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Luoyang water mat
It has a long history and is well-known in ancient and modern times. For thousands of years, it has been undefeated for a long time. Red and white events, feasting on guests, taking the lead in using it. The so-called "water mat" has two meanings. One is known for soup water, and the other is to eat one by one, one after the other, like flowing water. Hence the name "Water Mat". Luoyang water mat, from the folk, is a unique traditional food in Luoyang. Spicy and sour taste, refreshing and sharp. During the Tang Dynasty Wu Zetian, the Luoyang water mat was sent to the imperial palace, and the taste of mountains and treasures and seafood was added to make a palace banquet, which was passed back to the people from the court. This results in a unique flavor. Because it imitates the production method of the official banquet, it is also called the official seat.
Luoyang water seats, there are 24 pieces of composition, referred to as "three eight seats". Serve the wine on 6 cold cuts, which are 4 meats and 4 vegetarian dishes. Following the 16 hot dishes, the hot dishes are served in different types of blue and white sea bowls. 4 of the 16 dishes are pressed table dishes. The other 12 dishes, each of which have a similar taste, are in a group, and each group has a large dish to lead. It is called "bringing up the pilgrimage", eating one after another, like flowing clouds and flowing water. Luoyang water mat, there are three major characteristics: one is meat and vegetarian, there is cold and persistent; the second is soup and water, the north and south are delicious; the third is that the order of serving is strictly regulated, reasonable collocation, careful selection of materials, and appropriate heat. Luoyang water mat, which is divided into three grades: high, medium and low, can be determined according to the situation, so it is widely welcomed by the people of urban and rural areas, and it has been prosperous for a long time.
Origin of the water mat
The "water mat" originated in Luoyang, which has a lot to do with the geographical climate of Luoyang. Surrounded by mountains and located in a basin, Luoyang has less rainfall, a dry and cold climate, and folk diets use soups, preferring sour and spicy to resist dry cold. People here are accustomed to using local starch, lotus vegetables, yams, radishes, cabbage, etc. to make affordable, soupy feasts, even the princes and nobles are used to putting the main and sideline foods together to cook, over time gradually created a luoyang water mat with local characteristics, and gradually formed a "sour and spicy taste, refreshing and sharp" flavor.
Legends about the origin of the water mat
According to legend, Yuan Tiangang Chinese New Year's Eve early to observe the heavens, knowing that Wu Zetian would become emperor in the future, but the heavenly opportunity could not be leaked, so he designed this feast, indicating the wine and meat situation of Wu Zetian in the next twenty-four years. Each dish soup soup water, that is, alludes to Wu Zetian water to natural formation; dry and thin, is a metaphor for Wu Zetian's twenty-four years of stem (dilution). The order of the dishes of the "Luoyang Water Seat" is the first eight pins (cold cuts), four town tables, eight large pieces, four sweeping tails, a total of twenty-four dishes, which coincides with the twenty-four years of Wu Zetian's reign from the first year of Yonglong to the twenty-four years of Shenlong's death in Luoyang Shangyang Palace.
Characteristics of water mats
The characteristics of Luoyang water mat: First, there are meat and vegetarian, vegetarian dishes and meat, a wide selection of ingredients, birds in the sky, animals in the ground, swimming fish in the sea, vegetables and vegetables in the field can be seated. According to the economic situation of the person who set the seat, it can be simple or complicated, and the abundance and frugality are up to people. Second, there is soup with water, the taste is diverse, sour, spicy, sweet, salty, comfortable and delicious. Third, there are strict regulations on the order of serving, reasonable collocation, careful selection of materials, and appropriate heat. Luoyang water mat, which is divided into three grades: high, medium and low, can be determined according to the situation, so it is widely welcomed by the people of urban and rural areas, and it has been prosperous for a long time.
Luoyang water seat, has a long history, ancient and modern well-known. For thousands of years, it has been undefeated for a long time. Red and white events, feasting on guests, taking the lead in using it.
