow. An old ballad sings: "thin in the morning, soup at noon, and the moon at the bottom of the bowl."