In China, there are more than 1700 years of production and consumption history of steamed buns is actually invented by Zhuge Liang, not only that, there are many classic stories about the origin of steamed buns in history, let's take a look at it together.
The word mantou first appeared in the literature of the Western Jin Dynasty, in the Western Jin Dynasty Lu Chen wrote a record of the steamed bun, the book recorded in the spring worship of the head of the head is also called Mantou, but in the Song Dynasty began to formally use the word steamed buns, the Song Dynasty Gao Cheng once wrote the book Of Things Jiyuan, the book introduced Zhuge Liang in the army to attack Mengyu, a person said to Zhuge Liang that barbarians often use magic, they will always kill people when fighting, and then take the head to sacrifice to the gods, In the hope that some Yin soldiers could be borrowed from the gods to help fight the war, and said that they could also borrow such a method, Zhuge Liang rejected this cruel offer after hearing these words, and he ordered people to chop pork and mutton and use bread to make them into a shape similar to a human head, hoping to sacrifice the gods in this way.
In the three kingdoms period in history, Meng Yu was the owner of the Nanman Cave in the south of the Shu Kingdom, because he often launched some surprise attacks and harassment, so Zhuge Liang personally led his soldiers to surround and suppress him, but in the area of Lushui, the population was particularly sparse, and the miasma was very heavy and poisonous, Zhuge Liang's men put forward a very superstitious idea, suggesting to kill some of the southern barbarian captives, and then take their heads to sacrifice to the river god, and Zhuge Liang could not bear to kill these innocent people, so in order to encourage everyone's morale, He ordered the soldiers to use flour and dough, and then pinch the shape of the human head and steam it, in order to replace the barbarian head to sacrifice the river god, and since then this kind of noodle has been passed down to the present, but because calling the barbarian head too scary, it was slowly replaced by people with the word bun, and the steamed bun became not only a sacrificial item, but also a delicacy in our daily life.
People change the method of the steamed bun to make a variety of different ways to eat, in the steamed bun wrapped in some meat stuffing into a meat bun, or made into a fancy steamed bun also become a flower roll and colored vegetable rolls, etc., but now people in some parts of the south will be stuffed and no stuffing are called steamed buns, in fact, in the Ming Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang period also spread a kind of flowering steamed buns, it is said that at a celebration banquet Zhu Yuanzhang named to eat a dim sum called silver ruyu, but the imperial chefs do not know how to do it and have not heard of it, At that time, Empress Ma immediately understood after hearing it, so she instructed the imperial chef to do it according to the method she said, and praised it when everyone tasted this dim sum, in fact, this dim sum was learned by Zhu Yuanzhang when he was doing handymanship, because he often helped to burn the fire in the kitchen.
And the family where he did the handyman was Empress Ma's mother's family, when Empress Ma's kitchen had a steamed noodle called "Silver Ruyi", it was kneaded with fermented flour and lye water, and then removed the sour taste and then mixed with sugar steamed with a rapid fire, as the shape was as beautiful and delicious as the flower petals, and therefore this noodle dish was also passed down from generation to generation, and at the end of the Qing Dynasty, when Empress Dowager Cixi was in power, every morning was inseparable from this "Silver Ruyi", and later spread to the folk. For convenience, the common people changed their name to "blossoming steamed buns".
In the Kangxi era, a very interesting thing happened, the imperial examination at that time was different from what we have now, and at noon it was impossible to go home to rest and eat, because the examination was a whole day, so there was a candidate named Li Pan, who actually brought 36 steamed buns when he entered the examination room, although it was normal to bring dry food at that time, but the invigilator still couldn't help but ask him why he brought so many steamed buns? But Li Pan replied that of course it was food. This also shocked the peers, after all, eating so many steamed buns a day is still incredible.
And what is even more surprising is that when it is almost dark, many candidates have finished writing and submitting the papers, because Li Pan is particularly slow to write, the examiner lit a candle for him, and jokingly asked him if he was hungry, Li Pan's meal was also quite large, his steamed buns had already been eaten, the examiner helplessly took a few steamed buns for him, so Li Pan also nibbled on the steamed buns while answering the paper, but no one expected that it was Li Pan who was still very edible in ink, and in the end he actually won the exam, and after the Kangxi Emperor heard about him, he also laughed and said that this was a Rao Yuan, Jiang Chenying, who is on the same list as him, also wrote a poem describing Li Pan as having a skill that others can't learn, that is, he can eat 36 large steamed buns in the examination room.
In history there is also a very famous calligrapher Wang Xizhi, his Lanting collection is admired by many calligraphers, but also known as "the first line of books in the world", his calligraphy is peaceful and natural The gesture is euphemistic and subtle, which is also the result of his diligent study and hard work day after day, it is said that at lunchtime, the book boy sent Wang Xizhi his favorite garlic paste and steamed bread, but Wang Xizhi has been immersed in hard calligraphy, the bookboy urged several times, Wang Xizhi did not hear and was still concentrating on writing, so the bookboy had to leave After a while, when Wang Xizhi's mother came to the study, she saw that he was actually holding a steamed bun while dipping the ink into his mouth while looking at the words, seeing such a scene, Wang Xizhi's mother couldn't help but laugh, and he didn't know what was happening, and said that today's garlic paste was really fragrant.
It can be seen how hard Wang Xizhi was when practicing calligraphy, he didn't even know how hard he ate the ink, and he practiced diligently for ten years, laying a solid foundation for his future development, his calligraphy influenced generations of calligraphy enthusiasts, the world has praised him for the book saint, in addition to the origin of the steamed bun There is also a saying, according to legend, in the early years of the palace, there was a servant who was kind and upright, one day the crown prince came out to play with a sword, saw an old artist carving Buddha statues and watched him hunch over, He wanted the old artist to ride himself as a horse, who had thought that this old artist was very stubborn and refused, the crown prince took the sword and waved it in a huff, and the old man just hid to the side, the crown prince lost his foot and fell into the well next to him, and when the people were salvaged, the crown prince was already dead.
And just happened to be the servant passing by, he asked the attendant to hand over the old artist to his disposal, he let the old artist quickly escape and hid the old artist, and he himself played this to the emperor, the emperor listened to the thunder and anger ordered the Jinyi guard to beat the servant to death row, in the night the old artist felt uneasy conscience, so he used flour to shape a human head like the servant, and made a human servant with straw to try to replace the servant, at three o'clock in the afternoon of the next day, when the servant was dragged out by the servant and beheaded, The emperor saw that the head of the servant fell to the ground and no longer pursued it, and the old artist and the emperor fled to a village far away, where he opened a noodle shop, which was specially made of white noodles to attract various heads, and people came to buy for sacrifices, and the buns made of this white noodle were gradually spread.
In order to facilitate the practice of people with red dates instead of people's seven tips, to the later people will use seven red dots to represent the seven tips of people, and the bun head is also called steamed steamed to this day, said here presumably everyone also recalls the new year when each household will steam a lot of steamed buns, and also on the top of the beautiful red dots, has not known the original there is such a reason, then after reading these everyone still has something to say, welcome to pay attention to the following message comments.