Luoyang water mat, from the folk, is a unique traditional food in Luoyang. Spicy and sour taste, refreshing and sharp. During the Tang Dynasty Wu Zetian, the Luoyang water mat was sent to the imperial palace, and the taste of mountains and treasures and seafood was added to make a palace banquet, which was passed back to the people from the court. This results in a unique flavor. Because it imitates the production method of the official banquet, it is also called the official seat.
The meaning of the water mat
The so-called "water mat" has two meanings: one is that all hot dishes have soup - soup soup water; the other is that after eating a hot dish, withdrawing and then going to the top, it is constantly updated like running water.
There are 24 dishes in total, including 8 cold cuts, 4 large pieces, 8 medium pieces, and 4 pressed table dishes, hot and cold, meat vegetarian, sweet and salty, sour and spicy. The order of serving is extremely elaborate, first on 8 cold cuts as appetizers, each dish is a meat vegetarian three-piece, a total of 16 samples; wait for guests to drink three rounds and then serve hot dishes: first on 4 large hot dishes, each with two medium pieces (also called foil dishes or seasoning dishes), known as "belt on the morning"; and finally on the 4 table dishes, one of which is an egg soup, also known as the soup to show that the whole table is full. Hot dishes on the table must be accompanied by soup water, chicken, duck and fish meat, fresh goods, fungi, seasonal vegetables are all into the food, silk, slices, strips, blocks, dice, frying and cooking, endless changes. However, there are still many kinds of folk water mat practices, such as the last dish of some dishes is eight treasure rice.
There are different high- and medium-grade grades
Luoyang water mat is divided into high, medium and low grades. Nowadays, high-grade water seats include sea cucumber seats, shark fin seats, and wide belly seats; mid-range water seats include chicken mats, fish seats, and meat mats; and low-grade water seats are public seats, mainly meat, noodles, and vegetables. Because luoyang water mat has a unique flavor, delicious taste, salty, sweet, sour and spicy, one dish and one taste; up to the taste of mountains and treasures, down to vermicelli, radish, can make a table of dishes, can meet the needs of consumers at different levels, so Luoyang water mat has gone through thousands of years, enduring.
Dishes such as "Spicy Fish Fillet", "Fried Eight Treasure Rice in Oil", "Sweet Wine Mountain Slag Waterlogging", "Raw Dumpling Balls" and other dishes have added seafood, turtles, snake soup and other raw materials, which have greatly improved the grade of the water mat. Luoyang Hotel boldly improved the water mat, and selected representative dishes such as "peony swallow dish" and "soup meat slices" among the 24 dishes, and made a 16-course improved water mat. Luoyang Xuangong Building launched a peony water banquet, the cold dish "National Color Tianxiang" consists of six cold plates, red, green, yellow and white colors, realistic peony flower shape, like a peony blooming on the table. The hot dish is also in the shape of a peony flower, and various "peony flowers" float in the soup. If it's the season of peony blossoms, you can also taste the chef's water mat cooked with peony flowers.
Today's Luoyang water mat
Today's Luoyang Water Seat, the whole table is 24 dishes, namely eight cold cuts, four large pieces, and four pressed table dishes. The serving procedure is: four meat, four vegetarian and eight cold dishes are first placed on the table, followed by four large dishes, each on a large dish, with two Chinese dishes, known as "belt on the dynasty". The fourth large dish is served with beet soup, followed by a staple food, followed by four table dishes, and finally a "soup for sending guests". Twenty-four dishes with soup, orderly and unorganized. Another feature of the fake bird's nest water mat is that it is made of vegetarian vegetables and meat, and the fake is substituted for the real. The famous "Luoyang Swallow Vegetables" and "Fake Sea Cucumbers" in the water mats are all ordinary folk radishes and vermicelli, but after being cooked by the chef's clever hands, they are reborn and taste abnormal, such as strange flowers blooming, which makes people amazing.
