Historical origin of yarn surface

What is tradition? Tradition is word of mouth and handed down from generation to generation. Diners located in Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces in the south of the Yangtze River will know that the Southern girl is pregnant, and after giving birth to the child, relatives and friends at home will definitely send tied "gauze" as a gift. At this moment, my mother-in-law will definitely cook a bowl of gauze for the girl who is still wrapped in a headscarf. This is the surface of the moon.

Finding the best yarn surface is not easy. Today, anything ancient may be commercialized like a strong wind. Yarn face, also can't escape this. It is often seen that foreign diners bring gauze back to relatives and friends. After all, it is inconvenient, but you can buy it online.

Following the information provided by the elders in the village, we visited all the ancient villages that still retain ancient handmade yarn. Most villages have become a unified marketing model of cooperatives, and prices are uniformly charged regardless of good or bad. In this way, it is difficult to distinguish between good and bad, no matter which one is doing well or not, the price is uniform. This has caused the overall quality to decline. Various well-known Nanshan villages are also to blame. However, under the guidance of a centenarian in the village, we came to Tengjiao Xiashan Village. Presumably, many tourists who have been to Su's former residence will know something about Teng Jiao. Everyone must have heard about the reputation of Tengjiao dry powder. In the end, God helps those who help themselves. In this scattered and somewhat dilapidated old building village, we finally found the traditional tulle as we wished.

To make gauze noodles, first mix the flour with salt water, knead it thoroughly, knead it into strips, wrap it in vegetable oil pan and put it in a box. After a while, it will be twisted into thin strips, evenly cross-wound on two eight-hair poles about a foot long, one of which will be hung into one, and then put into a heat-insulating rice barrel for half an hour, then moved to the outside of the room for hanging, and then taken off the shelf to dry and rolled into cakes. The yarn surface is tough enough, salty and pure in taste, suitable for long-term storage. If it's warm and rainy next spring, and the yarn surface will regain its moisture, put a piece of quicklime in the altar and make it as crisp and dry as before.

According to the custom of Wenzhou people, friends start to look after the children at home after they are born, and the most important thing is to eat "noodle soup". Yarn surface is a specialty of Wenzhou, as the name implies, it is a surface drawn as thin as yarn. I remember one year Qu Xiang came to Wenzhou. When I invited him to dinner, he ate two large plates of fried noodles. However, Confucius' gauze was not fried, but boiled. The main ingredients are old wine, shrimp, mushrooms, ginger and eggs. Among them, old wine is the highlight, so "yarn noodle soup" is also called "yarn noodle wine".

It is said that Wenzhou used to brew old wine for children. In addition to being used as "yarn wine" in the next month, it is more buried underground and well hoarded. If it is a son, it is used to entertain guests after he became famous, named "Zhuangyuanhong"; If it is a daughter, it is used at the wedding reception when getting married, and it is called "Daughter Red". Although my mother specially invited friends who can also brew wine in the countryside to brew old wine for us this time, there are only two jars, which are basically enough to make "yarn wine"-the original "Zhuangyuanhong" has only become "Yuezihong".

In addition to old wine, eggs are also the highlight of "gauze wine". As the biggest ingredient in noodles, in the past, it was usually related to the enthusiasm and etiquette of the host family. Obviously, talking about folk customs now is more of a form!

Note: No salt is added to the surface of the boiled yarn.