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The Southern Dynasty Song Liu Yiqing's "Interpretation of the New Language of the World" says: "Xun Xun tasted the bamboo shoots and ate a meal when Emperor Wu of Jin sat on the seat, saying that the people who were sitting said: 'This is the labor salary cooking.' 'The one who sits has not believed, but has been questioned secretly, and the feet of the old car have been practical. ”
This matter is also recorded in the Book of Jin: Shang Shu ordered Xun Xun to "taste the emperor's sitting and eating, saying that the people present said: 'This is the cooking of labor wages.'" 'The Letter of Salty.' The emperor asked the cook, Nai Yun: "Practical old car foot." 'The whole world is full of knowledge'.
According to the press, the feet of the wooden wheeler in the old days were the most difficult, and after several years of use, they were analyzed to burn firewood, so the cloud. Xun Xun was wise because of the idiom "food discerns labor wages". Qing Shen Tingwen said in the "Guangshi Tonglu": "People know that there is Xun Xun, but they do not know that there is a teacher." ”
"Under the salary of the worker" refers to the person who is tired on the run. Qing Zhang Qingtao's "February 29 Sunrise Capital Narrative" poem No. 2 "The annual travel food laments the salary, and the spring and ming fold the willow people." "Qing Zhao Yi's poem "The Obituary of Weeping Pu Cheng" "Passed on the year to find the grass, and drove to death to work and pay." ”
Song Sushi's poem "Poor Family Clean Sweeping the Floor" reads, "Be careful not to use your labor salary, and feel that I am like a lavender." Qing Zhao Yi's poem "The Obituary of the Weeping Pu Letter" reads, "Sending you what year to find the grass, driving to the death to work for wages." "Qing Huang Jingren's "Miscellaneous Feelings" poem No. 3 "If the text has a light and a real strange stone, it is enough to analyze it as a labor wage." ”
Speaking of the Book of Jin, it reminds people of another man with a sharp mouth, who was the nephew of the former Qin lord Jian Jian, who once served as the general of Zhendong, the assassin of Qingzhou, and later demoted to Jin. After Lang Lang surrendered to Jin, Sima Daozi, the Prince of Huiji, held a banquet to entertain him, "Eat, ask: 'If is this the food in Guanzhong?'" He replied, "All is good, but the salt smells small." He asked Zaifu, as he said. "Another time, someone killed a chicken and gave it to Lang Lang to eat," Lang said, "This chicken is perched and half exposed. 'Check it, check it all.' He also eats goose meat, knowing where black and white are. People do not believe, remember and try, there is no difference. When people are salty, they think they know the taste. ”
If it is not surprising that Helang can taste salt slightly raw, then he can eat chickens and eat cages or free ranges, after all, there was no feed additive to feed chickens at that time. If these are not counted, then it is even more surprising that he can eat goose meat to eat meat that grows under white feathers or under black feathers.
