Peanuts to the four seas for home, in China's north and south of the river are its traces. Peanuts are cocoon-shaped pods with thick leathery shells, mostly yellowish-white, cocoon-shaped, bead-shaped and stick-shaped. The pods contain seeds. For consumption is peanut seeds, commonly known as "peanut kernels" or "peanut rice", oblong, long ovoid or nearly spherical, with a light red or red film seed coat, white flesh, tender and slightly sweet.
Peanuts have a big family, after people carefully cultivated, emerged a number of outstanding family members, such as Qingdao, Shandong, Laixi peanuts, bright color, full of seeds, fresh and clean; Linyi, Shandong, Jounan peanuts, a large grain full, crispy, fresh and crispy, eaten for a long time without getting tired of it; Black Mountain Peanuts, Black Mountain County, Liaoning, the shape of the grain is uniform, the smell of the pure, crispy, sweet; Dawu County, Hubei, the Dawu peanuts, fruit, small, thin skin, uniform in size, Crispy and sweet; Jiangsu Siyang County, eight sets of small peanuts, shell white, full of seeds, sweet and crispy; Tongren City, Guizhou, pearl peanuts, pearl-like, rich flavor, tender and delicate; Tangshan, Hebei, Luanxian peanuts, fruit, large white skin, kernel full, fresh and tasty; Deyang, Sichuan, Luojiang peanuts, particles uniformly, crispy and delicious, refreshing aroma; Kaifeng Peanuts, Henan, fruit, long and full of grains, thin and tasty flavor, the taste of the United States and people. The peanuts are long and full, thin and flavorful, with a pleasant taste.
Peanuts, the nature of the more relaxed, both individually into the food, but also with the cooking, and can be meat can be vegetarian, such as "peanut stewed pig's feet" "peanut burned phoenix claw" "peanut roast beef" "Peanut kernel with pork belly" "peanut kernel with cilantro" "peanut kernel with celery" "bamboo shoots boiled peanut kernel" "Peanuts boiled in salted water", etc., are all favorite home cooking, and people never tire of eating them. Peanuts as the main material for cooking local flavors, such as Shanghai's "sugar sticky peanuts", sweet and crispy, delicious. As for "five-spice peanut rice", "tiger skin peanut rice", "choking peanut rice", "strange flavor peanut kernel", "fried peanut kernel", "fried peanut kernel", "peanut kernel" and "peanut kernel", they are all very popular. "Deep-fried peanut kernels" and so on, let a person have a kind of unforgettable feeling, has long become the daily favorite snacks.
Interestingly, Mr. Lu Xun loved "peanuts and rice", and wrote in his "Zojian": "Whenever I have free time, I eat foreign accent cakes, peanuts and rice, chili, and read The Theory of Heavenly Evolution as usual." My favorite peanut maturity, the harvested peanut pods with water to wash, and then cooked in boiling water, at this time, peeling off the shell, that reveals the peanut kernel through a rhyme, sent into the mouth to savor, the flavor is particularly good, really make people eat still want to eat.
Peanuts, in folklore is regarded as a kind of good luck, people give it auspicious and beautiful, festive symbolism, is essential to the traditional wedding in the "good luck fruit", meaning that the two people who love each other forever together, never separate, but also implies that the children and grandchildren, longevity and good fortune. In my hometown, the engagement of the man to send "bride-price" basket to put cypress branches, peanuts, etc., the marriage of the woman's dowry to put peanuts, the wedding room under the pillow, bedding will be hidden in advance peanuts, jujubes, in order to make a good luck. New Year's Eve vigil, people like to fry a plate of peanuts, the first day of the New Year to peanuts to guests, Figure a lucky.
As the saying goes, "Eating peanuts often can nourish your life". Peanuts and soybeans, enjoy the "longevity fruit", "plant meat", "vegetarian meat" reputation.
