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Tibetan diet custom

18 07 10 - 23:21 Tibetan food, pastoral and agricultural areas is slightly different, but share a common hobby, they like to eat barley noodles, buttered tea and beef, mutton, dairy products. Over the past few pastoral food, meat and dairy products has a considerable lack plaque, Yu cake also worn rough, do not eat vegetables, and weeds as vegetables, by water, neighbors, and eating no fixed Dayton, hunger and food, dried and drink, Drink hearty full season, off-season diet. Now living in pastoral areas has improved greatly, to see how a family of wealth, mainly to see how much grain reserves, rather than the meat and milk of the reserves, because these things are rich, do not care. Tibetan food, pastoral and agricultural areas is slightly different, but share a common hobby, they like to eat barley noodles, buttered tea and beef, mutton, dairy products. Over the past few pastoral food, meat and dairy products has a considerable lack plaque, Yu cake also worn rough, do not eat vegetables, and weeds as vegetables, by water, neighbors, and eating no fixed Dayton, hunger and food, dried and drink, Drink hearty full season, off-season diet. Now living in pastoral areas has improved greatly, to see how a family of wealth, mainly to see how much grain reserves, rather than the meat and milk of the reserves, because these things are rich, do not care.

Pastoralists prefer white meat boiled to a large piece of meat with bone put the pot, cook until half cooked meat when you can remove and eat. When the one hand and eat meat, hand Wo Dao, to meat, the remaining bones clean. Crossing over the meat and help with breast meat of respect between the passenger section. Of the distinguished guests to Feng Jing ~ plate yangwei, tail Shao Shang also left a tower of white wool, symbolizing good luck. Sheep's head and leg meat reserved for home consumption. Department sipping shoulder bone meat is bad for the elderly to the teeth to eat, if the young man in his girlfriend home to eat this meat, it means that the woman had acquiesced in their marriage.

Tibetan representative food:

Barley area, Tibetan called bad cake. After the barley is ground into a fine flour fried, color white, fragrant flavor, always bring out the separation of butter and bad cake, cake surface cells directly into the mouth to eat, said Xi cake dry. Fine cake to eat at home, the more the milk boil and pour it into a bowl, adding butter (a kind of home-made butter), milk residue to be of open, Jia Ruge cake flour, quickly with the right hand four fingers to Stir the regiment into a small group, side group eating, side He Naicha.

Gutu, a Tibetan festive dinner, eat in the Tibetan calendar, the twelfth lunar month on the 29th, was intended "December 9 porridge." Porridge by the things that revolve 9: kernel, apricot, wool, pepper, porcelain, inward twisting groups, outward twisting group, peas, charcoal. Each material has a certain sense. Eat the wool, signaling the coming year, the soft-hearted; eat chili who mouth unforgiving; who eat charcoal, black heart, and so on. Now eat this festive dinner, is no longer traced to the original intent, just play this phase, the family amused Bale. Some places use beef, mutton, made of dough and some seasoning food with soup.

Wave suddenly, that pity cake porridge. Practice is to cattle (sheep) on the mortar inside the broken bone, salt, ginger, wild vanilla powder, white radish soup with steel-open into the pity cake powder, mix it cooked. Fragrance cutlery, the most direct so winter dinner, bowls of sinks, the body flow warm.

Grilled rub wear old, was originally the monks food. Practice is to beat two eggs in a bowl, add water, salt, wild herb powder, use it and the surface, made of small round pieces, cooked until golden Sheng water bowl, pour melted butter, sprinkle into the dregs, sugar, allspice, chili oil and serve.

Bala cake, originally introduced by the Batang, Sichuan region of a long-standing issue of Tibet. Is to use eggs, soda, sugar and noodles, baked cakes great circle (diameter 30 cm, 10 cm thick), cut into triangles when eating. Sweet and crisp, resistant storage.

Rake Qiang, a snack when out grazing snacks. Xi cake and wine with a song made sweet and soft.

Zhe Qiang. Is made of dried rice wake up bad, soft non-stick, taste adenosine.

Roast pork. Nyingchi a kind of small size of the lean-rich pig, killed for their skins cut into strips two fingers wide, sprinkle with salt and condiments, hanging in the roof, floor lights the fire, the meat will become Italian meat, eaten pork skin towards decentralization of firewood heap baked. Meals, many with bad cake, butter tea with food.