Wang Anshi is worthy of being a taste-teller in the Shilin. Wang Anshi was ill in old age, and the Tai Doctor asked him to drink YangXian tea, but he had to fry it with water from the Middle Gorge of the Yangtze River (Wuxia). Because Su Dongpo was a native of Shudi, Wang Anshi entrusted him with an urn. Soon, Su Dongpo brought water to see Wang Anshi, and Wang Anshi took water to sencha, but when he saw the tea color, it slowly appeared. Wang Anshi asked where the water from Dongpo came from, and Dongpo said it was The Middle Gorge. Wang Anshi smiled, "This is the water of the Xiaxia (Xiling Gorge), how can it be pseudonymous as the Middle Gorge?" Dongpo was horrified, so he had to tell him the truth and ask Wang Anshi why he could tell it. Wang Anshi said: "The "Supplementary Notes on the Water Classic" says that the water in the upper gorge is too urgent, the lower gorge is too slow, only the middle gorge is slow and urgent, and this water cooks Yang envy tea, the upper gorge taste is strong, the lower gorge taste is light, and the middle gorge is thick and light, and now look at its tea color, so it is known that it is the lower gorge. ”
One day, Su Dongpo carried a few fresh Wuchang fish to visit Wang Anshi, who was ill. After Wang Anshi steamed the fish, he picked up a fish bone and threw it into the water to verify whether it was an "authentic" Wuchang fish. Wang Anshi preached to Po Weng that bream is often said to include bream, triangular bream and tuantou bream. The Tuantou bream is the Wuchang fish, which at first glance looks almost the same as the triangular bream, but on closer inspection, it is slightly different. The mouth of the Wuchang fish is wide, flat-curved, the dorsal fin is hard and short, and the tail stalk is higher and slightly square. Silvery-white scales with more than a dozen fine stripes, while the triangular bream has a narrower mouth, longer dorsal fin spines, a shorter tail stalk, rectangular in shape, and indistinct stripes on the side of the body. In addition, the Changchun bream and the triangular bream are widely distributed, from Heilongjiang in the north to Hainan Island in the south, and there are natural growth in rivers and lakes, while Wuchang fish is native to Liangzi Lake near Echeng in Hubei. Wuchang fish is rich in oil, and the thorns are thrown into the water, and the oil flowers immediately float. This is the easiest way to identify Wuchang fish. After hearing this, Su Dongpo admired Wang Anshi's rich knowledge of fish eating, and wrote a poem praising Wuchang fish: "The Yangtze River goes around the corridor to know the beauty of fish, and the bamboo and mountains feel the fragrance of bamboo shoots." ”
Ming Zhang Dai wrote a "Min Lao Tzu Tea", the most enjoyable plot of the article is that Min Lao Tzu tested his tea skills, he not only drank the origin of the tea in one sip, but also could distinguish whether the tea was brewed by spring water or well water, which was the god's tongue and reached an amazing realm.
The above foodies, no ancients before, no one after.
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Qing Zhaozhi recorded in Volume 10 of the Miscellaneous Records of the Xiaoting That Ji Xiaolan was "a man of the north, who is rarely known as a boy in the world, but Emperor Xiaolan has no books and does not read them, and he is very popular." He is the author of the "General Catalogue of the Four Libraries", a collection of three thousand years of classics, concise and clear, rhetoric and elegance, and people are convinced. This year has been eighty, still lustful, eating dozens of pounds of meat every day, not eating a grain all day long, really strange people also. ”
Qing Qian Yong's "LuYuan Cong Dialect and Old News" Volume 1 records such a story: In the old days, officials had to get up early and rush to the palace, so what about the problem of eating? There are two people who have completely different ways of eating: Xu Qianxue, a university scholar, is a famous foodie, and every morning, he must first eat fifty solid steamed buns, fifty yellow finches, fifty eggs, and ten jugs of wine, so that he can ensure that he will not be hungry all day. Zhang Yushu, a university scholar who was an official in the same dynasty as him, also went to the court every day, and this person was born with an ancient appearance and a thin bone, and only ate two potatoes and drank a cup of water every day before going to the court, which could also ensure that he would not be hungry for a day. Zhang Yushu died at the age of seventy, which was also a long life at that time. Xu Qianxue lived to the age of sixty-four, which was normal at that time. It can be seen that the amount of diet and meat are related to personal needs and do not affect health too much.
There were many people who could eat among the readers of the Qing Dynasty, and there were also many self-justifications about such things: "If a person does not eat two or three liters of rice a day, four or five pounds of fat, how can he read a book?" The spirit can be imagined. (Qing Liu Xianting's Miscellaneous Records of Guangyang, vol. 2).
Being able to eat is naturally also the standard for measuring foodies.
