What's the weather and eating habits like in Jinan, Shandong?

The diet of Jinan people has a lot to do with the local environment and historical traditions in Jinan.

In Jinan people's eating habits, we can also see the characteristics of respecting tradition. This tradition is first manifested in the festival eating customs handed down from generation to generation. People even sing songs about the festival's eating habits, such as "winter solstice steamed bread and summer solstice noodles, Dragon Boat Festival dumplings laba porridge, Lantern Festival and February beans" and so on. Jinan is very hot in summer, so you should eat cold noodles on the solstice of summer. Once upon a time, people in Jinan ate cold noodles, including diced carrots and pickles, diced Chinese toon sprouts, shredded cucumbers, blanched mung bean sprouts, scalded leeks, vinegar, salt water, sesame paste, diced pickles and diced diced diced diced pork with fried sauce. Only Jinan people can taste the benefits of this cold noodle and its attractive charm. As Sang Song said, "Noodles with sesame sauce, noodles with sesame sauce, don't eat two and a half bowls."

The eating habits of Jinan people are also directly related to their living habits. For example, Jinan generally goes to bed late and gets up late, and has no habit of making breakfast seriously, but has a hobby of eating snacks at night.

Merchants' shops in old Jinan closed early in the morning. With the opening of modern ports, new professional groups have appeared in cities, which can be called modern wage earners. These people get up early in the morning to catch up with life and have breakfast. Family members are not used to cooking breakfast, so they have to eat it in the street, which makes the industry of cooking breakfast come into being.

Breakfast in Jinan is generally bean juice, fried dough sticks (Jinan people call it "fruit"), sweet foam, egg buns, fried cakes, horseshoe biscuits and so on. People with different identities eat breakfast in the bean juice room in different ways: carts and people with great strength come here, order a bowl of hot bean juice that can peel oil, break the steamed corn bread or cake, soak it in the bean juice, gulp it down and eat it sweetly. Some people, who like fried dough sticks or egg buns, can tell the clerk to fry them old or tender according to their own tastes. It is these unusual foods that some shops can do differently. For example, the fried dough sticks in Daming Lake Hotel can be divided into eight parts, commonly known as "eight batches of fruit".

People who get up late have more choices to eat early. In addition to the above food, you can also eat beef biscuits, oil whirls, silk cakes, pot stickers, rice and zongzi and so on. Jinan is famous for its beef. Once upon a time, there was a beef seller near Beihouji. When the wind is downwind, you can smell the meat as soon as you enter Plymen. Next to this beef stall, someone sells horseshoe biscuits. Bought beef and then put it in the sesame seed cake, which will be accompanied by the "food" that adults love to eat. Oil swirl was originally a kind of pasta in the south. The Xu brothers who managed this kind of pasta in Nanjing at the end of Qing Dynasty brought You Xuan to Jinan. The oil swirl should be mixed with scallion oil and fine salt, rolled until thin, rolled up layer by layer, and baked first, so it is called "oil swirl" because of its spiral shape. A kind of pasta similar to oil swirl is silk cake, which originated locally and was made in traditional Lamian Noodles. Silk cake, also known as "green oil silk cake", is made by rolling flour into very fine size and then making it into a round cake. One cake contains more than a thousand pieces of flour, half of which is fried and half of which is branded in oil. Jinan's fried dumpling is very famous, and the cheap square is the best. When wrapping, the stuffing and flour account for half, and the two ends are left blank, which is crescent-shaped. It is fried in a pan and then steamed. When cooked, put sesame oil on it. The bottom is crisp and yellow, the flour is white and soft, and the stuffing is delicious. It has long been listed as a famous food in Jinan. Rice dry rice is a bit like lunch, because in Jinan people's minds, it is a formal meal, not like a casual breakfast. The most famous dry rice restaurant is Zhao Jia Dry Restaurant, which is made of pork belly and pork belly. In addition, there are preserved eggs, Four Joy Meetballs, fried tofu, fried gluten and so on.

People in Jinan eat supper, and there are several places to go. Most rice noodle shops on the street are open until midnight. Steamed pork, bean curd, hot bean curd, meatball soup, sesame seed cake fruit and preserved eggs are all sold in the streets. Among many delicacies, it is worth mentioning that the rice flour meat in Jinan is unique. Spareribs are used to make rice flour meat. First scald the skin on the fire, then soak it in hot water and scrape it off with a knife. Rice should be carefully selected, add pepper, cinnamon and star anise, stir-fry until light yellow, then pick up the seasoning and roll it into powder. The rolled rice should not be too fine. It is better to roll a grain of rice into three petals. After making, mix the powder with the meat, add soy sauce, refined salt and southern wine glass for soaking. Finally, put the skin in a coarse porcelain bowl, sprinkle with rice flour and steam it in a cage. Rice noodles are red and thick, fat but not greasy.

The climate of Jinan is located in the mid-latitude zone and belongs to the continental monsoon climate of warm temperate zone. Its main climatic characteristics are: the monsoon is obvious and the four seasons are distinct; In winter, Leng Xia is hot and the rainfall is concentrated.

The monsoon is obvious and the four seasons are distinct. In winter, Mongolian high is formed in the northern part of Asian continent, and Jinan is controlled by denatured polar continental air mass and often attacked by cold air in the north. The weather is cold and sunny, with little rain and snow and northerly winds. In summer, influenced by tropical and subtropical ocean air masses, warm and humid air currents prevail in the ocean, with hot weather, abundant rainfall, abundant sunshine and southerly winds. Spring and autumn are the transitional seasons from winter to summer and from summer to winter, and the wind direction is changeable. During the year, in different seasons, the whole city is under the control of different atmospheric circulation, which constitutes a distinct climate change in spring, summer, autumn and winter. The winter in Jinan lasts for 4 to 5 months, generally from the first ten days of 1 1 to the last ten days of March. Summer is 105 ~ 120 days, generally from late May to early September; Spring and autumn are the shortest, less than two months.

In winter, Leng Xia is hot and the rainfall is concentrated. In winter, Jinan is controlled by Mongolian cold high pressure, and the cold northerly wind blows. Generally, there is a cold air intrusion every 6 ~ 8 days, which makes the temperature drop continuously. In winter, the average temperature in Leng Yue is below 0℃, and the average extreme minimum temperature is below -20℃ (Pingyin county-18.9℃, Changqing county-19. 1℃, the northern suburb of Jinan-19.7℃, and the eastern suburb of Jinan-22. The maximum frozen soil depth is about 45cm, and the maximum snow depth is about 20cm. The winter precipitation is 20 ~ 25mm, accounting for only 3.0 ~ 3.7% of the total annual precipitation. There is little rain and snow throughout the winter, and the north wind is frequent, dry and cold. Summer is hot, the average seasonal temperature is around 26℃, the extreme maximum temperature exceeds 40℃, and the high temperature with daily maximum temperature ≥40℃ occurs in summer every day. Summer is not only hot, but also rainy and hot in the same season. The average summer precipitation in counties and districts of the city is over 400 mm, and 60% of the annual precipitation is concentrated in summer. The average precipitation days in July are about 15 days, and the rainstorm days with daily precipitation ≥50 mm are concentrated in July and August, accounting for 70% of the rainstorm days in the whole year.