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Tibetan characteristics of diet

Tibetan people's diet more to its unique national characteristics, including their food Zanba, butter, Su Youcha, sweet tea, hupehensis Rehd, beef, Naizha, highland barley wine, peas, beans, such as round-kan

All ethnic groups, different regions of the people have different dietary characteristics of the Tibetan peoples meals and more to its unique national characteristics, including their food Zanba, butter, Su Youcha, sweet tea, hupehensis Rehd, beef, Naizha, highland barley wine , Peas, beans, such as round-Gen. Zanba is special, Su Youcha, hupehensis Rehd, highland barley wine more ethnic restaurants and cultural characteristics. More than 1,000 years ago, even longer period, these foods is the main food of Tibetan people.

Tibetan plateau by its latitude location, the vast majority of the heater is subtropical zone, with an average altitude above 4,000 meters, is extremely rich in natural resources. Tibet and China compared with the latitude, elevation, thin air, less precipitation, sufficient sunshine, the wind speed. As this unique geographical location and climate characteristics of Tibetan people in Tibet constitute a unique dietary habits, in the vast Tibetan plateau Zanba, Su Youcha, hupehensis Rehd, Naizha, highland barley wine, beef and mutton, and so has always been a traditional food of the Tibetan people. Below summary of the Tibetan people in Tibet talk about the nutritional characteristics of traditional food and cultural identity.

1, Barley: Barley also known as Ke barley, wheat yuan, Mimai, the Tibetan people is the main raw material production Zanba, highland barley speculation after the ground into face with Su Youcha Banzhe eat, people will also highland barley and pea mixture produced Zanba , The barley is relatively rich in nutrition, comparison of data from the Tibetan peoples staple food Zanba, the nutritional value of not less than other cereal nutrition, and some nutrients also higher than that of other food grains, barley is not only the cause of Zanba Tibetan peoples traditional food, but also as a Tibetan meal in the main hotel in Lhasa and became an important food in honor of foreign guests. In the religious festival of the Tibetan people to throw Zanba, as a blessing in a grand Wei Sang, people should not only point to the fire, sprinkling water, but also Zanba and other inputs. The Tibetan singing: you light snow Ba, I Shaoqizanba…… this Zanba cultural charm is rare in other ethnic groups.

2, Meat: Tibetan people mainly in cattle, goat meat, dairy products mainly pastoral areas and the masses of beef and mutton consumption per person per month amounted to more than 60 jin, the consumption of butter was also larger, and not Zanba , Occasional consumption of flour made some of the lump, the Palestinian territories. In the winter mainly in meat-based, summer is eating a lot of yogurt, fresh milk, to a small number of Zanba. But the pastoral areas is generally not fresh vegetables, monotonous diet, eating from a single structure for pastoral areas and some cities and towns in Tibet are considered high-fat, high-protein diet District. It is well known beef and mutton and ghee high heat, living in high altitude and cold areas for people to the human body to withstand the cold. It is interesting that the Tibetan people have the habit of fresh raw meat, or if some of the herdsmen in rural areas will be home to see linked in the house or tent in the dried beef and mutton, a lot of people on a raw food such as dried beef and mutton fun, Then Zaihe more mellow on the Su Youcha. If you Jiazhongzuoke, the hospitality of the owners will come up with dried beef and mutton told the guests taste, the unique flavor can be only in the Tibetan plateau to taste.