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The Book of Jin records that "Han saw the autumn wind rising, nai si Wuzhong lettuce, lettuce soup, sea bass, that is: life is too expensive to be ambitious, how can you be bound for thousands of miles to be famous!" He returned home. "This is the Sin abandoning disease" Hugh said that the perch can be a good one, the west wind, the season eagle returned to the undead" in the ji eagle buddha-figure. At that time, Ji Ying's official position was Sima Dongcao, that is, a subordinate official of Sima Jiong, the King of Qi, although the official position was not high, but the good villain was also an official. At that time, in the autumn of one year, when he saw the autumn wind rising, he was hungry for a while, and remembered that his hometown was now the time to eat sea bass, so the official did not do it and went home to eat vegetables. In the eyes of foodies, food is the first priority.
The "Biography of jin shu Nguyen" records that "the people who heard about the infantry kitchen camp were good at brewing, and there were three hundred wines stored, but they asked to be the infantry lieutenants." "Nguyen heard that someone in the infantry battalion would make a good drink and try his best to be the commander of this infantry. For the sake of eating and drinking, even fame and fortune do not care.
For eating and drinking do not care about fame and fortune, this is the real foodie.
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Yi Ya, a famous chef in the Spring and Autumn Period. As a Yong person, Yi Ya is good at seasoning, so he is very pleasing to Qi Huangong. Zishui (淄渑), the combined name of Zishui (淄水) and 渑水, was in present-day Shandong Province. Legend has it that the two waters have different tastes, and the mixture is difficult to distinguish. "Lü Shi Chunqiu Jingzhi" "Confucius said: 'He who is united with Zi Shu, easy to taste and know.' ’”
As a chef, Easy Tooth has an amazing discernment about taste. Mencius also highly valued the ability of YiYa to reconcile tastes. It can be seen that Yi Ya was indeed the most famous chef at that time who was good at reconciling tastes.
Duke Huan of Qi once said that he had never eaten human flesh, so Yi Ya cooked his son for Duke Qi Huan to eat, and gained the trust of Duke Huan of Qi, who wanted to appoint him in place of guan Zhong, who was dying. However, Guan Zhong believes that "the love of a person is not to love his son, and the patience of his son will love Yu Jun!" "So I objected to him taking over. Qi Huangong fainted, did not listen to Guan Zhong's advice, and trusted Yi Ya and Erect Diao . Later, Qi Huangong became seriously ill, and yi teeth and vertical diao were in trouble, filling the palace gate and building a high wall, which was not accessible inside and outside. In the end, Qi Huangong starved to death.
"Zuo Chuan Xuan Gong Four Years" "Chu people dedicated to Zheng Linggong, Gongzi Song and Zijia will meet, and ZiGong's index finger moves." "It is said that in the Spring and Autumn Period, Zheng Guo's son Song will taste the peculiar smell every time his index finger moves, and when he meets the monarch Zheng Linggong, the index finger moves, it just so happens that Zheng Linggong is eating the peculiar smell, gongzi Song thought that he would invite him to eat, Zheng Linggong deliberately did not give, to indicate that the so-called index finger movement is not effective. Gongzi Song was furious, reached into the pot and dipped the gravy to taste it, and flew away. Zheng Linggong was also furious and prepared to kill him, but instead he was killed by Gongzi Song.
In history, many people have died of gluttony. In the Spring and Autumn Period, instead of practicing martial arts first, he went to taihu Lake to worship Taihe and the public school to burn fish, and learned the art of burning fish in three months. When Wu Wangfu gladly went to the appointment at the invitation of delicious food, who ever wanted to die for this beautiful whole hot fish. As the general love planted "peony flowers die, do ghosts also merry." "Wu Wangbian can also be said: all the hot fish eat to death, laughing and doing enough ghosts." The Chef's Wrath kills people with deliciousness. Compared to the later Jing Ke, who could speak big words and kill Fan Yu and Tian Guang in vain, tian Guang would not be able to do anything after all. Later generations are dedicated to the "ancestor of the cook".
Is it amazing to kill people for eating and drinking, to study cooking for killing people?
