Today is friendship day
I wondered why this particular day
It doesn't matter
We want to world get better
Here I am juggling with words
out there full with blue birds
Can't lay back relay on magic
Fate could play a trick
Everybody say that
“Man proposal,
God dis proposal.”
Leave that to the god,
We do what we could.
Spiritual is the only matter
we want to world get better.
Saturday, January 30, 2010
Thursday, January 28, 2010
Cultural soaking in food 2
Do you ever taste Chinese Moon cake?
No? Here , try this?
Why called moon cake? Because it is specially made for this particular night.
In China we have Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter four seasons to fill one year. Autumn is harvest season and the weather always nice, soft cold breeze, rainless, sky is higher then ever. For some reason the moon in the middle August is the best of all the year. When you belly is full, then spiritual will start work, plus is harvest season. So back then CHUN QIU time, 3000 years ago, our ancestor put the table in the yard full fruit on it. The family get reunite together watching the moon. After a full of year struggle life, now give self and the family a tiny break under this beautiful moon lights.The wife of the family use what she got making some cookies. That is come out the moon cake.
Of course in the folklore always have some interesting rumor spread.
Rumor one:
Once up on a time, there are 10 suns up in the sky, they burned all the crops, people couldn't get any water to drink. May of them had died from the heat of the suns. There a man called Hou Yi ( here the hero come as you knew it when I start the story), he is the best bow and arrow man. He climbed on top of the Kun Lun Mountain (Kunkun mountain at south west of Qing hai province, now you can see it is impossible. Because by then, the people who lived in Qing hai province all is Muslim, and the rumor is spread by Han Chinese, and that mountain sea level is 5500---6000m), shoot off 9 suns, ordered the last one work 12 hours, sleep 12 hours in the sea. He is hero now, the most beautiful woman married him, they lived happily together.
Hang on, the story not finish yet. Did you find there any thing relevant about the moon? No! So the story have to keep going, isn't it?
A god heard his story, come down to the world give him a pill, if he eat this pill, he could live for ever. But only enough for one person. Hou Yi couldn't leave his beautiful wife behind so he hind the pill away.
One man heard he got the magic pill, he choose a day, that Hou yi not at home. He use sword to push Hou yi's wife give him the pill. Hou yi's wife don't want to a such inferior man get the pill. So she swallowed the pill. She fly up to the sky. Because she miss her husband, so she choose the nearest place to stay, the moon. Hou yi miss his wife, so he sit in his yard beside the table full of cookies that his wife made for their dinner watching the moon, he can see his wife up in the moon moved round try to come to him, but sadly, they only can see each other , never can get together again.
Hou yi is the hero, people want to commemorate him and the love between him and his wife, every family will reunite together at middle of august night, woman would cooking the same food that as Hou Yi's wife had cooked for Hou Yi.
Hey , Hey, You two keep the last piece for me !
Rumor two? Let me finish this piece of moon cake
Rumor two is from mu mum.
Mum said, tonight our whole family sit together enjoy the moon, the food, same every family is happy. isn't it?
“yes.” I said with mouth full of moon cake.
“Do you know there are families crying tonight?”
“No, which family? Why?”
“The DA families.”
“ Long time ago, the DA people came convert Han Chinese. They send one DA person at each home. This DA person is the master. The Han families have to give the best food, the best cloth to the DA people. The DA people can kill any Han Chinese when ever he want. After so many year, Few of HAN people start want to fright back. But how? One woman find a way! She put the little cloth with message on it in the cookies, give to other families, then other families do the same. Soon , whole the HAN families know that at the middle of august when the moon right up to the top, every HAN family will kill the DA person in your own home. Yes, they did success. Since then every Middle of august when the moon comes up, the whole HAN Chinese will reunite the family, celebrate. The cookie that smart woman made for pass the message became the famous for every family. But the DA people would gather together crying in the same night.”
Here I have to say, I have done some research, there isn't any DA ethnic people in the history. All I can get is at Yuan dynasty there is war from Zhu yuan zhang (he is the first empire for Ming dynasty, which is the dynasty placed Yuan dynasty. That story is close to Mum's story).
I think the whole the world know that YUAN dynasty initiate by Ghengis khan So now we can guess, that DA people is Mongolian.
How to make moon cake?
GO search on the internet, hahahaha!
No? Here , try this?
Why called moon cake? Because it is specially made for this particular night.