3, butter: Tibetan peoples life is indispensable to food, it is a crude butter, and butter similar to the mainland, is able to milk from cows in Tizhi butter products, with about 80-90 percent fat, there are not Less vitamin A, about every two to supply heat butter over 400 cards, international units of vitamin A200. Tibetan people for the consumption of butter is labeled as Su Youcha, Fengnianguojie also used its bombing of food. Large and small temples in Tibet, not long out of butter lamps are also used as a fuel. In addition, the use of a lot of butter, more than 1,000 years ago, Tibetan people will use hot butter to stop bleeding. Tibetan medicine also think that butter would increase semen, gas hydrates color, energy, increase energy, not to rough skin cracked. In Tibet, with Su Youcha hospitality, is the ancient tradition of the Tibetan people. Whether walked into the account on the herdsmen, farmers or the mud hut, or to visit friends home, the owner always win the Su Youcha Rehu aromatic taste to the guests. Cangbao out excursion, relatives and friends came to bid farewell always presented a white hada, a bowl is a bowl of Su Youcha Sincerely, I wish excursion to Fengxionghuaji, Yilushunfeng. In addition, Fengnianguojie, marriage Jiaqu Tibetan people can not do without more butter, especially with all kinds of snacks made of butter, both good-looking, Xiangcui, and the Qinghai Taer Si Butter Sculpture more unique, to give full expression to the Tibetan people Food Culture characteristics. In the annual October 25, is the Tibetan 噶Denga song Day (Randeng), for the Festivals Yellow Sect (Gelug Sect), founder of Tsongkhapa Masters, people must discharge of butter lamps, to show Festivals.

4, milk: milk Tibetan peoples life is indispensable to food, in addition to milk made from butter, yogurt, Naizha food, people also eat fresh milk. Tibetan medicine to digest milk in the course of a bitter, with fats, increase the vitality of its people, looking Hongrun, shiny skin, increased mucus, bile and gas treatment of diseases. In particular the milk cow is a vitality of its intellectual excitement of the people, eliminate fatigue, the treatment of vertigo, poisoning, cough, excessive thirst, hunger, and so on. So in the diet of the Tibetan people, especially in pastoral areas of the meals people eat large amounts of milk in addition to, but also eat goat, and so on. Interestingly, the Tibetan people in Xuedun Festival, Bianchi yogurt, watch Tibetan Drama, therefore, commonly known as the yogurt section. This culture of food is rare in other ethnic groups.

5, beverages: a variety of beverages is the Tibetan people nutritious food indispensable things. Generally the Tibetan people is the main beverage Su Youcha, Qing-Cha, hupehensis Rehd, such as fresh milk and highland barley wine. Of which the Su Youcha, and Qing-Cha Zanba staple food consumed at the same time, but also as a daily consumption of beverages. Suyou Cha and hupehensis Rehd respectively butter, milk or milk powder and tea, salt, sugar made Evidently, Su Youcha and hupehensis Rehd with tea is a function of nutrition, from the perspective of nutrition can add heat butter with vitamin A, The hupehensis Rehd can add protein and other nutrients. Highland barley wine is fermented with barley lead to the wine, women and children in Tibet large drink this wine. Tibetan people in a pre-brewed to a large number of highland barley wine, from the Tibetan calendar, April to August, almost all traditional and non-traditional festivals, religious and non-religious festival, Lhasa has to put on the sweet enchanting Highland barley wine, to Lvyin Yin Linka, on the grass, people small groups, set up various colors of tents, drinking side of highland barley wine, while Dan Zhao Liu Xianqin enjoy songs and dances, showing that the Tibetan culture of wine charm.

In addition to drinking large number of Tibetans Su Youcha, highland barley wine, drinking hupehensis Rehd is also indispensable in peoples daily life. Lhasa city as much as the sweet tea house, I am afraid in the world, second to none. Sweet tea house in 99.99% of the customers are men, it can be said of sweet tea house is a mans world, here or a comprehensive information centre as well as men of the important social base.

In short, the Tibetan people for generations to live in snow-covered plateau, they face the worst natural environment, since ancient times, they formed a unique, with characteristics of the Tibetan peoples meals. With the increase Tibets scientific and cultural level, the deepening of reform and opening up, Tibet will be more prosperity and development, the Tibetan peoples standard of living will definitely increasing, the majority of rural areas from a single meal to the diversification of development, thereby maintaining the traditional culture of Tibet dietary characteristics, To better promote the Tibetan peoples health.