What the Emperor Eats (2): Three things that Wanli loves

Most people's impression of the Wanli Emperor is probably the book "Fifteen Years of the Wanli Calendar" written by Huang Renyu. Wrote the story of the emperor and the ministers' twisted entanglements. An emperor who did not like to go to work, refused to meet, and shrewd and capable ministers, caused the famous emperor in history to strike for 20 years.

Liu Ruoyu of the Ming Dynasty wrote in the Ming Dynasty's "Zhi Zhongzhi" Volume 20 Of good food Shang Jiluo wrote: "The former emperor most liked to use hot clams, fried shrimp, field chicken legs and bamboo shoot chicken breasts, and sea cucumbers, anchovies, shark tendons, fat chickens, and pig trotter tendons were boiled together. ”

The dish behind the word is called "Braised Three Things".

Look at these two words "the most like to use" and "Heng xi to use Yan", the use is the meaning of eating with meals, how much this emperor loves to eat mountain treasures and seafood!

Clam shrimp, either grilled or fried, the taste is quite heavy. The gills are abalone, and the shark tendons are shark fins.

The three flavors of bao ginseng wings can be called the top brand in seafood, and the eyes of the yuan list are probing flowers. The materials that have no taste itself, plus fat chicken and pig's trotter tendons, are delicious and invincible.

To this day, seafood is still a relatively high-end food. Especially for the people in the inland areas, they can't eat every day if they love to eat. Unless you have money or wealth, of course, it doesn't matter.

In ancient times, it was really not cheap, and the emperor could eat and drink so foolishly.

The first emperor that Liu Ruoyu said was the Ming ShenZong Wanli Emperor.

Obviously, five kinds of materials are used, why is it called three things? The word equivalent is used to mean one piece and one kind of meaning. We are now in restaurants, and we often see an example, a unit of this quantifier.

Because abalone wings are collectively known as seafood, they are listed as a separate piece. Plus a piece of chicken, a piece of pig, just put together three kinds of ingredients of sea, land and air. Those who can run on the ground, those who swim in the sea, and those who can fly in the sky. Chickens, birds, which were originally capable of flying, were increasingly unable to fly after being farmed by humans for two thousand years.

In the "Aftermath of Chunming's Dreams", it is recorded: "The palace of the Divine Sect is rich in food, which is unprecedented in the dynasties, and does not support the money and grain of the Guanglu Temple." At that time, the courtiers were very rich, and they all took turns to prepare for it, and won the victory with luxury. ”

This is to say that the Wanli Emperor ate too well and was too rich, and the imperial meal exceeded the standard, and the expenses of the Guanglu Temple were spent. At that time, some eunuchs were very rich, so they took turns to host banquets to see whoever entertained lavishly would win.

Eunuchs are also a group of goods that rely on the emperor to eat, the castration party is notorious, anyway, the wool is out of the sheep, please the emperor to eat, in order to better curry favor with the emperor, fish for money and benefits, of course, more willing.

It is said that this dish is also the origin of the later "Buddha Jumping The Wall". Of course, the Buddha jumping off the wall is an exaggerated description of the painting, and it is very likely that he will eat too much and jump his feet.

The Wanli Emperor Ming Shenzong Zhu Yijun and the two empresses were buried together, and their mausoleum was fixed, which was one of the thirteen tombs of the Ming Dynasty. In 1958, archaeologists excavated and studied his skeleton and saw his skeleton inside the coffin of the Wanli Emperor.

Historical records say that the Wanli Emperor had a leg disease. Sure enough.

In the Records of the Ming Dynasty, the Wanli Emperor himself said: "From summer to autumn, I felt the damp heat fumigation, causing the lower body and feet to have wet poison, and I could not sit, and I also made phlegm and bet, and my feet were painful, and from time to time I was dizzy, and my steps were very difficult." ”

Phlegm, foot pain, dizziness. It seems that after eating too many big fish and big meat and seafood, he had gout.

Gout, commonly known as the disease of wealth and nobility, was not related to the commoners in ancient times. The emperor who eats gout, who can not say a word of deserving! However, the disease-ridden emperor was passive and unwilling to go to work, which was also forgivable.

Some people say that he is the culprit of the fall of the Ming Dynasty, in fact, counting on the emperor to restrain his desires is like asking for fish. How many heroes, trying hard for a while, finally lost to human nature.

The law of historical cycles, of course, can not blame abalone, sea cucumbers and shark fin soup.

When I was writing the book "Life Ferryman", in the cold rain and wind of 2020, I saw a small piece of news.

Inside the cabin hospital, a patient was suddenly carried away, the onlookers were shocked, a question, it turned out that the state provided free food, the result was too good, the young man had gout. Look at the color photos of the dishes taken, the broccoli fried shrimp, the shrimp are very large, more than the side dishes. Fighting the epidemic was originally a difficult and difficult thing, but this bright color of life humor made people laugh and cry, and there was a taste in their hearts. Such gout comforts people's hearts and greets them with hope.

After I sent a weibo, the person concerned saw it and took the initiative to claim it, and the young man in the news photo was him.

So I simply wrote this story into the book, and the young man was also considered to be "gloriously" recorded in history because of gout.

As the saying goes, the emperor has gout, poverty and luxury, and the people's fat and people's anointing are squandered, which is not a good weather.

If you can make the people eat gout, it is the real well-being of the people and the vigorous atmosphere.

There is also a place that can make modern people addicted, that is, seafood buffet restaurant. One or two hundred yuan, a big meal, crab, sea cucumber, prawns, abalone, everything. So they sometimes advertise that it is an imperial enjoyment, and they are not wrong.

Now we want to eat these earthly delicacies, we don't have to wait for the New Year. You can go to the tavern restaurant anytime, anywhere. The only lesson to learn is to be in pain and be happy, and after enjoying it, pay attention to health.

It's okay to like to eat, but don't eat and eat all the time to get sick.

"Hi use Yan" can be, remove the word "Heng"!

Excerpt from the modern version of the "Three Things of Braised Recipe" from the Chinese Food Dictionary:

When making, choose 250 grams of shark fin soup to rinse the basin, add raw ham S0 grams, 5 grams of green onion and ginger slices, 10 ml of cooking wine, add water basket and steam for 3 hours to remove. Choose 200 grams of purple abalone in water, remove the edge meat, cut the flower knife, cut it obliquely into 0.5 cm thick pieces, and blanch it for 2 minutes in the light salt soup. Select the water hair sea cucumber 200 grams to clean and cut open, first into the boiling water to fish thoroughly, stored in boiling hair soup and take out. Select water hoof tendon 150 g peel film cut into 4 cm long sections, into boiling soup a pot to fish, clean sand pot and add 1000 ml of stock on the heat. Add 500 grams of chicken breasts and chicken thighs, add sea cucumber strips, tendons and shark fins, add 25 ml of onion and ginger juice, 25 ml of cooking wine, 10 grams of salt, 10 grams of sugar, bring to a boil over high heat, simmer for 2 hours, open the lid and add abalone fillets, simmer for 5 minutes.

Shen Jiake: A famous writer and scholar, a member of the China Education Society and the China Miniature Novel Society, he has published nearly 70 novels, novels and essays such as personal monographs and books. His representative works such as "Life Ferryman" (People's Daily Publishing House), "Shen Jiake's Selected Works (3 volumes)" (Oriental Publishing House), "May You Live Calmly" (Tsinghua University Press), etc., have sold millions of copies and won the Literary Contribution Award.

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