In China we have Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter four seasons to fill one year. Autumn is harvest season and the weather always nice, soft cold breeze, rainless, sky is higher then ever. For some reason the moon in the middle August is the best of all the year. When you belly is full, then spiritual will start work, plus is harvest season. So back then CHUN QIU time, 3000 years ago, our ancestor put the table in the yard full fruit on it. The family get reunite together watching the moon. After a full of year struggle life, now give self and the family a tiny break under this beautiful moon lights.The wife of the family use what she got making some cookies. That is come out the moon cake.
Of course in the folklore always have some interesting rumor spread.
Rumor one:
Once up on a time, there are 10 suns up in the sky, they burned all the crops, people couldn't get any water to drink. May of them had died from the heat of the suns. There a man called Hou Yi ( here the hero come as you knew it when I start the story), he is the best bow and arrow man. He climbed on top of the Kun Lun Mountain (Kunkun mountain at south west of Qing hai province, now you can see it is impossible. Because by then, the people who lived in Qing hai province all is Muslim, and the rumor is spread by Han Chinese, and that mountain sea level is 5500---6000m), shoot off 9 suns, ordered the last one work 12 hours, sleep 12 hours in the sea. He is hero now, the most beautiful woman married him, they lived happily together.
Hang on, the story not finish yet. Did you find there any thing relevant about the moon? No! So the story have to keep going, isn't it?
A god heard his story, come down to the world give him a pill, if he eat this pill, he could live for ever. But only enough for one person. Hou Yi couldn't leave his beautiful wife behind so he hind the pill away.
One man heard he got the magic pill, he choose a day, that Hou yi not at home. He use sword to push Hou yi's wife give him the pill. Hou yi's wife don't want to a such inferior man get the pill. So she swallowed the pill. She fly up to the sky. Because she miss her husband, so she choose the nearest place to stay, the moon. Hou yi miss his wife, so he sit in his yard beside the table full of cookies that his wife made for their dinner watching the moon, he can see his wife up in the moon moved round try to come to him, but sadly, they only can see each other , never can get together again.
Hou yi is the hero, people want to commemorate him and the love between him and his wife, every family will reunite together at middle of august night, woman would cooking the same food that as Hou Yi's wife had cooked for Hou Yi.
Hey , Hey, You two keep the last piece for me !
Rumor two? Let me finish this piece of moon cake
Rumor two is from mu mum.
Mum said, tonight our whole family sit together enjoy the moon, the food, same every family is happy. isn't it?
“yes.” I said with mouth full of moon cake.
“Do you know there are families crying tonight?”
“No, which family? Why?”
“The DA families.”
“ Long time ago, the DA people came convert Han Chinese. They send one DA person at each home. This DA person is the master. The Han families have to give the best food, the best cloth to the DA people. The DA people can kill any Han Chinese when ever he want. After so many year, Few of HAN people start want to fright back. But how? One woman find a way! She put the little cloth with message on it in the cookies, give to other families, then other families do the same. Soon , whole the HAN families know that at the middle of august when the moon right up to the top, every HAN family will kill the DA person in your own home. Yes, they did success. Since then every Middle of august when the moon comes up, the whole HAN Chinese will reunite the family, celebrate. The cookie that smart woman made for pass the message became the famous for every family. But the DA people would gather together crying in the same night.”
Here I have to say, I have done some research, there isn't any DA ethnic people in the history. All I can get is at Yuan dynasty there is war from Zhu yuan zhang (he is the first empire for Ming dynasty, which is the dynasty placed Yuan dynasty. That story is close to Mum's story).
I think the whole the world know that YUAN dynasty initiate by Ghengis khan So now we can guess, that DA people is Mongolian.
How to make moon cake?
GO search on the internet, hahahaha!
Wednesday, January 27, 2010
where is the beauty?
Dave was urging with me about
He said I can't quiet understand that. Should be.
I said :" No, cultural soaking food. live first, cultural come out from living."
He said, " Aha, this is the charming, the beauty in your English, in your write.
How much much texture to taste, in fact as you digest more, got more texture to taste."
I love that!
He said I can't quiet understand that. Should be
I said :" No, cultural soaking food. live first, cultural come out from living."
He said, " Aha, this is the charming, the beauty in your English, in your write.
How much much texture to taste, in fact as you digest more, got more texture to taste."
I love that!
