The food culture of the Red Chamber can be described as broad and profound, the food in the book, or the ingredients are precious and difficult to find, or the methods are cumbersome, even if it seems to be ordinary dim sum, it may have its own meaning behind it. For example, qin Keqing was sick once, mentioning a delicacy, this delicacy has a great therapeutic effect on Qin Keqing in illness, that is, the jujube mud yam cake sent by Jia Mu.
This snack comes from the eleventh time of "Dream of the Red Chamber". Sister Feng heard that Qin Keqing was sick and went to visit, at that time Sister Feng advised the pessimistic and sad Qin Keqing not to think about herself and think about adding to her illness, people who were not sick came up with illness, Jia Rong interjected and said: "She does not need anything else for this disease, just eat some food and drink is not afraid." ”
Presumably, Sister Feng reported this sentence said by Jia Rong to Jia Mu unchanged, and after Jia Mu listened, in order to express her concern for Qin Keqing, the first proud granddaughter-in-law, she asked qin Keqing to send jujube mud yam cake. Qin Clan said, "Okay, spring will know." Now that it's past the winter solstice, it's not good, or it's good. The aunt went back to the old lady and the wife to rest assured. Yesterday, the old lady rewarded the yam cake stuffed with jujube mud, and I poured two pieces of it, as if it were a gram. ”
Jujube mud yam cake taste sweet and sweet, easy to digest and absorb, red dates can replenish blood, nourish the face, yam can be healthy spleen, supplement but not greasy, for the frail and sickly Qin Keqing, is a good tonic product. Among the sweet foods mentioned in Chinese medicine, the first recommended ones are dates and yams. Yam sweet taste, peaceful and non-toxic, can strengthen the spleen, strong muscles, suitable for weak body, loss of appetite, indigestion, diarrhea and other spleen and stomach function is not good people. Red dates can replenish the spleen and stomach, benefit qi and vitality, nourish blood and calm the gods, and the folk have the saying that "three dates a day, lifelong does not appear old". Yam is a good product for tonic, jujube mud yam combined into one, but also soft and delicious, blood replenishment and appetizer.
After Qin Keqing, who was born in the cold door, married into the Jia Mansion, her strong heart and the pressure of the environment made her body weaken day by day. In addition, after hearing the incident of climbing ashes mentioned in Jiao Da's drunken scolding, it was even more worrying. In the end, these small pastries were still powerless to return to heaven, and Qin Keqing also became the thinnest of the twelve.