Air-dried beef, raw Tibetan favorite beef. Make every autumn, will be fresh beef carved articles, strung, sprinkle with salt, pepper powder, chili powder, ginger powder, hung in a cool ventilated place and dried, and tries to taste Ma crisp flaky sweet, sour, Hong mouthful, Java Seya during mastication. In alpine areas, food spoilage or deterioration is not easy to fresh water then, so now, to eat dried beef, the wind is still very prevalent.

Sa dry observation door, is a dairy, called Sa dry. Popular dry areas in southeast Tibet Ye. Locally produced "Abduction tree", tree branches peeled, taking 15 barrels set up in the milk, pour milk, then gradually around Po branches bear a thick layer of Naigao, is called " Sa in the "very fresh, can not keep well. Remove it together with meat cooked with spices, then dried meat into the Sa; pot and add butter, heat, dry place and Samoa, a little sugar or salt, Serve Sa dry soup, the effectiveness of Qi and blood; will dry Sa cook until golden, let cool, adding pepper, coriander, wild onions, yogurt Serve cold Sa dry. Sa dry mix can be stuffed with meat made dumplings together.

Blue (Prussian), is the New Year food. Milk, flour, eggs, butter tune into paste, fermented bean curd the same as the point to the hot pan in back, circle around in a circle, and fried crisp then fragrant.

Butter tea. Of tea in Aohao add a little butter and salt, put whipped butter tea bucket several times, water-oil blend, pour the pan heating (not boiling) will be drinking. If the morning to drink enough butter tea, even if do not eat lunch, do not feel hungry. Tibetan butter tea is an indispensable drink time.

Tibetan drink except butter dish, there are other types of tea, such as tea with milk, boiled; with milk, tea, sugar boil is called sweet tea; What accessories do not add to tea and tea called dark horse. Highland barley wine is also a necessary drink, that is, barley beer, low degree, wine and women yellow and green, the sweet and sour and difficult to intoxicating, once drunk, sober up is not easy. There is also a liquor brewed with barley, Tibetans called "A hot," high degrees, 65 degrees, strong wine, almost every family would do.

Tibetan dishes are wooden bowls and knives, generally carry. Do not pay attention to eating a meal mouthful, bite do not say anything, and drink no sounds, no more sorting food drive.

Hospitality mostly Tibetan buttered tea, but unfortunately the cake and meat. King off to butter tea, the guests have to drink three bowls, the first bowl do not drink, or is the owner does not respect, three bowls, if the do not want to drink can be poured tea dregs to the ground, otherwise the host will always advise customers to drink down . Some places, meaning customers not drink without leave, and the owner, after refilling, it placed there, leave time to be drained. When the master drinks upon guests to use 3 finger dipped in the wine under the bombs in the air 3 times, wish to drink after the first bowl to finish, repeating the mistake of three bowls, if low enough, the master drinks upon to sing songs, the song down, guests may drink, except on the festival, to be drinking get drunk. Some local people to own a guest of dry food, dishes, host only supplies drinks.

Tibetans like festivals, festivals almost every month. For example, the first month started this eating Zhuosuoqiema Tibetan (a offerings, with ears of corn, fried wheat flower, Georgia cake, made of butter, etc.), that lucky. Lantern Festival Lantern Hung; March 18 is the "Outstanding Duo" section, April 15 is "Sagadawa" section (Sakya Muni legend is born and the day of prostitution beam); in May over " Bringing the Department of Lin Jisang "section (also known as Smoke Festival Day); July is looking fruit section (Travel Tin meaning), begging for harvest; December 29 Festival of ancient conflict. In the festival set to improve the diet.

Tibetans do not eat horses, donkeys and other livestock meat Perissodactyla class, do not eat Ipomoea chickens, ducks, geese and dogs, rabbits, Rex. Most parts of the Tibetan people not to eat fish and poultry fly. All cloven-hoofed pigs, cattle, sheep, deer and other animals eat meat. Tibetans have the fine tradition of caring for birds, fish and insects, in addition to a small number of wolves and other wild animals against animal husbandry production, the destruction of rare wildlife.