Northeast China, including Liaoning, Jilin, Heilongjiang and parts of Inner Mongolia and Hebei, is an important industrial and agricultural base in China.

Of course, many people's impression of Northeast China is Zhao Benshan, which has been contracted for the Spring Festival Gala for many years. In fact, you know, Peisi Chen, Gong Hanlin and Pan Changjiang all came out of the black water in the northeast.

Northeast China, like other places in China, has its own unique traditional culture and customs, which are not understood by outsiders. They are the "eight eccentrics in Northeast China".

The first monster: there is enough paper on the outside.

In the past, poor people couldn't afford to buy glass, so they put a layer of paper on the window and called it enough paper. Generally, there is enough paper on the inside, and only enough paper on the northeast outside. Why is this?

This is related to the extremely cold climate in Northeast China. Every winter, people in the northeast will burn kangs in their rooms to keep warm. In this way, the temperature difference between indoor and outdoor is very large. If enough paper is stuck inside, the frost outside the window will flow to the joint of enough paper and window frame after being heated to become water, which will not only make the window paper fall off and leak, but also make the window frame rot. After long-term practice, Northeasters invented the method of sticking enough paper outside, so that the frost outside the window will flow into the snow outside after being heated to become water.

The second monster: the girl is holding a long stemmed Chinese pipe bag.

Now, men and women are equal, and many women smoke and drink like men. Most of the cigarettes they smoke are exquisite ladies' cigarettes. However, girls in the northeast are different from others. They don't smoke ladies' cigarettes, but they smoke with a huge cigarette bag in their mouths. That's really domineering

It turns out that the northeast belongs to the bitter cold area, and the harsh environment makes seven solitary days go hunting in the mountains and fishing in the water. Over time, women have formed a generous personality and smoked like men, which is one of the appearances. In addition, the northeast is densely forested, and there are often various wild animals and snakes and insects. Dry smoking can not only repel mosquitoes and insects, but also prevent being bitten by poisonous snakes, so dry smoking also has a self-defense effect.

The third monster: pickled sauerkraut in large tanks and small tanks

A few years ago, there was a popular mantra on the Internet, "Cui Hua, serve sauerkraut". Northeasters have an unusual love for sauerkraut.

In the northeast, pickled cabbage is a kind of home-cooked special food, which is pickled from Chinese cabbage. Every autumn and winter, almost every household in Northeast China will pickle sauerkraut. Pickled sauerkraut is also very delicate. Iron-aluminum containers cannot be used, because lactic acid will corrode the containers during the fermentation of sauerkraut, and ceramic tanks are generally used. Therefore, if you travel to the Northeast in autumn and winter, you will find the grand occasion of "pickling sauerkraut in large tanks and small tanks".

The fourth monster: feed the children and hang them.

Is this, this, this ... too scary? Even if it is dog abuse, you can't hang up like this.

Actually, the "hanging" here is actually a cradle. However, the cradle in the south is on the ground, and the cradle in the northeast is hung on the beam. This is because, in the distant past, people in the Northeast made a living by fishing, and both men and women had to go out to work, leaving their children unattended. In order to prevent children from being hurt by wild animals and eagles, children are hung on horseback or trees with animal skins. Later, the northeast people lived a stable life and still hung the cradle of their children on the beams.

The fifth monster: auspicious and festive sticky bean bags

Once upon a time, every household in the northeast had to wrap sticky bean bags every twelfth lunar month.

Sticky bean bag is a kind of bean paste bag food originated from Manchu, which is made of rice, red beans and sugar. It has become a custom in the northeast to put it in an outdoor jar for the winter and eat it until the first month. Now people's living conditions are getting better and better. In winter, they can eat all kinds of delicious food, and fewer and fewer people will make bean paste buns. Many city people will ask their relatives in the countryside for some sticky bean bags to get back the old flavor.

The sixth monster: Turn the leather coat out.

The climate in the northeast of China is cold. In order to keep warm, people in Northeast China like to wear clothes made of animal fur. Wearing this kind of clothes is also very particular. Those who are engaged in winter hunting, hunting, transporting firewood up the mountain, driving cars to pull food and deliver meals often run around in the cold snow. They let the fur coat out, and the snow naturally falls on them, otherwise the fur coat will be wet by the snow. Moreover, if you wear it like this, the color of the clothes will blend with the heavy snow in the north, which will not be easily found by wild animals and play a protective role.

Now in winter, hunters and drivers in northeast rural areas still wear it like this.

The seventh monster: the village of straw house fence

In the past, there was a saying among the people in Northeast China: "People love straw houses and people love fences."

At that time, there were few brick houses in rural areas of Northeast China. When building a house, most people mix grass and mud, add water and stir them, and then put them into molds to make pieces of cuboid adobe, which is used to be called adobe in Northeast China. After drying, they used it to build a house. This kind of straw house is warm in winter and cool in summer, which is economical and practical. Northeasters are not used to making courtyard walls, and use trees to split in half to make fences.

The eighth monster: wearing a dog skin hat.

In the cold winter, a fur hat is a must for the northeast people.

Rich people can wear fox fur hats and raccoon fur hats. They are the best warm-keeping products. Ordinary people can't afford these two kinds of hats, so they settle for the second best and wear dog skin hats. Almost every household in Northeast China has a dog. Dog fur hats can be made from local materials, and they are durable and have excellent moisture-proof performance, which is no less than fox fur hats and raccoon fur hats.

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