two dragons are playing with a pearl(er long xi zhu )

Practice of Erlong Xizhu

Raw materials for Erlong Xizhu

Ingredient: 500g homemade sausage.

Ingredients: 400g vegetables, two carrots, three cucumbers, one radish, four lotus seeds.

Seasoning for Erlong Xizhu

1 g refined salt, 10 g sesame oil.

Production steps of Erlong Xizhu

1. Put the homemade sausage on a flat plate, steam it in the drawer, take it out to cool, put it on the cooked vegetable pier, and cut it into round slices with the top knife.

2. Pour clean water into the pot, bring to a boil over high heat, put in the cleaned vegetable basket, remove it again, pour in clean water to cool it, then remove it, decant the water, put it into the basin, add refined salt and sesame oil, and mix well.

3. Wash the sediment of cucumber, carrot and radish with water, soak them in sterilized water for 5 minutes, and then rinse them with water twice. Cut the cucumber into 3 strips, use one in the middle, and use a knife to carve two serrated dragon ridges on it. Use a knife to carve the carrot into two dragon heads, dragon claws and dragon tails. Cut the root of the dried lotus seed, scrape off the skin, wash it with water, and set it on the two taps to make eyes. Peel the radish with a knife and carve it into an embroidered ball.

4. Use the fried vegetables to make two equal flying dragon bodies on the long fish plate, and put the dragon head and dragon tail carved with carrots on both ends of each dragon body. Sausages from the head of the beginning, staggered to the end of the code to the dragon, a dragon scale. On the top of the dragon body inlaid with carved cucumber ridge, and then inlaid with dragon claws. Put the hydrangea between the two dragons.

two dragons are playing with a pearl

Erlong Xizhu, a Chinese idiom, Pinyin is è R L ó ng x ì zh ū, meaning that two dragons are playing with each other, playing with a pearl. From a dream of Red Mansions.

The origin of Idioms

The third chapter of a dream of Red Mansions written by Cao Xueqin in the Qing Dynasty: "on his head, he wears a bundle of hair inlaid with purple gold crowns, and his eyebrows are lined with two dragons playing with pearls, and his forehead is smeared with gold."

Idiom usage

Examples

Chapter 13 of the three heroes and five righteousness written by Shi Yukun in the Qing Dynasty: "zhanye is afraid that someone will come. He crouches on the column, sticks to the eaves and looks down. But he disappears and says in secret:" he's hiding, too. Why don't we set it on that pillar, and we'll make a scene of "two dragons playing with pearls." He was laughing to himself when he saw the servant girl running to the hall in a panic and said, "it's not good, councillor! Ann is gone! "

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Chinese PinYin : Er Long Xi Zhu