This is a folk legend, but oat noodle is not only a home-cooked dish in Shanxi, but also a kind of entertainment for friends and relatives. In the mountainous areas of Yanbei and Lvliang, people give the delicious symbols of "firmness" and "harmony" to eating oat noodles. Whenever the elderly have birthdays, children have a full moon or entertain guests on holidays, they often eat this meal. In some mountainous areas, people get married, and the bride and groom have to eat, which means that husband and wife will grow old together. Eat more at the end of the year and pray for family harmony and prosperity.
Dietary customs mostly come from local products and historical inheritance. There is a widely circulated proverb in Datong: "Forty miles of oat flour, thirty miles of bread, and twenty miles of buckwheat noodles starve people." It is said that people can walk forty miles after eating oat noodles, but only twenty miles after eating buckwheat noodles. Therefore, people here especially like oat noodles and regard them as treasures. Wo Wo with oil noodles, fish with oil noodles and fish have become unique flavor foods in Tianzhen. Naked oats (also known as oats and jade wheat) are abundant in the alpine region of northern Shanxi, which can be seen from the folk song "Three Treasures in Yanbei, Naked Oats, Yams and Big Coat". In the past, harsh natural conditions tempered the skills of people in mountainous areas to carefully make miscellaneous grains. For the first time, the new daughter-in-law will serve the pot at her in-laws' house, and she must show her hand on the oat noodle first. Moreover, the new son-in-law will have to eat ten kinds of oat noodle rice when he comes to the door for the New Year. Youmian Harmony is one kind of this kind of Youmian rice. Because it looks like a beehive, the locals also call it Wo Wo. There are three keys to its making method: first, boiling water and kneading dough, second, rapid rolling, and third, mastering the heat. According to folklore, Emperor Wendi of the Sui Dynasty believed the words of a traitor and wanted to make his second son, Yang Guang, a prince. However, Li Yuanli, Tang Taigong, refused to accept this proposal and was demoted to stay in Bingzhou (Taiyuan). When passing through Lingkong Mountain, I didn't expect pregnant Li Furen to have a baby, so I had to spend the night in Pangu Temple, an ancient temple in Lingkong Mountain, and gave birth to my son Li Yuanba. Li Yuan stayed in the temple and often talked with the old abbot about world affairs. One day, the old abbot said to Li Yuan, "I watch astronomical phenomena at night. There has been a lot of chaos in the world recently. Generals should save their strength and achieve something in the future. " I asked Xiangjifang to cook you a rare meal today. Eat it, and you will be refreshed and strong. "At noon, the" honeycomb "tube of oatmeal was taken out. Tang Gaozu felt refreshed after dipping in Chili and asked what it was. The old abbot said it was made of naked oats powder, which looked like a "honeycomb", so the locals called it "naked oats powder nest". Later, when Li Yuan became emperor, he sent the old abbot to Wutai Mountain as the host. When the old abbot led the monks to their posts, he passed by Jingle County. Seeing that the local area was rich in naked oats, he taught the Jingle people the technology of making "Wo Wo for Youmian". Since then, Wo Wo with oil noodles has become a reception meal for Tinker Bell people. After the jingle music, people saw that this nest looked like a straight tube for storing things, so they renamed it "Bang Bang".