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The Book of Jin also mentions a high-ranking official of the Western Jin Dynasty, named Wang Ji, who was also a well-known "foodie". Once, when the emperor Sima Yan came to Wang Ji's house as a guest. When the emperor came, it was natural to be attentive. So the golden carvings and jade were built, and a table full of delicacies was served. After Tasting it, Sima Yan praised it and asked, How is this dish steamed? Wang Ji smiled and said, This is just a common thing, steamed with human milk. It can be seen that the ancient high-ranking officials' diet methods are extravagant.
When it comes to foodies, we can't help but say a little about Fukang'an. This feudal governor who had served successively as the governors of Yungui, Sichuan, Fujian, Zhejiang, liangguang, Hubu Shangshu and military aircraft ministers was also a person who knew the taste, but he never thought that the most delicious and delicious white slice of meat he ate at a time was actually cooked by the cook with his own urine, which was hilarious.
According to the Qing Dynasty Chen Qiyuan's "Notes on Yong Xian Zhai", in the early years of Qing Jiaqing, Fu Kang'an went on a tour to the border provinces and passed by a post station in Sichuan, and the local prefecture and county officials knew that Fu Kang'an liked to eat white slices of meat, so he deliberately set up a large iron pot, packed up a whole pig, and put it in a large pot to cook. However, the meat was not yet cooked, and the messenger had already come to report that Fukang an was about to arrive. When the cook heard this, he was very anxious, because the pig in the cauldron was just half cooked, and he was afraid that the time was too late. At the critical moment, the cook looked around at no one, pulled up his pants and peed in the meat pot. Because the urine contains salt, you can make the meat rot a little faster. Su Fu Kang'an arrived, and the messengers immediately served the steamed and cut white slices of meat. After the meal, Fukang gave the cook a satin and asked him to take it back to make a robe. It turned out that FuKang'an had eaten a lot of white slices of meat along the way, and he counted this cook as the most flavorful. The cook was very grateful and ran home holding the satin fart.
Every time yuan ming, the leader of the Qing Dynasty poetry circle, went to people's homes to eat and ate a good dish, he would ask his own cook to go to this family's kitchen to teach the disciple etiquette to learn the practices, so that forty years would accumulate into a volume of "Suiyuan Food List". Zi Yun: "Make a food menu after chanting, and the delicacy is to read as a chant." "The desire of the tongue rises to the desire for knowledge, and the desire to persist, for forty years, and finally achieves something, which is a great realm."
Tan Yanmin, the founding father of the Republic of China, is delicious, and there are anecdotes: Tan Yanmin's family is good at eating shark fin soup, every meal must be entered, non-shark fin is not full, and it is almost addictive. Once, when I went to a banquet with a certain king, the host of the banquet talked about the lack of shark fin soup, which was metaphorically known as the taste of chewing wax, and Tan's only thing. The wine was half drunk, the shark fin did not see the table, and the host asked the guests to order at will, and when asked about Tan's family, Tan Guan'er replied: "If you don't give up, how about chewing wax?" ”
Tan is good at eating and also knows the kitchen, and through Tan's guidance, his family chefs such as Cao Si and others are also famous for their amazing skills. Therefore, the famous chefs of the whole country are willing to condescend to enter the Tan Mansion to help cooks, hoping to get a little guidance from Tan Yanmin. A good cook meets a good eater, just as Mei Lanfang meets Qi Rushan. The world has the pleasure of having a long skill, it is better to meet a person who understands.
postscript:
Cai Jing's reputation can be summed up in three words in history: "Terrible", it is said that in Cai Jing's exclusive private kitchen, there are dozens of chefs alone, and as for serving the little sister, there are countless. According to historical records, after a meal with a banquet official, a certain official went back and sighed: "Cai Xiang is domineering, and the crab yellow steamed bun will use money for thirteen hundred guan." Cai Jing favored quail soup, and every time he ate a bowl, he had to kill hundreds of quails. This kind of adultery can no longer be described as a "foodie". (Author Han Liming)