business newspaper Ji'nan news (reporter Gao Yulong Intern Peng Jun)
"February two, dragon head up." This day is suitable for what to do. According to the old customs, it is necessary to "shave tap" and eat "scorpion claw" (stir fried soybeans) two times. However, reporters yesterday found that nowadays there are not many people who are going to stir up "scorpion claws". Many people are too lazy to do so. If they want to eat, they will go to the supermarket to buy. But do you know? The fried beans sold in supermarkets are basically wholesale from Jinghai, Tianjin. Some old Jinans also sigh, the taste is more and more sweet, but they don't taste delicious before.
the "sugar beans" sold in Ji'nan are mostly foreign
in the folk. In February, there was the custom of eating fried soybeans, and the fried soybeans were also called "sugar beans". My hometown is Xiao Zhao of Dong'e, Liaocheng. I remember that when I was young, I would eat sweet and crispy sugar beans every two years in February. This habit has been maintained until now. "When I was a child, it was my own fry. In February, in the early 21, my mother called you up to eat a handful of sugar beans, saying that the worm was not close after eating."
then went to the University and went to work. Every February, Xiao Zhao would eat a "sugar bean", but when Xiao Zhao bought sugar beans yesterday, he found that the "candy bean" could not eat the "taste" of the old "sugar bean". "Yesterday I found a few streets and did not find sugar beans, then found in a big supermarket, five flavors of cream taste of anything, but I say the fancy more, or the original taste is good, now can not eat the taste of the previous."
yesterday, the reporter made a survey of "sugar beans" and found that few people are going to stir up "sugar beans" now, and most of the "sugar beans" sold by the big supermarkets in the city are mostly from the field. Reporters visited several shopping malls and found that most of the "sugar beans" sold in supermarkets came from Jinghai, Tianjin.
"scorpion claw" is more sweet, "taste" without
Tang Jingchun, a folk expert living in Ji'nan, told reporters that the old Jinan people called the sugar beans "scorpion claw", in his memory, when they were young, every February, two families were fried "Scorpion claw". "When I was little, I wondered why the scorpion claws were called. The adult said, "you eat you, do not care so much", now understand that eating fried soybeans is to drive out the scorpion this kind of poison, so the old Jinan people are called "scorpion claw."
however, the scorpion claw in Ji'nan is becoming less and less. "I went to pick up my grandson this afternoon, and when I came back, I found a sugar bean seller and nobody bought it." Tang Jingchun said, "you go to the big supermarket to see, all kinds of smell of 'Scorpion claw' have, more colorful than before, sweeter, but not many people, but also can not eat the taste of the previous."
for the folklore of two "scorpion claw" in February, Tang Jingchun thought this folklore is becoming more and more pale, and this folklore continues to fade and only disappear.