Source: Pantry on the 3rd floor
Eating is the most daily and closest relationship between people and the city, and it is also the most popular "cultural code" for Chinese. But where an excellent domestic costume drama, almost all have "out of the circle" regional cuisine. "The Wind Rises in Luoyang" makes many people fall in love with Luoyang cuisine. In the play, Baili Hongyi, played by Wang Yibo, is a Tang Dynasty gourmet, and as soon as the story begins, he makes a comment on sashimi.
The Tang Dynasty had a wide variety of cuisines, and the catering industry was also very developed. Take the fish that Wang Yibo commented on in the play, which is the earliest appearance of sashimi. But if you want to say the most local Luoyang cuisine, it is still soup. In the play, Wang Yibo drank mutton soup, because the Tang Dynasty explicitly prohibited eating beef, but the craft of cooking soup was passed down, and the authentic Luoyang beef soup that people drink today is the craftsmanship of that year.
Luoyang people love to eat soup and water. The soup is beef and mutton soup, and the water is Luoyang water mat. The Luoyang water seat that appears in "The Wind Rises In Luoyang" began in the Tang Dynasty, and has a history of more than 1,000 years, the water seat has a total of 24 dishes, most of which are small plates, and go with the flowing water, which was especially loved by the literati and scholars.
Different costume dramas, different regions, and different cuisines are naturally different. Before "The Wind Rises luoyang", another costume drama that caused foodies to covet, "The Twelve Hours of Chang'an", the "protagonist" was Xi'an cuisine. Lei Jiayin's excellent "foodie acting skills" in the play, bringing a pot of lamb and fire crystal persimmons in one fell swoop.
The same costume drama can also reflect the cuisine of different regions. In the "Great Song Palace Words" broadcast on Jiangsu Tv this year, Zhao Ji, the grand prince of the Northern Song Dynasty, went to liaoguo to negotiate peace, and Empress Xiao set up a barbecue banquet, and the audience could feel the aroma of barbecue meat across the screen. In the play, Su Yijian came to the small shop where he had chatted with Kou Zhun to miss his old friend, and the soup cake he ordered at the door was the Internet red food in Kaifeng, the capital of the Northern Song Dynasty. A bowl of soup cakes, pinning the thoughts of the literati and inkers. The Song Dynasty poet Zhu Dunru wrote in the "Chaozhongcuo" that "the fat shallots are fine, the sesame oil is slow to burn, and the soup cake is like silk", which is exactly this kind of cuisine - the noodles are made into thin slices and soaked in the soup, similar to today's soup noodles, soup noodles, gnocchi and so on.
There are two main types of food in domestic costume dramas: banquets and restaurants. In this year's word-of-mouth dark horse drama "Royal Gifts of Small Servants", Wang Ye rewarded Chuchu for solving the case and took her down to the restaurant to fight tooth sacrifices, eating Guizhou famous dish folded ear root (cold mixed fish fish grass) and sour soup fish. Later, Wang Ye went to Guizhou to investigate the case, and Chu Chu and Leng Yue ate Guizhou special crisp whistle powder. As soon as the powder is served, Leng Yue is attracted by the clamor of yellow cakes, which is also a traditional pastry in Guizhou.
This year's popular costume dramas are mostly based on the Tang and Song dynasties, and the food is more abundant. In contrast, the food in "Great Qin Empire" is relatively simple. At that time, the property was not as rich as that of later generations, even in the first part of the series, the King of Qin invited Wei Martin to eat, and what he ate was nothing more than the "Three Qin Set Meals" - clay pot mutton, a bitter dish, and a pot of phoenix wine. Later, Wei Martin recalled the past and said that there were two things in Great Qin that were the most memorable: "Bitter vegetables and spirits, showing their true colors" - summing up the Qin people's style and bones in one sentence, which can be called a model of summarizing regional culture with food.
In fact, there was no shortage of food during the Warring States period. In "The Vertical and Horizontal of the Great Qin Empire", Zhang Yi, played by Yu Entai, once made fish for Zhaowenjun: take the fish of Yumen in the spring of the season, analyze it with the sword of Zhanlu, mix it with bitter wine, ginger juice, and sea salt, and boldly said: "The strategy of ji shi is like making fish raw." ”
Although the dynasties in the costume drama have changed, food is the best cultural glue in all dynasties and generations, and making friends with food is a tradition of Chinese culture. Just as in the first episode of "The Wind Rises in Luoyang", the two male protagonists first met in a small shop drinking sheep soup: Gao Bingcang, played by Huang Xuan, was dressed in rough clothes, but sat opposite the brightly dressed Baili Hongyi, which showed the Tang Dynasty style of that year. Gao Bingzhan successfully attracted the attention of Baili Hongyi with "Fresh Ram from Qingzhou and Ewe Fragrance from Hezhou", thus opening the story of the Shendu Squad.