Speaking of Luoyang Yan cuisine, it is the first big dish of Luoyang water seat, which is the best dish in the water seat. This dish is delicately prepared, the taste is sour and spicy, and the taste is fragrant, tender and refreshing. Legend has it that during the Tang Dynasty Wu Zetian, Luoyang Dongguan Under the Garden grew a large radish weighing nearly 15,000 grams, the people thought it was a sign of a good year, so they paid tribute to the empress, Wu Zetian saw the great joy, that is, asked the imperial cook to cook. The radish was originally just a kind of civilian food, and the court chef had no experience in making radish, but he was intimidated by the emperor's order and finally made a dish of radish shredded radish cut into thin strips, and then served with mountain treasures and sea flavored radish shredded soup.
Wu Zetian greatly appreciated it after its use, and gave it the name "fake bird's nest" because of its bird's nest flavor. Since then, this ordinary folk dish has been on the elegant hall overnight, and has become a feast dish imitated by the imperial ministers and ordinary people. Because it can adapt to a variety of raw material configurations, it can use not only valuable mountain and sea flavors, but also use general shredded meat, eggs and other ingredients. Its flavor is fragrant and very delicious. With the historical changes and the hard work of successive generations of famous chefs, after innovation and development, the "fake bird's nest" has been perfected day by day. Because it began in Luoyang, it is called "Luoyang Yancai".
Peony swallow dish before the soup
Luoyang water mat has a history of more than 1,000 years. During the Sui and Tang dynasties, Buddhism flourished, and in order to gain the support of the upper class, monks and nuns devoted themselves to developing exquisite vegetarian suhoor meals to entertain well-established donors. The princes and nobles were tired of chicken, duck, fish, mountain treasures and seafood, and at first ate vegetarian food, felt refreshing and sharp, and tasted fresh, so the preparation method of this vegetarian soup dish was brought into the palace, spread to the upper society, and after improved processing, it was on the banquet of the court and the officialdom. Subsequently, the common people moved the soup made of vegetarian meat to the folk feast. Because it imitates the production method of the official banquet, it is also called "official field" and "official seat".
Luoyang water mat comes from the folk, developed in the folk, in the luoyang old city area of the development of the most prosperous, whether it is marriage and funeral, dowry, or friends gathering, drinking full moon wine, to eat water mat.
"Water mat" has two meanings, one is that the dishes are inseparable from the soup; the other is to serve dishes one by one, eat one by one, and change one, like flowing water. There are a total of 24 dishes in Luoyang Water Table, in addition to eight cold platters, there are also four large pieces, eight medium pieces, and four pressed table dishes. The first dish of the water mat is made of shredded radish, simulating the flavor of bird's nest "swallow dish", the last dish is the sour and spicy egg soup, in the middle of which is a "family portrait" made of a variety of meats and vegetables and a honey sauce Eight Treasure Rice. Swallow vegetables herald swallows bring spring and hope. The "Family Portrait" is intended to wish guests happiness and good luck for their families. The Eight Treasure Rice is a prayer for abundant grain and abundant food.
The main characteristics of Luoyang water mat are four: one is that there are meat and vegetarian, cold and hot, sweet and salty, and are made of a combination of various dishes; the other is that vegetarian dishes are made of meat and coarse grains, so as to fake the real. Its main raw materials are inseparable from the radish of Dongguan, the sweet potato of Yaoshan, and the vermicelli from Luoyang. Twenty-four dishes do not pursue rare and strange, using local specialties from Luoyang. Such as the water mat must be luoyang swallow dish, the main raw material is radish, it after steaming, powder mixing, become white, slender, silky, with shredded meat, eggs, coriander, etc., its taste is sour and spicy tulips, refreshing and delicious, well received by Chinese and foreign guests; the third is that it can be complicated and simple, high or low, rich and thrifty. According to the economic situation of the seat holders, the high can take mountain treasures and seafood as raw materials, thousands of yuan a table, thousands of yuan a table is not uncommon, low with a pig's head can also make a table of water mats. In terms of materials, birds in the sky, animals on the ground, swimming fish in the sea, and vegetables in the field can be seated; fourth, halal water mats with national characteristics can meet the needs of ethnic minorities.
Premier Zhou, Canadian Prime Minister Trudeau, General Zhang Aiping, Li Zhun, and others who came to Luoyang have all used Luoyang water mats and have a good impression of them.