Cultural soaking in food
Cultural soaking in food
First I would talk about dumpling.
Why is Dumpling?
Good question!
Dumpling is the main food for Spring Festive in China. But the traditional Chinese doesn't call this event “Spring Festive” they say it “Guo Nian”.
I guess you going ask “why “again?
Well, if you go to the kitchen make yourself a cup of coffee and bring some biscuits to nibbling. Over there, take that cushion.
Where we were? Oh, GUO NIAN! GUO is a action word, here meant Finally get over it” NIAN is come from a Rumor.
The rumor is long long time ago, as always start like with “long long time ago”. In the endless forest up inside the mountains, there is a giant monster called “NIAN”. “NIAN “ will hunting for food every 365 days, sleep the rest time.
“NIAN “ always come out at the middle night ,so our ancestor called that night “chu xi ye”.Chu means get rid of it. Xi means yesterday. Ye is night. So all those means Get rid of last night.
The rule is everybody must be home with their elders that night. Whatever you near or far away. You have to go back to your oldest male home, stay with them, reunite the family. Now we can see that is kind like the “last Supper”. Because no one know who going be taken by NIAN. So this reunite give chance to everybody see each other, the last minute of his life spent with whole family.
NIAN always come out at midnight, before that, every family is silently sit together with their nerve, because it could be the last supper so the family would cooking the best food. In those days, the best food is pork.
No, no beef or lamb. Chinese character for “home” is a shelter on top, underneath is a pig. Yes , a pig. No , not people. Like this 家. Characters are come out living like other things. Now you can see how important pig is.
Now get back to the best food business. Every family use pork with cabbage to making dumpling. Another question, why is cabbage? Cabbage is the only veges can keep in that snowy winter after harvest. In those days not many family own a buffalo. Or call it no milk cow, that kind cow is golden yellow color, buffalo is black mainly in south China. Cow is ancestor, so the Chinese can ate beef any other time if you can afford , but not this particular night. Lamb never was Chinese style, I mean the HAN Chinese. (93% the population is HAN). Now get back to our result Pork cabbage dumpling.
Do you want to get another cup of coffee? Let's move to my green house. Yes, very comfortable. It is nice laying in here, those shade cloths does a beautiful job. A nap could do me well here.
Alright, alright, I won't fall to sleep. I keep talking. Somehow I feel like my Grandma. You know she always use that quiet tune like record machine, keep going on going on and on......
Don't the Chinese never fight back to the NIAN? That word Pronounce “nee-an”. Yes, somehow they found that NIAN frightened of big noises like thunder and red colours. So our ancestor invent fireworks and charms to stick on the gatepost: red paper with all sorts of wishes written on it. They start burning the firework right at midnight. After midnight everybody get one year older. Aha, now you know why whole the Chinese get one year old in this particular night.. Now, from all that they've been through, they surely have every reason to celebrate. How to celebrate? In those poor times, food is the best! Which kind food is the best? Pork cabbage dumpling!
Of course, as time pass by, people add all sort of pleasure in this event.
Like give present to the kids, visiting friends. Same as food, not just pork cabbage dumpling, all sort kinds food. Dumpling have all sort kinds as well.
Dumpling
Ingredients
pork rasher 250gm, ( always use skinless pork rush, they taste very juice)
Chinese cabbage 500g
shallot 2,
ginger 5g.
Salt 2 tea spoons.
Peanut oil 20g
soy sauce 20g
glass noodle 10g
plain flour 3cups
water 1 cups
Recipe
Put glass noodles in the boiling water.
Chop the pork to 0.5cm square. Chop the cabbage very finely , shallot and ginger do the same.
Put all the chopped things in a big bowl add salt, oil, soy sauce together. Mix well.
.Now add the flour and water together, making dough.
By then the glass noodle will be soft for chopping, Chop to o.5cm long. Add to the mixture , mix again.
Take out the dough, rolling the dough into a long fat snake. Maybe 25mm diameter. Cut 2cm lengths off the roll. Use rolling pin to roll these out into rounds about 8cm diameter.
Put the mixture in the middle, close all the edges . Dadada . There you go, one have been made. Do the same as others.
Then put water in the pan, after boil, put the dumpling in, boil it for 10 minutes. Do not forget stir them in case stick on the bottom of the pan.
Now is yum for the tummy time.
First I would talk about dumpling.
Why is Dumpling?
Good question!
