陕西八大怪英文版.doc

_Hello, everyone. In the past, I like a sentence. That is choose a place to settle down, and stay with someone forever. Sure, many of you will say that Im still single, OK? Whether you have the qualification of saying stay with someone forever, however, all of us have chosen shaanxi to settle down since we entered NWPU. Truth is that we cannot change, so we need to know the people、food、history, especially the custom of this city. So, My title of the weekly report is Eight strange folk customs in Guanzhong plain of shaanxi. In Chinese, it is 关中八大怪。Sometimes, it is also called 陕西八大怪。The eight strange folk customs are as follows.The first is noodle is like belt. 面条像裤带。In shananxi, you should taste a kind of special noodle. It is called 裤带面or biang-biang面.The width of noodle is 6cm to 10cm, the length is more than 1m, the thickness is as the same as the coin. One bowl of noodles usually only have one strip of noodle. Dont look up down the one strip, if you are a girl, the one strip is one whole meal for you, it is difficult to eat up. In addition, how to spell the Chinese characters”biang”. There is a song about how to spell biang. For the time is limited, let us see the next.The second is GuoKui is like pot. 锅盔像锅盖。In the tang dynasty, a lot of soldiers were ordered to build the Qianling Mausoleum, many of them often delayed the process for waiting the meal. One day, a soldier wanted to save time, he put the dough into helmet, and baked the helmet. In the end, the dough turned into GuoKui. From the pictures, we can see guokui is thick and very big. But it is delicious if you eat the kuogui with the chill sauce.Third is that pepper is a dish.辣子是道菜。 As we know ,Sichuan people love pepper very much, they treat pepper as a kind of seasoning actually, however, as for shaanxi people, pepper is a dish. Just as the pictures, the left is a very famous kind of noodle in shaanxi,油泼面.the right is 秦镇米皮，they all cannot do without pepper. I think it is the most delicious kind of pepper for shaanxi people, because after eating the pepper, they often say 额滴亲娘，撩咋咧！Next is the bowl is like a basin. 盆碗难分开。On the guanzhong peoples dinner-table, there always are a very big kind of bowls. It is called 老碗by the local people. Its diameter is about 30cm to 60cm.Like this pictures. I think everyone here has tasted this dish in the dongda town. This dish is 老碗鱼. This old bowl is what I want to introduce.The fifth is people wear handkerchiefs on their heads,帕帕头上戴。In the past, shaanxi was rich in cotton, the local people were used to putting the handkerchief that is made by cotton on their heads, which not only can prevent them from dust and torridness, but also can wipe their hands and wrap something, its very convenient. Like this.Next is House built by half,房子半边盖。As we know, the traditional shape of house is like this, is like Chinese character “人”。From the picture, the shape of house seems only having built a half. You know, in the guanzhong plain, the weather is always dry, to build the house like this, they can make more capacity of the rain flow into their own house. Just like this saying: Every miller draws water to his own mill 肥水不流外人田。And then is Dont sit but squat on the bench，凳子不坐蹲起来。If you pay a visit to guanzhong, especially the rural, you will see many people having dinner like this. They are squatting on the bench but siting. But why, if you ask them this question, all what you want to get only is this: I dont know, I just feel more comfortable. Yeah, it is strange , right?The last is Shout shaanxi opera, 秦腔吼起来。Shaanxi opera is very interesting, which has lots of characteristics, its Rhythm is very pressing, its tone is extremely high. You will have this feeling, they are not singing an opera, how to say that, they are not singing smoothly, they are shouting. So we outsiders often say The stage must be solid, or it will be destroyed by the tone. The actors body must be strong, or the actor will get tired during the performance. The audiences must be bold, or they will feel scared when listen to shannxi opera.Ok, above are Eight strange folk customs in Guanzhong plain of sha