The Tang Dynasty is a prosperous dynasty in the hearts of the Chinese people, and now many cross-over novels also like to cross to the Tang Dynasty, today we come to see what is different from the food of the Tang Dynasty and now, and see what the Tang Dynasty people eat
The Tang Dynasty already had rice, but it was not the same staple food as it is now, the staple food of the Tang Dynasty was mainly cakes, and there were dozens of kinds of cakes (at that time, all kinds of steamed bread were also called cakes, and the concept of cakes was larger than that of later generations). In the Tang Dynasty notebook novel "Because of the Words", it is mentioned that "the world is heavy cake".
Speaking of meat, the Tang Dynasty mainly ate mutton, beef can not be eaten, eating beef is illegal, pork to eat less, because eating lamb to taste, so at that time spices are more expensive. Now we eat more poultry meat, chicken, duck and goose, the Tang Dynasty did not eat, at that time chicken and duck meat poultry meat is not considered meat. There was another interesting thing at the time. In order to prevent the burden on the various places during the imperial inspection, Li Shimin asked the imperial history not to eat meat when he went out on the tour. When Ma Zhou inspected various places, he would definitely ask for chickens to eat everywhere he went. A local petty official sued the Beijing Division. Li Shimin's explanation for this is that he only forbade Yushi to eat meat, but he did not forbid chicken, so Ma Zhou did not make a mistake. Fishing and hunting in the Tang Dynasty was very popular, fishing was very common, and there was a very famous dish at that time - "cut fish", which is actually today's sashimi. Hunted prey, such as deer, rabbits, wild boars, and bears, also often appeared on Tang menus.
Vegetables, tomatoes, green peppers, sweet potatoes, onions, peppers that are often eaten now. If you travel to the Tang Dynasty, you won't be able to eat these vegetables. At that time, the common vegetable was okra, magical, in recent years, Shandong has begun to eat, the Tang Dynasty began to eat okra on a large scale,
Stir-frying was only in the Song Dynasty, so the practice at that time was relatively simple, basically boiling, steaming and roasting.
Seasoning, Tang Dynasty spices are still quite a lot, commonly used pepper, pepper, cardamom, cinnamon, tangerine peel have it; there are also some more complex spices, such as tempeh, bean paste, onion, ginger and garlic are also available; peppers are not, and have not yet spread to China.
The overall characteristics of food culture in the Tang Dynasty were Huhua, health maintenance, religion and art.
The so-called "Huhua" is the Hu humanization of eating habits. Hu Ren, "Is the ancient name of our country for the ethnic groups in the northern border areas and the western regions." After the Han Dynasty, it also referred to foreigners in general."
It is mainly manifested as: First, the habit of eating meat in large pieces and drinking in large bowls is popular everywhere. Second, it prefers to eat half-cooked fat. In order to keep the meat fat, the Tang people cooked animals, often in an extremely barbaric way. The third is to expand the scope of edible dairy products. Eating cheese was originally a traditional habit of northerners, during the Southern and Northern Dynasties, many Turk landlords wanted to taste the taste of cheese, but they did not expect to have diarrhea after eating, so they had to be afraid. During the Tang Dynasty, cheese miraculously appeared on the dinner table of southerners.
The Tang dynasty government supported the development of Taoism. As the only religion in the world with the purpose of health maintenance, Taoism's rise has greatly promoted the development of health culture. First, medicinal food and medicinal liquor appeared in large quantities. In the Tang Dynasty, medicinal food consisted of purple rice porridge, tuan oil rice, orange peel soup, ginseng soup, ejiao soup, mung bean soup, lotus seed porridge and various meat soups, while medicinal wines included pepper and shallot wine, seaweed wine, stalactite wine, five essence wine, five plus wine, ground yellow wine, goji berry wine, wuma wine, Cang'er wine, chrysanthemum wine. Second, it has become fashionable to use fruit health and beauty. The third is the popularity of tea drinking.
Finally, let's talk about the Tang Dynasty's tea Drinking Tang Dynasty Tea Drinking Method is boiling tea, that is, cooking tea and sencha. According to the Tang Dynasty Lu Yu's "Tea Classic", the tea production process of the Tang Dynasty was "picking, steaming, pounding, patting, roasting, wearing, sealing, and tea." "When drinking, first put the cake tea on the fire and grill it, then use the tea mill to crush the tea cake into a powder, and then sift it into a fine powder with a sieve and put it in boiling water to boil. When boiling, the water has just opened, and small water droplets appear on the surface of the water like fish eyes, and "slightly sound", called a boil. Add some salt to the water to taste at this time. When the water on the side of the pot is like a gushing spring, it is two boiling, then use a scoop to scoop out a scoop of boiling water for later, stir it in the center of the pot with a bamboo clip, and then pour the tea powder from the center. Later, the water in the pot is "soaring waves", "like a rushing wave splashing", called three boiling, at this time to pour the scoop of water that has just been scooped out into the pot, a pot of tea soup is cooked. If you continue to cook, you think that "the water is old and inedible". Finally, scoop the boiled tea soup into a bowl and drink it. The first three bowls taste better, and the last two bowls are worse. Five bowls away, "not thirsty for the drink". This was the most popular method of tea drinking in society at that time.