As the saying goes, "
The people take food as heaven
As the most common thing in people's lives, each region naturally has produced its own food culture in these thousands of years. For example, the dark cuisine of the United Kingdom is also quite popular on the Internet, as well as the culture of seafood food in Japan and other places, and the Italian region where noodles are the main food.
These places have created their own food culture based on the ingredients of their own regions. The area of our country is so large that in each region, there is its own food culture, and it has also formed the distribution of southern rice in the north. At present, Italy is recognized internationally as the inventor of noodles, but with the discovery of archaeological research, Italy's position is likely to be challenged from four thousand years ago.
In 2002, an ancient tomb was excavated in the Qinghai area, and archaeologists believe that the tomb has a history of nearly 4,000 years. After opening the burial chamber, because it was too long, the archaeological team did not find anything of value in it.
But after carefully cleaning the burial chamber, the experts actually found an upside-down pottery bowl in the corner of the burial chamber. Underneath this clay bowl, there are noodles from 4,000 years ago. If it's just ordinary noodles, there's nothing special for experts. But the special thing is that this is an ancient tomb from 4,000 years ago, why does a bowl of noodles appear here? It is impossible for someone to come into the tomb and bring noodles to eat, right? This immediately aroused the curiosity of experts.
You know, more than 4,000 years ago, experts believe that this period was in the Neolithic era. In this era, human beings at that time basically did not have the phenomenon of farming. Moreover, in the historical records of our country, the period when the agricultural situation really appeared was in the era of Dayu.
Of course, whether Dayu is a real person is still debated, and experts have not found exact evidence. But at the very least, the Neolithic Age, four thousand years ago, predates the time of Dayu. That is to say, at that time, people's staple food was likely to be obtained by hunting wild animals and collecting plants.
The mere appearance of pasta, something that requires wheat, is surprising enough. Not to mention that noodles in the pasta culture, it is also a rather cumbersome thing to make. Therefore, when the noodles were unearthed, the experts were very shocked by this. It was specially protected and sent to a professional research institute for detailed identification.
After the experts spent weeks and conducted multiple appraisals, the results really came out, and this noodle was indeed "
Noodles
", but the difference is that this noodle is made of millet flour, not wheat flour.
Of course, because of the problem of time, this noodle has long been turned into a fossil of a hard state, and there is not much value for cultural relics. But the impact in history is quite far-reaching. If you look closely, this noodle is likely to make a great difference in the history we know so far.
After all, in the Neolithic Age, someone was able to make noodles, which meant that it was very likely that there would be a small-scale farming culture, and after the emergence of farming culture, culture and technology must have developed greatly, if you can find more cultural relics of that period of history, prove it. Perhaps archaeologists will be able to fill in the gaps that appeared in the Neolithic age more completely.
Moreover, in the current historical records of our country, the earliest period of noodles in China was in the Eastern Han Dynasty nearly two thousand years ago. It's nearly hundreds of years later than Italy in Europe. Among the ancient Roman ruins excavated in Italy in the last century, frescoes about the ancient Romans and their faces and facets have been found.
It is precisely because of the age and content of these murals that people have truly confirmed that the birthplace of noodles is today's Italian region. Subsequent archaeological investigations have also proved that this is indeed true. To this day, pasta is still a prestigious Western delicacy around the world.
But with the unearthing of this bowl of noodles, it is likely to rewrite the history of the origin of spaghetti. After all, in comparison, our country is nearly two thousand years earlier. In this regard, even the magazine Nature has specially braided the report on this noodle, acknowledging that China is the country that really invented noodles.
Although for our experts, the historical significance behind this bowl of noodles is much higher than this false name. But for Italy, this is not the case. Just like the traditional culture of our country, the pasta culture is also a kind of food culture that goes deep into the bone marrow for them. Noodles are one of the most representative cultural symbols, and for this reason, many people in the international community believe that this noodle is probably not real.
Resources
: Nature, Historia.