Dumpling is the main food for Spring Festive in China. But the traditional Chinese doesn't call this event “Spring Festive” they say it “Guo Nian”.
I guess you going ask “why “again?
Well, if you go to the kitchen make yourself a cup of coffee and bring some biscuits to nibbling. Over there, take that cushion.
Where we were? Oh, GUO NIAN! GUO is a action word, here meant Finally get over it” NIAN is come from a Rumor.
The rumor is long long time ago, as always start like with “long long time ago”. In the endless forest up inside the mountains, there is a giant monster called “NIAN”. “NIAN “ will hunting for food every 365 days, sleep the rest time.
“NIAN “ always come out at the middle night ,so our ancestor called that night “chu xi ye”.Chu means get rid of it. Xi means yesterday. Ye is night. So all those means Get rid of last night.
The rule is everybody must be home with their elders that night. Whatever you near or far away. You have to go back to your oldest male home, stay with them, reunite the family. Now we can see that is kind like the “last Supper”. Because no one know who going be taken by NIAN. So this reunite give chance to everybody see each other, the last minute of his life spent with whole family.
NIAN always come out at midnight, before that, every family is silently sit together with their nerve, because it could be the last supper so the family would cooking the best food. In those days, the best food is pork.
No, no beef or lamb. Chinese character for “home” is a shelter on top, underneath is a pig. Yes , a pig. No , not people. Like this 家. Characters are come out living like other things. Now you can see how important pig is.
Now get back to the best food business. Every family use pork with cabbage to making dumpling. Another question, why is cabbage? Cabbage is the only veges can keep in that snowy winter after harvest. In those days not many family own a buffalo. Or call it no milk cow, that kind cow is golden yellow color, buffalo is black mainly in south China. Cow is ancestor, so the Chinese can ate beef any other time if you can afford , but not this particular night. Lamb never was Chinese style, I mean the HAN Chinese. (93% the population is HAN). Now get back to our result Pork cabbage dumpling.
Do you want to get another cup of coffee? Let's move to my green house. Yes, very comfortable. It is nice laying in here, those shade cloths does a beautiful job. A nap could do me well here.
Alright, alright, I won't fall to sleep. I keep talking. Somehow I feel like my Grandma. You know she always use that quiet tune like record machine, keep going on going on and on......
Don't the Chinese never fight back to the NIAN? That word Pronounce “nee-an”. Yes, somehow they found that NIAN frightened of big noises like thunder and red colours. So our ancestor invent fireworks and charms to stick on the gatepost: red paper with all sorts of wishes written on it. They start burning the firework right at midnight. After midnight everybody get one year older. Aha, now you know why whole the Chinese get one year old in this particular night.. Now, from all that they've been through, they surely have every reason to celebrate. How to celebrate? In those poor times, food is the best! Which kind food is the best? Pork cabbage dumpling!
Of course, as time pass by, people add all sort of pleasure in this event.
Like give present to the kids, visiting friends. Same as food, not just pork cabbage dumpling, all sort kinds food. Dumpling have all sort kinds as well.
Dumpling
Ingredients
pork rasher 250gm, ( always use skinless pork rush, they taste very juice)
Chinese cabbage 500g
shallot 2,
ginger 5g.
Salt 2 tea spoons.
Peanut oil 20g
soy sauce 20g
glass noodle 10g
plain flour 3cups
water 1 cups
Recipe
Put glass noodles in the boiling water.
Chop the pork to 0.5cm square. Chop the cabbage very finely , shallot and ginger do the same.
Put all the chopped things in a big bowl add salt, oil, soy sauce together. Mix well.
.Now add the flour and water together, making dough.
By then the glass noodle will be soft for chopping, Chop to o.5cm long. Add to the mixture , mix again.
Take out the dough, rolling the dough into a long fat snake. Maybe 25mm diameter. Cut 2cm lengths off the roll. Use rolling pin to roll these out into rounds about 8cm diameter.
Put the mixture in the middle, close all the edges . Dadada . There you go, one have been made. Do the same as others.
Then put water in the pan, after boil, put the dumpling in, boil it for 10 minutes. Do not forget stir them in case stick on the bottom of the pan.
Now is yum for the tummy time.
ahhaaaa
Dave said
There are beauty in my fucked English!
How do you think about that?
I was laughing my head off.
There are beauty in my fucked English!
How do you think about that?
I was laughing my head off.
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