Shan County Mutton Soup records five thousand years of food culture

Boiled lamb broth (expansion pack)

Guo Zhijie

Shan County, known as Shan Father in ancient times, named after the single volume of Shunshi, is one of the earliest birthplaces of Chinese civilization, poetry and etiquette, Confucian indoctrination, a long history, accumulation and nurture of Shan County mutton soup, with its unique cultural connotation to record the continuation of five thousand years of catering culture, pinning on the folk sentiments of Bogu Tongjin, has a deep cultural origin.

In ancient times, fuxi, the ancestor of mankind, lived in this generation, teaching his people to "tie nets and fish", gathering, fishing and hunting, and living. The "Chronicle of the Nine Domains" records that there was a Fuxi Tomb in Shan County, and the stone carving of the goat in front of the mausoleum shows that the "sheep" was used as a tribal totem in that era, and the "sheep culture" was slowly passed down as a primitive ideology. The most influential tribal leader of the Dongyi tribe, Shan Juan, and his clan lived a half-cultivated, half-fishing, half-pastoral life in the Shan Father area, and the livestock raised were mainly green sheep.

"Sheep culture", as a mild, conservative, delicate and restrained cultural form, constitutes an indispensable part of traditional ideology and has a far-reaching influence. Fu Xi was inspired by the "sheep's horn pillar" to invent the "bagua" that promoted the process of Chinese civilization; when Emperor Yao was in power, Gao Tao, as a state judge, used the "sheep of one horn" to judge countless cases; Dong Zhongshu, a master of Confucian culture in the Han Dynasty, took the sheep as a "beautiful" and "auspicious" thing, and gave the sheep the embodiment of Confucian culture of "benevolence," "righteousness," and "etiquette"; the Ming Dynasty compiled the "sheep's kneeling milk" into the children's enlightenment book "Augmenting Sages", shaping the sheep into a model of knowing gratitude. Xu Shen's "Explanation of Words and Characters" says: "Beauty, ganye, from the sheep, from the great." At the beginning of the Song Dynasty, Xu Xuan's "Interpretation of The Corrected Sayings" clearly put forward the view that "the sheep are beautiful". The Qing Dynasty Duan Yujie's "Notes on the Interpretation of Texts" further developed and said: "The beauty of the five tastes is known as sweet", linking "beauty" with the beauty of people's taste. The earliest visible written information shows that during the Yin Shang period, the "six animals" were complete, and the word sheep with "six animals" as the root of the word occupied the first place, such as "sheep is beautiful", "sheep and fish are fresh", "sheep I am Xi", "sheep clothes are auspicious" and so on. The sheep are also symbolized with images of auspiciousness, goodness, goodness, morality, fairness, and flock.

Shan County mutton soup has a history of thousands of years and has a long cultural origin. According to legend, Confucius traveled around the world to Shan County, was impressed by the rich culture, beautiful cultural landscape and delicious Shan County mutton soup, recommended his students Mi Zi Zhen and Wu Ma Shi to serve as Shan Father Yi Zai, Mi Wu Erxian nurtured and inherited the Thick Virtue culture of "singing the piano and ruling, wearing the stars and wearing the moon". Shan County mutton soup was also developed by improving and perfecting the boiling process under the suggestion of Erxian. Lao Tzu, the originator of Chinese philosophy, who has long lived in the Mengzhuze area, likes to drink mutton soup, drink fine wine, watch the water and enlighten the Tao Te Ching, and shan county has become "the cradle of the Tao Te Ching and the birthplace of good culture".

Shan County mutton soup has left many interesting legends. The origin of the idiom "separate" is widely spread in the local area. During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, the various princely states attacked each other. The single father was subordinate to the Song Dynasty. One year, Hua Yuan, the Grand Master of the Song Dynasty, went to war with Zheng Guo. In order to boost morale, the big stewed lamb soup treated the soldiers, but forgot the coachman's sheep pour. Yang Zhuo remembered the hatred in his heart, and the next day, Hua Yuan rode out in the chariot driven by Yang Zhuo. The fierce battle between the two armies was in full swing, and Yang Zhuo suddenly whipped and drove the carriage towards the Zheng camp. Hua Yuan was horrified and shouted at Yang Zhuo, "Are you dizzy?" That's the enemy camp over there!" Yang Shu replied, "The yokan soup of the past is the government, and today's affairs are the government!" "Acting independently" led to the defeat of the Song army, and Hua Yuan's one-night study of military tactics failed to be carried out, and he became a prisoner in a vacuum.

Coincidentally, once the King of Zhongshan used mutton soup to feast on his courtiers, and when it was Sima Zi's turn to be a doctor, the mutton soup was gone. Sima Ziqi, believing that the monarch was deliberately out of his foreign appearance in public, angrily defected to the State of Chu, and with three inches of uncorrupted tongue, he lobbied the State of Chu to destroy the State of Zhongshan in one fell swoop. As for the stories of the dynasties and dynasties, the story of mutton soup being loved by the court is mostly recorded in historical records.

The delicious ShanXian mutton soup is favored because it is not only a delicious food, but also has the effect of tonifying qi and fitness. The "Compendium of Materia Medica" records that mutton "warm to replenish weakness, appetizing and strengthening, nourishing kidney qi, nourishing liver and eyesight, strengthening the spleen and stomach, supplementing the lungs and helping qi". "Food Medicine Heart Book", "Drinking And Eating", "Medicinal Properties", "Meng Yi", "Rihuazi Materia Medica", "Qianjin Fang", "Preparation For Emergency", "Xiao Pin Fang", "Chinese Medicinal Diet", "Four Medical Classics", "Passing Down Health Materia Medica", "Chinese Tonics" and other medical classics have been recorded in mutton. Modern scientific research has confirmed that lamb is rich in a variety of trace elements and vitamins, and is an excellent food for dietary supplements. As the saying goes: "Eat lamb race ginseng in winter, and eat spring, summer and autumn food to strengthen the body." "To live a long life, eat mutton" "often drink mutton soup, do not prescribe medicine."

The Shan County green sheep is a rare breed of sheep in China. Shan County belongs to the warm temperate Yellow River impact, the profound cultural environment, abundant natural resources, rich content of special water quality, gave birth to the development of single county green sheep breeding industry, inheriting the "benevolence, culture, etiquette, kindness, beauty" sheep culture, Single County was named by the state as "green sheep town" and "green sheep breeding base".

The Single County mutton soup made of green goat is pure, tender and fragrant, the soup is as white as milk, the process is unique, the nutrition is rich, the longevity is healthy, and the taste is world-famous. "Righteousness comes from sincerity, three cups of spring wine are warm; rencun is trustworthy, and a bowl of mutton soup is fragrant", "With skill first, incense drifts eight counties; based on righteousness, the reputation of Kyushu is full of Kyushu". The personality culture contained in Shan County Mutton Soup has far exceeded the nutrition of Mutton Soup itself. Exploring the origin of Shan County's mutton soup culture, tasting the charm of Shan County's mutton soup culture, and excavating the resources of Shan County's mutton soup culture are indispensable and important contents for promoting Shan County's longevity culture, filial piety culture and food culture.