[Internet China Festival · Mid -Autumn Festival] Dunhuang: The hometown of the "pot helmet"

Moon cakes to eat moon cakes in the Mid -Autumn Festival are traditional folk customs. In Dunhuang, in addition to the various moon cakes launched by merchants and cake rooms, there is also a special custom is "boiling helmet". In this festival of reunion, this kind of food symbolizing a harvest and reunion is loved by the citizens of Dunhuang. People taste the pot helmets with their families and feel the taste of family and home.

The Mid -Autumn Festival is approaching, and some women in rural areas have begun to get busy. Ferry head noodles, kneading noodles and alkali, firewood roasted ... In the past two days, the elderly Ma Yuying, the second group of villagers in Weijiaqiao Village, Suzhou Town, Dunhuang City, Lead the daughter and grandson's grandchildren for three generations to make pot helmets. The old man of Ma Yuying said that the old -fashioned moon cake is the "pot helmet" well known by the Dunhuang people. Whenever the Mid -Autumn Festival, the "burning pot helmet" of the countryside is a festive special food that must be made, and the "Mid -Autumn Festival" pot helmet is also the most particular.

Ma Yuying said: "When I was a kid, my mother made a pot helmet, and I followed her to learn to do it patiently. The mother couldn't do it anymore. I then made a pot helmet. This peach, this is the taste of the mother. "

The old man Ma Yuying is 72 years old and has made a pot helmet for a lifetime. She said that the most expensive to make a pot helmet is manpower. Although it is very hard to make a pot helmet, every family is not tired, because the pot helmet contains a strong rustic feeling, not only a kind of food, but also a kind of inheritance of local folk culture. Mai Xiang. Now, when she is old, she has passed the skills of making pot helmets to her daughter and grandson.

Ma Yuying's daughter Zhuang Cuiling said: "The pot helmet we made is simple, but there are still some skills. It is very simple to look at the starting surface, but the alkali that I mixes without the mother of the mother will not have the mother. Taste. If I burn the fire, the fire I burned was either the fire was big or the fire was small. "

Ma Yuying's grandson Zhuang Youwei said: "Eating pot helmets in the Mid -Autumn Festival is a traditional custom, especially the dirt kiln pot helmet, which is a memories of our childhood. This craft is also passed on to my mother from my grandma. Now my mother passed on again Give it to me, traditional culture and craftsmanship cannot be lost, I also hope that this craft can be carried forward in my hands. "

In the past, the rural households in Dunhuang City had a simple soil stove in the place where the houses were idle in front of the house. The villagers called it "kiln". It is an adobe wall, about 1 meter height, about 1 meter wide, about 2 meters long, and is rectangular. There are several thick iron rods on the ethmill wall inside the earth kiln. Support, below is firewood. But don't underestimate this ancient earth kiln. After the clever hand of the rural housewives, the "pot helmet" burned is crispy and seductive, and pure handmade food.

Zhuang Cuiling said: "Every Mid -Autumn Festival, we have to burn the pot helmet and dry food, because the pot helmet represents the reunion of the reunion. The child is back, and we have to share happiness with the old people and children."

With the development of the society, there are all kinds of flowers and helmets in the bakery shops and roasted shops in the city. The difference is that these pot helmets are baked in oven. Even so, the supply is in short supply before the Mid -Autumn Festival. But in fact, people living in the city still miss the "pot helmet" in the earth kiln. In this regard, Dunhuang Huaxia International Hotel specially invited the folk craftsmen to repair several earth kiln this year, and launched the traditional moon cakes that symbolize the harvest and reunion- "pot helmet", which brings the purest and most authentic "nostalgia of nostalgia to citizens and tourists. taste". In the past two days, the hotel's back kitchen and noodle masters were busy rubbing, rolling cakes, and patterns. After a process of processing, the noodle embryos were filled with baking sheets and baked in the earth kiln. After 15 minutes of waiting, the round pot helmets with fragrance are freshly baked, which means that every family of the Mid -Autumn Festival is round like the pot helmet of the kiln.

Sun Hailing, the head of Dunhuang Huaxia International Hotel, said: "Mainly every family and children have gradually moved towards fashion and youth, but in order to recover such memories and find the taste of our mother, we launched the hand -made pure hair. The noodle pot helmet and moon cakes let everyone know our childhood memories, and find the lost memories together. Bless Dunhuang's father and folks happy Mid -Autumn Festival, family reunion, happiness and happiness, and bless our country prosperity. Come better. "

In addition to the "pot helmet", "worship the moon" is the most characteristic Mid -Autumn Festival folk custom. In the Dunhuang literature "Worship of the Crescent", it can be clearly seen that the people of ancient Dunhuang would be on the special "worship of the moon" on the occasion of the Mid -Autumn Festival. Bless your family's longevity, family reunion, and lover to reunite. After worshiping the moon god, the family eats moon cake together.

(Qin Meina Yang Xia)

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