600 words of Dong folk-custom composition
Ginger soup noodles, as the name implies, are noodles cooked with ginger soup and are traditional snacks in Taizhou. In several counties and cities in the south of Taizhou, including urban areas, I don't know that since the year of Na Yue, there has been a saying that pregnant women must eat ginger soup noodles when they are confined. Perhaps, several counties and cities in southern Taizhou are all near the sea, with high humidity, and ginger can dispel wind and cold. Anyway, this custom existed before my grandmother's generation and has continued to this day. When a woman gives birth at home, her family must give her food for next month, that is, all the materials used to cook ginger noodle soup, such as rice noodles, shrimp skin, dried jumping fish, eggs, mushrooms, day lilies, tofu skin and so on. These are all dry goods, given at one time, but seafood to be put in noodle soup is bought every day. In-laws began to prepare ginger slices when their daughter-in-law was pregnant for three or four months. That is, ginger is washed, cooked in a pot with yellow wine as water, sliced and dried, and put in a sealed vessel for later use. Generally, a pregnant woman needs to bask in 50 to 60 kilograms of ginger a month, not a pregnant woman alone. When the guests who come to visit the parturient and the baby get home, the bowl of ginger noodle soup is inevitable. When a daughter-in-law gives birth to a child, her mother-in-law will greet her relatives and friends with a smile: "You must come to my house to eat ginger noodles." Therefore, eating ginger noodle soup is not a woman's patent, nor is it for men. Taizhou men, women and children generally like to eat it. It is precisely because of this market that Taizhou has people who specialize in buying ginger slices, and there are also many small noodle restaurants that operate ginger noodle restaurants. Nowadays, most families want to eat noodles with ginger soup. It is a bit troublesome to buy ginger slices and cook them at home before cooking noodles. Someone came up with the idea of selling fresh ginger juice, which is available in every vegetable market. If you want to eat, you can buy a bottle to go home, but it tastes a little spicy, and there is no pure noodles cooked with ginger slices.